(I overheard this conversation between my children the other day)

C:  I want ZOMBIES!!!!
M:   You're playing with oil and you want zombies?
C:  Yes!  Zombies!

Gotta love them.

Go look at http://fallingsandgame.com ("Hell of Sand" or "New Sand") and you'll understand.

Go ahead.  You know you want to!

In my cooking journey of the past week and a half, I have discovered that I actually like rutabagas and parsnips.  Who knew?  My 6 year-old was the only one in the house brave enough to try them, and she likes them too.    :)   I thought rutabagas would taste a turnip, since they look a lot like them, but they actually taste more like a potato in ( Read more... )

I saw this headline from Scientific American and for a second there my brain thought it said:

~ Bats Flew Before They Could Eat Chocolate ~

LOL!

Must have chocolate on the brain or something.

I was going to post some sort of Happy Valentine's day thing, but instead I was out running errands with the hubby all day and fell asleep as soon as I got home ( Read more... )

I kind of dropped the ball on this, actually, but if anyone is interested in Girl Scout cookies, I've got two kids selling.  The bulk of the orders are going in today and tomorrow, but we can still get extras right up until delivery time, which, I think, is late Feb/early March.

So, if you're interested, please post here, or email me privately.  I ( Read more... )

For New Year's I think I'd like to get to know my friends and acquaintances better.   I got this idea from ( Read more... )

Our little black hen hatched her first chick yesterday.  It's all fuzzy and gray and OHSOCUTE!!!!  No new ones yet today, but we'll see.    :)

So, for the past week, the hoards of wannabe racecar drivers have invaded my town, and clogged up the roads with their campers and ill-mannered driving habits.  One pretty much does not even plan to leave the house on Sunday.  All the roads are closed anyway, so why bother, right?  Anyway, until my car is fixed, we're a one car family, so I'm ( Read more... )

Well, I'm off to purchase a new mailbox in response to the nasty gram I received last week from the post office, with an ultimatum to replace the mailbox or they would stop delivering my mail.  Their reasons were that my mailbox was not "waterproof" and was "not secure, due to the lack of a door".

I have this to say on the matter:

-  First of all ( Read more... )

So, here it is, several weeks into the summer, and I haven't had much time yet to just relax.  Go figure.  First was sick for a couple of weeks.  Ick.  And, helping sis get her house ready to be sold.  Spent a day just cleaning and catching up on laundry.    Yesterday was my birthday though, and it was a very, very good day.  It started with ice ( Read more... )

(I wrote this several days ago, but am just getting around to posting it now)

For Mother's day the kids gave me a present that was wrapped up in newspaper, with clues all over it.  (I should have taken a picture).  It was about 12" tall, cylindarical in the middle, and larger and kinda flat at the bottom, and thinner at the top.

The clues were:

I'm ( Read more... )