Monthly Archives: September 2010

Don’t start your morning this way, kids

Something skittered across my foot and startled me so badly I lost my balance and fell backwards out of the bathtub! Continue reading

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Sawbuck review

Overall: good, with patches of “needs work” and !FAIL. Continue reading

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I make a ten-dollar bill

Not a real one; just a namesake. Continue reading

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dink . . . dink . . . dink . . . dink

No, not the “dinks” that used to start All Things Considered. Continue reading

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Just to prove that I can

Barring catastrophe, I intend to make plum jam. Continue reading

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. . . and ef the crik don’t rise

The torrential rains from Hermine gave me a flashback to being caught in the Memorial Day flood. Continue reading

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I passed

The roof passed final building inspection. Continue reading

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See Sam. See Sam talk. See Sam talk about kilts.

My talk on kilts and tartans went off well. Continue reading

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It’s done it again

“It” being The Shedding Tree, which dropped another branch on the house. Continue reading

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