I spent a couple hours outside doing some yard work today, so I though I’d show off the work we did last weekend plus today…
Front of the house

Carport patio

Monty’s playroom

Somehow I managed to get sweat on the camera. Hey, it’s hard work taking photos and posting them on your blog.

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As a follow-up to last week’s rant about pet food, I found a company from Midland, MI (Wysong) that produces all their pet food locally. Its twice as expensive as the stuff I used to buy, but at least there is some confidence in the product, and I am supporting a local company.
The ingredients for [...]

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Most of you probably won’t care, but yesterday the planets were in alignment & all the laws of quantum physics were broken; I managed to change the oil & degunk the lawn mower carburetor to get it started after winter storage… IN ONE PULL!
Any of you who know me know I one of the least [...]

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According to news today in the Toronto Star:
WASHINGTON – An industrial chemical that led to a recall of more than 100 brands of cat and dog foods has been found to contaminate a second pet food ingredient, expanding the recall further.
The chemical, melamine, is believed to have contaminated rice protein concentrate used to make a [...]

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[08:34] < @chiqy> matt, i am extremely disappointed in your blog of late.
I know — bad blogger bad blogger!!! As Linda so graciously pointed out it has been a whole week since an update, so let me get you up to speed…

Thanks to Justin for taking Phil, myself and Christa to game 1 of the [...]

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My sister has a sick and twisted sense of humor. I received in the mail today an Easter photo of me, from 1981.
The bunny in this photo looks like a scary 80s alien.

My 4 year old nephew Dylan included an Easter card for me.

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Found this video on YouTube, and it pretty interestingly shows how sound waves can effect the world around us, and possibly why they can have such a profound effect on people as well.

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I never thought of myself as the must-have-a-nice-yard type, but this blast of winter after the 2 weeks of warm weather is devastating the flowers that came up already in the flowerbeds out front of the house…
Have a great Easter!

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In an effort to give equal opportunity to both Bailey & Monty on the blog, here’s a shot of Bailey “helping” me stomp some promo CDs this afternoon.
Oh the life of a kitty…

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Michigan Weather 101: Wait a day and things will be different.
Over the past 2 weeks Winter changed into Spring, Spring changed into Summer, and both Spring and Summer got thrown out and Winter came back with a vengeance.
It was 82F last week at this time, and its 32F this week.
It wouldn’t be so bad if [...]

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