Monthly Archives February 2007

Opinions on the New Yankee–A Bit More Bag Balm Needed?

No two people are alike and many who have lived long enough in their respective lives don’t exactly cotton to the idea of change, especially when it comes to one of their favorite magazines. I’ve found this out after a few days of searching around for reactions to the new layout, style and content that [...]

Upcoming Post: What Other Yankee Readers Think.

With the advent of the new issue of Yankee magazine and the fact that this new issue with it’s new layout has had enough time to “get around town” as it were, I’ve begun to peruse around the blogs in order to find out what the various reactions were to the New Yankee and it’s [...]

It’s Spring-I Just Know It: Update

We have a ROBIN!
Yes folks, it looks like I was right. Laurie walked out of her shop this morning to put out the flag and the open sign and what do you think she heard? A robin singing that’s what! And not just audio verification folks but shortly there after she had visual verification as [...]

It’s a Year Old Already!

Just a short post to say that “Just Thinkin”, through all it’s variations starting with “Conversation Lost” (Blogger) and then moving to Wordpress.com and changing the title to the current one and now living in my own Wordpress install (see the Background page), is now officially ONE YEAR OLD plus a couple of weeks or [...]

It’s Spring-I just know it.

It’s Spring I just know it, despite all evidence to the contrary. Somewhere under all that snow and the giant mound of it in the front yard (contributed to by our neighbor, us, the roof and the sidewalk plow), and the currently cold temperatures, Spring is already here at the end of February, 10 miles [...]

ABC News: A Beaver in New York City?

Look what happens when a New York Representative (Jose Serrano, Dem) receives $15 million in federal money to clean up the river. Built a beaver lodge and everything. And in the Bronx River?

This North American beaver was spotted Feb. 21, 2007, in the Bronx River, a once-filthy estuary that flows through New York City. It’s [...]

"901am"-A New Media News Site.

David Krug of Performancing has recently launched a new, media type news site that covers breaking media news and blogging called 901am. Dave has a lot of history behind him in doing just this kind of publishing which you can read about on the About page of the site. This is the kind of thing [...]

General Info For The Masses

Another excerpt from an email forwarded to me from my lady. I actually found a few of these I didn’t know. Enjoy and impress your friends with your knowledge. And after you’re done you can peruse this rather huge list of yet more little known facts.
In the 1400’s a law was set forth in [...]