I was born in tornado country but moved to the West Coast when I was 1yr old and came back 8 years later. The only thing I knew about tornadoes came from The Wizard Of Oz and some pictures our new neighbors showed us of our house which was destroyed 2 years before we moved in. The house didn't have a basement then and it didn't have one when it was rebuilt. We didn't have a tornado siren in those days,instead they would have a cop car drive up and down each street with it's siren on a single pitch....

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It is sort of a good thing but sort of a bad thing as well. My beloved Compaq finally completely died on me today which is not good because I have things on the desktop in folders I had not put on the external hard drive yet. Hopefully Staples can get those things off the desktop and onto the hard drive for me. The new laptop is an HP touch screen and let me tell you, it is different.

I do like the touch screen tremendously however, just adapting to a new piece of equipment is hard...

Anyone interested in having horses, sheep, goats or lambs and/or cows? 2.3 acres of pasture, an old barn and shed, with a nicely remodeled 4 BR-2 BA home on it. Great for kids...elementary school right down the road. Foothills area, mid price range.....

I joined my first little league baseball team when I was about 12. There were only 4 teams in our league and we finished in 2nd place. We were expected to finish in 3rd but the usual 2nd place team kept forfeiting because most of their players wouldn't show up and we were a lot better than the 4th place team which was made up of comical misfits. Nobody ever beat the 1st place team, they finished 1st every year because some of their players were a couple of years older than most of the other kids....