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I get my water from a private well.  It needs a well pump and a well pressure tank to work. My well pressure tank finally died.  It must have been about 30 years old so I can't complain; except that it decided to die on some of the coldest snowy days in February.  July would have been much better. Luckily I know of a good contractor.  Eric came in the snow and spent the entire day replacing the tank. I had no idea how much going without water would be such an inconvenience. Using bottled water to drink is easy.  What's really bad is having to go without taking a shower.  You can wash your hands if you use the the water from a bottle.  You can take a "sponge bath".  It's just not the same. So I melted some snow in cooking pots to have more water to use for washing. That helped a little. What's the very worst part?  You can't flush the toilet! After one flush the tank is empty and won't flush again.  I used some melted snow and bottled

I want to make my blog easier to navigate and less cluttered; so I set up a simpler design. I used Georgia font in bold, italic because i t looks more personal, like real handwriting. I changed the font to Verdana because it's a little easier to read. Verdana,   Verdana bold,      Verdana bold & italic. Verdana small, Verdana even smaller Georgia,      Georgia bold,           Georgia bold & italic.       Georgia small,       Georgia even smaller There's not really much of a difference. Just for fun I might try other fonts and switch around a bit. I made the text black instead of the original dark grey. A plain background on the lower part of the blog will make the links for the websites and blogs stand out. These websites and blogs are updated with the newer posts on top. Besides posting, I like to share parts of the web that I enjoy visiting. I'm not sure why but I don't get many comments.  I'll try to respond to each comment and

From the Listverse site I read an article about mirrors.   10 Crazy Facts About Mirrors - Listverse Item 8 claimed that mirrors can cause hallucinations. From: Mind Hacks The strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion « Mind Hacks "At the end of a 10 min session of mirror gazing, the participant was asked to write what he or she saw in the mirror. The descriptions differed greatly across individuals and included: (a) huge deformations of one’s own face (reported by 66% of the fifty participants); (b) a parent’s face with traits changed (18%), of whom 8% were still alive and 10% were deceased; (c) an unknown person (28%); (d) an archetypal face, such as that of an old woman, a child, or a portrait of an ancestor (28%); (e) an animal face such as that of a cat, pig, or lion (18%); (f ) fantastical and monstrous beings (48%)." "More mysterious, however, were the participants’ emotional reactions to the changes: The participants reported t

It's hard to leave this site once you get into it.  There are so many great facts. I just could not find a way to search for a particular topic, which is frustrating.  But it's still worth a visit. You can find it here & in Links List. OMG Facts - The World's #1 Fact Source

My brother Tony found this on Facebook.

The sight has medical news. It also has information on specialties. Here's the direct link: Latest Medical News, Clinical Trials, Guidelines – Today on Medscape It's also on my list of Interesting Sites.

I like the music and the video but I'm not sure what's going on.  This first video is my favorite of the two.  They are the same song just different videos. I found this translation (Russian or Belarus).   It's a little rough but here are the lyrics. Picnic Doll with a Human Face The world seems divided into two parts.  The shop-windows with blue glass  Quietly weeping sexless mannequin -  A doll with a human face.  Requests lonely nights  He asks at the sky one -  To fire from the sparks of the original  Broke into his heart,  It was sweet ...  To make it hurt ...  To repent later ...  ... Here and crying sexless mannequin -  A doll with human  Yes, a doll with a human a-a ...  Will he tumbleweed,  Will wait to fire hopes of verse  To one glass bondage  Change for a thousand,  Yes, change for a thousand others.  And while he pinned silence  For showcases a blue glass ...  Quietly weeping sexless mannequi