If you are in Richmond and haven’t headed out for Pennsic yet take an evening to go down to the Farmer’s Market area and watch the purple martins settle in for the night. The birds start to gather around eight in the evening. For a half hour you can watch a crowed of quite a few birds grow into a seething rolling maelstrom of thousands and ( Read more... )

I'm using metal kabob sticks and matches to burn marshmallows. mmmm... Really don't need the chocolate, but I shall have to invest in graham crackers when my jaw is more recovered ( Read more... )

Three weeks in and still loving the new job. Tomorrow, I get to learn something completely new. So. Cool ( Read more... )

Walked just over three miles during lunch yesterday, forgot to change to my tennis shoes. Pout, now I have a blister on the ball of my foot. Danskos are not made for walking ( Read more... )

Got a letter from EVMS. I am wait listed. So not a no, but not a yes. Sigh ( Read more... )

Someone has taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and turned it into four colors. Green, Gold, Orange, and Blue. It's called "true colors". We spent two hours figuring out our true colors and what that means today in my Education and Management class ( Read more... )

While visiting the west coast, M's parents stopped by the jelly belly factory. His father found he simply could not pass up the deal being offered up on the "mistake" jelly beans ( Read more... )

Pescado is spanish for fish, I think. I know it is the name of a yummy restaurant in Midlothian. We went there for dinner last night ( Read more... )

This looks like so much fun. We could get teh different players to be responsible for different parts of the game....

Cupcakes of Catan

Hurray, other ugly glass successfully cut this morning, so I didn't need to buy more glass ( Read more... )