My wife and I spent all weekend redoing our front yard landscaping. Saturday was spent gutting everything, including 5 dead hibiscus plants, while Sunday was spent planting all the new stuff. Normally, people wouldn’t rip up hibiscus plants, but this year we had several hard freezes that just killed them. It looked like a bunch [...]

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One of the cool things about living in northeast Florida is that you’re pretty close to Cape  Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center. Jacksonville is probably just 120+ miles  north. While that may seem like a pretty far distance, when NASA is launching a shuttle it shines bright enough to be seen for hundreds of miles.
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The weather in Jacksonville is finally warm enough to head to the beach. Today, my wife and I made our first trip to Jacksonville Beach of 2009. The weather was a perfect 80 degrees with not a single cloud in the sky. The water is still cold as ice, but the weather is perfect for [...]

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I was reading an ESPN article this afternoon about former OSU running back Maurice Clarett. Some of you may remember what a great talent he was, but got on the wrong side of the law (several times) and is now serving a 3 year sentence in prison. He’s currently blogging from his jail cell (don’t [...]

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