I like to add small organic blueberries and crushed frozen rasberries to mine. For my wife and nephew I also drizzle a line of hershey’s syrup to add some chocolate flavor.
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The Balboa Stroll
People always tell me that Southern California is just too expensive. Well let me tell you how I spent $20 on a fantastic day.
Read moreThe Home That We All Dream Of, The Sierra Star
Since we don’t yet have a property on Lake Tahoe, we trek around the states to waterfront locations and I drive my wife nuts. It doesn’t matter if we are in Myrtle Beach, Kona Hawaii, Newport California or Lake Tahoe, I find a nice chair looking at the water, flop open by laptop and start writing.
Read moreHave You Ever Dreamed of Racing? Build a $500 Race Car
I have dreamed of racing a car on a track in a real race ever since then. I have gone to drag races, NASCAR races, American Le Mans races, GT races, autocross races and go kart races. I even went to Porsche Driving School and the Richard Petty Experience to fulfill my fantasy of being a race car driver. Then I found it.
Read moreCan you move your business to the cloud and save some rent?
One of the biggest challenges of any business owner or self-employed person is scheduling. Some people call me directly and others call my office which is usually a better way to make sure I show up
Read moreSo What Makes It a Ritz?
His reply stuck with me, he said “you should make your competition, not join a competition. We don’t gauge ourselves by any measure other than our customers. That said we do watch two words, Four and Seasons.” The statement said a lot about the company, it’s direction and it’s training. All things I needed to work on.
Read moreThe Effects of Insulating With Swiss Cheese
Basically my ceiling is like Swiss Cheese, holes every where. Why they even bother to insulate is what I can’t figure. 26 holes to freely exchange air with the attic. This also explains our wasp problem.
Read moreEssential tools for the EBOS
Some of these tools are so obvious we have them, use them and see them around us every day and don’t realize it. In the book The Millionaire Next Door , Ford F150s were listed as the most common vehicle of the millionaire class. Since I’ve been driving an F150 for almost 15 years now, this one is obvious to me.
Read moreRental Car Ratings for 2009
The final note for the FX-35 was the fuel economy. For a normally aspirated vehicle it was uncommonly high. The trip from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe to Reno was less than a half tank including a full lake tour on New Years Eve. In Reno I made the mistake of filling it up and washing it. I returned it with nearly ¾ of a tank after paying the $65 tank fee.
Read morePancakes like the settlers had.
After years of trial and error, I finally got a recipe that I think is worth sharing. Like the Oat and Nut pancakes at IHOP, this may take a little getting used to if you aren’t used to eating whole grains. I call them Settlers Pancakes since there are no processed or bleached grains and I figure it must be closer to the breads the first settlers had with watermill stone ground grains.
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