lennynatural's Blog - page 14

Something green is starting to poke its way through the ground. I think it's the Snowdrops.


I don't know what the rabbit eats in the winter as there is little green around. But he has managed to blend in with the scenery pretty well. The stray cat that was in the yard didn't see him.


Have a happy Friday!

The temps have hit the 50's f and most of the snow has melted. It's time to thinking about the garden!

I don't understand it. I recently bought a DVD recorder. I recorded a movie, one of my favorite Hitchcock movies, and tried to play it on one of DVD players. It played for a while and then got stuck. I took it out and tried it again, same result, stuck in the same spot. Then I took it to another player and it plays fine. WTF!

In the US the time changed this a.m. (didn't you feel the rotation of the earth speed up a little?) I think it's ridiculous. I'm going to be "off" for a few days now.

Last weekend was so warm it melted most of the snow. I thought winter was on its way out. Not so. Mother Nature has decided to bless us with another round of snow.

How do they know my manhood isn't big enough? Not a day goes by that I don't get emails titled "Penis enlargement facts", "Be large even when flacid", "Top penis enlargemnt...get real results", "Most popular shlong enlargement", etc, etc, etc. Is it possible all these ppl have seen my pics here on NN?

This is Basil. He's my neighbors pooch. I've been tending to him for the past 10 days while my neighbor is in the hospital. He's a very loving dog but he's also a bit of a PITA. For instance, with most dogs you open the door and they dash out, but this guy won't go outside until he is good and ready. And he doesn't eat properly when his master is gone. I have to employ tricks to get him to eat, such as crumbling up one his doggy treats in his food (he NEVER passes up a doggy treat, I wonder what they put in those things). And then there was the time I couldn't get him out from underneath the bed. I finally went to the door and rang the bell, he never fails to respond to that.

When an event happens it has an affect on everything around it. What I am talking about is irresponsible personal behavior. My sister (and the bum she is married to) got arrested about a month ago. In jail she sits and very likely she will spend some time in prison. It has a negative effect on the entire family.

Here in the U.S., a fraud has been perpetrated on us. It's called Daylight Savings Time. We are told that running our clocks an hour ahead of the actual time would save us money on utility bills and help the country use less imported oil. A new study has revealed the opposite to be true. I found this article on the net today.

"It's official: Daylight Saving Time is a bust. Designed (and recently extended) as a measure to save energy in a period of inflated electricity prices, an in-depth University of California study has now shown that DST doesn't save anyone any money at all. In fact, it's costing consumers extra, to the tune of $3.19 in extra utility bills per year.

The study was made possible because of the peculiarities of the state of Indiana, which was only partially on DST until 2006. When the whole state finally went DST (to sync with the national business day), some comparisons vs. the prior method were made apparent. The study calculated that the shift costs Indiana residents an extra $8.6 million in electricity bills in total.

Why? Shouldn't they be, well, saving daylight -- and burning fewer light bulbs?

They are, said the study. But while lighting bills were reduced, air-conditioning units had to run more often, because people were home on hot afternoons when they'd otherwise be still at the office. Heaters had to be run on cool mornings, too, when people got up and it was still dark outside.

Professor Matthew Kotchen, who pioneered the study, noted, "I've never had a paper with such a clear and unambiguous finding as this."

This isn't the first time the energy-saving rationale of Daylight Saving Time has been attacked. The first was in 1976, three years after DST went into effect, when the National Bureau of Standards found that there was no significant energy savings after the switch. The recent expansion of DST to a few extra weeks was also revealed to have saved no energy during its run. And yet here we are...

In related news, it was also revealed that Daylight Saving Time actually creates no additional daylight."

I've been seeing animal tracks in the snow in my back yard. Today I found the critters that are making them. I've never seen them this close to the house before.