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Travis is going on a business trip and gave me his itinerary today. How well do you know your airport alphabet soup?
DEN-ORD-YXU-YYZ-ORD-LAX-MEL-BNE-LAX-DEN
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
QOTD
Mommy, can I have a popsicsicle sandwich please?
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Tomatoes!
We finally have some tomatoes! The guys headed to the backyard after dinner tonight to pick the first six ripe cherry tomatoes from our plant. The standard tomatoes are getting nice and big but are still green and hard, probably a couple weeks yet. The guys claim this particular kind of cherry toms are so sweet they are better than dessert...
Our farmer's market, on the other hand, has had tomatoes for a few weeks. Last week we splurged and bought an entire crate of tomatoes for homemade roasted tomato soup concentrate. Yum.
Our farmer's market, on the other hand, has had tomatoes for a few weeks. Last week we splurged and bought an entire crate of tomatoes for homemade roasted tomato soup concentrate. Yum.
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| The first batch ready to be roasted, about 25% of the haul. |
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| Ready for the deep freeze and chilly winter afternoons. |
Monday, July 25, 2011
Watering and Irrigation
We run our sprinklers early in the morning, as opposed to the middle of the night as I would prefer, so I can check on them to make sure they are working properly. This morning I found Old Faithful erupting from the corner of our lot so off to Home Depot I went to peruse the sprinkler aisle.
My sister-in-law gives me incredulous looks when we talk about irrigation. South-central Pennsylvanians just don't irrigate, they have enough rain they don't need to. Those of us in Colorado, we know irrigation. I'm pretty sure that everyone who maintains their own lawn is very familiar with the "Watering and Irrigation" section of their favorite home improvement store by this time of year.
Normally one would only replace parts that get broken, and trust me, those $2 parts are made to get broken. I'm still not sure how the corner one broke, it's in the middle of a rock bed where nobody walks and no one mows. Since I was going anyway of course we Moores decided it was a good time to renovate the rest of the sprinklers that aren't quite tweaked to our liking.
It sounds SO simple, you need to irrigate a patch of grass/shrub/bed without hosing down your house/foundation/deck and in our case play structure. So you buy that 90 degree spray head thinking it will, in fact, spray in an arc 90 degrees the advertised 8-15'. Yeah, remember these are $2 parts? So, now it's nearly 9:30 at night (I will say it's blessedly cool) and Travis is outside with the flashlight working on the sprinklers. Again. Oh, the things we do for yards here in sunny CO!
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| my sprinkler part of the day |
My sister-in-law gives me incredulous looks when we talk about irrigation. South-central Pennsylvanians just don't irrigate, they have enough rain they don't need to. Those of us in Colorado, we know irrigation. I'm pretty sure that everyone who maintains their own lawn is very familiar with the "Watering and Irrigation" section of their favorite home improvement store by this time of year.
Normally one would only replace parts that get broken, and trust me, those $2 parts are made to get broken. I'm still not sure how the corner one broke, it's in the middle of a rock bed where nobody walks and no one mows. Since I was going anyway of course we Moores decided it was a good time to renovate the rest of the sprinklers that aren't quite tweaked to our liking.
It sounds SO simple, you need to irrigate a patch of grass/shrub/bed without hosing down your house/foundation/deck and in our case play structure. So you buy that 90 degree spray head thinking it will, in fact, spray in an arc 90 degrees the advertised 8-15'. Yeah, remember these are $2 parts? So, now it's nearly 9:30 at night (I will say it's blessedly cool) and Travis is outside with the flashlight working on the sprinklers. Again. Oh, the things we do for yards here in sunny CO!
Saturday, July 23, 2011
QOTD
But why do we have to have yummy yummy things?
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