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I’m no Paul Bunyan
When we had a bunch of pines removed from the property, I asked the dudes with the chainsaws to set aside a tree’s worth of logs to use as fuel for the wood stove. Of course, I had no idea our winter would be a bust thanks to El Niño. Joke’s on me, I guess!…
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This bird’s getting baked.
During one of our adventures last year, we picked up From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen, aka, Snoop Dogg’s cookbook. It was one of those kitschy novelty shops that sells all kinds of oddball items. Tara couldn’t resist. Here’s the dope: we were pretty high on trying some of the…
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An unPopeular decision?
I was going to post this on Wednesday, but how often can you blog on February 29? Every 1,461 days, that’s how often! Which may be a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things, but in everyday life, four years is an eternity. I couldn’t resist. Leap years have long fascinated me,…
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Six customers, seven chairs. No problem, right?
I ran to Great Clips yesterday for a haircut. After checking in on the app, of course. Good thing too, ‘cuz when I walked in, it was standing room only. For me, at least; everyone else had a seat. Here’s what bugged me: there were seven chairs in the lobby and six people waiting for…
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I’m a grower, not a crower.
Holy crap, in just a few more days it’ll be one year since we closed on our house. It would be another 17 days before we moved in, an interminable stretch that involved many late nights painting, moving boxes and furniture, and unpacking, but on February 22, we officially became proud owners of eight-tenths of…
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Be like Bernie when the twisters start spinning.
We recently watched a movie called Hero (1992), a tale of a swindler named Bernie LaPlante (Dustin Hoffman) who, ignoring the risk to his own safety, rescues a bunch of passengers from a burning airplane that has just crashed in a field. “I think I’d do the same thing in that situation,” I said to…
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