Bye Bye

We just got our house under contract and we are moving. I will be packing and moving and doing the things you need to do to take your life from one place to the next. I won't be doing the blog, and it is unlikely I'll pick it up again because my commute will increase. For those of you who know me, we'll be moving to Eden. Check out the MLS info and images of our new place. We are excited.

BTW, not me up above...just a cute picture taken from Bella's 80th birthday party. Happy birthday Bella.


Image found at this location: http://devonshire.myphotos.cc/~jen/albums/Grandmas-80th-Birthday-Party/P7309317.sized.jpg

Buried Alive and Survived

This story actually makes me a bit squeamish. I can be claustrophobic, and to imagine that Ryan Roberts couldn't move while buried under four feet of snow makes me anxious.

He was snowmobiling and was caught in an avalanche. He tried to outrun the snow, and was traveling about 80 mph, but jumped off of his sled when he was approaching some trees. The snow caught up with him and buried him. He couldn't move, and thought he was going to die. And in reality, the percentages are against him. He tried to remain calm and passed out after about 5 minutes.

The individuals who were snowmobiling with him tried to find him. After a few hours the rescue team and law enforcement came to help, but to no avail.

Around midnight, a cousin of Ryan's decided to look, so he brought his probe to the site of the avalanche to see if he could find Ryan. That was 8 hours after the avalanche.

He found him on the first probe.

They dug him out and took him to the nearest hospital about 20 miles away -- by snowmobile.

Somebody or some power in the greater unknown was watching out for this guy.


(Image found at this location: http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/03/03/avalanche.survivor.ap/story.ryanroberts.ap.jpg)

Change a Lightbulb, Change the World

This story will let everyone help change the world in about 18 seconds. Well, OK. Truth is you might have to run to the store to get the new bulbs and that might add a bit of time. But if you are going to the store anyways, pick up one of these new bulbs.

There is a new website out there wanting everyone to put at least one new CFL (Compact Flourescent Lightbulb) into their homes. If everyone replaced one bulb, it would "collectively save more than $8 billion in energy costs, prevent the burning of 30 billion pounds of coal and keep 2 million cars' worth of greenhouse gas emissions from being released into the atmosphere."

Now that is kind of cool. And easy. Check out the site at 18Seconds.org About 8 employees from Yahoo were realeased from their job and given a sabattical to put the project together. See how your state is doing, and next time you're at the store, pick up an updated, effecient box of bulbs for the house.

(Image found at this location: http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2007/feb/cfl/cflstandard.jpg)