Chris on April 5th, 2010

Before planting my tomatoes in the garden I first have to grow the little guys inside. Instead of buying mini seed pots from the store I just cut the top off my egg carton and made that their home.

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Chris on March 31st, 2010

The garden is all set for the 2010 veggie season. Now I just have to decide what vegetables to plant. Right now I’m thinking that there will be beans, tomatoes carrots and squash. I’m excited to see what other seeds Fred Meyer has to offer.

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Chris on December 5th, 2009

We started out this Thanksgiving by remembering exactly where we were last year. It seems like forever ago but I do recall our time spent in Bariloche, Argentina. We had grandiose plans to search the internet and find ex pats celebrating Thanksgiving. Although the streets of Bariloche offered up plenty of chocolate, our search for [...]

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Chris on November 19th, 2009

Now that I am unemployed my days are pretty simple. I spend them taking Lucy for walks and hunting for jobs. So they seem a bit uneventful, which becomes more than evident in my daily talks with Jodi. Our conversations usually start out something like this: Jodi: How are you? Chris: Fine, how are you? Jodi: Stressed. [...]

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Chris on October 1st, 2009

Okay, sorry for the delay in our writing; we’ve been busy adjusting to our life back in the states. But, I hope you are now ready for the extremely exciting and much anticipated budget post. When we were researching our trip one thing that we could not find was any type of good world travel [...]

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