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Thursday holidays are weird.
Unless there’s a turkey in the oven and a giant Snoopy balloon floating down West 77th Street, Thursday holidays are weird. And if you’re unlucky enough to have to work the next day, Friday feels odd, too. Almost like a second Monday, which – no offense to Monday – ain’t nobody got time for that.
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I got a bad case of noisemaker blues.
Two years ago, while vacationing in Wisconsin (and secretly plotting a move here), we unwittingly stumbled upon Summerfest in Milwaukee. We didn’t even know what it was, just that there were a ton of people crowding Lake Michigan and we were swept up in the mass of humanity. What it was – what it is
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Digital blasts from the turbulent past.
I’ve been listening to CDs a lot lately. Given my love for DVDs, this probably isn’t a total shock; I’m all about the physical media, baby! But I don’t love CDs. Digital recordings may have a wider dynamic range than analog, but they sound cold and sterile. Like walking down a hospital corridor three minutes
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Waist high by the 4th of July.
A couple of weeks ago, we decided to add a fire pit to the backyard. All that woody debris (hey, remember him?!) continues to pile up, and the portable little metal pit we were using was ineffective. Wanting to prove my homesteading skills, I told Tara I would tackle this project myself. Surely, building a
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But it’s a dry heat!
I used to scoff at people who declared, “But it’s a dry heat!” whenever the temperature in the PNW climbed higher than 85 degrees or so. Hot is hot, I figured. Even without humidity. OK, fine: I was wrong. Heat is one thing, but add humidity to the mix, and it’s like you’ve descended into
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Smoking in the rain.
It’s okay to use an electric smoker in a thunderstorm, right? (Either way, it’s happening. This pulled pork takes about 10 hours and I’d rather not eat at midnight.) Now’s as good a time as any to out myself: I’m a proud Traeger owner. This wasn’t intentional. I was making do just fine with my
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