Archive for November, 2009
Summer Pepper Surprise
My tomato plants are long gone. I grew them in containers on our back deck and tossed them at the beginning of October. I kept two pepper plants, however, because they still looked green and had a few buds. That was almost two months ago. Yesterday, I decided to toss them, after all it’s almost December and [...]
Thankful To Be A Weather Forecaster
What gripes you more, hidden fees or not getting a human on the phone? According to this months issue of Consumer Reports those two things were number one and two on the survey list of “Top gripes: What bugs America the most”. Personally I can’t stand when I can’t get a human on the phone. [...]
Thanksgiving Travels
Never a suitcase or any kind of luggage; the farthest away I ever went on Thanksgiving was when I was a child, it was about a 25 mile trip from my house to my cousins. Heck, that is less than my daily commute to and from work. I can’t imagine what travelers must be going [...]
Fresh Cranberry Sauce
A post Thanksgiving sandwich that I like includes fresh cranberry sauce right on top of some sliced turkey between two slices of bread. That might seem a little strange, but not if the cranberry sauce is homemade and NOT from a can. After I mentioned this morning that I was making cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, my coworker, [...]
Early Start On Christmas Lights
Tangled Christmas lights are frustrating. However, I try to avoid this by wrapping them up on a piece of cardboard each year before storing them. I dug for some lights this weekend. You see, I am trying something new this year…trying to get a head start on the lights. My wife says that I usually [...]
Ribeye Chili
After tasting 15 samples of chili, I was full. My favorite tasting chili, however, which came in second overall at the Hillsborough Chili Cook-off, had nice smoky bite to it. After the cook-off, I talked to the chef who told me he uses rib eye steak. When I cook chili, I have discovered that using [...]
Leaves Blanketing The Ground
The rake is about 4 feet wide, this way I can get more leaves per stroke than with my old rake that was narrower. That is how I justified buying a new rake. I still spent over an hour raking leaves a few days ago. What a workout; I had my heart rate up and [...]
Jingle Turkeys
I don’t think that there is a song called Jingle Turkeys, but it might go something like this: Jingle Turkeys, Jingle Turkeys, Jingle All The Way, Oh What Fun It Is To Have Christmas Music On The Radio All Day…..NOT. I can’t believe it, it used to be December and you would start to hear Christmas music [...]
Falling Stars
“Catch a falling star, and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day.” These are lyrics from an old Perry Como song. We had falling stars around overnight. I looked around 3 am, I saw stars but none were falling. My daughter wanted to see some, but there was no need to [...]
Man Made Snow
When I hear “man made snow”, I think of the machines on the ski slopes that make snow when it is cold enough. But this man made snow is from cloud seeding. Seeding clouds with silver iodide, or sometimes dry ice, is supposed to give moisture droplets something to grow on. If it is cold enough, [...]
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