This weekend started off pretty uneventful. Just a basic projects weekend to get several things off my to do list. And compared to the last few weeks it was a cakewalk. No hurricanes. No hunting gasoline to fill the generator. No clearing trees and branches. No fences to rebuild. At least that was the plan. ...
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This post was written on Monday. As we were still without power or internet I was not able to post until today. One thing I learned is that I need to figure out how to post by email. My blackberry was partially functional and I could have had a couple post up earlier! Wow, the ...
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This post is an article I wrote the evening after hurricane Ike hit my home. Unfortunately I did not have power or internet and was not able to publish it until today. I will be following up tomorrow with a post I wrote a couple days later (again without power or internet). Last night I ...
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This may be my last post for a while. As things stand today Ike is on a crash course for Houston and it’s path is currently projected to pass almost right over my home. I’m inland and probably won’t sustain too much damage but it is likely I will be without power or internet. My ...
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Wow, I have to admit my weekend didn’t go as planned. For the last week I’ve been doing some cleanup on our blog. Some of it is installing plugins to help with broken links, to make the blog load quicker, and to help improve our ranking on websites. I also had several minor changes to ...
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The other day a neighbor gave us a backhanded complement. You are so lucky that your children are well behaved This drives me nuts as chance has nothing to do with their behavior. It is the decade and a half of parenting that created polite/well adjusted children. It is simple though sometimes not easy. We ...
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