News – Wessley Stuart

March 10, 2012

Change Your Clocks Tonight

Helps to remember this little saying, Spring forward and Fall back. That means the clocks change tonight and since we have to move the time ahead by an hour that we all lose that hour of sleep. I always find it interesting that they decided to make the change happen on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Why not do it on Sunday night and have that lost hour disappear before Monday’s start of the week? I don’t think its fair to cut short my Saturday night partying by an hour when you could just as easily take away an hour from Sunday instead.

March 6, 2012

Mud and More Mud

With all this rain we are getting I am pretty sure that this area won’t have any issues with drought later in the summer. We have had so much rain my yard is nothing but mud.

The mud is becoming a big problem for a lot of people. For one thing, we can’t till the gardens or fields. This is the week that most of us gardeners like to get out the tillers and turn the soil to get ready for planting. But it won’t turn if it is mud.

I saw on the news last night that a fire truck responding to a fire down in Nolensville got stuck in the mud. The house was burning on top of a hill and had a dirt driveway, which is pretty common for houses out in the country. So the firetruck tried to get up the hill to put out the fire and ended up getting stuck in the mud. The home burned to the ground because the driveway was blocked by that stuck fire truck. What a shame, but at least no lives were lost.

March 16, 2011

The Old Richter Scale

Found this logarithm online for the old way of measuring earthquakes, the Richter Scale. Now thy use a slightly different method and call it magnitude. The recent earthquake in Japan was originally called an 8.9, but a couple of days later the decided it was actually a 9.0 magnitude.

January 15, 2009

New President

Next week we get us a new President here in the United States, and I for one am not very excited over the coming events. I can not see a lot of change coming from other Presidents that we have had, they all come into the office full of piss and vinegar and then they come to realize that nothing really changes just the face in front of the camera. I wish Obama all the best he is going to need the whole country behind him and I am not sure if that is enough to make any major changes.

November 22, 2008

Big game

This week is a big week for me and my football teams. Vanderbilt really needs to beat Tennessee today and I really need Oklahoma to come big and beat Texas Tech. The wins would make it very interesting for bowl games and in the case of Oklahoma a big factor in making it to the national championship game against Alabama unless LSU beats the Tide in the SEC Championship game later on. Confused? Well so am I. Let us just hope all of my teams win today and then we can sort it out later on.

November 4, 2008

Election day

Today is election day and I am getting ready to go vote, I still do not know who to vote for and that kind of bothers me a lot. Most of the time I have picked one candidate and push him to the polling place in front of me like a wheel barrow. this year is very different, I can not get my brain to decide which one of the two tickets would be worse for our country. On one side you have a crazy woman on the ticket, I think Miss Sarah is rat house nuts and has no business in the white house. On the other side neither of the candidates has any business in power. I will make up my mind as I pull the lever I guess.