Archive for July, 2007

Our daughter has started helping us feed our cat, a process that often ends in her trying to eat the food she just put in the bowl. How did she learn this was something to eat? By watching the cat of course! Fortunately, the cat’s dishes are in the basement, a place still off limits [...]

Well, after just about a year our beloved Frog Pod fell off the tub wall. Fortunately it happened in the middle of the night and no children or toys were harmed. I checked the local home stores for replacement adhesive strips, but couldn’t find the same 3M VHB adhesive strips. A quick e-mail to Boon [...]

Another NH locale has been recognized as a great place to live! This time it’s Hanover, coming in at #2 on Money’s “Best Places to Live 2007,” just behind the winner, Middleton, WI. To be eligible, towns had to have a population between 7,500 and 50,000. At #85, Salem was the only other New Hampshire [...]

I’m no fashion guru, but I’ll admit that I try hard to keep my daughter looking her best. Probably one of the more frustrating parts of this job is knowing that the cute outfits I find for her will only fit her for about a minute (or so it seems to our budget). So I [...]

Seacoastonline.com has reported that New Hampshire ranks eighth in the nation for Internet access speed. Our median download speed is 2.7 mbps, compared to the US median of 1.9 mbps. That sounds pretty good, but compare that to the other countries mentioned in the article: Japan: 61 mbps South Korea: 45 mbps France: 17 mbps [...]