This video is incredible. A young autistic man from the UK flies over Rome one time in a helicopter and then spends 3 days reproducing what he saw with amazing accuracy. Thanks to Chase Jarvis for pointing me to this one. If you have some time, browse around on Chase’s blog. He’s a wonderful photographer, and has videos showing the entire photographic...

This weekend we went down to the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky for a camping trip, and met up with Dad’s sister’s family from North Carolina. We had a really nice time and it was great to see everyone. It would have been a much nicer time had the weather been better. The first night it rained hard ALL night. We slept in a pop-up camper,...

Via Casual Keystrokes, here’s a nice grocery list generator – just check the items you need and it will spit out a list! Oscar the Cat Grim Reaper – this cat lives in a nursing home and has an uncanny knowledge of when patients are going to die. He has become so accurate that the staff calls in family when Oscar takes up residence in a...

I used to watch a lot of TV. Too much. After Jack, I managed to at least keep up with LOST, and then I gave up on that as well. I figured I would just catch up when I could check out the DVD from the library 3 years from now. I had tried to watch it online, but could never get it to work because we had the cheapest version of high speed internet. Well, recently...

“Grandmas Mommaws hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.”

Two years ago yesterday, I was swollen up like an overfilled water balloon. We headed to the doctor’s office 5 weeks before my due date for a regular check up, only to be sent to the hospital (do not pass go, do not collect $200) for a 3 hour test (yuck) to see if the protein detected was a false positive. It was not and I then had to spend the night to obtain...

When I see pictures like this, I am just awed by the brilliance of God’s creation: These photographs came from a site called ColourLovers.com – you can see more pictures of beautiful birds in their original...