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Back from the Bahamas

Jesse and I just got back from spending a few days in the Bahamas with several couples from her work. We stayed at Atlantis on Paradise Island in Nassau. Other than my sinuses getting dried out on the last day causing me to get a great case of airplane ear during the landing in Atlanta it was a great trip. The hurricane that went past the week before scared quite a few people away so it wasn't crowded at all. We were able to get into all the restaurants and attractions without having to wait at all.

We were able to get 12 people into Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill with only 30 minuntes notice. Mesa Grill was by far the best meal we had there and that wasn't just because we got to meet Kevin Costner who was sitting at the table next to us. The food and atmosphere there was top notch. I can't say that about dinner at Casa D'angelo the night before. In addition to it taking an hour and a half to get our food, I've had better veal parmesan at the Macaroni Grill.

We were gone for the first frost of the year here in Lawrenceville but the plants in our garden tell the story. We had tried to put in a last crop of tomatoes about a month and a half ago but they're dead now. The cool weather crops are still doing great and I think a couple of our bell peppers might make it a little longer.

New Hamilton Mill Library Update

Residents of Hamilton Mill and the surrounding area have been looking forward to the opening of a new 20,000 sq-ft library at at the intersection of SR 124 and Pine Rd since it was announced a year ago. This $5 million project took an important step towards it's expected fall 2009 completion with the recent selection of Precision Planning, Inc. as the projects design and construction administrator. This project will be funded by Gwinnett's 1% Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST). When finished, this new library will house 75,000 books along with areas for reading and quite study areas. This will continue to make the Hamilton Mill area one of the most desirable in Gwinnett County. To search for a home in Hamilton Mill visit www.hamilton-mill-homes.com

Firefox Error: Permission denied to get property HTMLDocument.location

I just came across an error in one of my sites that uses JavaScript to change what is displayed in an iframe when the user hits a button. Anyway, my original code looked like

document.iframe.location='url to be displayed';

This works fine in explorer but Firefox's error console kept coming up with; "uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property HTMLDocument.location". After a little searching I found the solution.

parent.iframe.location.href='url to be displayed';

If you run across this same error I hope this helps.

Gwinnett County Master Gardener Program

I just got the call that I have been accepted into the Master Gardener program for next year. I was a little worried since they only accept a small number of people every year. This will be a great opportunity to volunteer in the community. I'm sure Jesse will appreciate that I'll have a place to go play in the dirt other than our house...

Petit Le Mans

A buddy had an extra ticket for the Friday sessions of the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta and even though it was raining we went up to check it out. I've been to the race several times but the last couple years real estate commitments have kept me from getting up there on Saturday. We only stayed for the morning but we got to watch the ALMS practice and the Speed world challenge race in the rain. We got wet but it was cool to get back out there and see the racing in person.

Mercedes-Benz.tv

It's like HD youtube for people who love Mercedes-Benz cars and racing. It's very well done. I'm amazed at the video quality.

Dream House?

Call me dork but I kind of look forward to the new HGTV dream house projects. Well this year has missed the mark. Every season I can remember they built a true 'dream house'. To me a dream house is architecturally interesting, in an interesting location, or really big (9,000 sq-ft plus). I fail to see how a average house in a Chicago suburb qualifies. It seems to just be a half hour commercial for why you shouldn't let her build a house for you.

It looks pumpkin and tastes like a squash - Pumpkin Rumbo Hybrid

I'm always looking for something new and different when I'm ordering seeds. This year I came across Pumpkin Rumbo Hybrid. It looks a pumpkin but inside it's a sweet tasting squash. From 3 plants we ended up with 5 pumpkins and about 100ft of vine. This thing went all over the place. It grows roots as it goes so even though it's still growing all of the vine that is actually inside the garden has died. The real problem we have each pumpkin's size. Each one is about 15-20 pounds. For two people they're huge. So far we have cooked one and it made about 2 gallons of great soup. They seem to be keeping really well so as winter soup season gets here they should be perfect.