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There are an increasing number of small earthquakes under Alaska's Redoubt volcano. As a mother of boys who love science, this is of interest to our family. This is the kind of volcano that explodes dramatically. No rivers of red lava like Hawaiian volcanoes. They say stores in the area are doing brisk business on the sale of face masks, protective eye wear and car air filters. The U.S. Geological Survey expects an eruption in a matter of days or weeks. Here is a picture of Redoubt's last eruption in 1990. I still remember the summer Mount Pinatubo erupted. It was much cooler than usual in Southern California.

Of course the bill passed the democrat-controlled House of Congress. According to MSNBC, Roll call vote All Republicans voted against President Barack Obama's spending plan. Of the Democrats, 11 voted against the measure. Among them: Allen Boyd, D-Fla., Bobby Bright, D-Ala., Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., Parker Griffith, D-Ala., Paul Kanjorski, D-Penn., Frank M. Kratovil, D-Md., Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, John E. Peterson, D-Penn., Heath Shuler, D-N.C., and Gene Taylor, D-Miss. We have borrowed this money from our kids and grandkids to support our generation's bad decisions. I'm ashamed. Can we now spend our way to prosperity?

Just quietly driving up to my "old" home and unloading the family's suitcases. Feeling a little emotional. There was a time there when I thought this day would never come.

Thank you Julie Chats for giving me this awesome and beautiful blog award. Here are the rules of the award: 1. Put the award up on your blog. 2. Add a link to the person who awarded it to you. 3. Nominate at least seven other blogs. 4. Add links to these blogs on your blog. 5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog. I have selected my favorite blogs that I regularly read to receive this award: All D's D is a kind, loyal friend, and a prolific commenter. An all-around wonderful woman who doesn't see her own worth by half. And she doesn't hold grudges when our politics disagree. LL is an old friend and a mysterious man who can't tell you what he used to do for a living. :D I Am Harriet is my newest blogging guru, and she's teaching me about networking and Technorati authority. Julia, at Sometimes Lucid because in my opinion, she's always lucid, and her posts make so much sense to me. " Infertile Ground on which I tread, and sometimes kneel....

I admit that I have co-slept with my infants on occasion. But this news story gives pause for thought. Infant suffocation and strangulation has gone up 4-fold in the past 20 years? Mostly due to co-sleeping? Eeeek! Most of the deaths that could be determined were by "overlay" — the parent rolling over onto the child. Other causes include suffocating in soft bedding, becoming wedged between a mattress and frame or wall, or getting a head caught in something. "To our knowledge, it is the first study to document the national trend showing a fourfold increase in accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed infant mortality in recent years," the CDC team wrote.... Evidence shows that babies should be laid to sleep alone, on a flat mattress, with no loose pillows or blankets and in a crib with bars designed to prevent entrapment. -Reuters I, personally, make sure that the only blanket I put on my baby is a crochet blanket with holes in it for air flow. And I hav...

Tomorrow is the 26th. They come to pick up the rental house furniture and housewares on the 30th. My lease is up on the 31st. Tomorrow they will install insulation into the house attic, having completed the rebuild and cleaning last week. Also, they will power-wash the exterior of the house on Monday. Then I will have Tuesday to get things cleaned up and shop for sheets/comforters/pillows prior to receiving delivery of the new beds on Wednesday. Thursday will be moving day. Friday will be for cleaning the rental house. I hope nobody drops the ball. This is a tight schedule.

As soon as we're done nationalizing health care, we should move swiftly to nationalize (socialize) the legal system. I mean, it's not fair that some folks have better representation than others, right? And those lawyers out there make too much money. That's not fair, either. Try not to think about the fact that lawyers have had to work hard for years and years to get where they are. That they went without years of paid work and instead racked up high student loan debt. Forget that some of these lawyers are better businessmen than others. They make more money. This is about fairness. It's time to take what we covet. It's now or never. There is single-party rule Now. Let's slam these changes through before anybody realizes what we are doing. Yeeehawww! Go US! I wonder what President Obama's Harvard Law School buddies will think of this progressive idea.

There should have been a class. Or maybe our parents should have had that "talk" with us when we were little. No, not the birds and the bees. We seem to have that part down, lol. The other talk. How to live life responsibly; able to take care of ourselves and our loved ones and dependents. For the rest of us, there is a book by Thomas J. Stanley, written 12 years ago, called The Millionaire Next Door. It is a classic. How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often...

I told my husband the story of a partner in my ex-husband's law firm. This man, Mike Grzanka, was a hard worker, delayed-gratification type. He was in the building phase of his life, working, working all the time, so that he could enjoy life at a later time. In his mid forties, he found out that he had terminal liver cancer. He and his family went on a world travel tour for about a year. He was survived by his wife and 2 kids. I wonder if this is the reason my husband announced that he is going to try to rearrange his schedule to free up some more time. We all need to remember. Life is the journey, not the destination. Make sure you don't sacrifice too much of the Now. Now may be all we have.

At least the fire couldn't ruin the view. See that shiny patch in the distance? It's the ocean.

Good for you for speaking up and writing. Unfortunately, since the 1980s, Israel has become the evil occupier in the eyes of the media. You would figure that the media would have learned something from the Iraq war. That is that the arabs don't have fair war fare. It is well known that they place stocks of ammunition and bombs in schools and where families live. They send their children across the border to blow up Israeli buses full of families. They place mines or bombs where they know children's school buses are traveling. Israel would never target children and families. But Hamas/Palestinians have been sending Katusha missiles into Israel targeting border cities where families live since Israel gave up Gaza. Was this ever in the media? Of course not!! Schools are closed in the south and families that live in major cities like Ashdod, Ashkelon and Beer Sheva have to live in bomb shelters. Regular innocent people have been killed and severely injured because of these bombs. ...

Do a good job at the job that you're doing, and future jobs will take care of themselves. - Coach Terry Donahue (UCLA) November 1986 This is something coach Donahue told me in person when I was a sportswriter at UCLA. I had some questions for him, and he sat with me after practice under a darkening sky, on the cold bleachers of the practice field, patiently answering questions after all the players went home. Coach Donahue is a gentleman.

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Here is a video of one of my son's jujitsu instructors. Pretty impressive for a skinny 19-year-old kid. He is the one with the shirt on.

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Deep breath. This is hard to even write about. But I am *so* grateful, I have to say something. I have been the recipient of charity this past month and a half since the fire. I'm finally getting caught up on my thank-you notes, and that feels good. But I want to say a public thank-you to everyone who has helped us. First, thank you to the local MOMS Club for donating toys and casseroles. We had pretty much no toys when we were in the hotel room. Then the MOMS Club made an announcement and some thoughtful members brought toys over to the rental house. Most of our toys were in boxes in the garage, where the fire was. I don't like a cluttered house, and I had the toys on a rotation, so we lost all of that. And I'm also grateful for the several casseroles that were brought by. One night in particular, a casserole arrived when I was feeling weak and feverish (after surgery) and unable to physically make dinner for the family. It was a G-dsend. And thank you to the J...

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The men went up into the attic today, my general contractor, the truss guy, and my husband. The consensus is that the roof does not have to be removed on order to make the repairs. The roof sags slightly in the area of concern, and they will need to jack it up, so if they can't do it with the weight of the tiles on, they may have to take the tiles off. Otherwise, the truss guys will bring the trusses in parts to rebuild and repair what is there. They will get an engineer to sign off on the plans first, and the contractor will call me in the next few days to get the work scheduled. I hope this happens very soon, because the owners of our rental house just gave us notice that they close escrow on February 5th, and they want us out by January 31. In other news, ServPro came and cleaned the remaining fire cinders off of the floor of the garage last week, and our house doesn't stink quite as badly now. But it still smells like a smoker lives here.

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Rental house, front view. Back yard. Staircase. Here are some pictures of the rental house. I had better get used to it, apparently. I found some damage at the house yesterday that really set me back on my heels. I was all prepared to move in early next week. The guys were taking the old insulation out of the attic and vacuuming, getting ready to put in the new insulation. I insisted on going up there myself to make sure it was clean enough. I want *all* the dust out of there, as long as we are going to all this trouble. They called me and said it was time. I climbed up the ladder and hoisted myself into the attic. Balancing on the rafter beams, I crab-walked over to an open space and wiped my hand over the dry-wall/ceiling. It was still dirty. The guys were using a shop vac, but it wasn't doing a great job. As I inched my way back to the opening, I noticed that a crossbeam right in front of my face was cracked in the middle, near a knothole. I thought, hmmm, that'...