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Continue reading →: Hay Ewe
Spent the day learning how to make hay for the sheep out at the farm. It was a rather interesting event. For starters, my father-in-law assures me that this is a task best done with it’s around 90 degrees and humid enough to swim. I’m not sure about that but…
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Continue reading →: Hobbies Old, Hobbies New
Back when I was a kid, I learned to juggle from a cousin’s then boyfriend. Then, I have running which continues to this day and probably until they have to chain me down in a hospice bed or something. Writing, of course. As I got older, I picked up a…
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Continue reading →: Something Good Coming
I do not believe I shall ever tire of listening to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. http://o.aolcdn.com/videoplayer/AOL_PlayerLoader.swf Click to Play Courtesy of Spinner.com.
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Continue reading →: Did You Hear About Jeff?
Meet Jeff Stockwell. Say hi, Jeff. … Hi to whom? The readers. Readers? What readers? Google Analytics says you had about 20 visitors last week. Tell us a little about yourself. Well, gee … I’m a figment of the author’s imagination. In that little tiny nugget of a brain, I’m…
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Continue reading →: Broc Lee Kicks Brassica
Steph and I wore these to Farmer’s Market today. They were a hit. You can get your very own Broc Lee here and Yes, We Can here.
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Continue reading →: The Importance of Crust
Our local co-op has some delicious Sourdough Pizza Crust. About once every other week, we pick up some so that we can make pizza at home. Combine that with our own pizza sauce, fashioned from tomatoes taken from our own garden last fall, and it becomes a lot better than…
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Continue reading →: Twice As Nice Its Not
Some people claim that having dual monitors can increase productivity by 20 to 30%. I gotta say, I’m just not seeing it.
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Continue reading →: Overheard at the Garden
Mother-in-Law : I lost a packet of seeds. Me : You sure you didn’t plant it? Cuz I don’t think that’s how seed packets are made. Mother-in-Law : No, I think I dropped it. Father-in-Law : Let’s get out WireShark *to find the dropped packet! Me : Hah! Steph: *sigh* …
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Continue reading →: State of the Book
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.” — Douglass Adams, 1951 – 2001 I had a goal to finish Genie Memories by April 30th. So what’s the status as of May 1st? No book. Based on tonight’s progress (a net reduction of -1,001…
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Continue reading →: My Coach
The man in the picture above is Jim Boughton. For the past couple of decades, he’s been a math teacher and cross country coach at Dubuque Senior High School. I first met Coach Boughton when I was about ten or eleven years old, when my older brother Greg joined up…
