A Good Year for the Outlaw

While checking the Weather Channel one last time this morning before hitting the road, the computer generated voice told me we would have “abundant sunshine” today.
Huh? What happened to “sunny” or “mostly sunny”? Abundant? That sounded to me like the sun was going to be extra generous and send out more rays of itself [...]

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As I’m watching the “new” WHOI 10 pm news last night, flipping back and forth with WEEK, I’m thinking to myself, “Lee Ranson has got it made! He can’t go wrong!”
Think about it…Lee gives two opposite forecasts, one on each station, and one of them HAS to be right! Then, at year’s end, he claims [...]

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Should be over.

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I was reading the Peoria paper online today and discovered that despite both teams being there, the Rivermen game in Grand Rapids, Michigan was postponed due to weather Saturday night. They mentioned “blizzard conditions” and I checked, the temp was about zero with “negative windchills.”
Um, dudes, you freakin’ live in Michigan. Wimps.
Meanwhile, across Lake Superior [...]

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This stuff fascinates and worries me at the same time.
Ice Shelf Breaks
Nothing lasts forever, eh? 3,000-4,000 years old. Wow. In other words, this thing has been around since BEFORE the Cubs last won a Series.

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I came outside Friday morning, December 1st, to find this in my driveway:

That black thing under the white stuff is a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix. I understand my friends in Peoria are having trouble getting their streets back to normal, almost a week after receiving about 1/2 the snow we got in Kewanee. I’m happy [...]

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I checked this blog out this morning and realized it’s been over two weeks since I posted. Those two weeks have been spent moving, and we are now an official resident of Kewanee, IL.
That’s right, I decided to move on the two days that it was 101 and 103 degrees. See how smart I [...]

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