The News: Friday, April 19 Edition Yesterday I was still joking about the flooding. Today it is not so funny. We are set to break record high water levels in every river, stream and creek in the area, and none of them are supposed to crest u... Continued
Charge Your Devices Without Missing Your Barbecue with the Device-Charging Market Umbrella It seems that most of us are permanently attached to our devices, no matter what we're doing. I'm just as guilty as the next person, unable to resist checking my phone several times a day if I'm away from a... Continued
The News: Thursday, April 18 Edition Today it occurs to me that there is a bonus to currently dating someone who does woodworking and makes furniture...I'm going to ask him if he's considered building an ark. Last week we got just over five in... Continued
Fresh Air Skylight is Solar Powered Brilliance While I have never lived in a house that has skylights, I have always wanted to, and I've always been jealous of my friend who have one or more of them. One of the things they complain about, though, is tha... Continued
The News: Wednesday, April 17 Edition Back to the usual program today...and another date. Before then, however, I simply have to finish this paperwork project that should have been done days ago. I meant to do it yesterday, but after I got home... Continued
Splash Your Way to Summer Fun with the Twist Inflatable Water Slide with Pool While the weather where I live more closely resembles what one would expect from December rather than April, hope springs eternal and I still have faith that eventually we will have summer. In the meantime,... Continued
Sound-Absorbing Lamp is a Reader’s Dream Come True One of the discussions that happens in my house on a regular basis is the volume of the television. To me, it is so loud it drills into my skull and does not allow me to concentrate on anything else, which ... Continued
The News: Tuesday, April 16 Edition My heart is sick, my stomach won't unclench, and the tears are always ready to fall. What happened in Boston yesterday, which I am sure you have all heard about by now, was just devastating. I understand th... Continued
The News: Monday, April 15 Edition When I woke up this morning my Facebook news feed was full of endless posts about it being tax day here in the US. The vast majority of it was whining. I don't get it. This is not a surprise...tax returns h... Continued
Click and Grow Your Way To Better Dinners One of the things you may not know about me is that I am a fairly serious cook. I mean, sure, I'm not above opening a package of noodles and eating them for lunch, but as a rule my dinners are planned out a... Continued
The News: Sunday, April 14 Edition So...here we are, two weeks past Easter, three weeks past the first day of spring...and it's doing the rain/snow thing again. Yesterday it was snowing so hard that we scrapped the playing with helicopters i... Continued
MEGATech Showcase: The Land of LEGO One of the things that never fails to amaze me is the number of things people think to create with LEGO bricks. When I was a kid, they were basic kits you could build basic things out of, unless you bought ... Continued
