The economy of weeds
The weeds have returned. Kiddo#3 informed me, “It will take a decade to pull them all out!” I said, “That sounds like a long time. How long is a decade?” He thought, then said, “I think it’s a hundred years.”…
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Monthly Archive: June 2010
Same radio, different worlds
A few weeks ago, when I took the highway to Ten Miles Away to get my violin fixed, Kiddo#3 suddenly let out a gasp. “What’s that?” That was, it turned out, a radio tower, standing to a height of what…
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Overthinking “If you give a mouse a cookie”
The two year old recently discovered “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,” about an hour after I cleaned under the bed and rediscovered it myself. It’s an awesome little book and I enjoy it, especially the realism in the…
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the kiddos learn about passwords
Before we begin, no actual passwords are used during the writing of this post. I’m satiric, not stupid. The Kiddos are experimenting with the computer and have thus encountered for the first time the wonder of the modern password. There…
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the care and keeping of bees
I love bees. I would seriously consider keeping bees if it weren’t a case that my Patient Husband would move out. I settle for reading about them or admiring them when a wasp lands on the opposite side of the…
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Awk-ward.
Let’s play a game of pretend. Let’s pretend we’re reading this after we’ve all gone to Heaven and there’s been a resurrection of the dead and everyone’s happy and all that. At that point, I think it’ll be pretty normal…
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