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Talk amongst yourselves about Harriet Myers–we'll make hydrogen sulfide
Yeah, yeah, I know. Harriet Myers, Harriet Myers. Whatever. We’ll see what the Bushtroll does next. In the meanwhile, we made hydrogen sulfide!!! And it smelled real bad. Bad enough that it chased H.o.p. from our little science lab (kitchen). “Eeeeeew, yuck! That stinks!” and he ran. It’s tough doing science when your seven-year-old flees…
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I am a lousy scientist – exploring inertia
Krampf’s science this week involved exploring Newtonian inertia via the simple experiment of putting a glass over a marble on a table top, pushing the glass in a circle which causes the marble to spin in a circle, and you should be able to pick up the glass and have the marble spinning within it…
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Yes, yes, I knew we weren’t living in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
One thing I didn’t know when moving in here, but discovered last night, is that we have 33 sex offenders registered within 1 mile of us, 21 of them being convicted for sex offenses against children, the majority of those registered within less than a hop, skip and jump and the rest are between us…
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What’s up with all the police
Half a dozen cop cars and a dozen police have someone pinned down at one of the two side entrances to our building. Marty met a couple of our neighbors in the other building, everyone piling out to see what was going on. No one knows. A little police activity brings the people together and…
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Fierce pumpkins and happy cactus
First, a distant relation in Kansas sent me this link with a Flash on How to carve a pumpkin like a pro. I knew there would be a punch line but I didn’t know what. H.o.p. came running up behind me, “What game is that?!” I told him, “How to carve a pumpkin like a…
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Talk about a brazen attempt at breaking-in
This is about as brazen as it gets. Our upstairs neighbor knocks on the door to let us know she went out to walk the dog and saw someone peeking in our front window. She asked what he was doing. He said he was checking his air conditioner. She said it wasn’t his and for…
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The art of bootmaking
I’m not going to start bootmaking I don’t believe, but it’s a good thing to meander and I enjoyed reading up a little on lasts and heels and oak tanning and pegging. How I got there was via my looking online for where I might buy some boots. My mind took a side road, as…
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Prepping myself to euthanize Nero
Fish tanks are supposed to inspire a sense of peace and well-being. This is our sad but pretty, calico Ryukin, Nero. Nero wasn’t always in this sad state. She used to swim upright. We have three other goldfish including one other exotic and they are doing quite well, including Dylan, a feeder comet we got…
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How to not be a reporter (or gossip, whichever)
My brother-in-law who lives out of town, was hanging out yesterday, as part of his job, with Trent Lott who was boosting his book. There was a question and answer session. Trent Lott isn’t really impresed with Miers (which we already know). He said couldn’t the president have picked someone who was a judge and…
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Complaining about the transparent con’s lack of self-respect
I’m in a shitty mood and because complaining about the Yog Monster which is our government would require my thinking about it, I shall waste my useless words on spam (such as has been slamming my comments areas for weeks and only the devil and its gleeful cackling minions know how purveyors of bogus services…
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The Ground Hornbill makes a gift of a magnolia cone
Went to the zoo and took along my not very good digital when I should have taken the good one, but I’ve pics I’d not yet downloaded from the other camera. The not-as-good camera is fickle and there was a moment I was assuming had been recorded but came out blurred. I’ve written before on…
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Museum of the Americas, Petrified Forest and Dino Park
Tuesday before last we left Phoenix and started back for Georgia. We would take Interstate 40 which would take us past Cadillac Ranch and get home late late Thursday evening. On the way in to Arizona we had seen however a dinosaur park and I had said it was a must visit on the way…