Category: bugs

04/10/11 07:42 - ID#54025

Terry has got bugs

A plagues worth of flying ants decended on the backyard. It seems the girl ones were much bigger than the guy ones. Here they are mating on terry.

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Words: 30
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/10/11 07:42

Category: pets

04/10/11 07:37 - ID#54024

Basra the tortoise hides in the roses

The damn tortoise always burries himself in a holr he digs under the rose thorns. It makes me so angry. I almost suspect he knows this and hopes I just leave him outside overnight. Unfortunately for both of us it's just to cold still for overnights.

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Words: 48
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/10/11 07:37

Category: music

04/10/11 07:31 - ID#54023

The man with the musical butt

We went for a bike ride at the park. (e:KeithT) has a new attachable speaker that Cyndi got him for his birthday. Its actually really loud. I think Dave D might like one if these for camping. Its amazing how nasty the scajaquada sludge gets.

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Words: 50
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/10/11 07:31

Category: food

04/10/11 04:01 - ID#54022

Tuna, chicken, pork and blackberries

Blackberries make the perfect addition to any protein.

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Words: 14
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/10/11 04:01

04/09/11 11:54 - ID#54014

The Country of Sicily

Pretty sure Sicily was not a country in 1997 when my grandfather's death certificate was filled out at Millard Fillmore.

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Words: 21
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/09/11 11:54

Category: family

04/09/11 11:14 - ID#54013

100 years of farmers - geneology stevanato

I was going through a lot of the family documents I scanned while Nonna was alive.

I found this one document that maps a hundred years of Nonna's lineage issued back in 1941. It goes back even further though.

At the top it says, "Dai Registri Parrocchiali esistenti in questo Archivio, risulta la seguente discendenza ultracentenaria della famiglia di agricoltori." Which according to google means, "the parish registers exist in this archive is the following hundred years, descendants of the family of farmers"

Its neat to find out their names.
Grandfather: Giorgio Armenia (07/04/1915)
Grandmother: Pierina Stevanto (06/29/1915)
married 01/31/1948

Great Grandfather: Fortunato Stevanto (06/14/1878)
Great Grandmother: Teodolina Rizzato

Great, Great Grandfather: Antonio Stevanato (02/08/1850)
Great, Great Grandmother: Teresa Casarin

Great, Great, Great Grandfather: Pasquale Stevanato (10/03/1809)
Great, Great, Great Grandmother: Furlan Maria

Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather: Angelo Stevanato (05/08/1789)
Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother: Margherita Battiston

Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather: Pasqualin Stevanato (05/08/1789)
Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother: Girolima Salviato OR Salviato Girolima. Its weird because the other names on the document are lastname, first but salviato doesn't sound like a woman's name.

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Words: 181
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/09/11 11:45

Category: body

04/09/11 05:57 - ID#54005

One handed cartwheels

I can finally do a one handed cartwheel again. Next step: roundoff, back handspring.

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Words: 17
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/09/11 07:33

Category: nature

04/09/11 05:12 - ID#54004

Giant pumpkin aftermath

Nature really took care of that one. I hopebaby giant pumpkin plants start growing in the yard. It could say me some cash.

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Words: 25
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/09/11 05:12

Category: pets

04/09/11 03:37 - ID#54003

Basra's first day outside 2011

This was his first day outside. Its weird, this morning I brought him in grass and plants from outside to eat and he barely touched them but as soon as he got outside he chowed down for like 3 hours.

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Words: 41
Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/09/11 03:37

04/09/11 03:35 - ID#54002

stripping...

...wire is really time consuming. I think it is left best as a third world enterprise.

I had all this wire I ripped off the house after moving the server.

I spent several hours, got about 1/10th of the way through the wire pile and ended up with like 1lb of copper which is worth about $4.50 on the open market.