Okay, we have tiny little baby tomatoes, but they are tomatoes, nonetheless! Look at these: Those are from the tomato plants in the front of the house. The plants in the Topsy Turvy gizmo are doing well, but are only about half the size of the plants in the front. And there no tomatoes anywhere [...]
Read more →Yesterday marked one month since we planted tomatoes at Casa McGee: two tomato plants in a Topsy Turvy planter hanging in the back yard, and two plans in the rock bed that lines our front patio/walkway. I’m positively giddy to report that all tomato plants appear to be alive and doing well! Back Yard The [...]
Read more →On losing: There is nothing wrong with that other fellow being better than you are, as long as you did everything you possibly could to prepare yourself for the competition. That is all you have control over. That is all you should concern yourself with. It may be that the other fellow’s level of competency [...]
Read more →School just ended, so I took Tara out for our traditional, celebratory breakfast this morning — second year in a row we’ve done this. (Cari and Sean started this tradition many years ago.) While we were driving to IHOP, I mentioned to Tara that this was a “celebratory” breakfast in honor of another great school [...]
Read more →I was over in Seattle earlier this week for the SMX Advanced conference at the Bell Harbor Convention Center and, for the first time, I stayed right next door at the Edgewater Hotel. Not only that, but I also scored a room on the Elliott Bay side of the hotel. This was the view out [...]
Read more →Is it okay, normal, to be sad about the death of someone you didn’t know? Well, I hope so. Kinda sad around here tonight, at least for me. If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know how I feel about John Wooden. He died tonight. 99 years old. ESPN ran [...]
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