Surprisingly, there is a national park with wild animals within Nairobi, its 6km from my hotel (7km from the city center). The park is opens to the plains in the south so wildlife are free to come and go. Side-note: On our drive to Garissa I saw many wild animals that I had anticipated only being able to …
On the way to Garissa last week we got stopped at a road block for an hour – others had been waiting much longer at the junction (see above picture, I’m not sure if you can make it out but armed police are standing by large plastic road blocks they pulled into the street that …
Since arriving in Kenya I’ve begun looking at animals differently than I do at home. Here animals are their savings,rather than putting money in the bank, they get a return on investment from their animals in that they continue to grow, and produce by-products such as milk, meat and eggs as well as offspring. However, that …
It is official and it is sad; I can no longer survive as a bachelor. As my wife is now on vacation, I have taken to excess. I make every effort to get as little sleep as possible, have tossed aside exercise as if it were a the tail of one of the cigars I’ve …
What’s that you say? You don’t want to spend 18.513% of the cost of your wife’s birthday present on a cover for your wife’s birthday present? You take pleasure in destroying books? You have a hardcover of a Lifetime original movie script sitting around? Well, boy oh boy, do I have a hearts and crafts …
A few months ago we purchased a lovely moped, a Yamaha C3 to be exact, for me to use to get around town. I have to say I’m lovin’ it. I mean 120 miles to the gallon? Yes please. Free parking in Ann Arbor? Definitely. Open parking spaces in Ann Arbor? Of course (but who knows for …
When I got an email from the Slow Food Huron Valley group saying that they were giving away heirloom seeds at the farmers market in return for feedback on how they grew, I jumped at the opportunity to participate (check out some pictures from other people in the trial on Flickr and their blog). I started the seeds …
For Easter we filled eggs with candy for our families to crack open. Although it was a long process (dremel the eggs, sterlize the eggs, color the eggs, let them dry, fill them with candy, glue them shut), I have to admit it was really fun to crack them open. The jury is still out …
So we are apart of a dinner group in Ann Arbor and we hosted in March which means we got to pick the menu. After some thinking we decided it’d be fun to do a St. Patty’s day theme. The menu is below with links to the recipes, all of which in my opinon are …