Fall in MN is one of the best times of the year in this great state I call home. Its a time you can be outdoors without having to worry about the buzzards flying around called mosquitoes, woodticks, deerticks, being to hot, being to cold, the Twins are usually done antagonizing you (though the Vikings are just beginning to), and many of the other great things about fall … [Read more...] about Fall Is Here
Reflections
Baking a Cake: Angel Food Edition
I love to bake. However, I am one of those people that shouldn’t keep too many baked goods in the house so I often bake for other people; usually cookies of which I have experimented with a wide variety of recipes. Every once in a while, I get the opportunity to bake a cake. My favorite so far was a vegan orange chocolate Bundt cake I made back in 2012 for my best friend's … [Read more...] about Baking a Cake: Angel Food Edition
Game Night
Tonight, I was playing Uno with friends. We played the rule where if you don’t have a card to play on your turn, you have to draw until you can go. We were using a very old deck and the cards were quite soft and difficult to shuffle. One of the players drew three skips and then four reverses, all in the wrong color and all in one hand. Our one game of Uno lasted over an hour … [Read more...] about Game Night
Recent Excursions Across the Country
I was looking for pews for our church and a group of us were tasked with seeing what was available. We needed 80 pews or so total so it was quite a large undertaking. Brand new pews cost a lot of money so we figured we would check craigslist and Google to see what we could find. Ran across a website called www.cheapusedpews.com and www.usedpews.org and began … [Read more...] about Recent Excursions Across the Country
Link Building 101
If you are creating a website for your business, either you are going to have to do the SEO (search engine optimization) or pay someone to do it for your website. Part of that is link building. Link building has changed a ton over the last many years. I have only really begun to learn this last year myself so it has been quite a learning curve. But as the owner of a small … [Read more...] about Link Building 101
