For some unknown reason, my brother Jason decided to grown catnip in his garden this year. I was over there just the other day when he was winterizing it and I asked what one of the plants was. He cut off a couple…
The Adventures of Us
Enjoy our adventures below as we try to balance our lives between work, two kids, and ... relaxation.
Worm Compost Surprises
Every Halloween I wait until last minute to come up with a costume idea. I always get these great ideas on Halloween night, but can never remember them by the time Halloween comes around again. This year I wanted to plan more ahead…
Bridget, Lisa, Weavers, Gaedtkes, and I are getting ready for our trip to Egypt in the next few weeks. I can’t wait, but I also wanted to get a better sense of Egyptian history. When we went to Peru earlier in the year,…
Come one, Come all. Welcome to the 2nd (bi)Annual Northwest House Crawl This past Friday we got back on track and had our second house crawl. We had our first crawl in 2008 in late December. We even had an ugly sweater theme…
As the summer comes to a close so does our garden. It got off to a good start with the indoor greenhouse even though the seeds got mixed up (bad kitties). There were a few things that I started noticing last year that…
I’ve been keeping in shape at the gym and run our “loop” around the block. I had my mind on a few races that were coming up. With no real goal in mind, I decided that I should sign up for these. I’ve…
Since 1997 I’ve ran a Fantasy football league with some good friends. I can still remember the day sitting in Kevin’s basement, being a Junior in high school, and picking my first fantasy football team. At the time, fantasy football wasn’t too popular…
On Labor Day Bridget and I decided to take a break from Reno and visit Erron and Alexya in Petaluma. We darted down their Friday night to spend the next two days with them. When we arrived, Erron greeted me with a new…
“If you do things the way everybody else does them, why do you think you’re going to do any better?” Originality. This was the centerpiece of the Purple Cow and really, this is the key element to becoming a maverick. The maverick pushes…