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That’s one ugly candle.

Naps – especially Sunday afternoon naps – are very precious to me. On Sunday when we were in Lincoln, Lloyd had to go to school for a while before choir. I went to the school library and arranged seven padded chairs to make a remarkably comfortable bed. (Any students who might be [...]

For Good or Evil?

So, I have this brand new paper iPad that I just put together. I also have a new teacher at school who is a bigger Apple Fanboy than I am. But I don’t know just how to best put it to use. Any ideas?

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Behold! Wolverine-like Lloyd!
Lloyd made a survey for the middle schoolers to fill out that gave them four choices for his hair, and four for his beard. The hair part I’ll still keep secret, but of Abraham Lincoln, Wolverine, Fu Manchu, or goatee – they chose Wolverine. He decided to ease into the [...]

Can o’ Candles

Remember those magnetic IKEA canisters from years ago? Well, aside from the sugar dispenser, I haven’t come up with a really good use for the other two. Even this idea isn’t a ‘good’ use.

Six of them will fit inside one canister (if you smush down the edges of the bottom three) and a [...]

Um, that is not good.

I watched an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown made homemade ginger ale and while it looked fun, it also looked like way too much work. (I believe you had to actually grate the ginger.) Homemade root beer, however, that’s something I’ve wanted to try before, so I bought some extract.

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I can see the attraction…

Last week I finally got a chance to devalue something in our house my own self. You might recall that we had to get a new TV, because Brad was coming to visit. That led directly (think minutes) to having to get a new DVD player, and within two days to having to get [...]

Checkin’ it twice

I’ve read about people who keep ‘lists’ on their refrigerator and when they run out of something, they mark it on the ‘list’. Well, it sounds like science fiction talk to me, but I decided to try it.
Lloyd and I do our grocery shopping on Sundays, and usually buy the exact same things every week. [...]