My Neck of the Woods

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Bad CDs? Useless CDs?
Don't toss those valuable CDs in the garbage... The United States Coast Guard Auxilliary wants them!
The USCG Auxiliary of Indianapolis has a need for useless CDs for their Safe Boating Project that makes the useless CDs into survival reflectors for boaters.(Each and every life jacket should have one stowed in a accessible pocket to signal for rescue) They give these away free!

You can send your CDs to:

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
7625 Indian Lake Rd.
Indianapolis, Indiana 46236

a dancing skeleton graphicGENEALOGY is THE place to go to access hundreds of links for databases, homepages, surnames, cemeteries, immigrants, etc!!

Odds & Ends

  • A Word a Day- Hone your mind!

  • Hummingbirds & Bluebirds are one of my passions. Check out this site.

  • Universal Currency Converter is where to go to see how much this amount equals in another country.

    • FREE Web Space

  • Find links for free web space here

    MAPS and MORE

  • MapQuest! Interactive Map is a most wonderful mapping site. This site zooms in on anywhere, allows you to add points of interest, and then saves it for you! Register today!

  • USGS/GNIS is THE site to go for maps!

  • Canada's Geographical Names is the equivalent of the USGS mapping site. Locate Canadian places and see them on the map.

  • The Tiger Map Server This site is ideal for getting a fix on locations, and you can use the US Gazeteer as an aid in the mapping.

  • WWW Maps! is a great site to zoom into a certain spot!

  • Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection is the ideal site to get a map of about anything you need.

    • INTERNET ACCESS PROVIDERS

  • the LIST has listed 9,400 Internet Service Providers

    • ON-LINE BOOKSTORES

  • BiblioFind the Internet's largest inventory of old, used and rare books, offered by hundreds of booksellers around the world.

  • Welcome to Amazon.com Books! Search 2.5 million titles. Enjoy consistently low prices.

    • PHONEBOOKS, ZIP CODES

  • YAHOO People Search is a great site for searching for people!

  • Switchboard is an online telephone book, for nationwide residential and business numbers.

  • Belgium Phonebook has 4 Million names available to search around in.

    • KID'S CORNER

  • Granny's Toy Box has sites for kids of all ages. Games, coloring on-line, entertainment galore.

  • Kendra's Coloring Book is an interactive virtual coloring book....add your color to another user's colored picture!

    • VIRTUAL GOODIES

  • Mail a Meal has ALLLL kinds of good eats!

  • Make Someone's Day!! Email a voodoo Doll to them.....a really neat site!

  • Virtual Presents!...send a virtual gift to someone....maybe a Porsche???

  • Virtual Flowers is another great site for sending email bouquets to someone.

    • HAVING A GREAT TIME! WISH YOU WERE HERE!

  • Send an electronic Holiday Card!! Some cute cards on this site.

  • Animated Electronic Greeting Card is a GREAT site. View your anmated card online!

  • Greeting Cards by AWESOME CYBER CARDS! Send customized greeting cards. Cyber greeting cards, postcards, love notes. Hosted by cartoon cat Marlo Marmalade and dog JJ Jamm.

    • GARDENING

  • Ask Earl the yard care guy about gardening help, weeds, etc.

  • Seeds of Change, Oganically Grown Seeds is a commercial endeavor, but the site is good to look at

  • The Tele-Garden is an on-line real life garden that you can work in!

  • A marvelous gardening spot! The Garden Gate is a real must see.

    • MORE ODDS & ENDS

  • CyberArts Strategic Games for the Internet. Virtual real-time interactive games....Backgammon is the only game available right now.

  • Interested in Outer Space? See what the Space Telescope Institute and the Hubble Telescope has to offer.

  • View Earth and see the cloud cover via Satellite! Also see day and night in different locations.

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    As I browse the 'Net, if I find something that I like, I will post it here. So be sure to periodically take a look at this homepage for updates. If you had seen something here, but it is gone now, about it.

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