Blog de Puree

Winter finally made it’s presence known in New England at the end of January. Now it’s not letting go. For the last two weeks, temperatures in our neck of the woods haven’t broken thre freezing point. Unless you stand very still in small sunny spots–and maybe do some jumping jacks or other calisthenic variant. The [...]

Erik’s theme room? Come on. Yes, a 10 year old will love it, but for how long? Maybe 2 years — tops. How wasteful. (Maybe if he was 5 and could have gotten a few years out of it.) Besides theme rooms are easy-peasy AND cheesy. Goil’s was excellent (well, except for all the white). [...]

Bird enthusiasts, mark your calendars for the 10th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, from February 16-19! The event was developed and managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in conjunction with the National Audubon Society. Both their sites are highly recommended by us as great online ornithology resources. According to a favorite blog of ours, [...]

It can be fairly easy or it can be like trying to hog-tie a rabid wolverine. We were lucky though, as our cat enjoys the chicken-flavored C.E.T. enzymatic toothpaste from Virbac. So much so, that he actually begs for it when we brush our teeth–that’s when we typically brush his. Tooth brushing has become a [...]

We decided we’d treat ourselves this past Saturday to a nice dinner out at the Mission Oak Grill (Web site still under construction), one of Newburyport’s new restaurants and our waitress told us that it identifies itself as a steak house. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as good as we had hoped. The restaurant is in an [...]

As any good blogger and online publisher knows, when it comes to posting information to the Internet, recency (how timely your information is and how quickly you can get it online) is of paramount importance. Recency is also a key concept for experts in search engine optimization and search engine marketing. Well, we’ve been tracking [...]

According to the news on the Leaky Cauldron, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007. That’s a Saturday, so I will be incommunicado until it’s time to go to work on Monday, July 23. Heck, I may even call in sick that day! At the time [...]

Despite subscriptions to just about every shelter magazine available, an unhealthy addiction to HGTV, and completion of an interior decor program at the Boston Architectural College, I really can’t get enough of interior design. So, it was with no surprise that I squealed like a pig when I heard about Bravo’s latest reality show, Top [...]