The Last Day of Summer and Fall Begins - A Harvest Moon

The lake levels are low now and the trees are slowly dulling and losing their green, lustrous, color. Yet, it's still hot. Highs are still in the 90's. Nevertheless, it's time to look toward the holidays and start planning and budgeting (if you haven't already).

If you need some motivation, check out what's happening at Chocoley Chocolate. I love this stuff! Even if you don't buy anything from them, their website is a valueable resource in itself and can go a long way in helping you with your holiday creations. You can visit them at chocoley.com

A “super” harvest moon, that won’t happen again until 2029, will light up the Wednesday night sky.

Farmers named the harvest moon —a full moon near the time of fall equinox — in the days before electric lights. Farmers used the harvest moon to spend more time gathering crops.

Typically the harvest moon comes within days or weeks of the equinox. But this year the moon hits its maximum brightness six hours after the equinox, which is at 8:10 p.m. The full moon is at its brightest at 2:17 a.m. Thursday.

For Real?

An atheist author, Christopher Hitchens, who is dying from cancer apparently has no use for prayer and yet today, Monday, is designated as "Everybody pray for Hitchens Day". I have never heard of him but if he is an atheist, and we know he's dying, shouldn't we pray for him everyday? If you haven't already read about you can read more
Here

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MACON, GA -- Shelby Marwan Heggs of Macon admits he's been a sinner, but hopes his past won't keep a judge from allowing him to become a Saint.

Heggs, who has convictions for drunken driving and marijuana possession, has filed a court petition that would allow him to change his name to Saint Jody Almighty Bedrock.

Heggs, who also faces an aggravated battery charge next month, says he's rededicated his life to God. Check out the whole story Here

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A Kentucky man, Woody Will Smith, a 33-year-old father of two, is facing life in prison for the 2009 murder of his wife, Amanda. His attorney intends to argue that Smith was so hopped up on caffeine -- courtesy of coffee, diet pills and energy drinks -- he was essentially too insane to have consciously, intentionally committed the heinous crime of strangling his spouse to death. Get more information Here

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The Superbug

I was watching the news last night and listening to the elementary schools and high school wrestling teams that are being affected by MRSA infection. Since this, has in the past, been referred to as "the flesh eating disease", I was seriously concerned. It can be fatal. My granddaughter is in kindergarten, so I did a little research.

Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection, also referred to as "the superbug" is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that's become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections.

MRSA infection has been found mostly in hospitals and nursing in the past but is now occurring in the wider community — among healthy people. This form, community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA), often begins as a painful skin boil. It's spread by skin-to-skin contact. At-risk populations include groups such as high school wrestlers, public gym users, child care workers and people who live in crowded conditions.

An MRSA carrier is a person who has the MRSA bacteria living on their skin or in their nose but who does not demonstrate the symptoms of MRSA. Such people are often described as being colonised with MRSA.

In the case of colonisation, and unlike infection, the bacteria causes no adverse effects in a person and it exists on their skin or in their nose but does nothing more. MRSA carriers can lead normal lives and most people who are carriers don’t know it. About 30% of people are colonised with SA and most do not develop an infection.

The news report I was watching said that a boil can be lanced and the infection drained and treated to prevent further infection. Who would have thought that? To me, it seems the opposite would be better.

In my search, I came across this soap. I supposed it's true that, "they make something for everything".

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For more information on MRSA read this article.

Another Reason for Gun Control

ARCHIE BUNKER'S RECOMMENDATON FOR GUN CONTROL

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Which Witch Is Which (1984) Chucklewood Critters


The ranger is throwing a big Halloween party, and pals Buttons and Rusty would like to attend. But there's two problems: the party is for humans only, and there's two evil robbers camped out in the park. So once again, Buttons and Rusty must save the day.

A Cool Gadget For Outdoors

It's great camping weather! We just got back from camping in the North Georgia Mountains. It was great! I was recently introduced to a cool tool that would make a great gift for some gadget loving guy. Especially, if he's an outdoorsman.





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Here's one that's a step up and has the vented bottom.

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Happy Camping!

Friday Funnies

o It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. 'Is that a dog you got back there?' he asked. 'It sure is,' I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, 'What'd he do?'
o A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages.. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. 'Mama, look what I found,' the boy called out. 'What have you got there, dear?' With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, 'I think it's Adam's underwear!'

Wordless Wednesday

The proper way to read your toddler a bedtime story.

Shadow Puppetry

If you would like to learn hand shadow puppetry, a how-to book in html format is available here OR

You can download the text and images in a zip folder here

Put on a regular puppet play. Stone Soup Puppet Show instructions and script are available
here

Want more scripts? "Jason's Christmas List" (A skit with two characters that teaches the importance and joy of giving); "Christmas in July" (A skit with two characters that teaches the concept of celebrating the joy of Christmas all year long; "New Glasses for Brady" (A skit with two characters that encourages children to develop a thankful heart); "The Resurrection Rock" (An Easter script with two characters that aims to remind children that the same power that raised Christ from the dead is available to them every day to help them solve their problems). This scripts are available for download here

Shadow Puppetry Using Whole Bodies

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Musical Glasses

Materials

* Drinking glasses

* Water

* Spoon

Directions

1. Fill drinking glasses with different amounts of water and have your child lightly tap the glasses with a spoon. Notice the different sounds each glass makes.

2. Try to play simple tunes, or make up your own melodies as you play.

                                         

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CONTROVERSY

I am by no means a political writer and I certainly don't like to discuss politics, but sometimes you just have to stop and pay attention.

Of all the places to build, why would they even consider that location?

Plan To Build A Mosque Near Ground Zero

Ground Zero Mosque
 

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Should the will of the people be overturned by a judge? Should we waste taxpayer's money and people's time to go to the polls and vote and it mean nothing because a single judge has the power to over rule that vote? It happened. There seems to be much more at stake here than just same sex marriage.

California Gay Marriage

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2011 Tax Increases

As of Jan. 1, 2011, the tax cuts the GOP Congress enacted for investors, small business owners and families will expire.

1. Income tax rates will rise. Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will phase out, which has the same effect as a higher tax rate. Coming up:

 10% bracket rises to 15%

 25% bracket rises to 28%

 33% bracket rises to 36%

 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

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A very thought provoking video.

Runaway Slave

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 Who exactly is liberty and freedom for these days? Has its definition changed? It seems its application has.

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National Geographic Sampler

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