If you use the Google Personalized home page, there is a widget with Local Gas Prices. After you install it, it will prompt you to enter your zip code.
Category: Life
My Nephew
My sister’s weblog, Caroline’s Journey, has photos of my nephew Anthony before his prom.
Fast Foods: Ads vs. Reality
The West Virginia Surf Report (isn’t West Virginia landlocked?) has a photo-report on Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality. The food is the ads looks much better than the Real Thing, but it also looks as though you could break your teeth on it.
Let There Be Light
Tuesday morning, about 8:15, we lost power due to a severe spring snow storm. Without electricity, our only working appliance was the gas range. We have a five gallon cooler that we keep filled with reasonably fresh water year round, so we had water we could heat and give to the dogs. The temperatures never fell significantly below freezing, so we didn’t have to worry about the pipes freezing. However, I was very happy at 10:10 pm last night when the bedside light woke me and I heard the hot water heater and furnace start. I got up for a while and puttered around, starting the dish washer, turning off lights and heating rice packs to warm the bed. I was practically purring to have electrical power after 36 hours without it.
Mountain View Electrical Coop generally does a great job on restoring power after storms. In our fifteen years in this neighborhood, this is the first outage that lasted more than four to six hours. I am just glad we don’t live near Calhan, an area to the east of us. I saw a report that they lost 200 utility poles, and may not get their power back until Saturday.
exempli gratia » Arrrgh! They Got Me…
If you do any on-line ordering at all, you may want to read Jack’s Arrrgh! They Got Me…
It must be spring…
March 17, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Jack played golf for the first time this year; I cantered Lily for the first time under saddle since last fall; and I took this photo of crocuses in my trainer’s garden.
Canned Food Recall
Petsmart has a good press release on canned pet foods that have caused renal failure in some pets. Check the list if you feed canned food.
D – E – F – I – N – I – T – E – L – Y
This is D – E – F – I – N – I – T – E – L – Y one of my problem words.
Nanda
I can remember when Jack could have used a nanda. He had a simple method of dealing with noisy alarm clocks: he threw them across the room. They usually didn’t last very long.
Minus Eleven
The outside thermometer is registering -11F this morning, which may be the coldest night here since we moved to Colorado. Paradoxically, the bedroom was almost too warm for sleep, since it is right next to the furnace, which was on all night, as far as I could tell.