Is this real estate up for grabs? No. Not really.

     OK, so I know it's a climactic catastrophe, and it's going to cause problems, but let's think for a minute about this chunk of ice that's broken off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. It's going to threaten ships (it was a Greenland iceberg that sank the Titanic, you'll remember). It could menace oil rigs, 14-year-old girls sailing solo around the world, and it could crash into Canada in a year or two. Meanwhile...what? It is a 100-square-mile iceberg, four times the size of Manhattan. It's too big to melt, blow up or to move in any direction other than the direction it wants to move. So here's my thought: ice tourists. Build hotels, motels, restaurants and shopping malls on the ice. Have snowmobile races. Ice boats. Huskies and sleds. Igloos. Fish from the edge of the ice - what could be more locavore? That sounds interesting, you might be thinking, but what about the permits, the licenses, permission from...whom? Who owns this ice? No one, really. It's adrift, just waiting for someone to claim it. A quick-thinking visionary. Someone maybe a little...off. And so, I, Dick Wanner, lowly scribe, do hereby claim this floating piece of the ocean as my domain. And this is your notice, world. Welcome to LouieVille, ye merchants and customers. Build. Sell. Buy. Party. Just don't forget to pay your rent.

Frank Zeager and daughter, Dot, with an old milk pail.

     After half-a-century of collecting farm-related antiques, Frank Zeager is ready to part with his stuff. He and his late wife, Rhoda, put the fruits of their collecting efforts into a small museum on their Middletown, Pa., farm. More than 700 of those items will be sold by Morphy Auctions in Denver, Pa., on August 14 in an auction that has already drawn bids from buyer hopefuls around the world. There are milk bottles, farm toys, tractor seats and a host of other items, mostly farm related. Lancaster Farming correspondent Lou Ann Good talked to Zeager about his collections and his decision to sell the items after his wife died. She wrote a story about it for our current edition, or you can read it online here: http://lancasterfarming.com/node/3099.


     So...you always wanted a big family? http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/sextuplets-3-wreak-havoc-on-today/66vnbs9