Archive for May, 2011
Computer Becomes “Vintage”
Vintage. Vintage! I wouldn’t want to be called vintage; and I don’t want a computer that was cutting edge and new just under 6 years ago being called vintage. Yet, my iMac that I bought at the end of July in 2005, is now been called “vintage.” My computer had its power supply die out. [...]
Computer Power Supply
My iMac, which I have had for almost 6 years, started acting up; or should I say down? You see, I noticed a couple of weeks ago that my computer was shutting itself down every once in a while. I would just push the power button to get it going again, and everything seemed fine. [...]
Crash In the Night…Leads to Homemade Cat Food
It was loud and woke me up last night. Something crashed downstairs. It wasn’t glass, in my grogginess, I would guess something metal. Well we have two cats and they must have knocked something over in the middle of the night. I turned over and thought, it can wait until the morning and fell quickly [...]
Tis The Fruit Season
While grocery shopping this past weekend, I realized that I am buying a lot of fresh fruit. Strawberry season in North Carolina is winding down. I just finished eating some strawberries yesterday. That still left some fresh pineapple that I got a week ago. I have added to my fruit stash with some fresh North Carolina blueberries. [...]
Oops, Tomato Plants Are In
There’s a current song from The Band Perry called, You Lie. Now, about a week and a half ago, I wrote a blog about how I wasn’t planting tomatoes this year. Well that is not true anymore. On Friday, a co-worker brought in a tomato sapling that he grew from a seed. He knew how I [...]
Fried Pickle Chips
They are a tasty appetizer in restaurants, so why not at home? I am talking about making my own fried pickles. Found a simple recipe and happened to have a 16 ounce jar of dill pickle slices in the pantry; so yesterday, I went for it. I drained the pickles and put them into a [...]
Poison Oak & Poison Ivy Are Thriving
I was only going to trim off a couple of tree branches on our weeping cherry tree. (I was cutting the branches that were not “weeping” , the ones that started growing upwards!) Well anyway, after a few quick snips I was done. Then, I noticed that some undesirable plants were growing in my azalea beds. So, [...]
Car Engine Cleaners
My 2000 Accord has 118,000 miles on it and knock on wood, hasn’t had any major issues. My old Camry had over 250,000 miles on it before I ran it into the ground. My goal with this Accord is to top that. At the last place that I got my oil changed, they checked over [...]
No Tomato Plants This Year
For several years, I have always gotten the containers out and planted 4 or so tomato plants along with a pepper plant on our deck. This year I didn’t. I have hemmed and hawed, and waited long enough that I think it is too late to plant tomato plants this year. (After all, I would [...]
Flat-bread Grilled Cheese
Every once in a while I get to eat a sandwich which hits a home run in taste. I love all kinds of sandwiches, but last night I ate a very simple one that exploded in taste. I think the key ingredient was a thinly sliced fresh tomato. The one I used was a hot house tomato that [...]
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