Archive for July, 2008
Teenage Car Insurance Cost
I was sitting down yesterday when my insurance agent let me know the cost of insuring my daughter who will get her driver’s license next month.
My annual premium will go up 155% for the first year, and that is using the strategy of assigning her to an older car that doesn’t have collision.
I understand that [...]
Homemade Peach Pie
Southern peaches, meaning grown in the Southeast and not California or elsewhere, have been on sale around the area for 99 cents a pound. I bought three pounds of them so I could make a peach pie.
My family loves chocolate so it is not often that I make a fruit pie, but it is one [...]
Tomatoes Are Here
My tomato plants are producing red fruit at a pretty good clip now. So well in fact that we can’t eat them all. So of course I had to bring them in to work to share and prove I can grow fruit.
I think the weather has been ideal for growing plants, because these tomato plants have [...]
Too many car keys, help AAA.
I am borrowing a car from my mother-in-law to “test” drive it for a week to see what kind of gas mileage it gets and to see how it feels to me. Well last night I went to her house to pick it up and she handed me a set of keys.
I put a key on [...]
Grilled Burgers
After a rather indulgent meal at a local steak house on Saturday, we decided to get back to basics and grill a few burgers for our Sunday dinner.
I have found over the years, that ground chuck is the perfect burger for grilling over a charcoal fire.
All I do is add some worchestire sauce and pepper [...]
Alaska Is A Cold Place To Live
The third week of July is normally the hottest of the year, and this year we will head into to the week in the 90s.
We are used to that, but the folks up in Alaska have had relatively warm sunny summers the last couple of years and have gotten used to that.
I just read however that this summer has [...]
Guaranteed Weather!?
The closer you get to an event the more accurate a forecast can be. That only makes sense.
The Summer Olympics are opening August 8 in China. A big outside opening extravaganza is planned. The weather better be nice, right?
Well don’t worry, the Chinese have been working on weather modification for the last several years. Most [...]
Cubs All-Stars
I feel like I’m twelve again, I am so excited about the all-star game tonight. Not so much the actual game, because I will not be able to stay up and watch all of it, but of the introduction and pre-game celebration.
I grew up a Cub fan, I will die a Cub fan. I just hope [...]
License and Registration Please
When I think of the police, I think of the group The Police; after all, I have their entire music catalogue. How ironic it would have been if I was listening to them this morning around 3am when a police cruiser came up behind me and turned on its lights.
Roxanne, you don’t have to turn on the [...]
Tomato Plant Update
As I wrote about back in the beginning of May, I invested $50 to buy four tomato plants and potting soil and mulch. I used all potting soil since we were planting the plants in containers and not in a garden.
Well I knew the plants would take a while to mature, they said 70 to [...]
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