Mondays are always busy, but today was busier than usual. First, I had to get the kids ready and send them off to school. Then I had to do a huge pile of laundry (It took all day). I noticed Diana had a runny nose yesterday and today she told me her left ear hurt,… Continue reading What a day!
Category: The Daily Grind
Posts about daily life
Bummer, this is us
South Jordan Residents Angry About Planned Power Outage Tomorrow is expected to be the hottest day of the year. For some though, it’s going to feel even hotter. That’s because the power is going to be cut off for thousands of people in the South Jordan area. That means no air conditioning, or even electricity… Continue reading Bummer, this is us
Piano Recital
Emily and Anne had their piano recital this evening. One thing I like about this teacher is that she makes the kids memorize the pieces and she makes them bow. Both Emily and Anne did a pretty good job (a few mistakes here and there). I think they’re progressing fairly well. Now if I can… Continue reading Piano Recital
RSS Readers
An RSS reader is software that goes out and automatically checks for new updates to websites that publish an RSS feed (usually blogs). It’s a form of syndication. If you look at the very bottom of this blog you’ll see a link to the RSS feed for both new posts as well as new comments.… Continue reading RSS Readers
Park Bench
Today Nancy and I assembled one of our park benches after dinner. The assembly was easy and in no time we had a lovely park bench. We put it outside on the flagstone area that I had the landscapers make. The flagstone area wasn’t originally in our plans but they had some of the large… Continue reading Park Bench
Planting Flowers
I went to Lowes to buy a new handrail for the garage stairs and ended up buying some annual and perennial flowers also. I almost never leave a store without buying one or two things that I was not intending to buy, which drives BYUFan crazy. After I got home I sent the kids inside… Continue reading Planting Flowers
Patio Furniture
On Saturday afternoon Nancy and I went shopping for patio furniture after we had cleaned out the waterfall. We had previously gone window shopping for patio furniture in order to get an idea of what we liked and what the prices were. Unfortunately, Nancy hadn’t yet seen anything she liked at the several stores we… Continue reading Patio Furniture
Landscape Diary
Just two days after getting our plants in, a major windstorm decided to show itself. The plants weathered the storm without problem. The waterfall didn’t fare so well. Unfortunately, the shredded bark mulch that we liked so much because it wasn’t “barky” is fairly lightweight and the wind simply blew it everywhere – into the… Continue reading Landscape Diary
Party Postmortum
Well, the dress-rehearsal sushi party went off fairly well. The guests seemed to enjoy themselves and the sushi was decent (not great). It also gave us a chance to use our dining room for the first time and to use Grandma Connie’s china and crystal for the first time so that was fun. The one… Continue reading Party Postmortum
Sushi Party
Today I made a trip to the Oriental market on about 700 E and 600 S in Salt Lake City. My job was to get all the ingredients necessary for a sushi party we are hosting for people from BYUFan’s work. I bought sushi rice, nori, smoked eel, flying fish roe, wasabi, sushi mats, a… Continue reading Sushi Party