In the Garden

I’ve had gardens on the brain lately because I’m hoping to get one of the community garden plots this summer. I’ll turn my paperwork in next week and see if any are available.
I found this great website to help me plan everything out. It’s called www.growveg.com and it’s got this really neat program that helps [...]

clean… and refreshing!

I’m on an email newsletter from Method with is a environmentally-friendly company that supplies mostly cleaning products, but there are a few other things as well. There are a few things of theirs I really love like the dryer sheets and the hand soap. I’m very concerned about what gets put down our drains because [...]

Tea drinkers unite!

I love tea.
Hot tea, cold tea. Both in the same day.
I notice that it is often, but not always, the tea drinkers verses the coffee drinkers. And within the tea drinkers it’s those that add “pollutants”, (ie: sugar) and those that do not. (It’s probably the same for coffee drinkers).
I’m of the additives are sacrilege [...]

arigato gozaimasu!

So Andrew had me take this picture to send to his in-laws in Japan, to say thank you for some Christmas gifts. Risa’s mother knitted the sweater and made the flannel pajamas. He wanted the dogs in the picture too, which was hard because they kept moving around. And with the light shining from behind, [...]

the girls gang up on Lou

Aggie’s been having lots of fun with Lou and Ella around (Risa and Andrew’s dogs). Lou has known Aggie since he was a very young puppy and has especially bonded with her. He’s into bondage and loves being pinned by the throat, by Aggie.
In the picture, Lou is obviously the one belly-up. Aggie’s got him [...]

putting real numbers together : read them and weep – really, I’m serious. Weep.

Actual History and Reality:
These graphs are from www.zfacts.com

Double Whammy: 50-Year Record on Sept. 22.    $10 Trillion on Sept. 30, 2008.

The gross national debt compared to GDP (how rich we are) reached its lowest level since 1931 as Reagan took office in 1981. It skyrocketed for 12 years through Bush senior. Clinton reversed it at [...]

new roommates

Last night my brother officially moved in with the puppies (Lou and Ella, or LouElla). He flew back from Philly, having moved his wife in – she begins work next week, I think – and drove back to Columbia, late last night.
It will be very different having someone else in the house. Not trouble, just [...]

my favorite mornings…

today was one of those mornings.
Because it’s winter time, it’s still dark when I get to the park with Aggie. And today was cold. I think the forcaster on the radio said 13; pretty cold for Missouri. Then again, she also said it was overcast – but I only saw a few clouds.
We just had [...]

sweeter 32

So this year, my birthday is on a Saturday. It’s not my “sweet sixteen”, but my “sweeter 32″ birthday.
I’ve decided that I need to do something – anything – that I’ve never done before. Not necessarily anything that costs a lot of money; just something.
Hopefully some of my friends will start working on ideas after [...]

merle’s door

I just finished this book this past weekend. It’s pretty good, as far as dog books go. I’ve been reading/listening to more of them lately. Marley and Me, A Good Dog, and Merle’s Door all tell a story about a dog, but also cover lots of issues at the same time: History, biology, behavior (human [...]