One of the more interesting programs on podcast is Garrison Keiller’s Prairie Home Companion and his other daily podcast with The Writer’s Almanac. The address you can cut and paste in the URL/address line is listed below and centers around birthdays of famous folks, and of course, his brilliant reading of selected poetry, and this is good: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/podcast/feed.php

You can cut/paste this into your URL as well to receive podcasts about his Prairie Home Companion radio show and of course, his famous stories from “Lake Wobegon, where all the men are good looking, all the women are strong, and all the children are above average!” It has a lengthy address line, but you can cut it off after companion news.
http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/podcasts/xml/prairie_home_companion/news_from_lake_wobegon.xml

I’m sure you and so many or your readers have frequented {SimpleTruths.com}, another great way to feel motivated by clicking on their inspirational videos highlighting a down-syndrome child’s ability to be the best at his job, the power of a single degree of temperature, to Vince Lombardi-isms.

Maybe this isn’t the place to promote these programs, but being held without ransom by old man winter (Mother Nature too), these programs can enlighten your day and lead to other exciting programs on the net. I use “(Apple) iTunes” to download my podcasts, etc., and maybe you have ideas where folks can do this even simpler (as I’ve heard before, ‘This isn’t Rocket Science’).

Your letter or prayer to Mother Nature has stirred my resources to offer some help here. If folks don’t have a computer, or were trying to rationalize why they need one, this would be one positive post I would suggest. Before I run out of breath, I would like to suggest for folks to start listening (and many currently do) to NPR radio broadcasts. Other than typical news events, they have tremendous stories with some famous and infamous people from ‘behind the scenes’ that you would be hard pressed to find on your own. Some great one-on-one interviews of human interest are terrifically inspiring. You could go online to catch their area broadcast radio connections (usually in the 8 and 9 hundreds on your dial).

JOSH>>>>>>>if this doesn’t fit the needs of reader feedback, just trash it, and i could put into a roostertales shortly….? mert

Having had the opportunity to travel most of the north/southwest parts of this country, I can tell you that they are wondering ‘where’s the snow’? They have been under a drought for the past decade and it looks like there’s little help this season. I did haul back from Portland, OR., 6 K lbs. of roses for Wal mart shoppers in Cheyenne. Now in east central Colorado, there’s not enough snow here to make a snowball.

I have warned Lois for the past month now that the good folks of Wausa should be building an Ark, because when the weather breaks, and goes Caribbean, Josh’s plea for avoiding flooded basements, may just be lost thought with Mother Nature!