Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Jam
Step 1 – drive to your local u-pick strawberry patch. Step 2 – bring home 13 lbs of strawberries (picked by you, your lovely wife and children). 10 lbs for jam and 3 lbs because you couldn’t figure out how much 10 lbs was when you were picking and you can’t put them back on…
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Summer reading
So what are you reading, and most importantly what are you reading with your kids this summer? My daughter has been studying American history during the revolutionary war, but is stopping short before they get to all the really good stuff, oh, like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So it hit me on…
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Kendall's film
Kendall participated in a program called families create and one of the films that she wrote, directed and made all the models for is below. The next Spielberg? Kendall’s Claymation on Youtube
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Dr. Eyjafjallajokull (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the ashcloud)
What a week. I set out last Sunday from Cincinnati to Nuremberg via Detroit and Frankfurt. I had several days of meetings scheduled with my team and various internal customers. It was in every way a normal trip to Germany: get up in the morning, breakfast in the hotel, taxi to the office, meeting after…
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Spring break by the numbers
What I did over spring vacation by Chris Kelley: Put in 30 cubic yards of mulch… Planted 3 peach trees, 3 pear trees, 3 (more) blueberry bushes, 1 (more) apple tree and a fig tree… Planted 6 hop rhizomes and installed a pole and lines for them to climb: Built and painted 4 bee hive…
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The iPad after the first 24 hours
The bloom is not off the rose. In fact, I may be spending a lot more than I had thought on vases simply because the rose is so damn cool! OK, enough metaphors. After picking up the iPad yesterday from a Best Buy in Clarksville, Indiana it has been in nearly constant use. By me…
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Weekends
Lot’s going on as we transition into spring (finally!). DeAnna and I got the horses out for the first ride of the new year on Friday. I only almost got killed twice, her just once. Will be a few more rides before they get the hang of it again. Kendall played in her third club…
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Our Garden, 2010 edition
The snow falling last week and melting this week has me in the mood for Spring to be here. NOW. Since I don’t have control over the weather, I though I would focus on what I can control and that is planning for this year’s garden. A few things will be different this year from…
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My newest shootin' iron
Made a trade yesterday to pick up my newest shootin’ iron: A stainless steel Ruger Vaquero (the original ones that can shoot ’em as hot as you can make ’em) in 357 Magnum. The plan is to pickup a cheapy 12 gauge side by side shotgun, a nice lever action (Henry) in the same caliber,…