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Yard Work Coming Back
With our recent snowy weather, it seems like winter never wants to end and spring is going to be delayed. But a sure sign that spring has to come soon….I saw one of those lawn care companies spraying my neighbors lawn yesterday. I am not sure if it was for weeds or if he was [...]
Home-Fried Potato Chips
The shear slicing power hooked us. At the NC State Fair, probably almost twenty years ago, my wife and I stopped by a demonstration of a slicer that was slicing all sorts of vegetables. Maybe we were hungry, but I ended up forking over the $20 or so for this super duper plastic mandolin.
Honestly for [...]
Spectacular NASA Earth Pictures
My 5 mega-pixel camera takes a decent picture. But usually my subject is only several feet away. I have never tried to shoot a picture several hundred miles away. NASA has been taking photos of our planet from a satellite orbiting the earth at about 435 miles up.
I remember when the Apollo astronauts got full [...]
Warning On Specials At Grocery Stores
I usually add blueberries, my daughter likes hers with chocolate chips in the batter. Pancakes can be a very tasty way to start your day. I have a good homemade recipe for pancakes, but lately my family seems to like Aunt Jemima to come over. It’s quick and easy add the water stir and cook.
While perusing [...]
Olympic Hockey, A+
What a game yesterday. Did you watch? I have always loved hockey and yesterday’s game hopefully created new fans across the country.
Yes, I was pulling for the U.S., but if you are going to lose, why not make it dramatic and exciting. To me, sudden death in hockey is the most intense overtime there is. [...]
Don’t Trust Your DVR
I figured it in the first period of yesterday’s Olympic hockey game between the United States and Switzerland. You see, I started watching the game around 6pm after taking my usual afternoon nap. The game started at 3pm, so I went to my DVR around 2:30pm and selected NBC’s Olympic hockey coverage for the afternoon. Hit [...]
Hockey Day At The Olympics
It seems that the U.S. Olympic hockey team has captured the imagination of the country. It is great to hear everybody across the country talking hockey.
I have always loved Olympic hockey because it is intense, patriotic, and immediate. For example we are down to the final 8 and it kind of reminds me of the [...]
Raleigh St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Sash Ceremony
I have been honored with the duty of being grand Marshall in the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day parade in Raleigh. Last Sunday at Napper Tandy’s Irish Pub, I got the grand Marshall’s official sash from last years grand Marshall, NC State Head Football coach Tom O’Brien.
The day was for a great cause, the pub hosted the 2010 St. [...]
No Knead Bread
In continuing to strive for an old world loaf of bread that is chewy and has holes in it, just like ciabatta. I have found another procedure from a baker in New York city.
It involves a lot of time, a lot of time waiting, not much time actually preparing. The water to flour content is [...]
Snow Is Going, Going….Gone
It’s been three weeks since our January snow, and just one week from our February smaller snow. Do you still have snow around? It still exists in areas where people have plowed it into big mounds or built snowmen. This picture is from a shaded yard and the snowmen mainly came from last weekend’s snow.
The [...]
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