Back in 2004 I tried a Polynesian grilled chicken dish. I remember liking it but never made it again. I don’t know why. The other day I was thinking about it because I had fresh herbs, chicken, peppers and onions so I decided to make it again. Dallas made rice (he always makes the rice) [...]

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Roscoe Village, Chicago
Last month I went to Home Depot with Jen and bought everything I needed to plant some flowers in railing planters on our deck. When I came home from a couple weeks on the road a lot of them were dried up from lack of water (Dallas has also been traveling almost every [...]

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A couple months ago I was walking around the neighborhood and saw that someone had put a perfectly fine plant out on the curb, left for the garbage. I snagged a couple pieces of it and took them home hoping they’d grow roots in a glass of water and they are, but I don’t have [...]

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I came home tonight and thought for a minute that I was at the wrong house. There was a landscaping crew in a truck at my curb and my front yard is completely landscaped with sodded grass and a renovated flower bed. What a nice surprise!

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