Published on Saturday, February 18, 2012 by Katherine Taco night happens often in our house.  We have a ground beef pan and a healthy ground chicken pan, along with a counter full of fixings. But of all the times we’ve enjoyed them together, I had never seen the “style” in which my middle son makes his taco creations. Walking in to the kitchen and seeing this taco-making feat sent me in to a fit of laughter.  I...

Published on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 by Katherine On Valentine’s Day I found myself in a position of waiting.  No, not waiting for a Valentine's Day gift to arrive, because I never get anything for Valentine’s Day because nobody loves me or wants me because I’m obviously a loser and I’m old and ugly. The real reason I was waiting on Valentine’s Day was simply that I was in a long line.  So I brought up T...

Published on Friday, February 10, 2012 by Katherine In order to approach this ATM, you must drive around a sharp corner.  As you turn, you are unable to see the drive-thru area.  This made the following especially, well, startling.  There is only one way the arrows point.  Let's just say I was driving along with the arrows.  These people decided they were SPECIAL and drove against the arrows. It's too bad I mis...

Published on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by Katherine Only fate could have put me behind him. Look at me.  Please turn around and look at me.  I have spent my entire life waiting for this moment.  Pulling up to this car of all cars made me realize that life isn’t a series of random events.  It is not a web of chance, but a carefully spun web of purposeful happening upon happening upon happening.  And it all lead...

Published on Sunday, February 5, 2012 by Katherine You may remember the biggest geocache fail ever?  The fail is no more.  As a matter of fact, the fail resulted in the best geocache ever! Indeed, today my daughter and I hiked our way through the “Level Four Difficulty” terrain to the scene of the crime.  The geocache that yes, I RAN OVER. First, my daughter checked to see what people had already written in t...

Published on Monday, January 30, 2012 by Katherine It began with my good friend insisting I listen to the book on CD, “Flags of our Fathers.” Me:  “Will it make me cry?  Am I going to hate it?  How hard is it to listen to?” My Friend:  “Just listen to it.” In other words, “It’s your history.  It’s real.  Step up.” Step up I did.  I’m not sure how many people pulled up to me over the ne...

Published on Friday, January 27, 2012 by Katherine You want to know a really great practical joke that you can play on someone who is using a porta potty?  You wanna? First, find a rock.  One that will go in to a hole like this one.  You can find these holes on the back of most porta potties. Now, sneak behind the porta potty while someone is doing his or her business.  Make sure you are holding your roc...

Published on Monday, January 23, 2012 by Katherine It was only a few weeks ago when we stumbled upon out first geocache.  I believe that made us “geomuggles.” Out of curiosity, we purposely hunted for another.  From there, we have discovered geocaching caches camouflaged as coral, trees, logs and even a spider. I cannot tell you who said it.  But it was soon said.  “I know!  Let’s make our own geocache!...

Published on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 by Katherine Or is it? My boss brought a trash bag full of raw, dried peanuts to work.  "I know!  I'll make homemade peanut butter!"  One googled recipe and 30 minutes later, I soon found myself with a baking pan full of homemade roasted peanuts. Alton Brown's homemade peanut butter recipe says preparation time is only five minutes.  Oh really?! Once the peanuts w...

Published on Friday, January 13, 2012 by Katherine You may remember the last time I talked about my refrigerator.   How many of you have ever found blood in your fridge?  Blood that is pooling beneath a mystery bag of meat? This week my refrigerator runneth over.  Behold exhibit A. I can’t tell you who put these skulls in my refrigerator or why.  But I can tell you where they ended up.  Outside for a photo...

Published on Sunday, January 8, 2012 by Katherine While sitting on the shores of Crane Lake at Suffolk’s Lone Star Lakes, it is hard to believe the ocean’s salty water once covered the area.  The story is almost unbelievable. Thirty-five million years ago, a two-mile-wide asteroid plummeted to the earth.  Its impact caused a series of tsunamis that carried the ocean’s water to inland areas that were once dry...

Published on Monday, January 2, 2012 by Katherine Mine, hands down, came from my brother.  It was unique.  It was personal.  It was well thought out.  It was COOL. Imagine pulling one of these things at a time out of a box.  Above?  Catnip, lemon balm and chamomile for infusions.  I also got two tea dippers, one for me and one for my daughter.  But even better?  A HAND WRITTEN page explaining each.  The ...