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Visiting Washington, DC
We arrived at the Fitzkees' house on Thursday night, and Nick said we could stay as long as we wanted. We ended up extending...
jondaley, 20 August 2010 |
2010 Family Bike Trip to Washington, DC: Fourth Day
We cooked bacon and pancakes (I found a nifty plastic pint jug in Walmart or somewhere that you simply pour water into the jug, shake...
2010 Family Bike Trip to Washington, DC: Third Day
As I looked at the maps for the third day, we were going to be biking near various battlefields and other tourist-type places to...
2010 Family Bike Trip to Washington, DC: First Two Days
I've wanted to bike to DC for a while, but there never seemed like a good opportunity to do so. Once we purchased the tandem...
Church Bike Trip - July 2010
As Heather mentioned , it did take us a while to get this post written, but I thought it would be good to have a record of it, so...
Sprinkler Auto-Timer
Someone asked what timer we recently purchased, and I figured I should post it here, since it seems to work pretty well. We...
Bike Trip, Vacation, Notes
This is going to be woefully brief. The bike trip was adventure after adventure, lots of fun, but lots of work. Among the...
Pregnant!
Cycles did not return after the miscarriage, and that along with other symptoms leads me to conclude that I am pregnant again. ...
Notes from the Pocket
6/28 - Noah's fourth birthday! New nephew born! Faith says, "yoo" (balloon) Some more Faith words:...
Last Day of Kindergarten
I decided to (mostly arbitrarily) call today the last day of Kindergarten. Tomorrow will be the first day of First Grade....
Pocket Notes, Poison Ivy
6/11 - We planted more seeds in our garden. Faith helped me plant beans and she very carefully placed the seed in the hole and...
High Fructose Corn Syrup
We generally try to avoid corn syrup of all kinds (but we only "try", meaning it isn't banned or anything like that). But,...
Pocket Notes
6/1 - Noah's use of /f/ in everyday speech has increased immensely and he now uses it in a substitution. 3 = "free"...
New Bike Report
So, after thinking about it for a while, we decided to go ahead and purchase a new bike. The reason it took some thinking is that...
Faster Internet!
I noticed recently that Armstrong upgraded our connection to the internet from home. We now get 10Mbps download and 1.5Mbps...
Pocket Notes
Noah has discovered convertibles and really wants one. In a parking lot one day, we watched a man put up his roof and that was...
Triplet Biking - Here We Come!!!
We just put a deposit down for a used triplet bike, with two child conversion kits. Which means it will look something like the...
The Best Job In The World
Here's my take on the biking/camping trip. With last year's notes, it was actually pretty fun planning camping meals for 14...
Clean Your Dishwasher With Lemonade?
As we've mentioned, our water is pretty hard, and dishwashers in particular don't like hard water, and the manual with our dishwasher...
Biking Trip to Ohiopyle Summary
I bought a Trail-gator for attaching Jonathan's bike to mine, and we went on a couple 10 mile rides last week to test it out, and to...
Biking Prelude #7
From me: Greetings, I beseech you in the name of the fair gravel god Macadam . The town crier has informed us, the royal...
Biking Prelude #6
From Ryan: Greetings from the Great Healing Twig Forrest, I have come down from the mountains of...
Biking Prelude #5
From Alex: Please forgive me, my fellow peddlers, for the confusion as the right of the 140+ crest. As the journey from...
Biking Prelude #4
From Josh: Ye bungling fool! How is it that ye durst insult the most sacred trinity of hydrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (albeit...
Biking Prelude #3
From me: Oh Great Stout Hearted One and Less Admired Comrades: At this...