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Posted 9:32 PM 5/17/2013 by Pat Shingleton

It's the season for baseballs, tennis balls, soft balls, golf balls and especially an ice-cold snowball. Years ago, a Georgia company created "reef balls." Eternal Reefs secures the ashes of the deceased, adds them to concrete and places them in artificial reefs. Owners of the company claim that (More)

Posted 3:01 PM 5/17/2013 by Pat Shingleton

Jerry and Lois Thompson keep me posted on changing weather in the Rockies. Many of their travels take them to Alamosa, Colorado, that rests in the San Luis Valley. Jerry mentions that over 50 peaks surround the area at an elevation of 14,000 feet. To the east of Alamosa is LaVeta Blanca with Wolf (More)

Posted 5:20 PM 5/16/2013 by Pat Shingleton

Japanese Prime Minister Okuma Shigenobu hurled the first ceremonial "first pitch" in 1908 in Koshien, Japan, a tradition that has since honored 22 Presidents. Unless a game is rained-out, the ceremony always occurs. The "first pitch" also designates the completion of pregame festivities and the (More)

Posted 4:24 PM 5/15/2013 by Pat Shingleton

Recent lightning storms placed a batch of nitrogen on our vegetation. An archived item from Nature Geoscience noted that scientists challenged a commonly held theory in 2011 about rainfall's activity after reaching the ground. It was previously believed that rainfall entering the soil would mix (More)

Posted 4:00 PM 5/14/2013 by Pat Shingleton

An Hawaii-based monitoring station tracks the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide and last Thursday that amount inched closer to a record. The publication "Atlantic" reports that in 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen predicted that carbon dioxide would reach 350 parts per million by 2013 and last (More)

Posted 5:36 PM 5/10/2013 by Pat Shingleton

She lives in the house where she was born and won't relocate to where her children reside. Her oldest, Denis, was born in the Spring, Mike in the Summer, Patrick and Kevin in Winter, Maureen and Mark in the Fall. Whether a snowstorm or thunderstorm, she refers to them by saying, "It's getting bad (More)

Posted 5:11 PM 5/10/2013 by Pat Shingleton

Friday's thundershowers brought the earthworms to the surface. When I was a young lad, we called them "night-crawlers"- large earthworms that didn't like the wet but fish loved ‘em. If a shower didn't get them moving, the garden hose did. We'd wet-down a section of the yard around 7 p.m. (More)...