Browsing the archives for the Environment category
A few nights ago we had a huge storm come through. There were tornado warnings on the TV all night long and the tornado sirens were blaring for over an hour. In my opinion, the worst and most dangerous storms are the ones that come through at night. First, because most people are asleep and [...]
This year we have had so much rain, sleet and snow that my yard is nothing but mud. The mud is very slippery and I have to be very careful when I walk to the car so I don’t slip. I suppose we need this precipitation to help avoid a drought later this summer. But [...]
The forecast is for snow and sleet this weekend. I will not drive on roads with the danger of snow and ice. There is just no place I need to be that is so important that I will risk wrecking my car or getting hurt because of bad road conditions. I am heading to the [...]
Here’s one last photo from the trip to Oklahoma that I wanted to share. Most of the gas stations sell more than gas, although it is almost impossible to find one that has an automatic car wash on the property. They just don’t waste money on washing cars out there. The gas stations have a [...]
Something I’d never seen before our trip to western Oklahoma: tire signs. Evidently the farmers take old tires and paint on the tires with big white letters “No Hunting” and then sling them over a fence post every hundred yards or so. Back home, we buy little rectangular white on black plastic signs from Wal-Mart [...]