Water water we need water.

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Don't forget to donate to the "Step UP for Down Syndrome Walk". Join Josh and Jenny's "Caring 4 Caydence" team.
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So Kenya West gave an apology on Leno last night (I watched 4 minutes of that show and will never watch it again - they canceling GOOD shows for Leno) and I'm thinking it was the first time he has ever apologized. He was not very good at it. I think when a tough question is asked he was told to look like a deer in headlights and not say anything.

Some might say he did the right thing by apologizing but, hey, the damage was done. SORRY! I RAN OVER YOUR DOG ON PURPOSE - MY BAD I APOLOGIZE.

Sorry Taylor, you will never get that moment back when you win your first BIG award but at least he said he was sorry.
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What if Columbus became a normal town and there was nothing to talk about.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

OK - nevermind. That was like just crazy talk.

NOT FUNNY is the new Columbus Countryside Veterinary Clinic Pet Portal. Well done gang. It must have been a tedious job entering all that data but your website is excellent. You can get all sorts of information about your pets medical records and cool stuff on their new website.

Another company that is attracting business (as opposed to many Columbus businesses that only want to survive and complain, NOT thrive, that would be work) is the Sassy Cow Creamery who is having the Sample & Savor Fest: South Central's WI's Home Grown Food Festival Sept 20th.

-Farm and Creamery Tours

-Ice Cream Social

-Farmer's market

-Learning Opportunities:

-growing & preserving local food

-where to buy and sell local food

-Samples & tastings, chef demos

-Children & family activities

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HEY - I was just interviewed from FoodShare for my buddy. I'm pretty happy. He will be getting $163 a month for food with his new Foodshare Debit card (I'll have to show him how to work a debit card, I'm sure he will be stressed out over that). $163 is almost a quarter of his income for a month so this will be a pretty big deal for him.
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I've been looking into solar power lately as our house is a prime candidate for solar cells. However - after much searching and asking solar forums it seems there is no ONE BIG answer. Estimates are all over the board with different technologies and frankly, we use so little electricity ANYWAY it MIGHT takes 20 years to have the thing pay for itself.

This last winter was cold remember? But our bills were much lower then the year before BECAUSE of the amount of sunlight. Well, OK, I take that back. Actually our electric bills were HUGE but that was because of the misuse of a space heater that was being use to carbonate my beer. My bad. We were forced to become lucubrationists to conserve electricity (ding ding word of the day alert).

BUT, our heating bills were 15% lower then the previous warm winter. Why? sunlight! Sunlight means everything.

Speaking of the sun - here is a 3 month moving average of average number of sunny and sunny + partly cloudy days in Madison.

This shows you that we get the most sunny days in the August/September/October period and then the cloudiest days in the November/December/January period.

Sunny days are blue - Sunny + Partly Cloudy are red

But it's a little misleading because November and December are SO bad they sort of plow over January who is actually starting the comeback with sun. November is by far the cloudiest month of the year! It's like November and December fall off the cliff with the amount of sunny days.

If you wanted to make seasons according to the amount of sunny days you would have Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr as the In between season, May/Jun/Jul/Aug/Sep/Oct as the Sunny season and Nov/Dec as the Death to the Sun season.

OH - the lack of rain and heat are REALLY putting stress on trees. If you have any newer trees you really need to give them a good water. Sprinklers are not good enough - I was told that you need to take the sprinkler off the hose and run the water at 3/4 strength for a REAL good soaking.

Birches are doing poorly and you're seeing new stress color on trees weeks early.

Have a Tuesday.

BTW - Big Brother finale' is on tonight. Funny thing - We watch the GOOD reality shows, Big Brother, Amazing Race and Survivor. I'm on Survivor in the form of Russel who I feel is just like me! Even resembels me a little (I have a red shirt like he does).

But here is the weird thing. We all become involved with the contestants like they are our friends/enemies and so forth. But - QUICK, who won survivor LAST year!! FAST - who won Amazing Race!

Yea - gone. (Evil Dick won Big Brother).

DJ and I want to go on Amazing race to show just how inept we would be. We would be the first to never make it out of the United States!

Rod