points of view » amazing http://andrew-mel-garland.com our perspective on things Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:26:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nature http://andrew-mel-garland.com/pictures/nature/ http://andrew-mel-garland.com/pictures/nature/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:49:30 +0000 Melanie http://andrew-mel-garland.com/?p=349 Continue reading →]]> We periodically get pretty windy days with strong gusts. Friday was such a day. Sustained wind was around 70 mph with gusts recorded up to 150 mph. It appears the wind knocked down an oak tree at a nearby house. You can’t really tell from the picture, but the inside of the tree is rotten. The tree knocked some of the roof work off, but no windows were broken!

Friday night I was working on supper and glanced out the window. A beautiful bright rainbow caught my eye. The sky above us was blue, although I could feel some sprinkles being blown from somewhere (another usual occurrence in this area).

Saturday Andrew and I took a walk in the wooded park a few blocks from our apartment. We were looking for deer but saw a skunk instead. We enjoyed watching it for several minutes. It was very entertaining. Unfortunately we didn’t have a camera, so we weren’t able to get any pictures.

Here are some pictures. The first one is from Thanksgiving. The others should be pretty self-explanatory.

]]> http://andrew-mel-garland.com/pictures/nature/feed/ 0 Doping for Bible Quiz? http://andrew-mel-garland.com/random-thoughts/doping-for-bible-quiz/ http://andrew-mel-garland.com/random-thoughts/doping-for-bible-quiz/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:11:30 +0000 Andrew http://andrew-mel-garland.com/random-thoughts/doping-for-bible-quiz/ This is incredible.

If only I had known in high school or for Scholastic Bowl…

What is the world coming to?

*Addendum: Duncan notes in the comments that the veracity of the story is very much in question.

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