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Owen of the Green Thumb
April 17, 2009

While the girls went out last weekend to attend a show, Riley and I stopped at the farm store on route 113 to have a look around. Inside, they had ducks and chickens and various rodents, but we were most interested in the garden seeds.

We bought many packs of seeds. Tomatoes, squash, carrots, lettuce, radishes… All kinds of tasty veggies. In addition to the seed, we got a little 72-spot starter planter and some starter soil. Buying the seeds and soil was basically a jumpstart for an idea that Berta had earlier.

Best Wrap Evar
April 16, 2009

I can’t take the credit for this one. One of my co-workers, Greg, ordered something like this when we were out for lunch one day, and I ordered one too.

It’s a pretty simple construction, and I’ve made a couple of slight changes to the original wrap due to the materials available and the calorie content. Anyway, it starts with a whole wheat and cheddar wrap shell. I put a bit of horseradish dijon mustard on the shell, then laid a single piece of green leaf lettuce on top. For meat, today I used turkey and ham, but I’d consider all turkey like yesterday’s. I’m not a ham fan.

Build a Blog Network
April 14, 2009

I’ve lately had the inclination to rebuild my blog’s relevancy from the last year of once-per-month posting. Maybe you’ve noticed the last few days. By integrating blogging into my daily schedule, I think I can churn out blog posts with regular enough frequency to get “back in the game.” As with most things, it would probably be easier to have someone to do this with rather than doing it alone.

So I was thinking about Inksmith lately. We’ve seen ideas like this come and go, but I think the idea of a new blogging fraternity is a good one. A membership system would simply relate all of the bloggers to the others, maybe aggregate posts, and provide a topic support system.

Overtech
April 13, 2009

Yes, it’s true, I am a gadget junkie. Anyone who has visited my house knows this. I have all kinds of gadgets all over the house. I’ve got computers laying around my family room, computers hooked to the TV, and even my TV remote control is a computer. This causes particular consternation for my grandmother, Nana, who watches the kids during the day.

Nana is a kind of Luddite. Sure, she has a TV at home, and she has the latest Verizon fiber TV service, but that’s about the extent of things. She listens to radio in her car, which doesn’t sound too bad, but I can’t remember the last time I listen to the radio and it wasn’t tuning in an FM transmitter that was broadcasting something from an iPod. She has a pretty hard time getting around the house because everything has some buttons or switches.

Bunny Break-In
April 12, 2009

I had a feeling early this morning that something had gone wrong. Soon enough, we learned that someone had broken into the house.

The kids were the first ones awake. They woke us in bed. “Mommy! Someone left stuff all over the dining room!” We rushed downstairs to see what had happened.