Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Upgrade time again
The site may go a bit wonky over the next few days as I am preparing to upgrade WordPress and Gallery2 again as well as the plugin that embeds Gallery2 within Wordpress. I’ve been putting this off for a while but figured I’d better just bite the bullet since some of the fixes are security [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Day-to-day ramblings, Geek Stuff by Chris
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Sharing the gift of wonder
As I mentioned in a previous post, we are trying to set aside a little money each month to donate to a worthy charity. This month we agonized over what that charity would be, since there are so many out there. Joy hit on the idea of finding an organization that helps children experience and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Finding Balance by Chris
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Join The Great Sunflower Project
The Great Sunflower Project involves taking a moment to join and provide an address for the project organizers to send you free wild sunflower seeds, planting the free sunflower seeds when they arrive, then after the sunflowers are blooming, taking time to sit and log how many bees come to the sunflowers within a specific [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Finding Balance by Chris
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Simon and Winter showing off their beads…
… that their grammy brought them back from New Orleans last month. I meant to post these sooner but things got a bit crazy around here with the new job and such.
We decided it would be better not to ask Joy’s mom how she got the beads.
2 Comments » - Posted in Cats, Simon, Winter by Chris
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Whiskers 05/94 - 04/08
We got some sad news on Friday; Joy’s sister’s cat Whiskers had to be put down due to a blood clot that had paralyzed his rear legs. He hadn’t been well for some time and it was the kindest thing they could have done for him but he left behind a big hole in their [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Cats, Day-to-day ramblings by Chris
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Link: Al Gore’s new climate crisis video
We don’t know if there’s anyone out there who still hasn’t seen An Inconvenient Truth, but if you haven’t, you really should see it. Al Gore now has a new slide show with some updated statistics up on TED. It’s about a half hour long but it’s well worth watching.
Some of the reasons people who [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Finding Balance, Found on the Web by Chris
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Ant Voodoo
Joy’s latest solution to the ongoing ant war:
Apparently ants hate cinnamon. The cats don’t seem to be offended by it, and this is working better than the “cat food moat” which Simon turned into “cat food soup”.
