http://brandon.pintglass.org what if the hokey pokie really IS what it's all about? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:44:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My upside-down tomato planter project that I wrote about in an earlier post ended up a complete failure! The two plants hardly grew in size and only one of them produced any tomatoes. And the tomatoes it produced were tiny and tasted terrible. I have no idea what ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2007/09/19/updateupside-down-tomatoes-failed/ Once again this years MS Bike Tour was an amazing event. Last weekend Kristin and I, along with about 1800 cyclists, pedaled 150 miles around Skagit, Whatcom, and Island counties on a two-day figure eight route that started and stopped in La Conner each day. It was definitely a challenging ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2007/09/13/ms-bike-tour-2007/ Sunday night I got a wild idea that I would go pick blackberries and bake a pie! Where did that Idea come from? Well, we had this great baking book and it's blackberry season. Kristin and I received a Baking Illustrated cook book as a wedding gift from ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2007/08/15/baked-my-first-blackberry-pies/ I love biking in the Puget Sound area. With all the different bodies of water that surround Seattle - Lake Washington, Lake Union, the Ship Canal, and the Puget Sound - traveling almost always requires navigating around or over bodies of water. I am always trying to ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2007/08/14/bridges-ferries-and-hills-oh-my/ Lasso Golf, also called ladder golf, is this summer's lawn game craze. If you don't have yourself a set yet then go get one. I can not remember having this much fun since Lawn Darts. You remember Lawn Darts don't you? Those wonderfully dangerous flying plastic ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2007/06/22/lasso-golf-this-summers-lawn-game-craze/ They just don't make 'em with this much style anymore. Yes I'm jumping on the vintage bike bandwagon. Just picked up an old Schwinn Speedster off Craigslist. I don't know much about it yet but I going to learn. It definitely needs some loving. I'm ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2007/06/20/my-new-ride-vintage-schwinn-speedster/ Months back while stumbling around the interweb I happened upon the Topsy Turvy™ Upside-down Tomato Planter and thought - I have gots to get me some! How Cool is that?!?! Grow tomato plants upside down from a hanging basket! And perfect for us yard-less city dwellers to ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2007/06/12/my-diy-upside-down-tomato-planter/ If your wife or mother or mother-in-law are like mine then they all share this strange belief that TV remote controls are hideous looking devices that should be kept hidden from plain view at all times. I say that is weird. My mom hides them in the couch end ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2006/11/06/why-hide-the-remote-control/ Thank you to all of you who supported Kristin and I in the MS 150 Bike Tour this year. The weekend before last we joined over 1000 cyclist in pedaling 150 miles around Skagit, Island, and Whatcom Counties all in an effort to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2006/09/18/ms-150-bike-tour/ As I mentioned before, Kristin and I are riding in the Seattle MS 150 this year to raise money for the MS Society. If you'd like to help me reach my fundraising goal of $1000 you can give online here. So our couch-to-150 training program now has us ... http://brandon.pintglass.org/2006/08/14/peddling-for-a-purpose/