Jeremy Herndon

I was reading an article on a news website that I found called livescience.com that states that many schools have decided to stop supplying trays to their students.  They think that this will save energy, by not having to wash the trays.  The article indicated that they students are not very happy with the decision, as it makes carrying their food to their tables a lot more difficult.

Do you know what parthenogenesis means?  I didn’t until I read it in an article that was talking about how a second case of asexual reproduction in sharks was documented  in Virginia Beach in October of 2008.  It seems that a female blacktip shark, having been the only kind of her species in an aquarium, gave birth without benefit of having a mate.  The article also mentions that last year a hammerhead shark in a zoo in Omaha also gave birth without benefit of mating.

I found this to be quite fascinating!  I knew that there were some animals that could do that, but not sharks!  Considering how many people are afraid of sharks, this could be very scary news to some people.  I would not be surprised to see this story on the Colbert Report’s threat down!

Well I woke up this morning and saw a wintry mess out there – freezing rain, snow, nasty stuff.  I sure was glad that I got around to putting my studded snow tires on my car Friday!  I had heard that we were going to be getting some bad weather right off, and decided not to put it off any longer.  There were several times last year that I slid off of the road because I didn’t have my studded tires put on the car.  That’s one mistake that I don’t want to repeat!  This area gets too icy for just plain old “all weather tires.”

Around this time of year I like to go to the local craft store and buy new calendars for the new Year coming up.  A few years ago I just happened to be in one of the craft stores around this same time of year and found that they sold a huge variety of high quality calendars for under $5.00 each.  A lot of them were only $1 or $2 each!  When I found them I bought quite a few of them to give out to my friends and family as Christmas gifts.  I think that is a great bargain because when I go to many department stores, or stationary stores, or gift stores, they sell the exact same type of calendars for $15 to $20 each!

So I will make a point of going to the craft store before now and Christmas and pick up a few calendars!

I understand that there are several organizations that have arranged to get folks to send Christmas cards and gifts over to the folks serving away from home.  And some have arranged to send the soldiers blank holiday cards to send them for the soldiers to use.  I think that’s wonderful, and I truly hope that they soldiers have as good a Holiday season as possible and that they are home again by the next Christmas!