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When we first started planning our trip to Hawaii, we were more than excited. My wife was thrilled to be going somewhere so exotic and I was really looking forward to exploring a couple of the less-traveled islands and finding a secluded beach or two to just lounge the days away.

You awake with a sudden jerk. Did you hear something? Was it glass breaking or were you dreaming? Silence. Maybe your mind was playing tricks on you. No! There it was again! You did hear something! Someone is trying to get into your house! What to do? You quickly but quietly leap from the bed. […]

Probably the best known system of raised bed gardening is Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening method.  About 30 years ago, he began to question why “traditional” gardening is done in particular ways, especially ones that he felt were unnecessarily time, space, or labor intensive.  He met with a fair amount of resistance when he would ask “Why do […]

For centuries, sailors navigated throughout the world using only the stars to guide them. Armed with only a sextant, they found their way through the Mediterranean Sea and even across the Atlantic Ocean with great accuracy. Although the sextant has long sense been replaced with more modern technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPSs), we […]

It may have started with the Xbox, the Wii, or the Nintendo gaming systems. For those of us a little older, perhaps it was the Commodore 64 or Atari systems. Maybe Super Mario is not to blame it all. Perhaps it was a Tom-Tom or an iPod. It really doesn’t matter what our first exposure […]