I love it when a good plan comes together. Last summer we decided to finally take the plunge and build a pizza oven at the lake. After looking at the options to site the oven, and thinking about a fireplace/oven combination, we finally decided to combine the pizza oven …
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Wow, We were just here and just on this very same boat ride. I wrote about it here: http://blog.bonelakesoftware.com/2011/02/hiking-in-iguazu-national-park.html. Now today I find out that two American tourists have died doing that same excursion.
Apparently the boat hit some rocks and flipped over …
more ...I think I said that the plan for today was to head to the Palm Springs tram, and do a little hiking at the top of the tram then enjoy a nice lunch in downtown Palm Springs. But two minutes before we walked out of the house we changed our …
more ...Its Thursday morning, and the earthquake drill is over. Not that the drill took up any of our valuable time, all we had to do was put out a white towel to indicate that we were all OK. The block captain surveys the block and then checks in with anyone …
more ...Now that I'm back from traveling in South America I've started on a project to add a turtle graphics module to skulpt. Skulpt is a javascript implementation of Python written by Scott Graham, and is available on skulpt.googlecode.com. Its a very nice project because it allows you to …
more ...Its the last day aboard ship, and it has been a day of mixed emotions. We are excited to get back to our friends and family in Decorah, yet we have had so much fun on this cruise, and we have actually met some great people as well. Some of …
more ...I've been back in Decorah for less than 24 hours, its been a little more than 48 hours since we got off the cruise ship in Valparaiso. It was great to get a good nights sleep last night after having an overnight flight from Santiago to Dallas. Boy do I …
more ...This is weird, but I woke up this morning wondering about the question: "what are the ships procedures in case of a Tsunami?" Would we head for the open sea and ride out the giant fast moving swell there, or would we seek safe haven in a harbor of some …
more ...We are sitting here having our morning coffee and hot chocolate watching the waves crash and roll. We left the Straits of Magellan sometime in the middle of the night and entered the Pacific Ocean, where we have high winds and, as the captain says, "Big Waves." I took some …
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