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on October 29, 2008

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Everyone needs a warm scarf and hat!

And don't forget to dust off your pumpkins!

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The Kitchen

I tried to come up with a snappy title for this post, but sometimes it's just better to keep things simple and call it what it is. If anyone has been keeping track, we have been without a kitchen for over a year now. We have been cooking on a two-burner hot plate (we're on our third!) and in a Crock-Pot. And, snow or shine, we have put our Weber grill to great use. I wonder if I will ever shovel snow again to grill a hamburger when I have a stove on which to incinerate it in a cast iron skillet? Don't get excited - we don't yet have a new stove. Well, we do, but it's in a warehouse waiting for it's big delivery date. That date is yet to be determined. I'm just saying, will I ever trek out into the snow to cook dinner when there is a perfectly good cooking apparatus shining in the warm confines of a nice new kitchen? Things to ponder. So. A few months back, we went to our bank to refinance our mortgage, take advantage of the great rates due to the downward sp

I Walk

I walk. But of course I do. I have since before I was one year old, but now I walk with more of a purpose than just getting from here to there. I'm walking for my health. I'm walking to save my life. Well, that sounds dramatic. What I mean is, my doctor has pointed out that my blood pressure has been trending up and my good cholesterol has been trending down while my bad cholesterol has been trending up. And what with a family history of high blood pressure, heart disease, clogged arteries and diabetes, I can't go through the world anymore as if I were invincible. As with these other maladies, my weight has been trending up as well, and has been for a good number of years. Doc says that while the proverbial "they" go back and forth about diet, the one thing that is certain when it comes to good health and longevity is, as he put it, "to get skinny." I used to run. Never as a competitive sport, but my brother often told me when we were kids th

Play Ball!

Well, it's that time of the year and the all-American pastime has us in its grips. Mickey is playing baseball with the Cal Ripkin League, which is a coach pitched league. At least it is coach pitched for the under 8s. And believe it or not, they have me out there on the field helping the kids with batting and catch practice and then during the games I'm out there somewhere between second and third base screaming at the players in the field to get the ball and throw it, usually to first. Regardless. Sometimes I mixed it up and scream at them to throw it to third. They have no idea. If I can get them to stand up and pay attention to the player at bat, I'm doing good. I had this one little guy on second and I was trying to get him to understand what all was about to happen and he says "Oh look! A jet stream!" Yeah, yeah kid. A jet stream. WE'RE PLAYING BASEBALL! Then he says "Oh look! A dump truck!" Hello. We're playing baseball. Doesn't matt

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