Archive for October, 2010

There is a new blog in town

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Oct 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

And it is even being authored by an O’Donnell. I had nothing to do with it. Bit N Bridle 4-H Horse Club – Orange County VA



Climate models: Taking things way beyond their context

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Sorry for this diversion from storm chasing.  I had to post this link to Roger Pielke’s blog.  He articulates a lot of what I’ve been trying to say over the past few year regarding the whole global warming thing.  The climate models that…



Learn about electricity the GM way

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Oct 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

General Motors, in conjunction with the release of the Volt Electric Car, has a bunch of resources available for K-12, as well as teachers, to help teach and learn about electricity. Random trivia; GM used to sponsor their own University. I have a friend from business school that got his undergrad from GM University. I […]



Low-Point Breakfast Sandwich

By From http://www.pointsinmylife.com/ • Oct 13th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I love McDonald’s breakfast sandwiches, especially their Egg McMuffins! After enjoying one of these recently, I decided to do a little research to find out just how many points some of their breakfast sandwiches have. I was quite surprised at how many …



0 for October (and September)

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Even tho’ the current radar shows storms moving southeastward along I-64 nearing Richmond we had no such luck around here today.  Chaseable storms have been scarce as hens teeth (does anybody still use that ancient analogy?) since early July aroun…



Mrs. Gwin

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This is a photo of Mrs. Gwin, she who gave the famous costume ball described in Virginia Clopton Clay’s memoir, A Belle of the Fifties. I wrote about this ball in an earlier post, which you can read by clicking here. In the earlier post there is a li…



Mrs. Gwin

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This is a photo of Mrs. Gwin, she who gave the famous costume ball described in Virginia Clopton Clay’s memoir, A Belle of the Fifties. I wrote about this ball in an earlier post, which you can read by clicking here. In the earlier post there is a li…



Mrs. Gwin

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This is a photo of Mrs. Gwin, she who gave the famous costume ball described in Virginia Clopton Clay’s memoir, A Belle of the Fifties. I wrote about this ball in an earlier post, which you can read by clicking here. In the earlier post there is a li…



A Southern Girl in ’61 [1861]

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Publisher’s Weekly, Volume 68, page 567Review of A Southern Girl in ’61 by Louise Wigfall Wright



A Southern Girl in ’61 [1861]

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Oct 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Publisher’s Weekly, Volume 68, page 567Review of A Southern Girl in ’61 by Louise Wigfall Wright