Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
When a two-year-old child writes on your wood floors with a permanent marker, you can't help but learn some lessons.
But how long does it take to forget those lessons? For me, forgetting took just long enough for my next child to become two years old. While I was making his ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
While the electricians worked on my wiring yesterday, I spent a couple hours without power in the house. Then my web host got into the act and turned out the lights on my blog for most of the last day while they recovered from a severe hacker attack.
If you tried ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
One of the trees in the boulevard alongside the house was highly stressed by the dry weather last summer and the harsh winter that followed. It has not leafed out much this spring and now it won't get the chance.
Yesterday a Minneapolis Park Board truck pulled ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Travel two days back in time with me. I was cleaning in the kitchen and I noticed that a small section of baseboard trim at the edge of the cabinets was loose-- just held in place with friction against the underside of the cabinet toe kick. I removed the baseboard ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
I had such high hopes for my summer windowbox this year. But by early August, I was forced to concede that it was best to just remove the few plants that weren't already dead and leave the windowbox bare until the time to decorate it for winter.
Along with my vegetable ...
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