THIS N THAT

Okay pro basketball fans, let's come up with a good answer why we are just today starting the final best-of-7 series in determining the champion basketball team.  Keep in mind that Mrs. Pro Basketball Fan knows that March Madness ended two months ago.

Currently, there are 195 countries in the world. The count changes fairly often - usually as a result of armed conflict between neighbors.  There are four major armed conflicts going on in the world. (major means more than 10,000 killed in the past year.)  #1 The Afghanistan Conflict since 1978; #2 The Mexican Drug War since 2006; #3 The Syrian Civil War since 2011; #4 The Yemeni crisis.

In the original Star Wars motion picture, Darth Vader had only 12 minutes of screen time.  He was so impressive with fans that he became the iconic villain never to be dismissed.

The Earth is about 8,000 miles in diameter.  The outer crust of the Earth is about 10 to 30 miles thick.  The further you dig into that crust the hotter it gets.  It is estimated that the center of the Earth is so hot that it is molten - maybe 10,000 degrees F.  

In Irish lore, black butterflies are souls of deceased people.  Here are pictures I took of one last week at Sharon Woods.  The first butterfly of the year.