Archive for September, 2010
Feast Or Famine Rains
The weather has done a 180 degree turn. From a dusty yard last weekend to a soggy yard today, wow! I watched trees die in my yard and the grass go brown for the past couple of months. I watered some, but obviously not enough. Our city has raised the watering rates to encourage conservation [...]
Giving Up On The Fall Yard
I have followed the same ritual for the 16 years that I have lived in my house. Every fall, like clockwork, I try to grow fescue grass. Every year, I say this year will be different; and every year by the next summer my yard is suffering and needs to be saved. What is the [...]
Dusty Weeds To Wet Weeds
I have discovered that weeds need less water than fescue grass to grow. I have now a checkered yard, green areas mostly weeds and bermuda: and light brown areas, mostly what was my fescue grass. So even though it was not needed all over, I did need to cut my grass, er weeds, before the rain came. It [...]
RDU Hot Spot
Since the late 1990s the temperature probe at the Raleigh-Durham International airport has run hot on sunny summer days. The National Weather Service knows this and has been trying to figure it out for ten years! Over the years they have varified the accuracy of the actual thermometer. They can’t seem to figure out why the temperature [...]
Saving An Old Peach
Fresh fruit was the furthest thing on my mind last night when I was grilling some chicken. While getting something out of the frig I saw a peach that had been sitting in there for over a week. Oh oh. It looked like it wanted to become a prune. What does a dried peach become? [...]
25 Year Old Apology
I received an interesting e-mail today, maybe the most interesting I have ever received. A person wrote me to apologize for they way he acted as a teenager, 25 or 26 years ago! He played a song over and over again at a restaurant juke-box. He said he recognized me and after several plays he said [...]
Sunday Blue Laws
I didn’t need rope at the store, I was just looking for bottled water. Yesterday, while in Columbia, SC, I stopped at a local Wal-mart to buy bottled water, but I was confronted with rope! Most of the store was roped off with signs that said, “certain merchandise cannot be sold until 1:30 pm on [...]
VCRs to DVRs
I spent almost $1000 on my first one. I have bought over the years at least 3 others. Now they are collecting dust. My VCR has been replaced. I have had a digital video recorder hooked up with my cable for about a year and a half now. I wonder how I ever lived without it. [...]
Outdated Tech Gadgets
They say that the day you buy a computer, it is already an old model. This is how fast technology moves. Well, I had a nice shiny gadget that I bought new the second week of August. It took only about 3 weeks for it to become outdated. I finally broke down and bought an ipod [...]
Coupon Glut
One reason I still like to get a Sunday paper is to get coupons. I like free money on things that I would normally buy. The key is normally. But once in a while, I clip a coupon for something that I will only try because I can get some money off from a coupon. I have noticed [...]
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