The Magster and the kitchen drawer

We finally cleaned out a drawer "for the magster only" Her she is enjoying "her" kitchen drawer.

Calling all Music Fans

I am trying to build a playlist for exercising and it is taking me too long to figure out some good picks. So please make some suggestions of upbeat, positive and energetic music!?!? I definitely prefer the Christian music variety been looking at Third Day, Mercy Me, David Crowder Band, Skillet but I don't know song names and am done sitting here sampling one song after another.

Please help!!!!

thanks ;+)

Backer nest cam

There's this silly bird that built a nest right on top of our big round thermometer. Well, kind of behind it. Anyway. She built a nest and I had the bright idea to stick a camera up there so we could see when the eggs hatch.

So the birds hatched today. Or last night. Or something. We saw wiggly things that weren't the momma bird in the nest today. Which inspired me to finally figure out how to get the wireless video feed online.

Note...right now (12:15am on Sunday - mother's day - Happy mother's day deck-bird!) it's dark. As in, no light. Sorry. Will put a light on it tomorrow. You can watch the black and bits of video noise and pretend you see the mother peacefully snoozing.

So here it is. Assuming it doesn't crash or something between now and tomorrow morning, you should see the mama sitting on the nest (and not to coincidentally, her children) and/or a seemingly empty nest, and/or small red and brown sploches with orange beaks.



Video streaming by Ustream


And the regular type url: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/backernestcam

How to plant a rosebush

Yard:1, Aaron:0

(1)find a spot along the fence where there's sure to be a buried sprinkler line
(2)cut line with shovel
(3)spend 30 minutes trying to figure out/remember how to turn the sprinklers back on after being off for the winter.
(4)fill hole with water making sure it's a sprinkler line and not some random buried hose
(5)run to the store, buy stuff to fix
(6)fix line, cursing $!@ cheap harbor freight hose clamps that I "had on hand"
(7)turn on sprinklers to verify fix...and notice that the hole is 6" in front of a previously forgotten sprinkler head. (which would have destroyed the rose)
(8)fill in hole. walk quietly away meditating on the character building qualities of the previous 2.5 hours.