Happy Saturday! Good News for May 17, 2008

Happy Saturday! Hope you are enjoying your weekend so far. Here is this week’s GOOD NEWS!

This is Brian LaFave and he lives in Wisconsin. He has pledged and committed himself to not buying a penny’s worth of gas for one month. He is now riding his bike or walking everywhere he needs to go. He will accept a ride from a friend if the friend doesn’t go out of their way to give him a ride. He is even commuting 9 miles each way to work every day. Go Brian!

A Dairy farmer outside of Des Moines has installed flat screen TVs and waterbeds for his 23 cows. Apparently, waterbeds are becoming more and more common among dairy farms for keeping cows comfortable and happy. Happy cows produce more milk and what cows lay on is probably one of the most important items on a dairy farm.

There is even a new cow waterbed company now that sells only to dairy farms.

A Swiss pilot strapped to a jet-powered wing leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device. He turned figure eights and soared high above the Alps.

Yves Rossy’s performance in front of the world press was the culmination of five years of training and many more years of dreaming.

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