Are you smarter than a vacuum cleaner?

Alaska.  The Final Frontier.  Vast mountain ranges, crystal streams, phenomenal wildlife.  But what they don't tell you in those "Visit Alaska" advertisements is that in Southeast Alaska it rains ALL THE TIME.  7 ft of rain a year.  Not to mention the 100+ inches of snow we get in the winter.  It's like the Amazon …

Nothing to fear but fear itself-and spiders…

There is a bug in my bedroom.  Normally I'm a level headed person who thinks rationally.  But not when there are bugs involved.  Also it doesn't help that I'm in California where bugs are 10 TIMES THEIR NORMAL SIZE!!  It's late.  I want to sleep, but as long as I know that this bug is …

The depravity of fowl

I have always had a deep love for birds.  Even as a kid I somehow convinced my parents that we needed some geese (to protect our 25 chickens...).  My amazing powers of manipulation and cuteness paid off and we became the proud owners of two baby geese.  At first it was the best thing that …

The flight of Harry Swift

You know in romantic comedies when the girl slips and falls only to be caught just in time by a handsome man?  Then they just happen to fall in love and get married?  My life is just like that.  Except without the falling in love and getting married part.  Mostly I just fall a lot. …

Welcome

Welcome to my blog.  My life is somewhat insane so I have decided to start documenting it.  I've never done this before.  I was always one of those skeptics who thought blogs were stupid and unnecessary.  But I thought the same thing about cell phones when they came out, iPods, iPhones and myspace...  And now …