Thursday, May 8th, 2008
After pouring over the sale catalog, considering our garden needs, and preparing my shopping list, I am finally ready for the Friends School Plant Sale tomorrow.
This will be my first year going to the sale on Friday, its opening day, so I'm expecting that the crowds and craziness I have ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Nothing much got accomplished around the house in the past few days. Our extended family needed some help over the weekend and I took a bike ride with my 4-year-old son on Sunday, before yesterday's snow storm. I had hoped I would get a few hours to work ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
I know I'm supposed to wait to buy things for myself for a couple more weeks-- especially when they're things I told people I wanted as a Christmas gift. But I couldn't resist.
I need a new cordless drill. I have outgrown my old 9.6v firestorm drill, and passed ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
With the help of a new tool, I made some progress this last weekend on my nursery renovation project. The tool? A fish tape that allowed me to run new romex from the fuse panel in the basement up to the utility run on the upper level. ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
For my birthday, my mother-in-law (don't worry-- she doesn't read this) gave me a refrigerator magnet with a picture of two guys with their heads under the hood of an old car. The caption reads:
"A man needs only two tools in his workshop: WD-40 and duct tape. If ...
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