March 2008

So the big excitement in our house this weekend? Ed bought a new lawnmower. Isn’t it pretty?

And it has electric start. WHOO HOO!

This means that to get it to start, all we have to do is pull out the choke and turn a key.

Electric start is WAY better than the recoil start, which involves pulling [...]

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Tricia may be getting her new lungs tonight. Please pray for Tricia, Nate, Gwyneth and their families. Please pray, too, for the family who has suffered the loss of a loved one.
I’ll keep you updated, but check Nate’s site as well for updates.
Pray, pray, pray!
(Just before I hit “publish,” I saw this on Nate’s site. [...]

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Welcome to another week of Weekly Winners.
First, a little personal bloggy business. After being inspired by Sarcastic Mom’s blog carnivals about (breast)feeding and birth stories, I decided to host a carnival called How I Met My Honey, which will be April 29. (A carnival on weddings — some weddings ARE carnival-like after all :) [...]

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Google has “turned out the lights” in honor of Earth Hour.

Are you going to do the same thing? Or, if it’s after 9 p.m. your time on Saturday, March 29 — when the lights are supposed to come back up — did you?
Yes, I’m posting this way late in the game — 7:30 p.m. Oops.

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I took this photo at Stone Mountain during the high color of fall (November 10, 2007).
For more interpretations of this week’s theme, join the Photo Hunt.
photohunt

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Tuesday’s post: stairs hike.
Asked if you want back story.
The answer? Yes, please.
Starting with next ‘ku
Stanzas will match Tuesday’s post
One pic per stanza.
“Base of falls,” sign says.
Amicalola Falls rocks!
Steepness to first step.
Danger possible.
Remain on trails and the stairs.
But stairs may kill me. :)
One seven five steps
“That can’t be that bad,” we say.
Sadly, we are wrong.
Step [...]

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I’m on CNN.com…
Or at least my post from earlier today is. See?

Isn’t that cool!?! No idea how that happened… as I know there can’t be just three of us who linked to the story, but it’s fun. :)

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And it may make you live longer. (So you can look forward to squabbling with your spouse for many more years…)
I’m not making this up. See. It says so right here.
Isn’t it common sense that bottling up feelings/anger/irritation would cause bad things do happen to a person’s innards? It should also be common sense that a person [...]

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A tree grows in Arby’s…
Visit other wordless folks at Wordless Wednesday.

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