Last weekend we went for a ride on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. It drizzled for much of the ride (which is why there aren’t pictures of that) but by the time we got off, it was gorgeous out. I even convinced Maura to stay still long enough to let me take the above picture. [...]
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Hey, look, a cucumber! Remember how I was saying that it turned out that my cucumbers were watermelons? Turns out that I was totally wrong, and at least one of the plants is, in fact, a cucumber. Apparently cucumber flowers and watermelon flowers look a lot alike–I figured five-petaled yellow flowers were going to be [...] I’ve been so busy writing posts lately that I failed to post. Great job, self. That’s actually true, though–it’s not that I’ve got nothing to say, but rather that I’m in the middle of writing a bunch of ridiculously lengthy and involved posts about things like universal health care (for it), book piracy (for it, [...] First, the mystery berries have been identified! The brilliant crowd over at MetaFilter IDed them as mock strawberries. Nick and I tested that theory tonight by tasting them, and it seems that once again, the internets were right–pretty like wild berries, but no flavor whatsoever. I have to admit that I’m rather disappointed that they’re [...] I was going to make a post about my lovely weekend (we had a weekend, it was lovely, my beloved Emily was here, there was a wonderful bugler and a horrible choir of bagpipes in the cemetery, and we had friends in for bubble tea and several hours of karaoke on Sunday, because that’s how [...] |
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The Diamond Castle
First, I apologize for underestimating my readership in a previous post. I do not have two readers; I have four. This is, understandably, a source of great excitement, which sounds like it’s sarcastic but is actually sincere. Hi! Second, today I was going to post about something interesting, or important, or at least funny, but [...]