July 8th, 2008
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 […]
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July 8th, 2008
4th of July pictures (just developed ;)) I hope those streamers are bio degradable as my backyard is pretty well covered in them.
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July 8th, 2008
First, the good thing: Cold Brewed Coffee. If you enjoy coffee, and can tell the difference between an Americano, a coffee machine brew, and a hot drip, you might try cold brewing. A cold brew tastes similar to an Americano in that it leaves most of the acids in the bean, so you are more […]
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July 7th, 2008
Since there are some dear-to-me coffee addicts in this world, I figured I would rush to post this, in case it saves a life. Here’s a link to a calculator that tells you how many of your favorite drinks you could consume before the caffeine killed you. (We all know this is just for fun, […]
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July 7th, 2008
Here are the baguettes, straight from the oven:
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July 6th, 2008
So the bread looked very authentic, but the process was long and drawn out and I didn’t have the patience to wait the final 5 hours while my baguettes achieved additional fine bubbliness of their outer crust, so I suppose the final product could have been better, but it was pretty good. [There would be […]
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July 6th, 2008
At the risk of sharing too much information, I feel like I’m living in a cross between night of the living dead and exorcist with all the bodily fluids coming out of orifices they should not. Will has kept things down since the 4th, but it sounds like a fireworks display when he goes to […]
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July 4th, 2008
“… so I can take your picture?” (overheard Dad to Will, encouraging Will to shoot a gun shaped popper)
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July 4th, 2008
At risk of turning you off with too much information… If you’ve been following along, we are trying to do our part to conserve water by using our bath-water to maintain the yard. Well, we’ve kept it up, but it has not been fun in our multilevel home. I’ve been trying to think of alternatives […]
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July 4th, 2008
Vomiting ranks right up there with deep gashes, broken bones and ear infections as one of the worst child afflictions. It is just awful. There is something traumatic about waking in the middle of the night to that tell-tale cough and then splat of a recent meal making its exit out an uncommon passage. I […]
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