First night of work on retaining wall
Here’s what I worked on after work tonight. It is the start of a retaining wall for the front of the house. I am hoping to finish a little each night that the weather is good enough (and that I am home).
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Dave’s Green Tip #1
Money saving tip: pee in the bathroom sink. Then wash your hands. You just saved somewhere between 1/3 and 1 gallon of water by not flushing your toilet. You were going to wash you hands afterwards anyway, right?
Note: not recommended for women, men with bad aim or men who are not taller than their [...]
Bruised my palm
Last night at ultimate I caught a disc that was apparently thrown hard enough to bruise my palm. It’s not overly painful but I’m definitely aware of the injury.
First frost of the year
First heavy frost hit the house yesterday. It’s hard to see it in the landscape picture, but the ground was quite white. It should be easier to see on the picture of the jeep.
Veggie/chicken pasta
This is a pasta dish that I made for mel the other night. She really enjoyed it and insisted that it was picture worthy. That being the case, I figured I would post the picture here, for lack of a better plan.
It contains onion, green pepper, asprarugus, chicken and tomato. The linguini was boiled [...]
Two frogs!
I hooked up a second monitor to my main desktop machine for a bit over the weekend. My desktop background is a treefrog closeup. With the second monitor attached, the background appears twice. Emma saw both, and said “Two frogs!!”. I was ecstatic. That’s the first time I’ve known her to name something with the [...]
The end of the LeBaron
Lately I’ve been driving the LeBaron quite a bit (instead of the Jeep) because of its superior fuel economy. Unfortunately, yesterday on my way into work, I hit a telephone pole and totalled the car. I had looked away from the road for a second and the car drifted to the edge of the road. [...]