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The Best Part of the Hardware Store

This weekend, as a joke while running errands, I told the kids that, as an extra-special treat, I would buy them each their own bottle of water.  When we got to the store I made true on my promise and

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Thursday Grab Bag

In one week I’ve had two ridiculous injuries.  First came the pulled groin muscle which I got from trying to climb over a baby gate while holding a glass of wine in each hand.  Then I managed to pull a

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Oh No, Not Again

You’d think I would’ve learned my lesson.  You’d be wrong.  This weekend on a beautiful sunny day I brought Number Two out into the yard for some afternoon frivolity and nature communion.  I smiled as I saw some birds wriggling

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“Fresh” Water

It’s amazing what you can get for free in the neighborhood.  My wife, with her bargain radar always dialed up to “Maximum Intensity”, spotted a free water play table in someone’s yard recently.  At least I hope it was labeled

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Hey kiddies, here’s a very short lesson in tempered glass and thermodynamics.  When you are, say, putting a pizza in an extremely hot oven, please be sure your hands aren’t wet.  Because just maybe a single drop of cold water

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