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Monthly Archives: February, 2015

Product Review #6: Feline Pine vs Horse Stall Pellets (Video Demonstration)

This product has changed a lot and no longer works as it once did.    While it was never the bargain price of horse stall pellets or other bedding wood … Continue reading

February 8, 2015 · 5 Comments

Writing On the Fly #1: Untitled (Part 1)

Note:  I’ve decided to try and write something new, but if I start it in a file and not produce it until it is done it might be another decade … Continue reading

February 8, 2015 · 16 Comments

Running a Couch25K: Episode 2- A Slow Start

I’m now on the third week of the Couch25k program which is a routine as follows:   run for 90 seconds, walk for 90 seconds, run for three minutes (and die), … Continue reading

February 7, 2015 · Leave a comment

Diary of on Inconsistent Cook# 11: Super Easy Homemade Cheese Crackers (Goldfish Style))

I’ve had this recipe sitting in limbo since April of last year just around the end of the Chickenpoxalypse 2014.   I had always intended to come back and finish to … Continue reading

February 7, 2015 · 2 Comments

Article #2: Cut the Crap Similac

I wasn’t going to touch this topic with a ten foot pole, but I’ve got a complaint directed at Similac.   I know what you are up to, and it … Continue reading

February 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

Curly Girl Journal #4: Taming of the Curls (Rick Rack Whoa)

One day near Halloween last year I was browsing on Cute Girl’s Hairstyles and was intrigued by the rick-rack technique using hair pins.  I have  never used hairpins, and since … Continue reading

February 6, 2015 · Leave a comment

Diary of an Inconsistent Cook #10: Buss Up Shut Roti (A Flaky Roti from Tobago and Trinidad)

I made something very interesting today that is a twist on the usual Indian Roti. The recipes have very similar bases with both using water, flour, and salt, however, this … Continue reading

February 6, 2015 · 4 Comments

Mad Craft #4: Do It Yourself My Little Pony Pinata (Part 3 – A Fringiponi)

Envision this:  It is September 12, there are plenty of other things on my list to do,  and the birthday party is in ten days. After the papier mache was … Continue reading

February 5, 2015 · 3 Comments

Picture This Picture That #4: Wordless Winter

February 5, 2015 · 2 Comments

Diary of an Inconsistent Cook #9: Pot Luck Fish Chowder

It’s that time of the week again where the dregs and leavings in the refrigerator get put through the “sniff and keep or gag and toss” process.    This day was … Continue reading

February 5, 2015 · 2 Comments

Poems Not Prose #1: Lights For Katy 12-22-04

I was digging round some old files that were penned back before blogs were born when I was a teenager and newly in my twenties.   A lot of them were … Continue reading

February 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

Diary of an Inconsistent Cook #8: Once You Go Rack, You’ll Never Go Back (Hassle Free Oven Baked Bacon)

Bacon and I have not always gotten along.   In the spring of 1999 I was living in my first third-floor attic apartment which had an electric stove, and my entire … Continue reading

February 4, 2015 · 1 Comment

Picture This Picture That #3: When the Five Year Old In All of Us Escapes

February 4, 2015 · Leave a comment

Musings #2: Broken Dish, Fractured Feelings, and a Lot of Glue

This was an uninspired, stock white cheap dish now laying in wrecked pieces. It was among the first things I bought for my apartment in my twenties from a store … Continue reading

February 3, 2015 · Leave a comment

Fiction #1: Check Lists

Introduction:  Below is my debut fiction piece on WordPress.  It only took a week to talk myself into it,  twelve hours to actually do it, and half an hour to … Continue reading

February 3, 2015 · Leave a comment

Mad Craft #4: Do It Yourself My Little Pony Pinata (Part 2 – A Papier Mache’ Cast)

When we last left the story, I had begun to suspect that I’d made a Pinata bigger than I intended.   Catch up with Part 1 if you missed it!   … Continue reading

February 2, 2015 · 3 Comments

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