Thursday morning, Gabriel, Lily & I stumbled downstairs around 8 (Matt was out of town) and Gabriel exclaimed at the bottom of the stairs, “Mommy, there’s a big, big, BIG dump truck in our yard!” I looked out and saw a huge semi dumping a 35-yard load of dirt in the street in front of [...]
I’ve been careful not to comment on the presidential primaries currently underway because, although I have had a favorite candidate for some time, I just wasn’t sure he was going to be able to pull it off. Tonight, I’m feeling a little more sure. Barack Obama made a believer out of me not when he [...]
Matt got home half an hour early from his trip to California this week in part due to a tail wind that got them to the gate 40 minutes earlier than they should have done. He said it was a bumpy ride, but at least he arrived safely. We had high hopes for continuing our [...]
On Tuesday, RC2, the company that produces such brands as Lamaze Toys, Learning Curve Toys, and The First Years, settled a class action lawsuit brought against them as a result of the Thomas the Tank Engine recalls this past summer and fall. As you may recall, RC2 was forced to recall many trains with red [...]
I’ve used Consumer Reports quite a bit since we got pregnant with Gabriel four years (!!) ago, but even I was suprised and impressed when my Green Life tip from Sierra Club for today was to check out Consumer Reports’ 20 Free Ways to Save Energy report. There is some additional content that is available [...]
How callous of me to reference the most excellent Subscribe2 plugin & widget without crediting its source!!! Although credit has to go to Matt for discovering this handy combo, once discovered, I had to have it for ChezArtz. Anybody who doesn’t have a WordPress blog (or plan to in the near future) can probably pretty [...]
OK, folks, I realize it’s been broken for more than two months, but the Subscribe2 feature for ChezArtz is back online. Unfortunately, if you subscribed to ChezArtz before the cataclysm in early winter 2007, you’ll need to resubscribe if you want to receive an email when I post something new at ChezArtz. For that inconvenience, [...]
Just four days into our first attempt at indoor gardening, we have sprouts! Yesterday, I transferred the four planters we have in the basement to the shelf with the lights and set them to run 16 hours per day to simulate June’s prime growing conditions. The most sprouts, unsurprisingly, are in the lettuce category–the Mesclun [...]
Monday didn’t exactly get our week off to a good start. I took my car to the shop and found out that, in addition to the $350 60K checkup & oil change I was bringing it in for, it also needed close to another $1000 worth of repairs. Considering that the whole point of taking [...]
One of the first things we noticed when we moved here was the sign at the neighborhood park that warned of bear sitings. Although, four months later, we haven’t seen any bears, our neighbors have already warned us that they once saw a mountain lion walk across what is now our yard and we’ve seen [...]