TravelSkoot is a website that allows you to plan a single day’s adventure, a historical tour, map out your favorite places, or a full week’s vacation by simply plotting points on the map! Be it a rigidly scheduled pub-crawl with friends one night, or a historical walking tour, TravelSkoot provides the tools for you to…
Mary, Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow? Well let’s check this gardening website out for some great tips and ideas to see. How about mulching a garden? Here is an excerpt from the mulch section. Organic matter: I’m no biologist, but I’ve noticed that earth worms seem to enjoy living in soil that…
I have never been there, but I absolutely love Australia. The internet has made the country a much more familiar place to me. The Aussie lifestyle is now much more on display than it was when I first fell in love with the country as a child. And you know what? The more i learn…
It’s a sad fact: American kids are horrible at geography. So are American adults, for that matter. Perhaps one reason is that geography isn’t fun. It’s work. Well, it shouldn’t be. I learned geography through collecting stamps. It was fun marking off countries from my big old Scott album’s map as i added them to…
Despite our best efforts, we relentlessly grow older. But we can still rage against it. For example, I know a lady who just turned 80. She gets up before dawn and jogs five miles. Sometimes it’s in single-digit temperatures. Today’s FamilyFirst pick is by someone considerably younger than 80, but who is certainly past the…
It’s a sad fact that geography is largely unknown by the average populace. I was an avid stamp collector growing up, and when I obtained a stamp from another country, I promptly looked it up and checked it off of my Scott’s album map in the front. Thus, I was able to learn the locations…
One of the things that baffles me is time zones. We use a product at work that is produced in Australia, and when we implemented it, I had to speak to their tech support. It was absolutely bizarre knowing that I was speaking to them at 6:00 AM on Tuesday, it was 7:00 PM on…
Red states. Blue states. Green states. GREEN states? No, I’m not talking politics. I’m talking something much more significant. I’m talking about what people call their soft drinks. Quickly, what do you call that can of carbonated delight you have in your fridge? Perhaps I should have been more specific. That NON-ALCOHOLIC can of carbonated…
Well, today’s FamilyFirst site is one that isn’t going to get a lot of commentary from me. That’s because you just have to go see it to believe it. What this guy has done is to take GoogleMaps and turn it into . . . Are you ready for this? ASCII.
So, how sharp are you at geography? I always thought I was pretty good at it. I collected stamps as a kid and as I got stamps from different countries, I would use the map in the front of my Scott’s catalog to locate them. But I just discovered that when it comes to looking…