Class materials for the class My First Web Page, offerred at Randolph Technical Community Center.

"Why is there never time to do it right, but always time to do it over?"

Emily was born in Oct 2007.  Here she is on Jan 28, 2008.

Emily gets in a big yawn before going for a drink. As is true of this picture, she frequently stretches her chops after taking a meal.

Hiding out under her rock.

After a meal.

Manuls for the Fridgidaire / Electrolux fridge, model FRS23KF6DB0.

Owners manual from the Frigidaire website.

Parts catalog from AppliancePartsPros.

Dewalt DC970K-2 Instruction Manual

Cannon FS10 Video Camera Manual (pdf)

Originally posted at http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5938174/the_rs_500_greatest_albums_of_all_time, Nov 18, 2003.

When I was a kid uncle Remus he put me to bed
With a picture of Stonewall Jackson above my head
With gin in his breath and a bible in his hand
And he talked about honor and things I should know
Then he staggered a little as he went out the door.

(Chorus)

And I still hear the soft southern wind in the live oak trees
Those Williams boys they still mean a lot to me
Hank and Tennessee
I guess we’re all gonna be what we’re gonna be
So what do you do with good ole boys like me?

B-double E double R U-N beer run
B-double E double R U-N beer run

all we need is a ten and five-er,
a car and key and a sober driver.

B-double E double R U-N beer run

A couple of frat guys from Abilene
drove out all night to see Robert Earl Keen
at the KPIG Swine and Sworea Dance.
They wore baseball caps and khaki pants.
They wanted cigarettes, so to save a little money they bought one off this hippie that smelled kinda funny.
And next thing they knew they were both pretty hungry and pretty thirsty too

OK.  I just heard this song, and had to grab the words.  How funny.

Pensive Woman in Oriental Dress, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1879)

Boiled in the shell and really salty.  Best eaten outside, or inside with plenty of paper towels, on a warm day.  A pretty good companion for a little league game.

When I was a kid, there was a guy who came around city park during the little league games.  He'd yell out, "pochet or bawld."  (That translates to roasted (parched) or boiled for all my non-southern friends.)  We'd always beg Dad for a bag of boiled peanuts.

I wish I could say this is an old family recipe, but the truth is that it came from the Creme de Colorado Cookbook, First Edition (The Junior League of Denver, Inc. [gaak]. C & C Publications: Denver, 1987. p 223). The cookbook was a gift from my mother-in-law, so maybe it qualifies as a family recipe all the same.

First time we tried this recipe was Thanksgiving 2009.  I gotta say, we'll never buy canned cranberries sauce again.  This is incredibly easy to make, and is oh-so-good.

Makes 2 1/4 cups.

This recipe came from Simply Recipes.

Vermont is an apple state.  Seems like every fall, we're practially burried under apples.  Since you can't eat them all, you find ways to put them up.  Apple sauce, apple pie filling, apple wine... and apple butter.  Here's the apple butter recipe I used this year.

From the Ball Blue Book (1999), p. 31.

This is my grandfather's WWII recipe book. From the inside cover, it appears that he got these recipes and created this book at the:

C. & B. School (Cooking an Baking?)
208 W. 13th St.
New York City

He never really talked about his time in the Merchant Marines, and I haven't been able to find any information on the C & B School. I do know that the address is now the home of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.

When I was the youth director at First Presbyterian Church in beautiful Aiken, SC, one of the kids just started calling me that one day. I have no idea why. Since it was the first nickname I ever had that I would repeat in public, I kept it.