Our garden for summer/fall 2008 was very successful. We installed a drip irrigation system on a timer this year. There was much more growth this year, and the harvests were much more bountiful. We are attributing most of this success to the drip irrigation system. Some of the problems we had this year:

We had too [...]

There was this series of books that I started reading when I was in high school called the Sword of Truth Series. It was a great series, at least the first five books were; it got a little weird after that. It was a great saga about standing up and fighting for what is good [...]

Has anyone else out there experienced blog spam? Email spam is bad enough, but now I am getting spam comments on my blog! These spam comments always have a link in the comment, so my guess is that they want to increase their page ranking on Google (more links from other sites to their site [...]

So far I have steered away from making any political commentary on this blog. I don’t see myself as one of those types of bloggers. However, after watching last nights debate, I feel compelled to make a few comments. Prior to the debate there was all this speculation about whether Gov. Palin, after some serious [...]

My office mate was just commenting on wanting to make her own marinara sauce, so I thought I would post my recipe so that others might enjoy it.
Erin’s Marinara Sauce
I should say, that I don’t think the sauce is ever exactly the same each time that I make it, but here is the general idea.
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Last night I finished reading Stardust and I have to say it was kind of a let down. The thing is, I LOVE the movie Stardust and in my opinion, the movie was better than the book. The movie is very much like The Princesss Bride in that it is a comedic, swashbuckling, adventure-romance. The [...]