Dave’s Gardening Corner: First Fruits

I forgot to mention this precious story from a week or so ago.
We pulled our first fruits from our garden; a couple peppers. We thought that we had planted two jalapeños for Courtney, but we quickly noticed that one of them was distinctly not a jalapeño, and we had only minimal ideas as to what [...]

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God’s License Plate

In just another act that tells me that the world has conspired against me, we lost our windshield earlier this month to a well-placed rock off a truck. To be honest, I can’t even tell you which one since the hit was so low on the windshield that I didn’t notice it until the crack [...]

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Because it needs to be said

The storm is rolling in, the smell of a forest fire is violent in the air, and I just put Katherine to bed in her new toddler bed. And Courtney’s taking a bath.
And it’s raining for the first time in several months.
So where am I? Some times, some things just need to be said, and [...]

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Movie Review: Vantage Point

Yet another movie review….
The Bad
The film is the story of an assassination attempt against the president of the United States, and it is told from the differing points of view of five or six people. Honestly, the worst thing about this film is the absolute complexity. You really need to watch it all, and some [...]

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Movie Review: Disturbia

I’ve been down with a mild mid-summer flu/cold or something. Odd for this time of year, but I think I get to blame Katherine for sharing again. This is a film that a friend suggested for us, and in my exhausted state, I figured what the hey. It’s basically a modern telling of the Rear [...]

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Movie Review: National Treasure 2

It makes me laugh how most of my movie reviews are so out of date by the time I post them…. I guess that’s what happens when you have a little kid at home.
National Treasure 2 was the film we debated going to see back when we saw I am Legend. Having seen both now, [...]

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Dave’s Gardening Corner: Now how did that get there?

As I’ve mentioned in the past, we are in the middle of a major landscaping project. We also recently found out that a major roofing project, if not a total demo of our house, is in the works. Between those two projects, we’ve given up on trying to restore our lawn, and we are sitting [...]

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Movie Review: Hancock

I seriously debated titling this post “Lessons I’ve learned, but not quite.” Courtney has an eye for movies. I don’t know what it is, but 90 percent of the time, if she declares something to “look stupid,” she’s dead on. She called this one, and I still didn’t listen.
The Bad
Where to start? I love Will [...]

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Fifth Sunday

So my lesson on mental illness turned out really well. I had several people personally thank me for being so forward with the topic and helping to attack some of the common myths. I even had one person seek my advice on a difficult situation. Made me wish I was a professional. As it was, [...]

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