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Milwaukee’s Irish Fest, which just wrapped up a couple of days ago, is known around the world as a spectacular gathering place and music festival on the shores of Lake Michigan. I just spent a day there and did the full-on experience. I petted an Irish Wolfhound and an Irish Setter, bought a book from a Northern Irish author, Patricia Falvey, bought a lovely silver ring with a woven Irish...

When considering buying or building a home in a Florida retirement community, the construction and quality of a home, along with the Builder’s reputation can be as important as evaluating the community and the amenities. Buying a NEW home instead of an older home will save you money through energy saving construction, require less maintenance, include warranties on products and materials and...

I got started in weaving by agreeing to help a friend who had bought a heavy old NEWCOMB LOOM and needed help in moving it. So we went to look at the loom, finding it in the basement of an elderly widow in our local town with a ' PROBLEM '. Some years back , their remodeling work had left this heavy-thing ' LANDLOCKED ' without removal clearances...

A while back I wrote about the train tracks that cross Rte. 40, the highway leading from I-95 to A1A along the beach (http://growingbolder.com/blogs/uncategorized/sounds-in-the-night-673583.html). That same Rte. 40 is the road we travelled several times a month to visit Ormond Beach before we moved here permanently. After driving over those tracks you come to a bridge that spans the Halifax...

This week I had the pleasure to witness an important event in the lives of animals (and humans) in my community. The SPCA of Central Florida held a groundbreaking for the major expansion of their Seminole County (FL) shelter in Sanford. It took seven years of planning and fundraising, but now the construction has finally begun. When it's completed, there will be two new buildings adjacent to...

Genesis, which is, in part, the Biblical description of the creation of the universe, is presumed to have been written by Moses, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit during the forty years that the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness (1450 - 1410 B.C.). As such it was written by a man who had no knowledge of the universe, who didn’t know any theories about the big bang or...

JUNE EDWARDS Agrarian – Samaritan -- Nonagenarian Ninety-one years ago in rural South Dakota, a buoyant baby girl was born in a log cabin to a pioneering farming family. With a balanced sense of adventure and doggedness, June Slocum Edwards has engendered a long and fruitful life, although she insists that her fate has “simply unfurled.” Twenty-four years after leaving the city...

Why did the American government decline to accept Dutch expertise? They changed their minds later on! The BP disaster after the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was reason for the Dutch government to offer help, three days after the disaster took place. The Netherlands has ships with oil-skimming booms, they did a proposal for a plan to build sand barriers to...