The legalization of marijuana in several states has been the leading nightly news story lately.
It appears that a majority of folks on both the left and right of the political spectrum think marijuana should be legalized, but both sides are advocating for the wrong reason.
The issue of marijuana use involves two important thoughts that at first glance seem to be contradictory.
Joyce doesn’t like the idea of receiving appliances for Christmas, her birthday, or our anniversary. I think she has watched too many Chick-Flicks or Oprah reruns. Seems she thinks these celebrations should be romantic, which would indicate jewelry, diamonds, perfume, Dom Perginon Champagne, or fine art. So I took a big risk this Christmas.
It all started when we got married in 2002. She started grabbing all my change and saving it. She told me after a while we would have enough money to buy something special — which usually means something totally useless, like furniture. But what is a man to do? I took a chance and bought her an automatic coin sorter.
Somehow I managed to piece together this website in July of 2012. The company that hosts the website sent me a bunch of statistics and listed the most popular pages for the year. So I thought I would share them.
Visitors came 126 countries in all. Most visitors came from The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The US is in the mist of the coldest weather in 20 years.
If you live in the northern half of the U.S. your backpacking/outdoor gear may not be adequate for the severe weather. If it is adequate, and if you want to go backpacking, the roads may not be navigable and you might be stuck at home.
If, like me, you live in the desert it maybe be different. This weekend the local deserts were forecasting highs in the 70’s and lows in the high 40’s. This would indicate that any logical and rational hiker would, like Crocodile Dundee, pack their gear, food & water and go for a walkabout.
And that is exactly what I did.
I have more fun shopping for gifts than the enjoyment the recipients receive from their gifts. I only give gifts to those who are important in my life, which means just a handful. This year during my gift search I ran across MountainGoat Hats, or more precisely I kept reading great reviews.