Green Valley Moments

Safeway on La Canada had gas yesterday for $1.71/gallon.
But not to worry.
Spend $50 on groceries (that’s hardly two grocery bags anymore) and get a 6 cent discount!
The Circle K across the street was changing their price at the time. Who knows what the price will be when you read this.
OK, what can we […]

… no Katrina.
I can only imagine what it must be like in New Orleans and the surrounding area.

I saw this yesterday on a car in Green Valley.

Get your peace stickers here and make your own statement.

I read somewhere that there are four types of people in the U.S.:
1. Supported the invasion of Iraq, and think we should finish the job.
2. Supported the invasion of Iraq, but feel we should pull out now.
3. Didn’t support the invasion of Iraq, and feel we should pull […]

A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed.
Rather, public libraries from New York City to Alameda, Calif., are letting patrons download Tom Clancy techno-thrillers, Arabic tutorials and other titles to which they can listen on their computers or portable […]

There is so much information available today, there’s just no time to absorb it all. That’s why I like to get my news in capsule form. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are invaluable for displaying headlines and a few lines of info. I have a news reader for my Mac and check it regularly.
For national […]

Or more correctly, from where do the visitors to this blog connect to the internet?
Ever wondered? Here’s the location of just the last few.

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Arizona, Phoenix
Arizona, Pinetop
Arizona, Tucson (Many)
California, Sunnyvale
California, San Francisco
California, Los Angeles
Colorado, Boulder
Colorado, Colorado Springs
Georgia, Atlanta
Georgia, Savannah
Iowa, Bettendorf
Iowa, Council Bluffs
Iowa, Griswold
Minnesota, Floodwood
Minnesota, Perham
Minnesota, […]

We had it all. At mid-afternoon today, thunder rumbled and a rainstorm with high wind and hail swept through Green Valley.
Power was off for 30 minutes or so, temperature dropped about 20 degrees, and then…
it was over.

With apologies to Edgar Alan Poe.
Once upon a morning clearly, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore–
While I computed, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my bedroom door.
‘Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my bedroom door–
Only this […]