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Archive for December, 2006

Gusty Breezes

While I was doin’ some woodworking, I was listening to KGO. I heard that it was gonna be very stormy tonight all the way through tomorrow. Apperantly, up in the skiing hills, winds picked up to 88MPH and gusts at 105MPH. Rough stuff.
Anyway, this morning, I got awoken by heavy pounding on the windows and […]

Free Food

Boy, there was lots of free food at Costco today! Normally when we are at Costco, there are a few samples. Some are not too great. For example, a few nuts (which I can eat at home), apple sauce and a cookie. I mean I’m not complaining. It’s all good but some days are better […]

Cart Stealer

We took a family trip to Costco today to sample the free samples and to get the stuff on our list.
You would not believe what happened! We were looking at this electric piano that looks and feels like the real thing. We had parked our cart by the electric heaters (only 6′ away) and in […]

Oxygenated Water

There’s something of a problem I have with oxygenated water. You know, when you normally turn on the water, normal, full water spews out. But, when you stick a special nozzle on the spigot, this light, bubbly water comes out. Now, that’s fine and well and it saves water (at least that’s what I heard) […]

Pruned Birch

Well, I’ve been waiting for two years to prune the giant birch tree out in front and today was finally the day. Since it’s tall and doesn’t have many strong horizontal branches, I had to use the harness and carabiner (which is half of the fun right there). Jorge was working on one of the […]