Did you ever earn some extra cash when you were a kid, mowing lawns or shoveling show? I know I did. All my friends did. But it seems today that kids either don't want to do it, or their parents won't let them. I resigned myself to the fact that I was never going to have help shoveling after a big snow. Until today, when a pa

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After Monday's unexpected winter storm, residents of Evansville Indiana and the Tri-State area hunkered down and prepared for what was thought to be the next big storm of 2008. As people woke up for their commutes Thursday morning, while there was atleast an inch of snow on the ground, the roads were wet and snow was already melting in 34 d

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Grand Haven and Spring Lakes Michigan schools were closed today, due to the heavy snow fall over night. Along the lakeshore we received almost two foot of snow.

With your kids home from school today, what are they doing?

This post gives some ideas for parents as to what could or should be happening. Kids could be helping

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The Evansville Indiana area is preparing to get another blast of winter weather Monday evening, January 21st 2008. A mix of sleet and snow is expected to start coming down after midnight Monday evening.

The Evansville Indiana area got an unexpected hit last Monday morning from a surprise winter storm. As with last Thursday, this time eve

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don't enjoy snow blowing and plowing our driveway. It's a long driveway....around 600 feet. It's cold work since I am effectively just sitting. So I look for any way I can to decrease the number of times I have to do it. With gas prices what they are now, it's even more important to do it less. hence the snow fence. The physics of how it

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Two versions of the same photograph of snow from Thanksgiving.
One has a normal color balance. In the second photo, the blue in the shadows was enhanced with the levels command in Photoshop Elements.
You will also find a tip for focusing with a macro lens. Focusing in this way lets you keep the magnification the same.
I ask which snow pho

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A winter wonderland burried in snow, Mount Rainier is at the same time gorgeous and dangerous.  The day these photos were shot the mercury read 20 degrees farenheight, and wind speeds were reported to be 40 to 50 mph.  This was a good day - actually, a fantastic one:  not a cloud in the sky, but few enough people

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This weekend i headed up to Gala Yuzawa, about 1.5hrs North West of Tokyo on the Shinkansen. I must say, it certainly is the easiest way to get to the snow and the same as last week, pretty cheap too. This weeks trip was an up and back affair for 8700 yen, which includes the day on the mountain.

Gala Yuzawa is in Niigata Pre

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