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Teardrop Trailers - A DIY project for family camping trips.

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:43:29 -0400

This looks to be a fantastic family DIY project. A teardrop trailer is a small, lightweight RV that was popular in the 1930s. Teardrops can be built by the average DIYer using basic carpentry skills for as little as $2000.

I hope to do this project in a year, so in the meantime, I'll do some online research using a publicly viewable Google notebook and recreational planning using these planning sheets that I created to make it easier to sketch out floor plans, paint patterns and door styles.

The Cost of Convenience

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:02:40 -0400

The trailer of Super Size Me is enough to get you to reconsider eating fast food on a regular basis.

Road trips, running errands on weekends, working a little late -- these are all times when I am looking for a quick economical way of feeding my family. Unfortunately, the most tempting solution comes with hidden costs.

If you want to see the whole film, click on the Google Video button below.

Photo Taking Activities

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:28:59 -0500

A successful phographer once said: "We don't create the photos, the scene itself did it, we just opened a samll window and captured it," it seems we have a great deal of thoughts to ponder upon here.... knowing when and where to shoot is crucial...

The Journey Begins Tuesday March 21 2006 Afternoon

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:52:06 -0500

Hi All,
This is the begining of our 'blog' complete with photos. Please bear with us as we figure it out.

The Doctors are planning to draw Lil Bo's skin closer together tomorrow around noon. Please pray for strength for his heart, lungs, and body as he undergoes another procedure. I doubt this one will be the four hour ordeal on his birthday. Imagine being 6 hours old and undergoing a 4 hour abdominal surgery.

Little Bo is doing well. Yesterday the top part of his right lung collapsed but that has re-inflated as of the 6AM x-ray today.

Please pass on the link to anyone that might be interested and give us feed back when you talk to us on the phone. Our resident expert on the NICU procedures is Kim Porter a NICU RN - If you have any real questions maybe I can get her to give the answers. Other wise I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express and feel like I am as smart as the Doctors and Nurses. :)

Stat Line: O2 (Oxygen)=30% [ 21% is room air - he has been as high as 50%+; Map (Ocilator pressure setting = 21[a declining trend is good news - he has been as as high as 25 ];

Ukazi Soup

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 07:04:34 -0500

boil 2cups of water add boil meat and driend salmon fish and oil together, then blend salmon dried fish with pepper, as the dired fish and the meat and oil have been cooked and oil has turned to orange color, add melon and thickner, allow it to cook add the vegetable ukazi leaves (it contains iodine) and bring it down prepare fried cassava floiur with hot water (when rooled on plam to will form a ball. Eat with the ukazi soup

what a family

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:39:09 -0400

Well Mum, dad and Jono (my bro) came over yesterday that was cool they were helping my sister and her family move house :) I have deceied to tell you bout my family :)

my brothers and sisters :)

Sharron -30 is engaged to David no kids (yet) She is a Childcare centre director and Daivd is umm i think National sales manager of a bathroom company ( i think).

Rachel- 27 is married to Aaron they have 1 duaghter Emily who is one and Rachel is pregnant and sdue in may - she is a teacher and is working part time at the moment Aaron - is self employed IT guy (again i think) something like that.

Jessica ( me) - 22 has a partner Kent not married no kids I am working in customer service for a courier company. Kent is a buyer for a gas company.

Jonathan -20 has no girlfriend and no job he is a vegetarian which explains the former 2 haha :) He lives at home with mum and DAD mmmm yeah thats jono.

Daniel -18 has no girlfriend (that i know of) is in his last year of school and is going to uni next year to study sciencey stuff he is a nerd haha no though daniel does have a part time job at a supermarket stocking shelves after school.

Attack Of The Bumblebees

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 19:11:22 -0400

Words In The News (week 5)

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:22:26 -0400

These words have been gathered programmatically from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. The program selects words that it believes are not commonly used, but not so rare that it isn't worth learning them. If you are interested in seeing more of these, please let me know by sending email to host@familytimes.com.

neural

unsmilingly

caddied

unenthusiastically

lifebelt

discomfit

nonentities

unorthodoxy

expectorate

gorier

cassocks

hubristic

soothsaying

uncoiling

For the study, Miesenböck and Lima focused on a specific set of neural circuits, called the giant fiber (GF) system, involved in escape. (discovery.com)

I'm doubting it will happen," said Mataruse, her eyes fixed on the floor as her youngest daughter, 6-year-old Florence, sat unsmilingly beside her, wearing a white dress. (washingtonpost.com)

The family belonged to the old Indian Springs Club in Maryland, where Bobby and his older brother, Jimmy, played during the week and caddied on weekends. (washingtonpost.com)

In an episode certain to be scrutinized anew, Joseph Ratzinger was briefly and unenthusiastically a member of the Hitler Youth in his early teens, after membership became mandatory in 1941, according to a biography by John L. (nytimes.com)

According to firsthand accounts, he spent his final hours urging passengers to wear their lifebelts and to board the rescue boats. (discovery.com)

This is a difficult moment for the civil rights movement, which is understandably fearful of taking positions that would discomfit the teachers among its supporters. (nytimes.com)

This experience will never be dearer now that Massachusetts has come up with the misbegotten idea of introducing virtual horse racing - a bloodless, computer-generated cycling of nonentities aping thoroughbreds on a TV screen. (nytimes.com)

McBrien, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame, said Ratzinger's homily indicated that he believes the pope's role is to "protect the sheep from the prowling wolves of unorthodoxy and relativism. (washingtonpost.com)

With saliva, all a patient has to do is expectorate. (nytimes.com)

For "Private Ryan," Lines cut out some of the gorier moments from the movie's 24-minute depiction of the landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day. (washingtonpost.com)

All were dressed in their traditional red-trimmed black cassocks, their waists wrapped in scarlet sashes and their heads bobbing beneath scarlet skullcaps. (washingtonpost.com)

DeLay began building his megamachine with a breathtakingly hubristic "pay to play" system. (nytimes.com)

In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying. (nytimes.com)

On Tuesday he stayed ahead in the count, and for the first time in his career, Nomo confounded Yankees batters with his twisting pitching motion that takes a lengthy pause just before uncoiling and delivering. (washingtonpost.com)

Move your mouse over the words on the left to see how they were used in the news.

Vocabulary Words Found in the News (week 4)

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:42:06 -0400

My Words

This is a list of 10 uncommon words that have been found in Washington Post and New York Times frontpage stories this week.

overoptimistic

tastelessness

purloin

cravenly

eulogizing

tauntingly

muffed

oversimplifies

embroil

refuseniks

Khanna added, "If you had asked me in 2001 if this was where we'd be in 2005, I would have said, 'That's terrific, but aren't you being overoptimistic?' " Special correspondent Rama Lakshmi contributed to this report. (washingtonpost.com)

What's disturbing about this spectacle is not so much its tastelessness; America will always have a fatal attraction to sideshows. (nytimes.com)

Most nights, I watched two sweet-looking old ladies sneak down the hall to purloin supplies at the nurses' station - cat burglars heisting Depends. (nytimes.com)

Now it would be nice to see members of Congress, including the many free-trade senators who cravenly voted for the Byrd amendment, come to their senses and repeal it. (nytimes.com)

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who presided over the Mass, had the delicate task of eulogizing John Paul while also pinpointing work that remained unfinished. (washingtonpost.com)

It began, as no one needs reminding, with the invention of the touch-tone phone and the subsequent, tauntingly named "voice mail" system, in which a voice is the thing precisely never heard. (nytimes.com)

Woods muffed his tee shot. (washingtonpost.com)

He wrote a scandal-management book, "Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself." Robert Bennett, a Washington lawyer who has made a career defending such people, said Davis vastly oversimplifies. (washingtonpost.com)

It could embroil the Senate in a bitter stalemate that would complicate passage of President Bush's agenda and raise questions about Frist's leadership capabilities. (washingtonpost.com)

Someday, consumers will become passive refuseniks or revolt. (nytimes.com)

Move your mouse over the words on the left to see how they were used in the news.

Vocabulary Words Found In The News (Week 3)

Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:15:42 -0400

Here are some words found in the news this week. The list is generated automatically and has some not-too-uncommon words this week. I'll refine things by next week.

Also, you will notice that I'm now showing the sentence in which the word was found. The added context is helpful in learning a new word.

skittishness

skittishness
But there's some skittishness in the party leadership about the Passion of the Tom, the fiery battle of the born-again Texan to show that he's being persecuted on ethics by a vast left-wing conspiracy.

skinflint

Words In The News (week 2)

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:47:19 -0500

Here are another 20 words found in the news this week. I'm modifying the program to capture the sentences the word was used in, this additional context helps deepen the understanding of the word.

Vocabulary Words Found In The News

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:47:08 -0500

I am curious about new words. Especially words that are uncommon enough to stand out, but not so uncommon that I'll never hear them spoken or read them in the paper.

To satisfy my curiosity, I have tried a couple of sites that offer to teach their readers new words. However, it seems that the words chosen are often too obscure to have any value or interest to me.

Since these sites weren't satisfying, I designed a program to create a list of words that are occasionally used and that I might wish to gain a deeper understanding.

In case anyone else shares my curiosity, I'll post a list here on a weekly basis.

Writing my personal mission statement

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:02:07 -0500

It has been ten years since I've written my personal mission statement. In fact, I've lost site of it. Fortunately, I stumbled across Stephen Covey's site and see that he has an online mission building tool. I used a paper version 10 years ago and found it helpful. I look forward to rebuilding my life mission and seeing how things compare.

Interesting news website.

Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:54:21 -0500

Check out http://www.topix.net for news in many subjects, local cities, etc. It picks up news stories from other websites. It gets news from 150,000 news channels. If I want to read news from a different state t makes it easy to find. I focus on a city and then can look to news from nearby towns.

Test initial story - Brighton

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 11:52:42 -0500

This is a test to see if anyone has stories of Brighton. Sleeping on the porch. Reading old National Geographics in the scary attic. Stubbing your toes on stubborn roots while running down the hill to the lake. Crayfish holes.