There is a pretty decent slope away from the house, so now that I think of it that shouldn't be too much of an issue. Especially if I divert a lot of the water into a rain barrel that previously would have been hitting the ground. Sounds like I have a project for the spring now...
Right now it's one large plot with a divider in the middle, about 3' deep by 20' wide. That's where we were trying crops like peas, green beans and the like. The only thing that has even done well is the kohlrabis both years. What I'd like to do is shorten it about 3 feet for a rain barrel...
Last spring, we put in a small backyard garden. We built it out of 2x4s, but only the 4 inches deep. It did sort of ok, but our crop was rather lackluster. I've thought that maybe we need to make the garden deeper in order to have a better soil base. The general soil base of our addition is...
All I know is I would have a hard time doing tech support on that. Hate to tell you to turn it off then on again and hear *BANG* *THUD* and silence on the line.
I've been out of the handgun loop for quite a while, but now that finances are getting back on track the wife and I are starting to look at getting back into it. She want's to get another SR-9c, which is fine, but I was surprised to see a SR-45 now being offered. Our experience with the 9c was...
I happened to get a house at just the right time, back in 2007 when all you needed to get a mortgage was a pulse and a steady paycheck. Through some other stupidity, we had ourselves in quite the bind. We've been steadily working through the Dave Ramsey plan, and we've made some huge headway in...
Since I work from home, I already have plans to keep 3/4 of a tank in the Explorer all winter for my wife to take to work. She loves how it rides in the snow compared to her Focus, and well, the old folks need their nurses so she has to be there. And I can sit here at my desk, and look out at...
Sounds like what was really parrotted when I worked for Kroger. I only spent one night in the office during a snow storm, and decided that was the only time. Every other time, I made sure stuff was cool, left my number at the desk, and said "I'm out!"
I'd have a hard time being on a jury giving more money to these folks. While what Spike Lee was indeterminably stupid, he apologized and settled with them in an effort to attempt make right. You don't get a do over once someone apologizes and makes right, even if they do it because they just...
Why has no one mentioned feminine hygiene products? I now it's not a "manly" subject, but in a SHTF situation, toiletries are hot items including stuff for the women folk among us. Also tire patch kits, fire starters, regular meds like tylenol/advil/motrin etc. In a real SHTF situation comfort...
Huh, my Navy dad just called 'em bell boys and told 'em where to put the luggage.
Seriously though, here's to another year of our great country being protected by the folks willing to do violence on our behalf. The few Marines I know have all been folks that would give you the shirt off their...
When I used to call my wife, it was this from the movie So I Married an Ax Murderer. Her's on my phone used to be this. We've since gone back to more normal ringtones.
A few of the folks I work with have the Airs, and say that they blow the doors off of an iPad 2. My wife wanted an iPad, and I could have waited for the Air to come up on my discount (since I work for Apple) but I didn't want to and neither did she. The 2 is still a smokin' little machine, and I...
I asked my father, who spent 20 years running steam boilers in the Navy on oilers as part of the Atlantic fleet, if he'd ride on those boats in that kind of weather. His response: "There is not a single thing in this world that would compel me to ride on any boat in that kind of weather. No...
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and again.
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
BASEketball.
"You know what the problem is? Nobody here appreciates a guy with a good imagination!"
"Well, at least not the people at the lumberyard, or the miniature golf course, or Floyd's Fish Market, or any of the other places you've worked in the past month."
"Well someday, someday they'll...