Knock Knock. Who’s there? Banana. Banana who? Banana. Banana WHO? Orange. ORANGE WHO? Orange you glad I didn’t say banana? Now that’s a horrible joke. These are the kinds of jokes you’d find in the back of Boy’s Life magazine,…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Joke Time
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: Boy's Life Magazine, jokes, knock knock jokes, laughing, number two, parenting
A Sense of Scale
I think I’ve gotten used to being tall. When you are over six feet, as I am just barely, you realize the world is made for people 6-8″ shorter. Working at a counter means hunching over like Quasimodo. Getting anything…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: campfire, camping, camping with kids, car sickness, CH, number two, urinals
Chickens are Baffling
I don’t know why chickens do the things they do. And with their tiny pea-sized brains, I doubt they do either. For the last few weeks the chickens have been shunning their coop and roosting on top of it, crammed…
Posted in Gardening Tagged with: backyard chickens, chickens, coop, Ginger, Medusa, pea-sized brains, roosting
Bigger is Better!
I’ve moved up to 3 gallon brewing instead of 1 gallon. And oh lawdy was it easy. How do you do it? First, go to Home Depot and get a 5-gallon water cooler. It’s $20, a bargain for what you’re…
Posted in Brewing, Uncategorized Tagged with: amarillo, brewing, brewing equipment, carboys, cooler, fermenting, grain, homebrewing, hops, mash tun, nelson sauvin, simcoe, valves
One Down
Child Harbat’s first front tooth is gone, like a door pulled off its hinges. Is this the face of pain, of embarrassment, of relief of a long-hanging vestige of childhood dropping away in the plodding march to adulthood? No. It’s…
The Drought is Not Over
The drought is not over but we got our first measurable rain in over 6 months. Maybe I think the weather gods are stingy but over 2 days it only ever rained at night so we couldn’t sit inside and…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: drought, ducks, lake, number two, parenting, rain, southern california, weather
