A couple of years ago, we sunk a lot of money into a new deck. I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on annual maintenance, so we went with a plastic decking called Azek. It looks like a wood plank, except that it will never rot, change color or stain. Also, it’s solid, unlike some of those other plastic decking...
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Chrissy has been a big fan of the Laura Numeroff books for a long time. When she was still in college to become a teacher, I gave her a copy of “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” for Valentine’s Day. Since then, Numeroff has penned many similar books like “If You Give A Pig A Pancake” and “If You...
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The day after Chrissy got her iPhone, she went to the AT&T store and bought a new red iFrogz case for it. It has nice features, like a camera lens slider and a connector port cover, but it’s large and bulky. The silicone rubber covering makes it hard to pull in and out of your pocket and it attracts lint. I have no...
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Although I was not happy about Apple releasing the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5 this year, Chrissy and I were in desperate need of new phones. Our old 3G iPhones were dog slow and would crash often. I found that a hard reboot would alleviate most of the problems, but this was not a long-term solution. Waiting another year...
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I have pre-ordered the new iPhone 4S for me and Chrissy. That was a harder decision to make than I thought it would be. Because Apple is so secretive about their products, there was no telling what they would unveil on October 4th during their “Let’s Talk iPhone” event. But that didn’t stop people from...
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The garden has been very good to us over the summer, but the season is over now. There were still some tiny tomatoes, but they won’t grow all the way. Chrissy tore out the remaining plants and we’ll be covering the raised plant beds for the winter soon. We plan on building at least two more raised plant bed boxes next...
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The first vegetable that our raised plant beds produced was a small zucchini. It was only about six inches long, but we didn’t really know how big zucchini were supposed to get. This was our first season using the plant boxes, so we were happy just to have something to show for it. Chrissy chopped it up and put it in...
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It’s that time of year again! Chrissy has gone back to school to sort out her classroom. When teachers leave for summer break, they have to clear out their entire classroom and put everything away so that the floors are completely clear. The trouble with that is they have to put everything back where it was before when...
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