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Will had his first scrimmage on an under 5s soccer team, today. He was so excited, he was fully dressed and ready to go by 6:30AM for his 9:30AM practice. We spent the next few hours bouncing around the house and not eating breakfast. The soccer league sells jerseys, so we had to buy ours […]
We were busy swinging the lead and swabbing the deck in preparation for Captain No Beard Will’s big celebration next weekend. Lots of pirate activities afoot. Doug made some awesome daggers out of PVC, electrical tape and gold spray paint. Here’s how: Materials: – Gold Spray Paint (or silver if you aren’t a dandy) – […]
It is pizza and movie night, Friday. And since I’m sick with the plague, we’re not making our own pizza, but instead, you are learning about one of our favorite local pizzerias – Gioia’s Pizzeria. Check it out.
There have been a rash of new babies born among our circle of friends over the past week. We plan to bring them meals. But first, I made them welcome home fudge using the Nestle recipe, but adding toasted hazelnuts. Oooh my! I broke down and sampled one of the dishes, today, as I wasn’t […]
A few years ago, I rescued a set of dining chairs from Urban Ore, one of our favorite places to find treasures. (Also a popular haunt for the MythBusters team.) If you’ve never been, it is thrifter paradise – a giant warehouse of stuff Goodwill and Salvation Army wouldn’t touch – everything from old windows, […]
There are a few companies/organizations out there that really have me figured out. They do such a good job of profiling me, identifying products of all sorts that I love, that they MUST be cheating, somehow. NPR is one of those organizations that has our family figured out. We own many CDs because we heard […]
I didn’t know this, but Art Garfunkel maintains a website, and he also has maintained a list of all the books he has read since 1968. You can check out the entire list or just Art Garfunkel’s favorite books. The list of favorites resembles my highschool reading list, but I think most of those are […]
I attempted the Gordito recipe off Mayo Clinic last week, and it required some tinkering. I added an egg, and I’d say that was the very least it required. It worked well enough for our purposes making mini quesadillas that were interesting and at least on par with those made using off the shelf corn tortillas. […]
I’ve been reading Adventure in the Rocky Mountains, basically the letters of a plucky woman who traveled the Westerns United States by herself in the mid 1800s. Since I’ve been to both Tahoe and many of the cities in Colorado she mentions, it is interesting to read how the landscape and inhabitants of those regions […]
Sylvie has been letting herself into the freezer and pulling out whatever she can find that might be good. Amusingly to me, she typically ends up with good stuff. In this case, a small container of ice cream. And just as before, she let me know with a few load “YUMMMM!”s. Around here, buckets are […]