It turns out that while the government can report on Census results rather quickly, the entirety of Census data is not released by law until 72 years after the fact. This is to protect privacy (a very good idea). So! In April of 2012, the 1940 Census will be released. This happens every ten years, [...]

Have you ever seen a really great photo or painting rendered on canvas? The fact that it’s on canvas just makes it seem nicer. Richer, somehow. We were able to get a family picture 3 or 4 years ago that I really love, and it was mounted on a sturdy backing and then framed. It’s [...]

Today at Earnest Parenting all the females are lying around recovering. I’m still down with the knee injury (MRI tomorrow! hooray!!!) and the puppy got fixed yesterday. Although I think it’s safe to say she’d tell you she got broken. Everything was fine, then we took her to the bad place, now she feels rotten. [...]

A friend said something recently that got me thinking about funny things my dad does. He’s a big tree fanatic, and I mean big. In 1976 he and my mother planted one thousand blue spruce seedlings. Sadly 500 of them got mowed under by a farmer who was, uhhhh, not completely sober. The other half [...]