I was listening to the weather this morning and they were talking of the first snow. Did you know that whatever day the snow first falls will predict the number of snows you will have that season? So if it snow on the 13th of the month you will have 13 snows.

This week marks the one year anniversary for the concept of Good News Wednesday. Our friend, Azsky13 wrote the article kicking off the idea of posting only good news concentrating on one day a week.

Yes, I know the title sounds a little dramatic, but it's true! I've being blown away as I write this. I just had a new ceiling fan installed by the maintenance man in my apartment complex.  

We have had really nice weather this week and I was able to get a sunset picture almost every evening. The temperature has been really nice, the high has been in the 70's almost each day with very few clouds. Only one of the reasons I love living here in southwest Missouri.

Howdy to all you good Newsviner's and Happy Halloween! Get you costumes on and fix yourself something to drink and let's have a party!

I was messing around this morning and found a really neat Halloween Avatar builder. You can use one of the pictures on your computer or use the ones provided. I have tried making some with my own pictures and now I can't decide which one to use.

I'm pretty sure that the trees are going to lose their leaves really soon around here. We've already had a couple of hard freezes and most of the trees around here have already shed.

This was sent to me my email and I thought it was too good not to share.

As most of you know I went on a road trip last week to Kansas City. It was a pretty quick trip just for an appointment I had so I didn't do much while I was there. But I did take a couple pictures on the "fly" .

I like country music, yes I know I'm just an old town girl that likes to listen occasionally to some country music, I also enjoy listening to other kinds of music, but today I'm going to share with you some songs on my YouTube playlist. Toby Keith -"American Ride"

Today's offering for Good News Wednesday is just a few pictures I have taken recently while strolling around. We have had tons of cloudy days with a bunch of rain so my walks have been curtailed some. Because of all the rain, the colors of Fall are slow to come in my little world.

Happy Good News Wednesday to everyone! I recently got the beta upgrade on my column that enables me to do more fancy stuff. Don't worry, I believe everyone will be upgraded soon, at least I hope.

A few chrysanthemums for your viewing pleasure. I just love the splash of color they provide.

Yes it's time to pick apples in the Ozarks and I'm so glad I could scream! I've been anxiously waiting to go visit the orchard for weeks and the time finally arrived yesterday.

As you may know I recently started a walking regime. I try to walk everyday and have been doing this about a month now. I can say I'm already feeling a little more energized and maybe a little healthier for it.

As another sun sets on a great Good News Wednesday I want to personally thank all who participate. Either in posting articles and seeds to the group, But also to those that read and comment. We couldn't do it without each and everyone of you!

I had the pleasure to visit Fassnight Park in Springfield, Mo. this weekend for the first time in over 30 years and let me tell you it was like I had returned to my childhood.

After visiting the Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park and the Butterfly House, we went to lunch at the most wonderful place called the Honey Heaven. Let me tell you it is appropriately named as it was a honey of a place to eat!

This is the second in a series of articles I'm publishing today, the first one was Dancing Butterflies and the third one will be about the restaurant we visited for lunch.

This weekend WordsPerSWade, Lilyrose who is my Sister, and I went on an adventure to a Butterfly House located in Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park in Springfield, Mo. Let me tell you it is a very magical place!

I've been trying to get a little more active of late by walking around the neighborhood. Seems as though there is always something to capture in a photo everywhere I go.

Monday morning is going to be a good time to go outside and look up. It might be a great time to take your camera and tripod and see if you can capture what you see.

My Sister sent me something I thought was interesting and decided to pass it on. Did you know that zip-lock bags with water in them would repel flies? Zip-lock water bags

State fair season is here, and while the animals and amusement park rides command attention, most people still get the most excited about the food.

On my birthday last week my Sister and I spent a little time at the Xeriscape Garden to see what new flowers were blooming and I was pleasantly surprised at how nice the garden looked.

Hooray! I'm celebrating my 54th birthday today! I've been trying to decide what to write about this week and thought I would tell you some things about the year 1955. So I went looking for some facts about what happened that year and this is what I found.

I ate my first tomatoes this week and I can say, they were very tasty! It is really nice to be able to just step outside my door and pick some juicy red tomatoes for my salad.

I started out wanting to post a light hearted article with pictures of our pets dressing in holiday outfilts and went looking for photos. Instead I found something even better. Our wonderful soldier dogs at work and rest. If this doesn't say patriotism I don't know what does.

Well, here I am with a goofy grin on my ugly mug! I just ran across RottLady's article about do you remember when and ya know what?...I sure do...took me back to a simpler time and a better America...took me back to a quickly declining childhood and that is NOT being critical, b …

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived in the best part of the 1900's in my opinion. I remember buying gasoline at one place that was 19 cents per gallon and you could go forever it seemed. I also remember going to the drive in movies a lot.

Well it's time for another pictorial update of my front porch plants. These tomatoes and green beans have only been in the pots for a little over one month! I now have tons of little green tomatoes and even more yellow flowers that will soon turn into tomatoes.

I was lucky enough to have a guided tour of the Dickerson Park Zoo this week and would like to tell you about it.

I had a request to update the pictures of my plants on the front porch so of course I wanted to comply. So without further ado, here they are!

This was sent to me by email and I thought it was good enough to share. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

For some reason today is getting off to a really slow start as far as the "Good News" is concerned. Usually we have a least ten stories posted by this time and clipped to the "Good News Wednesday" group.

Just one week later and I'm amazed at how fast these plants are growing! I am using Miracle Grow soil and I think I can credit that and all the rain with how good these guys are doing. The green beans have already started climbing the trellis.

This article has been written to congratulate our Good News Wednesday members for the continued success of our good news effort.

Thanks to a whole lot of rain my front porch plants are growing like gangbusters! I was only able to get these planted in the last month because it was just too cool to get them started.

I have a new bird visiting my feeder lately and am having trouble identifying it. Does anyone know what kind of bird this is? This bird is very shy and every time I try to get a picture it flies away.

I can sit in my usual spot in the living room and see the birds feeding on my porch. So for my Good News Wednesday article this week I thought I'd show you what I see.

Sunday was a another great day in the Ozarks! I decided to celebrate it with the dogs at Arf Fest 2009.

I have just had my windows washed inside and out!

Our earnings have been posted, How did you do? It seems to me that things have fallen off this whole year. I haven't had a decent payout since December. Not that I'm really too worried about it, as I never thought I could make a living off my Newsvine earnings anyway.

Recently my Sister and I visited the Xeriscape Garden here in Springfield, Mo.

Just over a week ago I quit smoking. I've been staying away from the computer lately because it was a trigger for me. Before, when I sat down at the computer I would light up a cigarette. It was just something I would do, whether I needed to smoke or not.

I haven't had any great ideas on an article lately so I decided that for this week's Good News I would post some pictures showing you how Spring has come to the Ozarks.

A while ago I published a couple of articles with some of my hints on how to navigate Newsvine and it seems like they went over fairly well. So I decided to continue with some additional hints and explanations on how things work around here.

I was born 6 years after my Sister and it sometimes felt like 20 years difference. As I was growing up we had to share a room together, which really didn't bother me but as you can imagine it was really hard on her.

I am so tired of all the turmoil and finger pointing going on here. So I declare this "Get Along with You Newsvine Neighbor Day!"

Well it's all over now but the telling of the tale's. Scott (Scoop) Butki has flown the coop with his ducks in tow.