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Eat Local Challenge -- Day 4
Day 4 (Sunday):
Dinner--Salmon Sorta-Scampi, Steamed Green Beans, Stove-top Stuffing, Birthday Cake
local contents: the sorta-scampi included more of those baby leeks from Potter Hill Farm and the green beans were from a local farm as well -
File Under: Seen on a T-Shirt
If you always follow in someone else's footprints, you leave behind none of your own... -
Eat Local Challenge -- Days 1-3
I've been seeing here and there around the internet about the last week of July being "Eat Local Week". The idea being that one should try to eat at least one thing local per day during that week ( Read more... ) -
Cute story from the journey
Last night, after we arrived at Mom's, I brushed all the car seat caused tangles out of SG's hair (causing much gnashing of teeth), while Mom did ES' hair. Later, when I was putting away the hairbrush and de-tangling spray, ES told me, "No, thank you, Mom. You don't need to do me, Grandmommy already pulled my hair for me ( Read more... ) -
Note to Self:
Summer vacation plans must include college visit to at least MSU for Alex. Maybe also U of M. -
I think this is a spreadsheet problem we're having, not a geometry one...
Problem 42: (Technology Problem) The area of a regular n-gon inscribed in a circle with radius 1 unit can be written as:
Area = (1/2)*(cos(180/n))*(2n*sin(180/n))
Use a spreadsheet to make a table. The first column is for the number of sides (n) and the second column is for Area of the n-gon. Fill in the table up to a 16-gon. What do you ( Read more... ) -
Prayer of the Day -- Especially Appropriate for Election Season
From the cowardice that dare not face new truth,
from the laziness that is contented with half truth,
from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth,
Good Lord, deliver us.
- Kenyan Prayer -
Prayer of the Day -- from youngest's patron saint
I know that at times I will be troubled,
I know that at times I will be belabored,
I know that at times I will be disquieted,
But I believe that I will not be overcome.
Amen.
- Julian of Norwich
