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In Which Laura Discovers Internet-Based Home Automation

December 26, 2012

in Personal, Tech

Belkin WeMo: Control home electronics from your smart phone L: OMG I want this! E: Now you never need to look up from your smart phone to interact with the environment. L: I was thinking it would be helpful for things like “did I forget to turn off the espresso machine again…” E: Yeah… L: [...]

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The Curious Incident of the Chickens In the Night-Time

January 19, 2012

in Chickens, Home & Garden, Personal, Stories

I used to count the feet. At sundown all the chickens march into the chicken coop and hop onto the roost to put themselves to bed. I go out a little bit later with a flashlight to close the door of the chicken coop so that nothing would get at them at night. Every night [...]

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The 2012 Resolution Short List

January 2, 2012

in Personal

I was talking about resolutions the other day and Eric asked me incredulously if I actually sit down and make resolutions every year. I don’t, but I do spend time at the end of the year to think about things I’d like to do and things I’d like to change. These then are the sorts [...]

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How to Convert an Old Shed to a Chicken Coop in 45,732 Easy Steps (Part Four)

December 12, 2011

in Chickens, Home & Garden, Personal, Stories

(Part One, Part Two, Part Three) So you’re probably thinking, “Hey Laura, it’s been a really super long time since you wrote about that shed/chicken coop of yours. Surely you’ve made some progress that you could write about. Surely the shed isn’t just sitting there in your yard, incomplete, in the rain, taunting you with [...]

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Adopt this Kitten!

October 5, 2011

in Cats, Personal

Update: Squeaker has been adopted! Thank you for all the interest! Regular readers: forgive the slight blog misuse. I was going to do a plain old HTML page for this, but blogs just make things easier these days, and I am lazy. We rescued two tiny abandoned kittens from a feral cat colony living outside [...]

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