Figuring it’s about time for hummingbirds to roll into the Ville, I cleaned my feeders and hung them outside. I’m ready for the little aviator guests — but they aren’t here yet!
In indiana, you may see a few in early April, but they should be here waiting for refreshments by the end of this month to early May. I can’t wait… I love to watch them. 🙂
Mr. Farmer is getting ready for his yearly job too…
Rex has sprayed the winter wheat and rather than the lush green we saw just a week or so ago, now it’s a brownish orange field.
So much to do!
There’s so much to do in the springtime! Because the forecast is for frost this weekend, the temptation to start too early is real. My inside plants can’t wait to get out for some real sunshine — but I don’t want to be carrying them in and out — so they must wait a bit longer.
Now you know: After investigative reporter Don Bolles was killed by a car bomb in 1976, 38 journalists from competing news organizations teamed up to finish his investigation. He was known for investigating the mob in Phoenix.
Teen, Landon Doty, was found guilty on all counts of raping a boy on a Jennings County, Indiana, school bus. Landon was 15 years old at the time he was accused of 11 felonies, including four counts of rape. His victim was a 7-year-old non-verbal autistic boy he sat next to on a special needs school bus.
Having driven a bus for 100 years or so, I can’t even imagine how awful the entire situation is for everyone involved.
This bus had a monitor.
WTHR’s article states that the bus driver first noticed the younger boy sitting on Landon’s lap and alerted the bus monitor. In C’ville, we didn’t have bus monitors… but it seems to me the bus driver shouldn’t have to alert the monitor of anything going on. The monitor should be… ummmm… monitoring.
This case involved incidents from February through mid-April, 2025… all under the watchful eye of the monitor.
Yes, I cut the driver some slack… they’re DRIVING, after all. The Jennings County School Corporation fired both the bus driver and the bus aide shortly after the incidents came to light, but are they they only ones at fault?
It seems like there were so many preventable failures.
Who is responsible for thinking it was a great idea for a non-verbal 7 year-old to be transported with a 15 year-old child with past behavior problems? It wasn’t the bus driver or aide, I can promise you that. A civil lawsuit by the victim’s family alleges negligence by the Jennings County School Corporation.
Now you know: School buses make up the largest mass transit system in the U.S., transporting 26 million students daily. Specifically painted “National School Bus Glossy Yellow” for visibility since 1939, these buses are designed to be 70 times safer than passenger cars. They use “compartmentalization” (padded, high-back seats) rather than seat belts for safety.
Yesterday afternoon just before 6:00 PM, I notice a weather alert on my phone. I open it up because it said “severe” with a big ole exclamation mark sign.
The National Weather Service obviously needs attention.
Here’s the alert…
Severity: Moderate Weather Event Onset: 3:45 PM (EDT), March 17, 2026 Action Recommended: Execute a pre-planned activity as instructed in the Description. Urgency: Take action within the next hour. Description: Less than 1 inch of snow starting after midnight. 🙄
It’s COLD — I’ll admit that.
I was freezing in the garage when the Pesky Neighbors came to give me a birthday present yesterday…
I invited them to come in — I would’ve put the hounds in a different room — but Mr. Pesky said they didn’t have time. Once they got here, I asked them where they were headed. “Home to take a nap!” was the reply.
They likely saw the same alert and are planning to take urgent action once they’re rested.
Funny memory spawned by seeing Mom sitting in the jeep with a cover over her legs…
My great Uncle Ted babied Aunt Lois to the umpteenth degree. I can remember him warming the car for her, walking her out to get in, and covering her legs with a blankie and tucking it in around her before leaving my Nanny & Pappa’s to head back home about an hour north of the Ville. Nanny told me, (and Mom later verified), that Ted also warmed the toilet seat for her. Yup. He would sit on the toilet to warm the seat up before Lois went in to do her business.
That’s a high bar, fellas. I’m willing to bet no one reading this can come close to that one.
Now you know: The last Blockbuster video store in Bend, Oregon hosted a school field trip in 2024 for first graders who were learning about what life was like when their grandparents and parents were growing up.
Perry and I went to Cracker Barrel for pancakes over the weekend. I LOVE their pancakes, you guys. I would’ve been happy with Waffle House and an order of scattered, smothered, and covered, but Perry is OUT on that. He got sick after eating there 10+ years ago and we’ve not been back since.
Perry looks like a farmer in the selfie above, so I ask ChatGPT to change that image based upon what it knew about us. What I got was a Perry who looks like he’s pissed off at the world. Maybe because his drill is missing a bit? Or maybe, ChatGPT just happened to know he was replacing a light in the closet at the exact time I asked for the photo manipulation?
**Queue up some Twilight Zone music vibes**…
We look more like we’re out to ambush some zombies rather than heading to eat pancakes. I’m pretty sure with those power tools, we’ll escape with no problem, and I’m sure to capture the whole thing on camera and likely get some big award for doing so.
Images & video made to look real via AI can look authentic.
There’s a lot of talk on social media about Netanyahu — some speculate he’s dead — because of a video released of him a few days ago. Those saying it’s an AI fake point to a spot in the clip where it looks like there might be a 5th finger on one hand, and it appears he’s lost some molars a bit later in the video. Others say it’s really him and shadows are causing the play on what we see.
Who even knows anymore?
Those little snow pebbles… 🥶
Yesterday, I had windows open before the rain, and the A/C on once it started raining in. It was 75°! This morning, I saw white stuff on the top of the hot tub cover and thought it was ash blown there by the high winds we’re STILL having this morning. But no! It was little snow pebbles!
That means we went from 75° yesterday and have a forecasted low today of 25°… no matter where you live, a 50° drop is crazy.
Now you know: In 1441, a mapmaking error created a tiny independent Republic in Italy that lasted for 385 years.
I got up this morning and put a pork tenderloin in the crockpot with potatoes, carrots, and onions. It was already smelling GREAT in the house when the wind kicked up and the electricity went off.
And then I forgot to turn the crockpot back on. 🥴
Once the electric came back on, I didn’t even THINK about turning the crockpot back on. It was a couple hours later when I realized that my dinner was no longer cooking. It put me a couple hours behind but we had jelly beans!
Candles lit and ready for the awful weather that’s supposed to make it here around midnight or so.
Ugly weather makes me nervous.
I’ve never been a fan of wind and I have to admit, not once at the Seymour house did we worry about it. That house is all brick and you couldn’t even hear the wind blowing outside. Sitting here surrounded by metal and trees, the sounds when it storms are not something easily ignored.
Here’s hoping everyone is safe!
Now you know: Taylor Swift sends flowers to Kelly Clarkson after every “Taylor’s Version” album re-release to thank her for suggesting that Taylor “go in & re-record all the songs that U don’t own the masters on”. At the time, Taylor was upset that the masters of her first 6 albums were sold to a third party.
