A few days ago Kayla added to our “Meet the Menagerie” section with a post about our chickens. It may not feel like it yet, but we are on our way towards spring, so we’re thinking about adding to our flock. We have five girls currently, but our coop is sized for about a dozen, …
Today I have to say goodbye to a friend. She was only thirty and she lit up every room she was in. She had a filthy mouth and got away with saying the most offensive shit. She had a heart the size of Texas, especially when it came to animals. Her name was Brianna. I …
This year, while many Americans were getting ready to celebrate love on everyone’s favorite Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida were hiding under desks, barricading themselves in classrooms, and pleading for their lives. Normally, I’d avoid such a heavy topic on our generally more lighthearted blog, especially …
I am proud to present our featured scientist, Julia Sosin! Julia and I worked together in the summer of 2015, mostly doing Phragmites control. We kept each other sane while lost in the forests of reeds, dressed to the nines, packs full of chemicals on our backs. One of my favorite work days (and I’m …
Apparently we’re all murderers. “Millennials… Killing Harley’s Sales” “Millennials are Killing Chains Like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee’s” “Millennials are Killing the Beer Industry” “Millennials are Killing the Napkin Industry” “Millennials are Killing the Golf Industry” (this one kind of follows the theme, but mostly I want you to remind me to talk about this …
This post doesn’t fit with most of our themes, but it does pertain to something near and dear to my heart; Dungeons & Dragons. For those of you that don’t know, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a table-top role playing game. The general idea goes something like this: some friends get together and make characters, …
In our circle of friends, RISK has always been our excuse to get together and hang out, usually for absurdly long game sessions. One complaint we always had was that the countries on the RISK board were often too small to accommodate large armies (of plastic game pieces). At the time, we had a hand-me-down …
