finances for Q4 and rolling into 2025. The National Retail Federation is forecasting that winter holiday spending is expected to grow between 2.5% and 3.5% over last year, with a total reaching between $979.5 billion and $989 billion. We are starting to feel an economic shift, but what ...
This is the standard way to take care of comfrey–when it finishes flowering and starts to keel over, cut it down and use the leaves for any of the multitude of applications comfrey leaves are good for, or simply lay the leaves back down on the crown of the plant and let it grow ...
Hello again from Eastern Michigan. Here are various insects and spiders that I had photographed in my area from two summers ago. My last post left us at a very productive park near where I work, and this post starts with some things that I’d found during that same outing. We start wi...
However, following the Fed’s rate cut announcement, another report from the University of Michigan’s sentiment index showed a rise in late September, reaching a five-month high on more optimism about the economy. Consumer expectations for price increases dropped simultaneously with more expectations...
“Garage sale”.They posted homemade signs throughout the neighborhood, ran an advertisement in the local newspaper, then sent out the collection of unwanted objects on the front yard of their suburban home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and waited to see if anyone would come.The Whites needn...
→Second, the Dobbs backlash:It was clear that a backlash hit right afterRoefell, but it wasn’t clear if that would last til the midterms. It did. Americans didn’t wantRoeto fall:57% were unhappy about its repeal, while only 41% supported the change. In Pennsylvania and Michigan, ...
PENCIL: My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. HARFORD: Think about all the processes, all the people who are involved in cutting down those trees and in machining those trees. The people who designed the...
Caller:“Hey, could you take logs from a tree I just had cut down, saw it up at the mill, and then use it to make me some stuff?” Me:“What kind of items?” Caller:“A mantle, five cutting boards, and five keepsake boxes.” ...
And we are still sold on the notion that “environmental whackos” want us to go back to living in lean-tos and wiping our butts with tree leaves, when it is in fact our fossil fuels that are outdated: a lot of environmental technology is cutting-edge but cannot succeed against...
Two brothers who've scaled different peaks in the same range, Michael in boxing, Bruce in UFC. A pair of mountain GOATs. The full story, though, is more like a great American saga, not quite rags to riches but close enough, filled with money and guns and fights, foster homes and ...