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Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)Journaling my way through the perils of travel, gardening and poetry. 19 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: More Balls, Less Air One week ago today, I discovered that I was gainfully unemployed. Today was the first day in a week where I literally felt like someone was trimming moments off of the day; I was at least five minutes behind schedule... 18 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: I Have a Dream I woke just after 2:00 in the morning, pondering my next step. And I realized my dream job would simply be for Mayor-elect Dwight Jones to invite me to work for the City of Richmond helping his leadership team craft... 18 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: Unemployment and Health Insurance Today was set aside to deal with some of the more nit-picky aspects of being unemployed -- filing for unemployment benefits, and beginning the hunt for the Great White Whale of Unemployment, which is of course affordable health care... 17 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: Naptime One of the many things I couldn't do at 3:45 in the afternoon at work was watch my daughter sleep as I typed away. Also, my lunch cost about $1.07 -- which always could have been the case if I...... 17 Nov 08 The Baby Factory: Who's Going to Hold the Football? I don't suspect it is possible for our daughter to look anymore like the early version of Charlie Brown than she does in this picture.... 17 Nov 08 The Baby Factory: Will You Be My Sweet Potato? The blissful look of a baby on sweet potatoes. The cereal didn't work well for her, so we spent the past few weeks getting her system back into equilibrium. Today, we launched into the official Sarvay Fruits 'n' Vegetables campaign... 17 Nov 08 The Baby Factory: Moments in Motion We drove to Alexandria this weekend so Nikole and Thea could take part in a friend's baby shower and blessing. Actually, Nikole and Thea and a friend drove, followed by my friend Jim, his two kids and me... 17 Nov 08 It Came from Below Apparently, Rilo is at her cutest when we only capture her snarling snout in the picture. (Photo by Nikole)... 16 Nov 08 Leaves. Do a Body Good. The upside of time away from work is that afternoon walks with a baby strapped to my chest are likely to be on the increase. Fortunately, she loves to eat leaves!... 16 Nov 08 Rain, rain, go away... If she misses her evening walks now, just wait until January!... 16 Nov 08 Foliage! The crepe myrtle doing its autumnal thing.... 16 Nov 08 Dog Gone Wild Anything can look fierce with the proper cropping.... 16 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: Mood Indigo Getting an iPhone was probably a bad idea; it beeps about every three minutes as new emails have trickled in over the course of the weekend. Thea now thinks it is part of me. To her, I am a Borg....... 14 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: Day Three The most awkward moment of the day came early at the Virginia Leadership Association meeting when I had to ditch my fancy name tag because it didn't read "currently unemployed."Naturally, I arrived early because I didn't have an office to... 13 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: Day Two Point One Thirty-six hours after I got home from my last day (or literally my last 25 minutes) of work, and we haven't starved. We also haven't skinned and roasted either of the cats or the dog (though we did discuss which... 13 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: Day Two This time yesterday, I was pulling into the parking lot of my employer of 12 years. What a difference a day makes.Though yesterday started with an unruly bang, a bit of a seismic shift for me and Nikole both, it... 12 Nov 08 Recess in the Recession: Day One I suspected the boom was about to lower, and my suspicions were confirmed yesterday afternoon at an "all hands on deck" meeting at my former employer's corporate office. Business has been eroding for almost two years in the construction industry,... 8 Nov 08 The Baby Factory: Baby's Got Some Brand Blue Poop For two days now, Thea has had some of the most amazing blue poop I've ever seen. It's arrived in large quantities, has smelled horrible, and appears to be clearing up.Blame it on the barium.Because Thea has had some serious... 6 Nov 08 Thea's Red Balloon (Nena and Kevin Seconds versions) I couldn't bring myself to post this latest video of Thea going to town with her new balloon without including both the German language version of "99 Luftballons" by Nena and the punk rock version by my favorite band 7...
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