Most Americans agree life is good: “When comparing their present situation with five years ago, over half (54%) of adults say their situation has improved while one-quarter (28%) say it has stay...Read More
This year the Crepe Myrtles in our area are exceptionally beautiful. Here are a selection of photos that I took while driving from the post office to Starbucks yesterday: Median front yard My favo...Read More
We have lived in our house near Eaton Canyon for more than 20 years. To get here you have to drive past the Eaton Canyon Golf Course a nine hole county course. For many years it irked me that the oper...Read More
Take a look at this picture of a chart that came with my auto registration renewal: According to this chart if you weigh under 120 pounds and you have more than one drink and then drive you could get ...Read More
When I was a boy back in Olean I used to play with “Dinky Toys.” They are small die cast toys not unlike their successors Corgi toys. I had forgotten all about them until I received a scou...Read More
Here are a few photos of some sculptures I like: I bought a few ants in Mexico last year Lenin and Stalin are from China about 16″ high Ditto for Chairman Mao This Giraffe is from Mexico about 2...Read More
“There are four ways to find a job: Networking Networking Networking and Networking” Quoted by Barbara Ehrenreich in Forbes May 7th 2007. Ehrenreich wrote “Nickel and Dimed”. A...Read More
I took a few more pictures of the poison oak on the trail up to Henniger Flats. The pictures I took just a few weeks ago were of the bushes in flower. Now they are covered in green berries: Some of th...Read More
I spent a good part of my youth in Olean NY and have mostly fond memories of my years there. We arrived in 1957 from the UK and the family drifted away in the mid 1960s. Wolf Creek Scout Camp Rick Jen...Read More