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Spontaneous Hay Bale Combustion

Spontaneous Hay Bale Combustion Many people declare autumn their favorite season. With its colorful leaves, jack-o-lanterns, pumpkin spice, costumes, and crisp weather, what’s not to love? Lurking in the background of many Halloween landscapes are seemingly innocuous rectangular prisms or cylinders. Sitting in fields along country roads, providing seats for tractor rides at pumpkin patches, outlining mazes at fall festivals, […]

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Firefall

Firefall It is 3,000 feet to the bottomAnd no undertaker to meet youTAKE NO CHANCESThere is a differenceBetween bravery and just plainORDINARY FOOLISHNESS In the late 1860s and early 1870s, Yosemite Valley was vastly different than it is today. Its status as a protected National Park stood decades in the future. People actually lived amongst

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