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Yard Work: Fertilizing Time
St. Patrick’s Day and Thanksgiving, those are two holidays that I enjoy. Those were also the holidays that a landscaper friend of mine told me to keep in mind while working around the yard.
He said in central North Carolina, we should fertilize our plants twice a year. And those times are the middle of March [...]
March Madness 2010
Here we go again, with 64 teams playing games in the next 40 hours or so. I don’t know why, but I am not so excited this year about the tourney. Maybe it is because I wasn’t paying as much attention as usual. Football, the Olympics, and Hurricanes hockey have kept most of my attention this [...]
Bookstore Book-dealing
I went to the bookstore yesterday to purchase the Jim Lahey, “My Bread” Cookbook. The book just came out in the fall and it carried a hefty price tag of $29.95. Since it is not a bestseller it wasn’t discounted.
When I went to the checkout, the nice lady working, asked if I was a [...]
Stealing My Seat!
A little fun animal story today…..
Last night after dinner, my wife had to run to the store and my daughter was studying. So I grabbed the notebook computer to surf the web. Since my wife and daughter were busy, I was excited because I could curl up on the couch while surfing. See, the couch [...]
2010 Raleigh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
I told a few parade watchers on Saturday, “the main reason I was asked to be Grand Marshall was to make sure it wouldn’t rain!” Well on an unsettled weather weekend, the skies parted during the morning and the parade took place under beautiful weather….much better than last year’s rain-out, but not because I did [...]
Standard To Daylight Saving Time
Our weekend is one hour shorter than normal, that’s because Sunday will only have 23 hours in it. We time shift at 2am on Sunday morning when it becomes 3am. With the shift that I work, up at 2:30am, it makes it tough when it is time to go back to work on Monday. I [...]
Cast Iron Pot
I have been trying to cook the perfect artisan loaf of bread over the years. My big discovery came by reading up on a guy named Jim Lahey, who is a bread baker in New York City.
I have used his simple recipe of only flour, water, yeast, and salt and created my best loaves of [...]
Eating Turkey Parts
Yesterday, I wrote about how I bought a whole turkey on sale, but only needed the turkey breast. Well, waste not want not, or as my mom always told me growing up, ‘don’t waste food, there are a lot of starving people in China.’
So what to do with the rest of the bird?
I see folks eating [...]
Succulent Turkey Breast
Love turkey breast, don’t like how dry it can be….. Friends gave us a recipe that promised a juicy breast without much work. Back over the holidays I bought a whole turkey on sale and kept it frozen. I decided now would be a good time to try this recipe.
I defrosted the whole turkey and then [...]
Productive Excercise
Lifting weights, sit-ups, jogging, are all ways that I get my exercise. These are things that I spend time doing during the week. But what happens when chores get in the way?
For example, this past Saturday I got out into the yard and cut my monkey grass and pruned some trees. Hauled all the pruned branches back into the [...]
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