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Here’s a fairly simple pumpkin painting tutorial. Last year I had a few friends over and we had a little painting party using this method. When I searched the internet for a pumpkin painting tutorial I ran across this from youtube. Thank you, Wild …
It’s fall, and the monarch migration has been ongoing for several weeks. The butterflies that cruise through my area of Oklahoma are headed to Mexico. These butterflies are probably the fourth generation removed from butterflies that went north last spring, yet they know exactly where to …
One morning I was cruising through our strange little “breakfast nook” area and saw something out of the corner of my eye…I thought there was a good-sized bat hanging outside our window! On closer inspection, it proved to be a really big moth. Really big, …
Cape Girardeau is a town on the Mississipi River in southeast Missouri. It has a colorful history and has preserved it in a unique way, by painting huge detailed murals depicting scenes from the area’s past on the floodwall built to keep the town from …
My younger son took his ACT for the second time in early February. He got a decent score the first time, but in the hope of getting better scholarship offers elected to take it again to try and increase his math score (and bump up …
Back in January, we took a day to visit the Florida Aquarium in Tampa because we are all about aquariums…seriously, we go to every one we possibly can, including the ones here in Oklahoma, which are obviously few and far between… Our visit coincided with a …
Have you ever heard of the Great Backyard Bird Count? It’s February and almost time for the 2018 Great Backyard Bird Count! This year it goes from February 16 through 19. Started by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audobon Society in 1998, this …