Bearizona Soft Opening With Black Bear Cubs in Williams Arizona Saturday, May 22, 2010 Bearizona had its official "Soft" opening. What is Bearizona you may be asking? Bearizona is a drive-through wildlife park at the gateway to the Grand Canyon in Williams, Arizona. Live animals in a natural habitat in one of the world's largest Ponderosa tree forests.  See bison, mountain goats, big horn sheep, black bear and wolves all roaming freely in 160 acres of Arizona wilderness.  Bearizona has easy access located just south of I-40 at Highway 64 (Historic Route 66) Only 58 miles to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and 25 miles west of Flagstaff. Having attended the Soft Opening on May 22, 2010 I must say this is well worth the price of admission.  The time we had in the park was MAGICAL!  No o... 05/22/2010

                              What Every Seller Needs To Know In Today's Real Estate Market                                                                                                                                            The real estate agent is only the messenger                                                     Sellers please take several deep breaths before shutting down on any offer in today's real estate market. The agent YOU selected to represent you is doing the job you hired them to do with your best     interest at heart when presenting an offer.  You selected the agent based on a thoughtful process     now give them a chance to do their job and help you sell the house. The agent has a fiduciary responsibility to present all offers.  It is perfectly normal to be mad... 05/13/2010

Happy Mother's Day                                            From My home to your home, enjoy the day! A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?" God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you." The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy." God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy." Again the small child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?" God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience a... 05/07/2010

Blog Ranking SEO 101 for Beginners Part 1 of 3 Title Last month I attended Rain Camp in Las Vegas. This was an event to share what activerain is and how dedicated the blog platform management is to educating blog participants.  We had a fantastic day connecting with people from all over the country.  The day was packed with so much great content it has taken time to follow up with all the take aways and share the information! This three part series should make it easy to start to understand how 3 easy concepts help you get good search engine optimization, SEO. This post is for anyone who does not know much about blogging or SEO.  This is SEO 101 The first question you might be asking is... What is SEO or Search Engine Optimization?  From Wikipedia: "Search engine optimization (SEO) is t... 05/06/2010

Friday Funnies...TechnologyAt a certain age, everyone will understand this poor guy... I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter. I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space. That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world. My phone was beeping every three minu... 01/21/2010

Happiness-- Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing, But .... Only Friends ....Keep You Going !!!  Just a note of thanks to everyone who has been helping me learn here at activerain! It's a long journey but like the Beatles sing.....I get by with a little help from my friends!  That's you! Your friend in the Cosmic Cow Pie! 01/19/2010

Wordless Wednesday...What's That Cow Doing? The middle of the week and time for some fun! I checked my Google alerts today and found some very cool COW videos!  And some NOT so cool! Who would think there would be hundreds of cow videos... well there are... the one below is VERY short. The message from me to you is to have you start thinking about a contest to Name That Cow!                           If you have some ideas.. let me know in the comments what would be fun to name the new Cosmic Cow icon...He/She really needs a great name to carry on with the BRAND!  So until the contest time.. here are some Cow mooovement to inspire your creative side... now stop that... mooooovement!  Not cow pies. Remember to be thinking about NAME THAT COW! Contest rules to be announced soon! 01/05/2010