This is why I hate doing the math to construct a soaker from scratch, and am trying to write up the pattern so I never have to do it again.

I usually do trial and error to a point and then jimmy some figures so they work. This time I'm trying to be more methodical about it so I've come up with a system of equations to solve.


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Eddy got four male guppies today as a birthday present. He just named them: Frozen Fish (multicolored with black spotted tail), Black Eyes (solid yellow tail), Tails (lemon leopard spotted), and Tail Good for Swimming (solid red tail).

Natalie's first three-word sentence: "DOHN DOO DAT!" (Don't do that, to her brother when he was pestering her or grabbing at her toys.) Hi-larious to hear her tiny little voice pop out with perfectly intelligible phrasing!

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It's the Coupeville Arts & Crafts Festival as seen from the library! As of right now (about 5:30) the tall ships are at the dock. They were shooting their cannons off from the middle of the cove about an hour ago. Very boom-y. >.

What on earth is going on with this law? Is it being enforced? It's complete BS. It bothered me when it was first introduced, and now I have heard from several people recently who can't/won't sell their kid-related handmade goods because of fear of reprisal. :( There's got to be a way to protect kids without killing small business!

GAH.

Natalie's new sentence: "Read me." As she opens a book, she holds her hand up gently touching your chin and gives you the biggest blue pleading fluttering eyes. "Reeead me."

Also new: "Hung-y" and "Moooo-se!" And she's very adamant about "Uppie!"

I was just browsing around for someplace to buy some Charlie's Soap and stumbled across a Seattle-based online store called Organic Monsters. They seem to be a sort of natural lifestyle store, focusing on kids' stuff (SIGG bottles and slings and wraps) but with some household and pet stuff as well. They're closing as of June 1st so their remaining ( Read more... )

Ugh. So it seems Procter & Gamble have bought Natura Pet Products, makers of California Natural and Innova. Not only do they test extensively on animals, both their cosmetics lines and their pet food lines, but if you remember what happened when they bought Iams, they have a tendency to make good pet foods go bad. I guess EVO won't be my back-up ( Read more... )

Do you suffer from seasonal allergies?

Do you eat broccoli on a regular basis, or other cruciferous vegetables (members of the Brassica family)?

UCLA researchers say that broccoli sprouts -- and, they extrapolate, other veggies that contain sulforaphane -- put antioxidants in your nose to fight inflammatory conditions. Trufax.