Posted in Art, Art and Photography, Iowa, tagged dubuque, Iowa, photography on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bus station
Originally uploaded by Kibbles
One of the things I love about Dubuque is the old limestone in contrast with brick or other materials. They don’t tear down and rebuild, they add to.
This is an alley next to the Keyline bus terminal. My little boy likes to go visit and see the busses ’sleeping’. [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Local News, Local Stuff, commentary, education, family, kids on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TH – Local News Article.
One of those is my son’s school. Don’t you think they should call the parents and let us know, give us a head’s up? If only to deal with the possible emotional ramifications of it all?
I mean, I dealt with having my daughter in school on 9/11, in Brooklyn. And she [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, commentary, money, politics on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just For the Record. A comparison of facts/numbers regarding the economy, based on party.
Posted in Current Affairs, Iowa, Local News, Local Stuff, commentary, life, tagged dubuque, Iowa, police on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That whole thing a while back about the dog barking in their car for a while?
Neighbor said that ANOTHER neighbor had a dog chained in the back, was barking, and the police took the dog. So it wasn’t a police dog (which I guess made sense, I didn’t think police dogs worked at night in [...]
Posted in Parenting, commentary, disabilities, education, family, kids, tagged advocacy, autism, disabilities, education, family, kids, Parenting, PDD-NOS, ted on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
They changed the pick up point for my youngest; he now gets picked up in front of the house, not across the street. So today I got to see him as the bus pulled away. He looked at me briefly as they buckled him in, and then looked straight ahead. The thing about a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yarr
Originally uploaded by Kibbles
I was checking my stats on this, and over a thousand different people viewed this. I had no idea. Another mermaid with very little on got similar stats. The topless guy? Not so much.
Posted in Food and Drink, Iowa, Parenting, family, food, gardening, life, tagged canning, cooking, dubuque, family, food, Iowa on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I picked up some extra roma tomatoes, some garlic from the garlic stand, and some local honey (yes honey) for my tomato sauce. I managed to somehow get the ‘tomato machine’ working. The sauce has been cooking for about 8 hours, at least, and I will be slow cooking it even more. I’m hoping [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, commentary, politics, religion, tagged economics, media, politics, poverty, religion on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sojourners Magazine, September/October 2008.
Most recent issue of Sojourners has two interviews with two men, about poverty. Edwards and Huckabee. Interesting to see two sides of the political fence discuss the same issue.
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