Scholarships

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Tyler

Scholarships can be a great way to get students to go to college that might not have been able to go to school because of financial hardships. My cousin Ethan attended college on a fully paid scholarship that paid his room and board, tuition and fees, and all books. Without that financial help he never would have been able to go to college; his parents were hard working people that just barely were keeping their heads above the water in these hard economic times.

In my opinion, every high school student should be required to attend a two year school of some sort after high school. That could be college or vocational school. From what I understand, there are countries that provide this type of continuing higher education completely free to the students, and it helps to prepare the students for the real world much better than simply going to high school. If “we” are to continue to compete with the rest of the world, I think that we should take a look at providing this same type of higher education as well.

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Barky bark

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Tyler

Had to take one of my dogs to the vet this morning. Wasn’t sure if he had pneumonia, kennel cough, asthma, allergies, or a tumor. All I knew was that he was having trouble breathing. Turns out that the vet said that he just had a throat irritation – probably from barking too much. We had a lot of company over the weekend, and he was quite anxious and barking a lot more than usual. He gave me some cough medicine, antibiotics and an herbal anti-anxiety medicine. The anti-anxiety medicine is a chewable tablet that is beef flavored, and he eats that right up! The other two medicines, though, I’ve had to wrap in a slice of American cheese to trick him into eating it. So far, so good.

We’ve been trying to keep him quiet today; he seems to be feeling a little bit better. I will be curious to see if this anti-anxiety herb helps to keep him from barking at every little thing that catches his attention!

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Outer Banks homes

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Tyler

From all of the publicity I’ve heard lately about so many people interested in buying Outer Banks homes I’ve started to wonder if the Outer Banks is going to become a new retirement haven. So much negative news has been coming from Florida about rising crime, sink holes, palmetto bugs (I call them cock-roaches) poisonous snakes and alligators stealing pets, I’m rather surprised that so many people continue to even think about moving to Florida anymore!

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Worrisome news

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Tyler

My mother just called me to tell me that her sister (my aunt) Lydia has just been discovered to have a tumor in one of her lungs. The doctors have said that they are sure that it is cancer and that they have to operate as soon as possible. Aunt Lydia is in her eighties, and this is a major surgery, so we are all worried that she might have trouble recovering from the ordeal. We are all wondering how it is that Aunt Lydia, who never smoked anything in her life would come down with a lung cancer at this stage of her life.

Maybe it was because she was exposed to so much second hand smoke during her life. Her parents were heavy smokers, and for most of her work life she worked in offices where her co-workers were allowed to smoke. Most of her life she was also exposed to second hand smoke from restaurants and other public places. With all of the advances that science has been able to make, I find it sad that there still are so many lives lost and/or endangered to diseases like cancer.

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Self diagnostic spa heater

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Tyler

Recently I’ve started to think about buying a spa and putting it in the back yard. I think that I’ve found the perfect one that can accommodate up to seven people. Shopping around and checking out the different pool and spa heaters I’ve been most impressed with the self-diagnosis features of the Raypak pool heaters. One of my biggest concerns about buying an expensive product like this is how difficult it would be to get repairs and maintenance work done. So this self-diagnostic feature appeals to me very much.

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