So I am starting the 50/100 day burpee challenge on April 1st.

I contacted a few of you via email at first and I figure I will hit a few more here. If you want to join in send me an email and I will add you as a collaborator on A Fools Burpee Challenge 2009 site. Bookmark it if you like.

This site will be a place we can commiserate with each other and track each others progress. It will also tell you how many burpees you have to do for a specific day.
I dunno, maybe it will just be another dead-end of a site, or maybe it will be useful.

Anyway, those of you that have said yes so far?…expect an email to join this site as a collaborator.

Yes…a garden.

Slow down just a bit now (Heidicoaster) it isn’t completely done but it is close. The only good place we had to put a garden was very rocky on top with clay beneath so we went ‘elevated’. I looked over the options at the local hardware store and was floored by the cost of 1x12x8foot boards.* So I trekked over to Second Use thinking I may find something there and did I ever. They had tons of solid doors that were A) the right size and B) the right cost…$5 each. Which, by the way, was dang near the cost of one lineal foot of 1x12x8ft hemlock.

So making a long story short, we have two big vegetable garden planters in our side yard with VERY decorative boxes. Now they just need some dirt, seeds, water, and sun.

The latter would be most appreciated by me.

* Wood these days is lower quality and more expensive. <sigh>

Well, this one almost speaks for itself…but I find a little back-story is (always) necessary.

Barbies are ubiquitous at our house.

The Mermaids are always asking for one or the other and in all honesty, I can’t tell most of them apart. Especially in the dark…and The Mermaids can.

Tonight was bath night and one or more Barbies usually join The Mermaids for a bath. After a while Barbies hair starts to get, shall we say, ripe. So tonight was wash-Barbies-hair night.
When I saw them all together I thought it the opportune time to document the names (aka test the veracity of there actually being 19 names for 19 Barbies). I was also flabberstounded that there were actually 19 of them.

If I felt so inclined I could reference this document when Ariel, Jessica, BeachBarbie, Ariel, Erica, or Jessica is requested in the future. (You’ll see what I mean.)

Probably won’t…but I could…if I wanted to.

So, share a minute with me to study The Annotated Barbie (180KB).

* Please note, this is a family friendly blog and Barbies in our house regularly dress like this, not just on wash-Barbies-hair night. Maybe it is because they always want to be ready for a bath? Who knows. I guess I could ask The Mermaids, I suppose they know.