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Today is the last day in February, and we’ve visited lots of great places in Wichita this month. Living in Wichita gives us a unique perspective on the town, but also means that we’ve been almost everywhere and seen almost everything already. That makes it hard for us to narrow down what we would blog [...]

I recently read an article in the NY Times about how Americans travel to other states or other countries, learning about the history and landmarks of other places, and yet don’t even know their own local areas. The article encouraged the readers to get out and explore their own area before spending lots of money [...]

Today, January 29th, our beautiful state Kansas turns 156 years old. Growing up I was surrounded by Kansas history and spent a lot of time at the Kansas Museum of History volunteering in the gift shop with Grandma Betty. I’m pretty sure that’s where our tradition of making Kansas Day cookies started. Each year Grandma [...]

For several weeks now we’ve been hearing a familiar but unknown bird call. When we would hear it call we’d try to trace the sound back to the source, but with no luck. 

We searched many web sites to get a picture of possible birds and an audio file of their calls. We had a couple ideas, [...]

Take some time tomorrow to check out the night sky for Comet Lulin; it will be near peak brightness and right next to Saturn. Check out the finder charts and comet calendar at Sky and Telescope.

Today was our driving tour of the Dingle Peninsula. Again following Rick Steves’ self-guided tour, we started in Dingle and traced a clockwise path around the peninsula. The weather for our trip was ideal–sunny with a few clouds, no rain or high winds. The first major stop on the trip was at a small collection [...]