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First planting of 2014

Last week we stopped in at Lowes one afternoon and got some flowers and a couple of tomato plants.  Yesterday[…]

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Week One of semi-retirement

Semi-retirement… half retired, half something else!

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Recent additions to my techinal library

To help me with my personal growth – for both work and personal development – I’ve been adding to my[…]

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New hardware for development

I’ve been developing software at home using Visual Studio 2012 on my desktop computer running Windows 7. But I’ve really[…]

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First project: Group Manager

My first commercial development project is called Group Manager. This program does one thing: it lets Windows users add and[…]

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New menu, new category: Software!

I’m really excited about this one: I’m starting to develop software for commercial use! I’ll use this special space to[…]

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Gardening update

It’s been awhile since I did a garden and yard update (okay, over two months nice I’ve posted anything), and[…]

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Saturday Morning

Up at 5am — we’re usually up by 2:30am, so this is late for us — and we have our[…]

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May 24: Back Yard & Garden Update

A brief look at our progress. Click the picture or link for today’s full gallery.

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Fungus!

There’s some kind of fungus in our garden. Likely was in one of the bags of soil we got. It’s[…]

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