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Archive for July, 2009
In addition to the Bull Moon Ride, Cary and I spent this weekend doing house work. First, we replaced our kitchen sink faucet:
The old faucet was somehow hampering water flow…I had initially wondered whether there may be a problem with the water pressure in our house, because the kitchen faucet produced a pretty weak stream, and the sprayer was all but useless. It appears that it was the faucet all along. The new faucet works great. After replacing the faucet, though, I found that we had a new leak. I think it was caused by the old hoses under the sink. One of the hose connections was rusted, and moving it around probably loosened up a corroded rubber seal. So a quick trip to the local hardware store fixed that problem:
That was the big project for the weekend, but I also managed to buy a bench vise for the garage along with the hardware for mounting it to the workbench:
This will come in really handy the next time I need to, y’know, squeeze or bend something.
This Saturday, Habitat for Humanity of Durham held their 2nd annual Bull Moon Bike Ride, a charity bike ride that started and ended at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The ride is a 17-mile route through downtown Durham, with a smaller 8-mile optional route. Cary and I decided on the smaller route since this was our first time, but after we were finished, we realized that we probably could have completed the 17-mile route if we REALLY wanted to…but we decided not to push it.
It was a fun night. There were lots of volunteers along the route, including Durham Police who were stopping traffic and marking the route, and every mile or so, we were treated to music from local musicians, from solo guitar and saxophone players to a mini orchestra. The strange thing was that during the ride, random people dining outside local restaurants along the route would clap and cheer…I think many of them thought that we must be in a race; I can’t blame them…it definitely looked like a race, especially considering we all had our own number.
The ride is already over, but if anyone would like to make donations to Habitat for Humanity, you can do so via this link:
Cary recently bought a book called The Sneaky Chef, which contains lots of recipes that feature healthy ingredients. Most of the recipes involve adding different types of purees, usually made from vegetables. There’s an orange puree(sweet potato and carrots), green puree (broccoli and spinach), and many others.
This weekend, Cary made cookies:
Peanut Butter cookies with chocolate chips, and Chocolate Peanut Butter cookies. Both cookies were made with the sweet potato & carrot puree, and each cookie is about 65 calories. While they aren’t as decadent as regular cookies — and they have a cake consistency — they definitely satisfy my cookie needs, and they go great with milk. More importantly, the vegetables inside are undetectable.
Zubbles are colored bubbles. They’re the invention of Tim Kehoe, who spent 11 years developing a colored bubble formula that would not stain clothing or skin (articles about Kehoe’s struggle to create Zubbles can be found at PopSci.com here).
More pictures here: