A grandma who will remain unnamed let Ariella get her little fingers in our ice cream cake the other night at Amanda and my combined birthday celebration.
A big thank you to everyone for your generous gifts!
My ongoing saga of mice in the attic continues. After removing #6 and #7, I decided to pick up two more traps since this one at a time seemed to be taking too long. This morning I removed #8, #9, and #10. It doesn’t seem to matter how many you remove, there’s always another one…
Sometimes I think Spammers are just misunderstood people. If we would just read more closely and try harder to understand what they’re attempting to tell us, I think we wouldn’t be so adversarial when these slip into our inbox. And so, I launch my “Spam of the Week” column. This week’s entry comes from “Jerry”….
For Easter I made four 2kg batches of sausage – two for the smoker, one fresh batch for the grill, and a batch of breakfast sausage links (not shown). It was my first time using curing salts and smoking the sausage at a lower temp (160-180 F) than normal smoking temps. It was a tasty experiment, I…
North Coast Online shares some hard data about post-Park East Milwaukee. Seems that John Norquist’s silver bullet project has done nothing to halt the declining population in Milwaukee. Craig postulates… So along with Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Baltimore as cities we might do well not to emulate, how about we add Milwaukee to the list? In…
I don’t usually get into these blogging meme things, but this one is kind of fun. Create your own totally random album cover! Here are the rules… Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band. Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of…