Every year halfway through the summer, pool maintenance gets really tough, and by the time August rolls around the pool is green, I’m exhausted, and we have the pool closed […]
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Category: Everything Else
Organ Donation
Should I sign up for organ donation or not? Today I was stopped at a red light behind this bumper sticker: Seeing it was a good reminder to investigate the […]
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Netflix
Oh, Netflix, you know me so well.
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Pokeberry Ink
Fermented pokeberry ink with a stick pen: 2013-09-07 Recently I’ve been trying to identify berries that I see around the area. Pokeweed is common, including a large plant growing on […]
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Modern Maid Oven Repair
After we bought a new house, I set to work trying to clean our range (oven). This was several years ago. I stupidly went to remove one of the oven […]
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Analogy
Gloves are to mittens as mittens are to socks.
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Break Time!
The Random Pattern
As anyone who has ever been asked to create a random pattern will tell you, there is no such thing. It’s an oxymoron. Given a pile of bricks with two […]
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Rabbit in the Yard
Clay Pots
A friend has been talking about survival camping lately, and brought up the question of how you could do something as simple as boil water if you didn’t have a pot? […]
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