My husband and I have lived in our current home for eleven years now, and we have really enjoyed our time here. We affectionately refer to it as the Smith Ranch. We have about eleven acres of land that includes a beautiful one-and-a-half acre pond, a large field, a paddock, a barn, along with our […]
My husband and I recently took a vacation on his motorcycle. We clocked on the odometer, that from the house and back, we had driven 4669.5 miles in 14 days. It was quite a unique experience, and we had a wonderful time. We traveled from Tennessee through Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and finally
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We have a family of geese who visit us twice a year, just passing through on their journey to escape the cold in the north, and the heat in the extreme south depending upon the time of year. My husband and I noticed them in our back pasture last week and were a little surprised
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The twentieth century is known for its computers, the internet and networking, using modern technology. Here is a small snipped from the trusty, rusty internet referring to itself, “The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks. The Internet Protocol Suite, the set
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In 1817, there was a printing of a translated version of one of Benjamin Franklin’s final letters written in French to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, penned in 1789. After making small talk and asking him about Paris, Franklin proceeded to elaborate on the current events happening in the United States. The Constitution had been ratified the
How many of us have been guilty of shaking our heads and saying, “Tsk, tsk” at something we see or hear? This is an indication that we personally disagree with it, find it odd, think it inappropriate, uncultured or feel it shows lack of education. As humans, we all have our own likes and dislikes,
It is a fact in this day and age, that social media gets us all wrapped up from time to time and takes us down rabbit holes, to where we cannot even remember what we started looking at to begin with. I saw a short diddly on social media not too long ago that was
True to Solomon’s words found in Ecclesiastes 1:9 which says, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.;” things are constantly making a comeback. This can be seen in fashion, customs, cultures,
Following Micheal Kelly’s invention of wired fencing, Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio was the one who first received a patent for his invention of barbed wire, a zinc coated steel wire fencing, in 1867, then known as ‘thorny wire’. It was not until Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois produced a machine to manufacture
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All the components that are used in the modern computer today, were invented in 1833 by Charles Baggage, about one hundred and twenty years before the first ‘modern’ computer ever existed. He produced the concepts for mechanical and analytical engines. However, the computer has evolved and has multiple inventors to thank for various parts of
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