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Float Trip

Hubby and I went on our first ever float trip this weekend, on the Black River, with a whole pile of people, friends and family of friends. After three days of solid rain, the river looked high and there was a noticeable current. Our first capsize happened about five minutes

Ugh

Historic day. My first afternoon off sick.

Observation

It's easier to put a cover on a futon than a duvet (quilt). Loose paper breeds rapidly. Objects can move from box to box by quantum tunnelling, disappearing from the box you left them in, and appearing in the box you just searched. If one person brings bagels

Snippets

I left my first ever Tour of Creve Coeur multi-cache on April 27th. Coco was picked up yesterday and is heading for Chicago. Hopefully from there he could leave the country and fulfill his mission of visiting New Zealand and the UK. The cat-on-a-leash experiment has

Blogging for a whole year and then some

My blog anniversary passed unnoticed in January. The site hitting 25,000 page views passed unnoticed, as did the 15,000 visitor mark. So heck with it, I'll do it today because it's an unremarkable Friday in May. I started this on January 10th 2002. I

Random train of thought

The train now standing at platform three is the nine forty three to London, fast service, stopping at Woking, Clapham Junction, and London Waterloo. If your travel plans today did not include London, this would be a good time to get off. There have been storms in St Louis, but

Garden update

The Alyssum plants died, and the cat ate my basil. Happily I have some reserve Alyssum plants, and some purple and white snapdragons, which will form flower bed #2, leaving flower bed #1 with just pink Alyssum and blue Forget-Me-Not seeds. Some of the seeds are coming up,

Weeds 0, Home 3

I'm taking back my garden. Three massive dandelions just got evicted, and I have an embryonic flower bed with some little plants and two different types of seed in. The rest of the seeds are in pots inside, they are the reserves in case the outside lot don&

Let's Motor

(US Translation: bonnet = hood, boot = trunk, exhaust = tailpipe) We've been idly looking for the Mini dealer for about a year now, ever since we saw the web site. On Saturday we got there and test drove a Mini Cooper S. First, the dull technical stuff: 1.6 litre

Press 87 to accidentally disconnect yourself

Every thirty seconds I get another "All agents are still busy. Please remain on the line. Your call is very important to us." I timed it. It's not like there's a lot else I could do with the phone glued to my ear, trying

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