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Would you ask about love, life, death, your children, or would you even care to know the answers and just let life unfold as it may? Or would you just ask why Yahoo Answers is stuck at 11 hours ago?

You've been given a gift of 24 hours? Tomorrow is leap day and you have an extra 24 hours. What will you do with the extra time?

Do you think he is still alive? Did his parachute open, and he got away with the $200,000 in ransom money, or is he part of the forest in SW Washington state? All that was ever found of the money was $5,800 in l980. No parachutes.

It was Nov 24, 1971 when he disappeared

If you would like to look for him, you can play amateur sleuth at

http://www.fbi.gov/

My husband is looking at them on the Circuit city web site as I type this, has anyone had experience with them and what is your opinion?

Do you remember when the sign with the arches said, 10,000 served? McDonald's was launched by Ray Croc in l955, over a half century ago, and now it serves 27 million customers a day!

But McDonald's was not the pioneer in the fast food business- Steak n' Shake started in Normal, Ill in l934! How things change--and how they remain the same!

An AP article in today's paper aboout coffins made of recycled newspapers are part of a trend toward "natural" burieals, which require no formaldehyde embalming, no cement vaults, chemical lawn treatments or laminated caskets. Advocates say such burials are less damaging to the environment.

The use of fossil fuels in cremation has raised questions about the eco-friendliness of that method.

Boidegradable containers would cost from about $100 for a basic cardboard box to more than $3000 for a fancy, handpainted model. The market is potentially huge.

All you would need to be a cherry tree is your body, a burial site, a cardboard coffin, and a cherry tree planted on top of you.

Fad, or viable alternative burial concept?

I am planning to make a knitted cap, and I don't seem to have any instructions. I want to do rib knitting on the bottom, and I will be using size 5 dp needles. Does anyone know how many stitches to cast on for a sm-med hat? I can figure out the rest, I just need to know how many stitches to start with.

Lucidwillow asked about our youths a few questions ago, but did you ever go the extra mile for your kids to make them believe in Santa Claus?

Once, when youngest was 6, the oldest 10, they decided they weren't sure about Santa. So, just to keep the mystery going a little longer, we wrote a thank you note from Santa, for the cookies, on some reindeer note paper they didn't know I had, in disguised handwriting. The looks on their faces was precious. They were really skeptical, but totally confused, and one minute they were sure Santa was real and the next, they were examining that note with a fine toothed comb. I am sure if they could have taken fingerprints, they would have.

In a couple of years all was clear, but they still talk about that.

Has anybody else noticed birds out of their natural habitat?

Right after Katrina, we started seeing fish crows in our area in SW Missouri. They had never been here before, and they are still here. They compete with our native crows for food and in some cases, drive them away. They are a little smaller than the crow, and have a croak like a rusty hinge. We didn't know what they were until someone from Louisiana pointed them out and said they didn't know that they came that far north.

Has anyone else noticed strange birds moving into your area?

Just watching Rare Visions on PBS and a musuem in Idaho that was full of all kinds of fun and weird things--have you ever visited any really strange and wonderful off the beaten path places? (Branson and Silver Dollar City don't count!)

We do eat some things that seem a little out of the mainstream, but are really good. Like buffalo meat--low cholesterol, lean, and really better flavor than beef. And you cook it just like beef, only the steaks need to be more rare because it will get tough if it is cooked too long. I had a roast that needed to be cooked because the food in the freezer thawed when our power was off--and it made the best pot roast you could ever eat! And ground buffalo makes the very best chili.

We also eat things like miso soup and tahini, and I have learned to cook vegan for my daughter and her family. Any body else have any non-mainstream foods in their diet?

We do eat some things that seem a little out of the mainstream, but are really good. Like buffalo meat--low collesterol, lean, and really better flavor than beef. And you cook it just like beef, only the steaks need to be more rare because it will get tough if it is cooked too long. I had a roast that needed to be cooked because the food in the freezer thawed when our power was off--and it made the best pot roast you could ever eat! And ground buffalo makes the very best chili.

We also eat things like miso soup and tahini, and I have learned to cook vegan for my daughter and her family. Any body else have any non-mainstream foods in their diet?

Post ice storm which knocked out our electicity for 6 days, put a tree limb thru the roof of the back porch, and took out a couple of trees and a LOT of limbs, I'm looking around and thinking that we may have gotten our porch damaged, but we did need a new roof on it and now the insurance will pay for it: we lost a huge limb from an elm, but now there will be more sun to the herb garden, which really did need it. I found a buffalo roast in the ref freezer, which I had lost track of, and it sure was good, because it was thawed and I had to cook it. I got a lot of yard work done and leaves raked, since I already had a fire going burning fallen branches. All that work kinda got me back in shape after slacking off this fall, lol! Do you look for the silver lining in what could be perceived as disasters?

'Tis deja vu, we have another ice storm like the one in January. Trees down everywhere, electricity out in half the city and surrounding towns don't have any at all. We still have ours but tree branches are cracking and breaking everywhere, whole trees are falling with the weight of the ice, and it just keeps raining and freezing on. A six-inch branch came down out of my lirodendron tree as I was looking out the door a minute ago.

Not an avaliable generator in town, or kerosene or propane heater, and the city is putting its emergency plan in place this afternoon. Is anybody really ready for this kind of thing? What do you do to prepare for it?

What is the worst storm in your memory?

The International Rhino Foundation in Yulee, Fla is auctioning on ebay four pieces of dung from endangered rhinos and will use the proceeds to fund conservation efforts.

The pieces come from four of the 5 types of rhinos; black, white, Indian and Sumatran. The Javan rhino is so rare no specimens could be collected.

Each piece is dried, mounted in a clear trophy case and marked with the type of rhino that produces it.

The auction ends Sunday, so get your bid in now! Bids are ranging from $122.50 to $500.

If you thought getting coal in your stocking was bad........how bad do you have to be to get this?

We all know the story of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Anybody remember who his Daddy was?

With your mate, or anybody else? Mine and I try to have a real date night every once in a while, dressing up and going out to a romatic dinner or a movie by ourselves. Sometimes he brings me flowers to start the evening. Sometimes we just stay home and rent a movie and share a bottle of wine, but we always make a special date.

Seems like there are some people who are on TV or in the news media often, some people go thru their whole lives without ever seeing their names in print or their faces staring at them from the local news. I have found myself in the former catagory, because I have been in business and done charity stuff and often found myself being interviewed. Plus I have done newpaper articles, etc. And I'm not camera shy, so It doesn't bother me. And never at a loss for words, lol!

Today my hubby who works for Home Depot and is their designated TV guy for the garden center, just came home for lunch and said he has to be on discussing generators. (we have a storm system coming in, and last year people died in our area because they didn't use generators responsibly during the January ice storm). How about you all? Do you shy away from the media, or are you out there, not because you seek it but because you tend to be tabbed as a spokesperson when nobody else wants to?

In Dr. Peter Gott's column in the paper today, a reader wrote in to say that a doctotor told her friend, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, that women should not drink bottled water that has been left in a car because of the heat reaction. It appears the plastic bottle has certain chemicals that can lead to breast cancer. Heat causes toxins from the plastic to leak into the water, and those toxins have been identified in cancerous breast tissue.

Do you leave your water bottle in the car with the intention of finishng it later? I can tell you that I never will again!

Just one more question before I go to bed!

What is your personal style? Outdoorsy, sporty, classic, sophisticated, eclectic, preppy, practical, classy, plain jane, arty, vintage, grunge, western, other?

I tend to be eclectic with my clothes, long skirts are my favorite things to dress up in, sometimes "gypsy" style, but I wear jeans and sweatshirts a lot too. And I wear a lot of classic clothes too (at least I did when I went to work every day) and some times lots of leather and cashmere and beads and velvets. I love velvet, esp black. With lots of lace. Vintage sweaters, and skirts. Leather jackets with fringe. High heels and boots, of all kinds, still wear tennis shoes and sandals a lot. But when I am working in my garden or studio I tend to go for grunge and sometimes I think I look like a bag lady, lol! Grubby, too! My jewelry tends to be arty and one of a kind. No tattoos, tho!