The Culver Family Blog

Hi everyone! I’m all moved in to my new apartment in Santa Barbara. I thought you might like to see some pictures.

Click the image to see more pictures of my place.

My living room

Joshua graduated Magna Cum Laude today from Oswego State University with a degree in Adolescent Education and a minor in Economics

To all the Mother’s in our family, Happy Mother’s Day!

There was a lot of blame flying back and forth during the presidential election concerning the financial meltdown. Depending on your politics, it was easy to find some portion of the blame residing in the opposing campsite.

Around the time of the election, a lecture was given at Princeton by Alan Blinder, a professor of Economics. The lecture did a much better job of exposing all of the major contributors.

Sometime when you have time to listen to the entire lecture, you will get a much better understanding of what went wrong. Far clearer than any facts you have gleaned by listening to sound bites on the evening news, or worse, listening to talking heads who are still trying to advance an agenda through blame.

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a POORER, BUT WISER

UNCA BO

I put up a display of my teapots this weekend.
This is one of the pictures. You can scroll down and see them on Flickr.

This weekend I heard Spring Peepers on a birding trip; it reminded me of this poem. Leona

The Frog

What a wonderful bird the frog are–
When he sit, he stand almost.
When he hop, he fly almost.
He ain’t got no sense hardly.
He ain’t got no tail hardly either.
When he sit, he sit on what he ain’t got–almost

Anon

We hope that you have a wonderful day!!  We love you!

 Here is Brent and I in front of the Great Salt Lake.  Did you know that the Great Salt Lake is only 10-28 feet deep?  It was once Lake Bonneville, that spaned 20,000 square miles across three states!  Then, because it was so heavy, it sank and it all ran out of the outlets and it the “small” lake it is today.  The salt content is up to 5xs that of the oceans (salt content changes based on water level), and only blue algea and brine shrimp can survive in it.  A human can float! If you want to see all the photos I took from the trip (mostly landscapes of the mountains and Salt Lake), click http://flickr.com/photos/basie9/sets/72157613624895682/

Here is Brent and I before we hit the slopes. We are having a great time in Utah! Snowbird got 18″ last night. We both struggled with waste deep powder, its exhausting trying to get out of it!! Tonight we went and got some BBQ, it really hit the spot. We worked up quite an appetite! Tomorrow we hit the slopes again and then catch a redeye home.