Rockford Area

Another headline I considered was "Stuff You Notice When You're Quarantined And Bored," but I thought it was too abstract. My neighbor wasn't fond of it either when I yelled it to him for approval over the backyard fence. Might be the mask.

Not to be confused with the Farmer's Almanac, which is the new kid on the block compared to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the Old Farmer's Almanac has, according to their website, been at this weather prediction game since 1792 (229 years). The Farmer's Almanac is the relative newcom…

One of the things that has helped to save so many restaurants from closing is turning out to be the same thing that is ripping off unsuspecting customers. That thing is ordering take out or delivery food.

Summer nights around the Rockford area have been pretty noisy lately, thanks to the efforts of our local cricket and cicada populations. Why are they louder now than they were at the beginning of summer?

The other day, I read with great interest a post on this website by my friend, Sweet Lenny. His post, Is This Nearby Rockford Road Really The Stuff Of ‘Nightmares?’ gives you the lowdown on the supposedly haunted Bloods Point Road in Boone County.

UFOs are a pretty hot topic right now, what with the US government recently delivering a report to Congress about UAEs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), and kind of/sort of telling us what they know about them.

So, you're kicking out $119 a year on an Amazon Prime membership, and you'd like to save a bunch of money on different things as Amazon wheels and deals over the next couple of days with their annual Prime Day, going on today and tomorrow.

I've shared quite a bit of information about what's happening in Rockford's skies over the last month, and we're not done yet. If you feel like getting up a bit early tomorrow morning, you'll get a look at a solar eclipse.

I have very little trouble admitting that I've killed more than a few wasps in my time. I've always had a live and let live relationship with bees, but wasps have always been on my kill on sight list.

In the Rockford area, here are some places to go sledding.