"Papa. They email to our brain… like a computer."

Amelia teaches me the 5 Senses song they learned in school over a bowl of cereal.

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Recorded on & Sent from my iPhone

Latkes-cast: L'Shana Tova 5770

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Listening to some Regina Spektor, eating apples n' honey, making latkes with my daughter... dat's a pretty sweet way to spend the first day of the new year. L'shana tova. May you be inscribed in the book of life.

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Yum!

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"I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You"

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Recorded: March 31, 2002 in my old apartment @ 85 West Walnut St., Asheville, NC

I came across this while cleaning up my library after the iTunes 9 upgrade this morning and felt like sharing. This was recorded using a yard sale, Sony passive electret condenser microphone direct to hard disk via Sound Forge using my L'Arrivee Parlor Guitar. The "quality" of my voice is likely due to a long night of cigarettes, PBR, & yelling in the Vincent's Ear courtyard in Asheville, NC the night before.

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"I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" was written and originally recorded by Tom Waits for the 1973 album Closing Time.

Baconcast 2: Why does it get smaller when you cook it?

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Welcome to the 2nd episode of Baconcast! We're very excited about... well BACON of course. So grab a slice & munch along with your hosts Amelia & Jeremy.

Recorded live before a plate of bacon.

The Garden: Late Summer Thinning, Insights, Mission

[UPDATE]
We've thinned out most of the summer crops to start preparing for Fall planting. The bunnies are all grown up and have left the carrot patch. I spied one of them wearing a little blue jacket and a sack of wee carrots sprinting across the yard yesterday. Onions, Scallions, Asparagus, Cabbage, Romaine... and more are on the planting list! We have 2 watermelons developing nicely and will serve as great refreshments next weekend.
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[INSIGHTS]
Last night my good friend Scott Kinnebrew http://truthandsalvageco.blogspot.com/ referred to our garden as a "Victory Garden". At first I didn't know what he meant, but a quick explanation by him helped me realize that the "Victory Garden" as a response to food shortages during WWII is the style garden we've established. Let's revive the "Victory Garden"!
http://www.revivevictorygarden.org/
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[MISSION]
Our reasons for building and tending this garden are both financial and lifestyle in nature. Working our little garden as a family has been a tremendous morale booster! Rooted in the desire to reconnect with our origins and as tenants, not lords over the earth we have created a space for our family to use the land in a respectfully productive manner. 

[THE FUTURE]
I hope that our daughter's memories of working in this garden grow to become some of her fondest and most lasting. They will stay with Mary & I forever.
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