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We took advantage of the Labor Day weekend to take the whole family on a hike at Clinton Lake. Everyone had fun, including the two dogs. We spent most of Monday evening picking burrs out of both poodles, as you can tell from the pictures.
We’re moving to a nice golf course down the road. Just spent the morning pulling a deer tick off my wife, then checking all the boys for ticks, too. This a few days after finding a fully engorged dog tick happily snoozing on the carpet in our upstairs hallway. Really wish two of our neighbors […]
Our hearts go out to the people, including friends, in Iowa this week. We lived in Iowa City for seven years, and still consider it home. Seeing the pictures, reading the stories, it has been wrenching. While nobody we know has been displaced, everyone we know has been affected. We wish them the best of […]
Last weekend we noticed a million (and I am not kidding) little weedlets coming up in our flower beds. And we have lots of flower beds. This weekend they were all still there (stupid mild weather and stupid rain). We started weeding them, by which I mean, we sat for a couple of ours, plucking […]
We have planted our upside down tomato. We’ve also planted some tomatoes in the usual direction, but I am most curious to see how the Topsy Turvy planter fares. The idea is this: you plant your flower, vegetable, or whatever, in this vinyl bag, and hang it from something tall. Until about a month ago, we […]
One of these days I will be glad we have a weather radio. But in ten years of being woken up by the piercing warble of the weather alarm (a delightful feature that has no volume control) I have yet to experience that gratefulness. Last night we had a tornado warning. The weather radio […]
