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Need A New Recipe?

Filed under: From the Road & Humor by Erin on 8/1/2008

I don’t know if this has ever happened to any of you but sometimes I feel like I get into a cooking rut. I seem to rotate through the same ten recipes for dinner. Thankfully, Lance isn’t picky and he never complains.

Determined to shake things up a bit I started flipping through some cookbooks [...]

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Counting Hairs

Filed under: From the Road & Humor by Erin on 7/1/2008

When asked by our guide at the High Desert Museum to guess how many hairs per square inch we thought dogs had, one man had the perfect answer, “None, they’re all on my pant legs.”

Even the guide had to stop and laugh at that one!

Just so you know, our guide said that dogs average [...]

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Have. A. Nice. Day.

Filed under: From the Road & Humor by Erin on 6/1/2008

We weren’t even remotely dissuaded by this sign! In fact, we were intrigued by the historic establishment where the sign was posted: the Drift Inn Saloon in downtown Globe, Arizona. We are happy to report that the first three items did not prove to be true.

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Public Service

Filed under: From the Road & Humor by Erin on 5/1/2008

We discovered this sign inside the Warren Tavern in Charlestown near Boston. After all our years of working with the public Lance and I found it to be oh so true. I still wonder how old that sign was; some things just never change.

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Time is Relative

Filed under: From the Road by Erin on 4/1/2008

Despacio voy porque de prisa estoy.

(This time I’m going slowly because I’m in a hurry.) I read this in The Sporting Club by Sinclair Browning.

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Dead End

Filed under: From the Road & Humor by Lance on 3/1/2008

Seen next to a cemetery in Coventry, Rhode Island, June 2007. They’re not kidding when they say “Dead End.”

(See also Dead end… no U-Turns… on Sam’s blog.)

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Size Doesn’t Matter

Filed under: From the Road by Erin on 2/1/2008

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. —Betty Reese

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High Tech Thermostat

Filed under: From the Road & Humor by Lance on 1/1/2008

Happy 2008 to one and all!

From the road: We came across these humorous—yet practical—thermostat instructions in Ashland, Ohio.

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