Archive for September, 2008
Last Minute Kabobs
Found that marinating meat in Italian dressing is a good way to do Kabobs on the grill. Yesterday I went to the store and found some east coast shrimp, I added some beef tips that were on sale and I was on my way to making a kabob. Usually we use chicken and steak with [...]
How To Calm Down
I am getting ready to watch the Cubs in the playoffs next month but I am worried. Last night the Cubs were playing the Mets in a game that didn’t mean anything to the Cubs. After watching the game, I needed to get to sleep for my 2:30am wake up call for work. I was [...]
Beach Front Houses Gone
I remember interviewing a distraught lady back in 2000 when she learned that her house that was on Topsail beach wouldn’t be rebuilt. This is because the tide now came up to where her property was. What I learned was that, under state law, the beach is public property, so a private house can’t be [...]
Round Up The Lawn
I guess I am going to give in and spray round-up on parts of my lawn this week. I have been contimplating if I should do anything to my yard this year. Every year it’s the same thing…kill the weeds, and reseed. Last fall some areas that I killed didn’t grow grass because we couldn’t [...]
1/4 Of A Million Miles
I just achieved a milestone that probably won’t win me a new car, but I am pretty proud of it. 15 years ago this month I picked up my brand new Toyota Camry station wagon with 7 miles on it. I wanted a family vehicle that could lug people but also haul things. After extensive [...]
Where you on on Sept. 11, 2001?
When an extrodinary event happens, the moment can freeze in your brain so you can always remember what you were doing when that event happened. I remember exactly what I was doing when I watched Neil Armstrong take is first step on the moon in 1969. I remember where I was when John Lennon got [...]
Brady-less Patriots
My daughter is a huge Tom Brady fan and was shocked to see him go down on Sunday. It was a sad day around our house. I am wondering now if all the Tom Brady fans will still be Patriot fans now that Tom won’t be playing this year? I have accepted the fact that [...]
Make Shift Birdbath
We have a hummingbird feeder on our deck. It is filled with sugar water for the hummingbirds. We unfortunately haven’t seen many this year. That however doesn’t mean that the feeder hasn’t been active. On top of the feeder is a bowl of water, this is supposed to prevent the ants from getting to the [...]
No Sunspots Affecting the Weather?
Just read a very interesting article about the lack of sunspots in August. The sun goes through a sunspot cycle on average every 11 years. But according to the article, this is the first time in 100 years that there have been no sunspots for an entire month. In the late 1600 hundreds there were [...]
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