April 2012
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Weekend
Busy weekend! Got the chicken coop framed out. Finally cleaned the junk out of the back seat of the car. And in terms of the garden/yard:
Put compost in the narrow bed in front of the house, and planted some kale
Cleaned weeds and grass out of the north garage garden, amended the soil, and planted kale and wildflower seeds.
Amended the soil on the corner of the garage garden and planted Swiss...
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Corn smut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Dieresis
I love how The New Yorker seems to be the last holdout (even in the online article) about using a dieresis mark for English words. Specifically, here:
“…which is key to his prospects of being reëlected.”
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Food
So we really like having folks over for cocktails or meals, and we’ve been really great in the last months about hosting. But we’ve got quite a few friends with “special food preferences.” Vegan. Gluten-free. No carbs on certain days. No meat unless it’s organic.
I should point out that all of these are preferences, not requirements. Our vegan-diet friend is on the...
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“Now that Ann is using the details of her domestic life for political purposes,...”
– The New Yorker’s John Cassidy, chronicling the hardscrabble roots of the Romney family. At one point, it’s rumored that they even had to cut back on collecting Faberge eggs.
Think of the children.
(via quickhits)
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“What are ye worth, ye remaining mountains, ye mountains covered with grass,...”
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Travel Story: Lagos, Portugal
This may have changed since I was there in the ’90s, but at the time, Lagos, Portugal was the major backpacker paradise-on-the-beach for southwestern Europe. Most every traveler on the Iberian peninsula is either headed or coming from there. I stayed in a great youth hostel (the official IYH, no less!), and the schedule of the day, every day, was thus: 10:55 a.m., get up just in time to get...
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Toddler Clothing
I wonder if I could get R. to dress the lad in a kilt… And would it help with potty training?
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Whew!
Just got through my annual performance evaluation with an “Exceeds Expectations.” Hooray!
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Television
We watched the first few episodes of Parks and Recreation last week, since people said, “Oh, you like Community? You should see this!” And…meh. There were some funny bits, but overall, we really didn’t like it.
It seemed that a lot of the humor comes from laughing at how clueless/unhip the main character was, or how the others treated her, even though she herself is full...
Food Preferences
Okay, so the one thing that the lad goes completely crazy for—like, screams when we tell him he can’t have any more—is…capers. Weird.
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5 Pro-Marijuana Arguments That Aren't Helping →
cracked:
I mean, yeah, man, legalize it. But for the right reasons, man.
Excellent quote: “Of all the arguments I’ve ever heard, I’ve never had a solitary person step up and just say with unmasked honesty, ‘I want to get stoned without the fear of being arrested.’”
