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merrily along, one
I routinely find that I have a hundred little often-good things that I want to post about but (a) I don’t want to post a whole article about and yet (b) I don’t want to lose them in this rambling, barely-read record of our little life here which can so easily drift into complaining or
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the speed of summer
Everything grinds to a crawl during summertime. Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s just that time of year. I’ve got a half dozen projects on the go right now and I’ll tell you exactly how I feel about them: I feel like I shouldn’t be squandering the summer weather sitting in the basement writing code,
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weekend wrap eight
The last three days have been punctuated by epic thundershowers meaning not only does the lawn now desperately need to be mowed thanks to the rain, but also that it was a good weekend for a time-consuming indoor actitivity. This weekend was filled with: Games. Anita scored a pair of tickets to the annual Game
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war of the ants
I really do hate using my entymology powers for evil. Yet, I have been waging a war out my front door on an ant colony as they wreck havoc upon a beautiful and otherwise-thriving plum tree I’ve been trying to grow in my front yard. Let’s back up. We’ve been in our house for twenty
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weekend wrap seven
There was a taste of smoke in the air all weekend. It has been hot and dry and the province is burning all over the place. You could barely open the window without catching a whiff of char outside. This past weekend looked something like… Fridey evening we multi-car-tripped over to the high school for





