Because so many of you liked the antics of my cats, I decided to take some videos of them.  So enjoy the following videos. Note:  Our cats did not enjoy performing on camera.  They knew something was different.  But it was fun!

Well, I have done it again.  My last video didn’t go as well as I would have liked for it to go.  I have been performing for people all of my life, but I am used to large crowds.  I learned.  I placed the video camera further from me, and I watched that my expression did not get out of […]

Our family has fourteen cats and one dog.  However, Dusty is my daughter’s cat.  He has become a very lazy cat this summer (takes after his owner), but last night, he was quite playful.  I tried to put him in my daughter’s room at about 10:15 last night, and the big old thing squeezed himself under the buffet.  I got […]

I had no idea that today is the 120th anniversary of the cultured pearl.  That’s right, on this date in 1893, Kokichi Mikimoto created the first cultured pearl.  He was the son of a noodle maker, and he did a lot of experimentation to discover an artificial way to make these beautiful, expensive jewels.  He used a bamboo oyster on […]

There is some discrepancy on dates, so I cannot tell you for sure that this information is accurate, but it is pretty close.  From what I can tell, on this date in 1953, New York Airways launched its first passenger helicopter service.  They first used military helicopters–imagine the noise!  This helicopter service launched out of LaGuardia airport. I have never […]

I really wanted to embed this pin, but since pinterest has changed everything, I can’t figure out how to do it.  I wish they still had the easy way of embedding pins, but that’s how it goes, I guess.  So I will just upload the pin and link to it.  I might figure it out one day. Anyway, I have […]

Well, I have made it to the sixth day of the Blog Challenge, and I thought I would share a few things with my wonderful readers that have really been helping me.  You see, my blog may be new, but in truth, I came into the new blog with about three years of blogging experience.  But it has been my […]

Well, I am finally going to do it.  I’ve seen other bloggers do it, and there is part of me that is pretty nervous.  But I’m going to step out of my comfort zone and survey my readers.  I plan to keep this open, and you will probably see it as a giveaway entry for upcoming giveaways (I have a […]

As most people know, it was this date in 1776, that America became a country.  It is our Independence Day. What I would like to do is share some little known fact concerning this date.  I am always appalled at how much is not known (especially by school kids) concerning this day.  I am also using this for Ultimate Blog […]

I realize I am a little late for Day 2, but I just couldn’t get into it last night.  So I will be posting twice today. So, today might sound like a bit of self-promotion, but understand that is not my intention.  I have been a book blogger almost from the beginning.  I didn’t realize how much I liked reviewing […]