Archive for June, 2005
Although Holly mentioned the tractor pull that took place directly across the street from our house during North Liberty Fun Days last weekend, she was describing only the warm-up event — stock lawn-tractor racing. The real event took place the next day, and boy, was it a different story. In the big-boys’ version of the [ READ MORE ]
This is another way of viewing my del.icio.us link collection – kind of surreal. This is not going to look interesting to anyone less geeky than myself. To those of equal, or even greater geekiness than I: hey, look at this shiny object! Jack’s Wackity LinxOpen “Jack’s Wackity Linx” in a new windowAbout Bitty [ READ MORE ]
Our fence, this morning: Our willow tree: screwed. The tree guy says fixing it is possibly maybe possible, but prohibitively expensive due the the utility lines being right where we would need to bury anchors and such, and it would likely end up just as screwed later on, anyway. Also, it was buried too [ READ MORE ]
So we were trying to get Daphne down for sleep when the tornado sirens went off (for those not living in tornado country: these are exactly like air raid sirens, and you hear them for miles and miles). We followed the standard procedures, moving downstairs, to a central location, away from windows. We turned on [ READ MORE ]