A blog from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Posted in Home on Dec 31st, 2009
I will be ringing in the new year flat on my back under a stack of blankets as it appears I have caught a bug.
I have a fever just over 100 and the associated chills. The sickness started yesterday, unfortunately I was in the attic working the the previous talked about leaks. Those [...]
Posted in Home on Dec 29th, 2009
Sometimes home ownership isn’t all it is cracked up to be.
We had a warm day on Sunday which caused the snow on the roof to begin to melt. Unfortunately, due to the combo of bad ventilation and needing more attic insulation, we have some large ice damns. I have roof raked after every [...]
Not exactly friends. What the picture doesn’t show is the whole story.
This is the chair that Maisy (cat on the left) has claimed as hers. Marvin noticed she was gone and so he jumped up in the chair and settled in and waited. Maisy came back and noticed a lump [...]
Posted in Home on Dec 13th, 2009
Saturday I went out for a number of things I needed to pickup along with Christmas shopping. The problem is that I had just finished reading a book my boss loaned to me, “Poorly Made In China: An Insider’s Account of the Tactics Behind China’s Production Game“, and decided to do my best to [...]
Posted in Home on Dec 11th, 2009
Today it was freezing cold and blowing hard, lots of snow and driving was sucky. One of those days where you just want to get home and put on layers of warm cozy clothes.
Instead we went out to dinner. Why? Because of brilliant marketing. There is a local [...]
Tonight the wife and I had grass fed, no growth hormone beef from a local farm for dinner tonight.
Since we watch the films King Corn and Food Inc we have a whole new understanding how sadly odd that first statement truly is. These documentaries are an eye opening to how our food system works [...]
Maisy’s eyes were not getting any better so we took her back to the vet and they confirmed what our vet friend Jen told us, she has the herp. Feline Heresviral to be exact. So now she has 4 medicines that she is on to help clear up the infection. She won’t [...]
Posted in Sports on Dec 7th, 2009
Great mic’d up video of Matthew Stafford.