Gardenwife’s Plot

A plot can be a garden, a grave or a story.

Go, Shelly-Ann, go!

Howie and I have been watching the 2008 Summer Olympics about every night since Friday. Tonight it was with pure pleasure that we watched Shelly-Ann Fraser burn up the women’s 100M race, winning by a whole body’s length.
What made it so utterly enjoyable was the unbridled excitement and joy in her face when she realized [...]

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Crop for a good cause this Saturday

Love to scrapbook? Love scrapbooking and craft items? This Saturday, June 14, from 10-8, you can scrapbook and help someone at the same time. This crop is to benefit Mary-Jo Van Sickle, my friend and fellow design team member at the local scrapbooking store. Mary-Jo’s husband Jeff died recently as the result of an accident [...]

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Ordering a pizza in the year 2010

Politics aside, this clip from the ACLU is both scary and funny. Companies already use caller ID data to bring up callers’ information and order history, so this isn’t that much of a stretch if other entities were linked into a huge database.

I have to give them this: they found a pretty creative way of [...]

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Can’t sleep, clowns will eat me


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Free Chipotle burrito on Halloween


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How to open a safe


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Breakfast buzz


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Kwispelbier


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Kirby stinks


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Drive-thru banking


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