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I get more than my fair share of people landing here with searches for banana popsicle. Because I once wrote about banana popsicles.
Above is my answer to the person who landed here via the search for are popsicles DANGEROUS?

Fortunate Discoveries by Accident described her ants as dividing themselves into morticians, executives and construction workers. Her ants, like those blogged about at Gearworks, were fully fledged up to fun not long after their arrival.
H.o.p.’s ants are nearly all executives, running around not doing much other than discussing discussing, with several racing over to [...]

H.o.p.(out of the blue starts telling me a story): One day, a mouse was digging in the ground because he wanted to be a paleontologist and a rock star…
Ho ho.
Because I caught it, he regaled me thereafter with a number of variations.
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We were talking about ecosystems earlier.
Me: [...]

We sent off for H.o.p.’s ants from Uncle Milton Sept. 4th. The window for arrival had the latest date as Oct. 18th. Last week we received notice that they’d be mailing them out and they arrived today, first class mail, in an envelope marked “Temperature sensitive, Keep from Heat and Frost, Perishable, Handle [...]

Baptist Cathedral, Macon, Georgia, 2007

I’ve been hearing about Rosetta Stone for years, that it’s the holy grail of language learning programs.
And it sounded great. Immersion learning. I thought it would be great for teaching Spanish to a child.
But it’s an expensive course. $499 for levels 1, 2 and 3 purchased together. At a discount.
Then I [...]

OK, so the kitchen was being torn out this week and yet I was in a GREAT mood on Thursday. A GRAND mood. An I love the world and life is wonderful mood.
Why?
Because of working with H.o.p. on multiplication.
Isn’t that insane.
That great mood was because of Timez Attack, a full blown “ultimate multiplication [...]

Oh, this has been going on a while, hasn’t it. On March 14 I blogged about a pipe feeding the radiant heaters that had apparently busted in our kitchen wall, in January, and how it was humidly wrecking havoc on the kitchen with steam pouring through the wall, peeling paint etc. And it [...]

It had been drizzling so I didn’t pack the camera when we walked from Midtown to Centennial Park to hear the Dalai Lama. Thus, the only pic I’ve to offer is the below one taken with my cellphone.

H.o.p. brought his camera but he took pics of the kids playing next to us.
Another reason I [...]