Monday, January 14, 2008

Young Entrepreneurs: Where's the Lemonade Stand?

My daughters and their friend were playing in our backyard this weekend and noticed that our lemon tree was ripe for picking. Needless to say, they immediately found a bucket and picked a whole bunch of lemons. Then they pulled the batch into the kitchen and set up a very detailed and complicated process for turning those lemons into lemonade. They even had sophisticated roles such as "head taster" and "master squeezer", so that everyone felt involved.


Once the lemonade was ready, I was kind of hoping they would bring out the table and sell the goodies to the neighbors, but they opted for a typical girlie tea party instead, and drank all the produce themselves... well, maybe next time they will take the more entrepreneurial route. We'll see.

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Storm alert!

It's funny. We always laugh when the California weather news reporters talk about "Storm alerts!" because it's usually just a little bit of rain. This time we didn't laugh. A major storm has just passed the Bay Area (in fact, it's not just 1 but 3 storm systems, and the final one is expected tomorrow).

On Friday, the winds were extremely strong (the canopy we had in our backyard collapsed so I guess we have to buy a new one for next summer), and reached about 105 mph in the hills above my hometown, Los Gatos! Keep in mind that hurricane is defined as winds above 74 mph, so it shouldn't be a big surprise that trees were literally flying around in the area. In the Sierra mountains, the winds supposedly were in the 150+ mph range (!)


- Gummi

Happy new year!!

Yet another new year, with a new set of resolutions and hopes. I think 2008 will be a great year, and yet again, I'm going to be healthier and blog more :-)

If you want to know what me and my family were up to last year, check out my wife's blog entry at http://rondottur.blogspot.com/2008/01/ramtaannll-kalifornubanna.html (Icelandic, sorry to those few of you unfortunate enough to not understand that language).

That's it for my new year's blog post.

- Gummi