Usually, I park my car in our garage and lock the doors. Not that I have anything of value in there, but I don’t like the idea of having my car stolen. Because our driveway has been pulled up and hauled away, Chrissy and I have had to park on the street instead of in the garage for the last few nights. And...
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After we put the deck in the back yard last year, we were left with a patch of dirt between the deck and the garage that turned to mud when it rained. We decided to pave over the dirt with concrete, covering everything from the deck over to the driveway. We talked to a few contractors, but quickly found out that there would be a...
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Portal was a great game. It was too short, true, but there was a lot of heart put into those five or six hours of game play. People have been saying “The cake is a lie” for years and the talking gun turrets have spawned cottage industries. I started craving Portal 2 as soon as it was announced. A sequel was...
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Gavin has a talking Elmo doll that he likes a lot. It sings and laughs and tells stories. It’s really kind of creepy. Anyway, Chrissy found out that Sesame Street Live was coming around, so she jumped on the tickets and scored third-row seats for the whole family. Although we later found that it was also playing at a...
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It has been a while since we set up the raised plant beds in the back yard, but they have remained empty. We didn’t want to put new plants in the beds just to have cold weather kill them off immediately. However, it was nice enough outside this weekend to transfer the plants into their beds. Unfortunately, the seedlings...
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When I was a kid, there was an inspirational poster in almost every classroom that had a little kitten hanging from a tree branch. It said, “Hang in there!” I guess that was a big thing in the 70′s, but I always liked it. Modern motivational posters now have black borders with white text below them. ...
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