This is Murphy in the snow we had a couple of weeks ago. Today I had to send him across Rainbow Bridge. He would have been 15 on April 1. Over a year ago he was diagnosed with a collapsing trachea and this morning he was straining to breathe so an immediate trip to the vet to end his struggle was necessary. There have been many pets in my life and sending them on that voyage never gets any easier.

Murphy was about a year old when I adopted him from our local pound and after treatment for heart worms he showed that he was happy to be a dog. Though I told people he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed he certainly understood the need for gentleness when I took him to the nursing home where my mother stayed. He was so happy to visit with the patients and listen to their stories about their pets. Even though he was a retriever he would only retrieve snowballs and loved searching for them even though they disappeared. Snow was so much fun!

He loved all our kitties whether they liked him or not and felt it his duty to help with their leftovers. Bacon flavored treats were the best but he would happily eat a few other flavors.

His most favorite thing in the whole world was his "spa day" when he went to the groomer for his bath and beautification. Murphy just loved showing off how pretty he was.

I miss you so much Murph. Be well and happy my sweet, sweet boy.

jerryc41 posted about the cost of firewood. In our area the current price is $70.00 a "face cord" (4' high x 8' long x 16"-20", the "face" of a cord of wood).

Until our old furnace died a few years back (we use propane now) I cut wood for about 25 years from our own woods of about 8 acres. I knew nothing about it when I started. We had moved from the Detroit suburbs to 35 acres in the Northwoods. Got pretty good at it after a while.

Started out with seven kids helping me, ended up doing it all alone, which kept me in pretty good shape.

Since the U.S. Navy has released official videos of triangular shaped UFO's, I thought that I should re-release the image that was seriously ridiculed by many UHH members. I found this on the NASA lunar orbiting camera website: (quickmap.lroc.asu.edu). It shows two triangular craft parked on the northern edge of the crater "Hershel". You will see that there are areas of change in the libido of the lunar surface caused by the arrival of the craft. These disturbances appear to be caused by breaking of the decent by vertical thrusting devices. This image can be seen on the quickmap site by entering the lat/lon coordinates shown on the lower,left corner of the image. The distance scale of this image is seen on the lower right. Have fun on quickmap. You will never again use a telescope on the Moon.