Well it’s that time of year again, the time that many wait for all year. It’s time to find out if winter will be over soon or if we will have another 6 weeks of winter?

Today is Groundhog Day and I want to wish each and every one of you a very Happy Groundhog Day!!

For any of you out there that doesn’t know what Groundhog Day is then I will tell you.

Every year in the United States and Canada on February 2nd many people gather in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and anxiously await to see if Punxsutawney Phil, the resident groundhog, is going to see fit to make an appearance from where he has been hibernating all winter. When he does pop his cute little head out then they check very carefully to see if he sees his shadow.

If he does see his shadow then that means that there will be 6 more weeks of winter and he will generally turn around and go burrow again for another 6 weeks but if he Doesn’t see his shadow then that means that winter is almost over and it will be an early spring this year!!

As you can see it’s all done very scientifically and that’s what I personally like to see, I like to know for sure if winter is over or if it’s not!!

Here is a link giving you some idea of the festivities each year on this day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania!

Groundhog Day 2005 Celebration

That’s all for me today as I’m off to get my Groundhog Day outfit ready and hopefully when I’m back again next time I will know for sure that winter is over and an early spring is on the way! See you back again soon for some more good old fashioned…

about the Oklahoma woman who traveled to Louisiana to join the Ku Klux Klan and was shot to death by the leader of the group’s Bogalusa chapter Sunday after she tried to back out of initiation rites at a remote, sandbar camp in northeastern St. Tammany Parish?

It seems as though this woman had heard about this group called the Sons of Dixie and applied to join over the Internet so that she could recruit others in Oklahoma, she even requested that the organization waive its typical membership fee.

The woman traveled to Louisiana by bus on Friday to begin her initiation into the group, and after several rites, including a head-shaving, she was taken to a camp on a sandbar, accessible only by boat. The initiation continued at the campsite, with rituals that consisted mainly of lighting torches and “running around in the woods. Then on Sunday night she decided she wanted to leave the camp which in turn sparked an argument with the groups leader that soon turned violent. The leader then pushed the woman down and, as the argument continued, he shot her with a .40-caliber handgun. He then immediately moved to cover up the crime. He quickly flipped the woman’s body over and tried to dig out the bullet with a knife before ordering his followers to destroy evidence.

I don’t know about you but if it were me and I was about to do the same thing as the woman from Oklahoma I think I would begin to re-evaluate my choices about the people that I want to associate with!

What floors me even more about this story is some of the statements made by law enforcement.

St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain said that he couldn’t “imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk from these kooks”, and that his Sheriff’s Office would not allow it. He then went on to say “we’re not going to tolerate this in St. Tammany”.

NOT FEEL ENDANGERED OR AT RISK FROM THESE “KOOKS”????

The man Shot and Killed the woman with a .40 caliber handgun in cold blood!!!! And tried to cover it up!! What do you mean can’t imagine anyone feeling endangered or at risk??

Another Sheriff Office Chief, Shannon Lyons, from Washington Parish stated, “I just think they’re wannabes, simple-minded people”.

Well, wannabes, simple-minded or whatever other types of people they are, they are Still Very Dangerous people if you ask me!

If you want to read more of this story it can be found at;

…KKK group tied to killing…

That’s all for me today, hope you have a good one and as always hope to see you back again soon at…

Now I do not EVER want it to be said that I don’t love my pets! In fact I love all animals, but I suppose after reading this story, that maybe I don’t love my pets enough because there is something that I find very bizarre about this story!

If nothing else I would not keep the hair that I had combed from the carpets for years and years…I not only don’t understand why anyone would do that but where on earth would I put it?? And I also could not wear the same thing over and over again for 12 years either…and that’s only the beginning!

But I suppose that is what makes the world go round…everyone on Earth seems to march to a different drummer!

Making Rover Over!

That’s really it for me this week! Have a great Easter week-end and see you back again on Monday for more…

Henry could be a blue blood with three hearts for all I know, and if he is, then that would really make him quite common and never a one of a kind sort of guy!

Henry is a lovely little thing for a very different reason. He was discovered a couple of weeks ago in a lobster pot of all places!

I suppose he’s Welsh, since he was discovered in Whales, but I don’t really know for sure about that either!

In fact I don’t really know very much about Henry except that he is suppose to be a one of a kind hexapus!

I suppose there could be a joke made about him like:

When is an octopus not an octopus?

Of course the answer would be…

When he’s a hexapus!

British marine experts claim that he is the worlds first six legged “octopus”!!

After carefully checking him out, the experts believe that he has six legs as a result of a birth defect rather than an accident.

I wonder if Henry realizes he’s missing a couple of things? I also wonder if he was considered to be an Ugly Duckling in the circles that he hung around??

Henry is so unusual that he is to go on display at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre later this month if you care to make the trip over to northwest England and catch an eye full!

You know what I wonder? Since he is the first hexapus ever discovered, did they already have the name hexapus for him in the annals of science or is it a word that they just made up on the spot??

That’s all for me today! Hope to see you back again tomorrow for more…

If you’ve been hearing about this weird and creepy video called Rubber Johnny that has been around for a couple of years and haven’t seen it yet then here’s your chance! If you have seen it already then you just may want to watch it again, although, for many, once is enough!

And if you are one of those people that haven’t heard about it then you really don’t know what you are missing!

Rubber Johnny is a 16 year old inbred mutant that also happens to be an insane imbecile. This 6 minute film documents his almost solitary existence. He is locked in a dark basement by his parents who are ashamed of him. Johnny’s parents feed him occasionally and of course yell at him a lot for making too much noise.

Rubber Johnny does have one companion though…his little Chihuahua dog who is completely terrified of him! (I wonder why)??

Anyway, Rubber Johnny spends his days trying to amuse himself and his dog in some Very Strange ways…

Need I say more?

You can view the video here and if you choose you even have the option of watching it full screen if you go to the right bottom of the video screen and click on that option.

Now I would suggest you going to the kitchen and making yourself a nice bowl of popcorn and get a soda so you can sit back and enjoy the festivities in style!

Rubber Johnny

That is well and truly it for me today and in fact this week, I think I am going to go and have a lie down for the rest of the week-end and rest my truly disturbed mind…sometimes I really worry about me!! But I’ll be back! And I’ll see you back here again on Monday when I am thoroughly rested for some more…

The Earth’s shadow swept over the moon turning the moon’s disk dusky red and the moon became completely immersed in the Earth’s shadow. The brilliant midwinter full moon became a shadow of it’s former self and morphed into a glowing coppery ball.

Suddenly a tall, dark, handsome man leapt out of the shadows in front of the svelte auburn haired woman and she let out a somewhat quite “Ahh”! She knew at that moment that she would probably not make it through the night…

Sounds like the beginning of a pretty spooky novel doesn’t it?

But it’s not! It’s the description of what began last night at 10:01 p.m. ET and lasted 51 minutes…all except for the part about the man leaping out of the shadows etc.!

Do you know what it was?

For the third time in a year the moon was completely immersed in Earth’s shadow when the Earth passed directly between the sun and the moon and resulted in a total lunar eclipse.

Nearly 3 billion people in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Africa and Asia was able to view it…weather permitting, unfortunately, in my part of Holland weather did not permit!

Last night was the last chance to see another one until 2010, but this eclipse came with a very rare bonus in that Saturn and the bright bluish star Regulus formed a triangle with the moon. I hope you were to catch it because it will probably never happen again in your lifetime as this was the only one of it’s kind occurring within the next millennium!

Personally I think the photo below is the nicest I have seen so far…I hope RI PhotoMan allows me to keep it here!

Newport, RI
By: RI PhotoMan

That’s all for me today, I think I’m going to get some sleep now, you see it was 4:01 in the morning here when this magical event occurred and of course, I being the stubborn woman that I am, just had to take the chance that I just might catch a glimpse of it, but much to my chagrin, I did not, but I’ll see you back again tomorrow for more…

Warning! This video has been pulled off of the Internet by the Church of Scientology

With the Mission Impossible theme playing in the background Tom Cruise says that he has canceled spectatorism in his “area”? According to him we don’t have time for spectatorism any more and “Man, you’re either in or your out”!!

Supposedly you’re either in the field or out of the arena because we have the responsibility to educate and create the new reality.

He wants us to have enough love, compassion and toughness to do it right.

According to him it’s wild, woolly and a blast and there is nothing better than fighting a fight and things are better.

He feels that people are depending on “us” and he does what he can the way that he does everything…”there’s nothing part of the way for me”.

It seems that the question of doing it right boils down to;

Would you want others to achieve the knowledge you now have?

Tom has introduced over 1 billion people on earth and supposedly that’s only the 1st wave he’s unleashed!

What is it??

Well, see for yourself!

If you think that Tom jumping on Oprah’s new couch was bad then you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! In this video he seems way “out of the arena” to me and if that dog has been “unleashed” then maybe someone should get him “leashed”…in a hurry!

Well! That’s really all for me today! I hope you have a good one and hope to see you back again tomorrow for more…

MSNBC.com is tracking Santa’s journey around the globe, including sightings and videos from the various stops along his route and links to the Santa Tracker map. Join MSNBC Christmas Day to see where Santa has been and when he’s coming your way!

On December 24th at 1:45 P.M. ET the International Space Station Astronauts at the International Space Station were just finishing up a routine space walk when the captain of the group spotted a red blur out of the corner of his eye. “I must say, some of us had wondered if we would miss our visit from Old St. Nick, what with us being way out in space and all. We’re thrilled that Santa hasn’t forgotten us!”

Get up to the minute updates as to where Jolly ol’ St. Nick is here:

Ho! Ho! Ho! Watch Santa go!

That’s all for me today! I hope that all of you have a wonderful Christmas Day and hope that you get everything that was on your wish list! See you back here tomorrow for more…

In case you noticed there was no post yesterday. My Internet was down all day due to bad weather and I was unable to! But you haven’t missed anything because I have decided to put yesterdays post on today, so here goes!

These work stories weren’t as newsworthy but they happened just the same. Here are headlines that exemplify the strange happenings that took place in the workplace in 2007!

• Employee eats 32 vending machine items for charity
• Cola wars get physical as Pepsi worker attacks Coke employee
• Alleged robber asks victim out for date
• Four women fired for gossiping
• Eau de Lawsuit: Woman sues over scent
• Salt lands McDonald’s employee in jail
• Carpenter free to ply trade in the nude
• Southwest Airlines employee tells passenger her outfit won’t fly
• Employee accused of faking being cop
• Employee took 1 million screws home from factory
• Deputy nabbed twice for DUI – by husband
• Workers killed after seeking raises
• Man demands coupons from radio station employee
• Wienermobile gets cop roasted
• Drive-through dispute gets suspect jail food

For more information on these lesser but true weird work stories go to:

Weirdest Work Stories of 2007

That’s all for me today! Hope to see you back again tomorrow for more…

I absolutely love a man with hair on his face! To me that is a real “manly man” and a definite “turn on”! So is it any wonder that I would have been in 7th heaven on Saturday if I had been at Brighton Certre in Brigton, England where the World Beard & Moustache Championships 2007 were held?

I can tell you these are definitely not your average run of the mill beards and moustaches that you normally see going down the street!!

That’s all for me today! Hope to see you back here again tomorrow for some more…