If you live in southern California, you know the kind of heat we can get. This summer is no different. We don’t have a pool, so Jolene wanted to get something the kids could play in that would be adequate enough. She opted to buy a blow up pool. Ever since the box arrived in the mail, Johanna has been talking about it every 10 minutes. I told her she had to wait for Jolene to be off work. So today was the big day to blow it up.
4th of July is here. The best part about this time of year for me is that our fruit plants have plentiful fruit on them. Last year I wrote a little about our fruit on our homegrown blackberries and raspberries post. This past year I split, repotted, and planted a bunch of plants near quadrupling my production. This year we have had more strawberries than we had in the past due to the weather without adding more plants. Johanna loves to eat any fruit that has the name berry in it. Berries in the store can cost a lot of money. Growing my own saves me a lot of money.
Traveling is one of our favorite things as a family to do. As a child the only thing I truly wanted to do more than anything else was to travel the world. Jolene and I have traveled many places. Still, we plan to travel many more location. Above our fireplace is a map of the places we have traveled, and also places we plan to go. About 2 years ago we went on our first cruise. We found out that traveling by ship is not our favorite way to go. We thought we would try again, this time with MSC Cruises. So I thought I would write about our first impressions of MSC Cruises.
I am a techy. When anything new in technology comes out I am all over it. I’ve used different types of cameras for surveillance, as well as a bay camera. This year Netgear came out with the Arlo Baby camera. It’s their version of a baby camera, with the perks of of Arlo. All baby cams have their pros and cons. However, for me Arlo Baby has the most pros.
We have been really busy as of late running different businesses. Since it was Labor Day yesterday Johanna didn’t have school. So we finally had a few hours where we could run out and take some photos. Yesterday was a little cooler so we ran up to The Wildlands Conservancy in Oak Glen.
Have you ever wondered what the small hole in a toilet is? It’s a siphon jet. Toilets work by gravity. The extra hole acts as a siphon to increase the flow of water into the toilet. This action aids in emptying the toilet faster. Personally I didn’t understand it’s function until recently. Our toilet kept emptying slowly. It wasn’t until after we did a deep clean of the toilet until it started to empty normally.
One of cool things about being a SAHD is that we don’t have to always maintain our beards. I personally hate having to shave every day. When I attended college I also worked as an officer for the University Patrol. The department had strict guidelines about maintaining our facial hair. Many companies have the same regulations. As a stay at home dad I don’t have a boss telling me how to shave my face, or how often. Or do I?
In 2002 I had my first experience with a Mac. I wasn’t too thrilled, but I eventually got used to it. While in college, everything we used in the Art Department was on a Mac. I eventually bought my first MacBook Pro in 2005. It was a 17″ that is no longer made. After years of improvement they became the go to computer for anyone working in the photography business. So once again I went all in with the new MacBook Pro.
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