PHOTO STORIES BLOG

For years and years our township has been liberally salting the roads during the winter. It’s routine. They got their salt from somewhere in New York. But no more. Recently, a couple of high school chemistry students were experimenting using road salt. What they discovered is astonishing. It turns out that this New York road salt was 25% lithium carbonate, and we all know how important lithium has become. The students tried to keep their discovery secret to cash in […]

The latest craze on TV cooking shows is a unique, delicious and somewhat surprising appetizer. Chef Azull Nico is the creator of hordevours derived from cigarette butts. “For years I would throw my butts just about anywhere. One day when grinding out one with my shoe I wondered if there was something better I could do with it.” After a few months of experimenting he came up with Butts Cakes, tasty treats with a little nicotine kick. “They aren’t hard […]

When I don’t know which way to go I just follow the signs.

It’s not actually a house. It’s more of a corn crib, so I guess I should call it a Corn Crib Truck, but that sounds weird and you wouldn’t believe it. Seeing is believing. Local farmers have been building big fat silos for their corn harvest, but this small farmer had a better idea and converted his existing corn crib into a portable one. He put in a platform with wheels just inside the stone foundation and added a hitch […]

We all know Jesus rose from the dead and took an express to Heaven. He said he’d come back, and apparently he did. He’s been living in Petucko, Pennsylvania for almost 120 year now. Who knew? It’s not like he kept it a secret. I was curious and stopped in at the town’s planning department to look at the file. Back in 1899 Jesus applied for a permit for a 12,000 sq ft house plus several outbuildings and a large […]

I don’t know many people who like climbing ladders to clean their gutters. I’ve never taken a poll so I can’t be certain but I am guessing not too many. As can be noted, there are alternatives. Just use your leaf blower.

It’s been a while since he’s been a fearsome terrapin teenage crime fighter. I don’t know i this is Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello or Michelangelo, but he looks content and comfortable chilling out on a park bench these days. Looks a bit stuffed, too.

The Hubble telescope continues to surprise us with images of mysterious things out there in the vast universe. One of the most recent findings is a high resolution image of an extinct volcano on the moon Oris which orbits Jupiter. Oris is nearly the size of Earth and is tectonically active. This image shows extinct volcano HN397 found near the equator. Scientists have determined the white coating is ice which may have originated as snow. Oris has a thin atmosphere […]

I’m not quite sure how these go with a cell phone. They look more like baking accessories to me. I suppose it depends on who you are calling, texting, messaging, tweeting, tictoc-ing or twerping. Perhaps being nice and baked is just what is needed.

As the tractor trailer barrelled past us on the Interstate a drama was playing out on it’s sideboard. Woody and Buzz had gotten caught in a dangerous situation. Traffic was heavy and the truck was moving fast so we did not have time to intervene. I considered calling 911 but then reconsidered, considering what I would be telling them. I later learned that the truck had been intercepted at shipping docks and it was filled with captured My Little Ponies. […]