With the water not being safe to drink quite yet, I have had had to find ways to pass the time. After boiling water twice to use for hand washing my socks, I let the water sit. And after looking at it, I decided against using the water. I initially got the water from the [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 30, 2008
Babysitting Duty
Well, there was a post planned for today but my SIL needed to run some things off for church and my youngest nephew came along with her to the office. I ended up playing with him instead of writing a post. One of the nice things about a family business is getting to put off [...]
January 29, 2008
Do I? Or Don’t I?
Do I or don’t I? That is hand wash my socks. and the reason is that depending on which story you believe in the local paper, my town’s water shed was contaminated by a manure spill late last week. The initial story as to what happened differs greatly from what is in today’s paper. The [...]
January 25, 2008
Photo Friday
Okay, time for more exploration of downtown Frederick. Last week, I showed off St John’s Cemetery and today, we will look at a school associated with the parish. The Visitation Academy has been a part of Frederick since 1846. If you were to look at the school from the street, you would only see the [...]
January 25, 2008
Sheep Circles?
I just saw a funny article over on the Daily Mail’s website about sheep circles. I know that I had heard of crop circles before but never sheep circles. And if you read the article, you will see that the sheep formed the circle themselves. Wool on the hoof is smart.
(Photo is from the Daily [...]
January 24, 2008
Still Knitting
Okay, I think I have most of my computer issues solved with the simple solution of moving quite a bit over to the external drive. I did take the time to go through my old photos and clean them up some. I had several folders that were empty or only had one or two photos [...]
January 22, 2008
My Computer Hates Me!
Okay, maybe it doesn’t really hate me. It is just that I have so much on the computer. I installed an external drive yesterday and I need to move files over to it. I will not admit to how much space my photos take up. But I spent a good portion of yesterday moving files [...]
January 18, 2008
My Frederick – Photo Friday
Today’s photos of Frederick are from a cemetery. Frederick has played an important role in the history of the state of Maryland. It was the birthplace or home of more than a few past governors and a judge or two on the federal level. So in order to understand part of the history of Frederick, [...]
January 17, 2008
Snow Day
It is snowing!!!! Yeah!!! This is the first snow in over a month. Okay, those of you in New England can be quiet. Remember, technically I am blow the Mason-Dixon Line. The storm keeps changing but it is now looking like we might get measurable snow today and tonight. And snow the past few [...]
January 16, 2008
Busy
I am busy finishing up stuff for last year’s accounting for the accountant today. So nothing to report today. So you get some pictures from the weekend instead. And can I just say that math is a four letter word? It really is. Can you guess what was my least favorite subject in school?
