“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Terrible Tuesday, squash edition
We picked up our CSA box today and it’s a squashapalooza! (And tomatoes. Including the yummy cherry tomatoes I took out of the box to snack on before snapping the picture.) Leave your squash recipes in the comments. And… links! Geekery! Taking Legos to the new extremes. How the states got their names. (Also wonderful, […]
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A book review, of sorts
Last week we visited MTG’s family in Minnesota. I thought it was a great time to read The Bloggess’s book Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. It was hilarious and sad and great. Read it. Not enough of a review? Fine then. But first a bunch of disclaimers. Who shouldn’t read this book: If you don’t […]
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Happy Birthday, dear country
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Vacation Edition
We are in Minnesota this week visiting MTG’s family. In our over 1000 miles of driving (so far) we have seen 1,000,000 corn fields, 250,000 soybean fields, 1 sunflower field and 1 wheat field. Those first two may be slight exagerations, but the last two are cold, hard, depressing facts. Thanks, Nixon. You scurvy dog. […]
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Rediscovering nature, first in a series
I grew up in an ugly place. (I can hear my mom now, “April! It is not ugly, it has it’s own beauty.”) Well, beauty is supposedly in the eye of the beholder, and this beholder says it’s ugly. Or rather, it has an absence of beauty. Except for our skies. Our skies are gorgeous. […]
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Terrible Tuesday, too dang hot edition
There seems to be too many digits in our temperature lately. Somebody fix that. Links! Price controls, regulations, and general interference by the federal government has lead to shortages in drugs. Who’d a thought? (Oh yeah, anyone with a brain.) Our periodic rage inducing TSA link, agent spills a man’s grandfather’s ashes and laughs. Okay, […]
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Lazy days of watching movies
Are you having a busy summer? Well, stop it! This years theme is lazy days of being a bum. For example, don’t you want to spend your summer weekday mornings watching kids movies? Sure you do. Lots of theaters offer summer movie programs for kids with discounted or even free admissions. Generally they show movies […]
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Five minutes of pure joy
I got the best email today. Matt Harding of “Where the Hell is Matt” dancing (badly) fame has a new video. Squee! And this time, he’s not dancing badly! The only part that didn’t have me grinning like a fool was when the faces of the Syrian dancers were blurred. Especially with the horrors […]
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Lazy days of reading
As part of our lazy days of summer, we read a lot. We also read in the not so lazy days of spring, winter and fall, but that’s not the point of this post. Anyway, there are tons of great summer reading programs, some greater than others. Pizza Hut Book It Sweepstakes entry. eh. Half-Price […]
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Lazy days of summer?
This is officially the first day of the Thompson Family summer. Of course, the past two weeks have been filled with first Cub Scout Camp and then Girl Scout Camp. Many people would consider that to be a summery activity. However, since it involves tons of work and driving all over creation for me, it […]
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