The proclamation stuck until 1939, when the last Thursday in November happened to coincide with the last day of the month, dramatically shortening the Christmas shopping season and potentially impacting the nation’s economic recovery from the Great Depression. So, in 1941, President Franklin Roosevel...
Every year in Texas, and around the world, the young and young at heart await the sound of sleighbells and a jolly old fat man laughing quietly drifting across the night sky. The tricky part is, you're really supposed to be asleep before he gets close enough for you to hear him. If...
Never be glib about tornadoes.Friday, April 26, 2024 was a bad weather day in the Midwest, and while we were south of thereal trouble, as we left Arkansas and entered Texas we hit astonishing rain: A local meteorologist we had tuned into said the area received three times as much rain ...
An optional guest room also adjoins the suite, and in-house sound is throughout. All suites come with custom-designed beds, Egyptian cotton liners, Goose-down Hypoallergenic pillows, a premium bathrobe, bath amenities by Lather, and a fully stocked mini-bar. The cost to book the Presidential...
It is a comfort to have a bit of this Columbia County sky here in Denver today. [ain't it just grand?] Feeling farm-y. Posted onSeptember 9, 2013 Reply A few weeks back, we met C’s dad, Jeff, to drive up to his friend’s farm in Brighton. Jeff has a goose blind on the ...
Jalen, do not, under any circumstances, swim in the Schuylkill like those Country folks in Texas sometimes try to do during flood season. The pollution will kill you long before you drown. If that doesn’t get you, the eels will. If, however, you find yourself in these unique and dire...
Ok, so you probably know when to call 9-1-1, it's for emergencies. You know that you can call 4-1-1 for information (or you search online), 8-1-1 is the number to call before you dig in your yard, so you don't accidently hit a gas, electric or water pipes. ...
An 18-hole championship minigolf course,Miners Fallsserves up rounds of all-ages fun alongside scoops of gourmet ice cream. As is the case with all outdoor activities in Michigan, the course is seasonal. But locals don’t seem to mind the off-season closures, preferring to support a local...
(they were going to move me too), I called to cancel the deal. And then I called up this designer I heard of and liked who lived in Texas and asked her if she’d hire me. I told her that the company I worked for had been knocking off all of her stuff so I figured if I ...
He has never run through an airport for me. This is love with the lights on and eyes wide open. This is the brave love, the scared love, the sacred boring, the holy ordinary over sinks of dirty dishes and that one cupboard in the kitchen with the broken hinge.425...