IMG_1814, originally uploaded by Sprout. Members of the Bainbridge Island Geeks study group got together for an afternoon of sailing. It was awesome. I really need to sign up for sailing classes. Click on the picture above to see the whole set of pictures from our outing.

I was watching CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina this morning. Anderson Cooper was standing at the end of a pier on the Mississippi river getting pounded by the wind and rain. The cameraman focused in on two people back on the shore who were basically playing in the wind. One was trying to balance himself [...]

I am going to try a little blog fishing… I was searching through Technorati for comments about my home town, Bonne Terre, MO. Thinking it would be cool if I could find a blog written by an old classmate, I realized that no one could find my blog if they were searching for references to [...]

My DW can confirm that I am a video game junkie. There are people with a greater addiction than me but if Jared get’s one of those cheesy happy meal games when we go to McDonald’s, I usually play through it before I start eating. I haven’t been watching much TV lately because my TV [...]

Sunflower, originally uploaded by just…eD. I really like sunflowers and I wanted to try some out of the ordinary ones this year. Isn’t this a beauty?

A good harvest, originally uploaded by just…eD. We picked our first corn and dug our first potatoes of the year. Everything pictured above came from the garden. I grilled some steaks and we had an awesome meal.

This is summer!, originally uploaded by just…eD. Mary captured Jared playing in the lawn sprinkler. It brings back fond memories of playing in the sprinkler at my Grandma’s house.

Here’s a picture of the blackberry jam production so far. We’ve made 3 batches with regular sugar and one batch with Splendatm. Jared’s thoughts (.mp3)