I remember reading about Phil Arnold, who was a cartographer in Vancouver, Washington. He drew maps into his nineties! He would add bogus street names based on family members or regional dignitaries to maps. Even the FBI got involved at one point.
I remember when Mt St Helens erupted on May 18, 1980. I was living on the Washington coast and we heard the mountain blow it's top. I don't think the ash came our way from that eruption, but it did from a subsequent one. My dad still has a small jar with some in it.
It didn't get my first name, just a variation of it on the 5th try. It took 3 tries for my middle name. My mom made sure to give me a name that has been butchered verbally and in writing my whole life. (And got me assigned to the boys locker room!) I have family on both sides (mom, dad, aunts, uncles, and cousins that have same names so we have to say first and middle name or variations of their name to differentiate who we are talking about.
I found a children's book series that I read decades ago that I'd been searching for through Amazon's "if you liked that, you might like this." I've tried tracking down another book I read about a U.S. president with the last name of Moody who time traveled back to WWII, if I remember correctly.
Cool to see the different ways coffee is prepared! I like the smell of coffee and can eat chocolate covered coffee beans. However, I do not like the taste of coffee and detest the taste of tea even more. There are a lot of coffee and/or tea drinkers on both side of my family. Which makes me wonder why I don't like the taste of either coffee or tea.
That's what I thought it was. I've heard one a few times in my life. It is a most awful sound they make. I've never been close enough to see or smell one though.
They should put a bounty on the snakehead fish as an additional incentive to eradicate them. There is a bounty on the pike minnow that have invaded the Columbia River that eat millions juvenile salmon and steelhead. According to Pikeminnow.orgYou can help save salmon and get paid to do it by going fishing! The Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program, funded by the Bonneville Power Administration and administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, pays anglers for each Northern Pikeminnow that they catch that is nine inches or larger. Rewards range from $5 to $8 per fish, and special tagged fish are worth $500.
There is a bounty on the pike minnow that have invaded the Columbia River that eat millions juvenile salmon and steelhead.
According to Pikeminnow.orgYou can help save salmon and get paid to do it by going fishing! The Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program, funded by the Bonneville Power Administration and administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, pays anglers for each Northern Pikeminnow that they catch that is nine inches or larger. Rewards range from $5 to $8 per fish, and special tagged fish are worth $500.