Between my posts on The Retroist and Facebook some of you already know some of this story, but here’s the entire thing from beginning to end. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered Etsy.com. To clarify, I’ve known about Etsy for a year or two, I’ve just never really checked it out. Etsy is a place where normal people can set up their own virtual online shops and hawk their goods. Think of it like an eBay Store, but focused more more on homemade arts and crafts. Since I’ve been writing so much for the Retroist lately, I decided to… (read more)

Sun Valley (the neighborhood I grew up in) has been having an annual neighborhood garage sale day for as long as I can remember. And, for what it’s worth, I’ve been writing about them for as long as I’ve been blogging. As has been the tradition, the Friday night before Garage Sale Day, I hauled my golf cart over to Dad’s house and had it ready to go. I also took with me my small red trailer that I got last year at last year’s garage sale day, and a cooler full of ice and bottled water. A few hours… (read more)

The kids have completely assimilated to the new house. The other day I asked the kids what they missed most about our old house. Morgan said what she missed the most was that we used to live caddy-corner from her kindergarten teacher’s brother. That’s a hit I can take. Mason’s was a bit more legitimate; he missed our old basketball goal. Several of our neighbors at the new house have portable basketball goals. Most of them are standing next to people’s driveways, but a few of them are always laying nose-first in the dirt and I’ve considered asking those people… (read more)

You may not believe this, but for all the things I post on robohara.com, there are lots of posts that never see the light of day. Some of those are completely finished posts that for one reason or another never get posted publicly. Sometimes it’s because I could never get the tone right. Some of them become outdated before I finish them. Then there are the articles that never get finished. Occasionally I’ll get halfway done writing one before realizing it’s just not going to work; other times, I’ll only write a sentence or two before dropping an idea. All… (read more)

The last couple of years, the kids have attended the local Yukon Easter Egg Hunt. This year, this was the line to get in. They don’t really hide the eggs, as you can see in this next picture — they just kind of throw them out in the field and, when the siren goes off, the kids make a mad dash and collect all the eggs they can. The roped off areas were split into different age groups. Mason’s group, the 10-12 year olds, wasn’t very crowded. Morgan’s area (the 4-6 year old area) however looked like this: Each egg… (read more)