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My apologies. I will see what can be done…

Sometimes as part of our “school time”, I ask Abigail to write a question for me in her notebook. This was what she wrote yesterday:

Marc Canter linked to me the other day so I went to read his post. While I was there, I figured since I keep stopping by Marc’s blog, I might as well subscribe. So I cut and pasted the url into FeedDemon and asked it to auto-discover Marc’s feed.

I got a new feed in my aggregator. But it wasn’t Marc’s blog. It was the feed for Channel9 Forums: The Videos.

Channel9 is somewhere I’d like to spend some time. I like the Channel9 people I’ve met. I’d like to learn more. So I don’t mind having the feed in my aggregator. I probably should have put it there already anyway.

But I did think it was funny and strange to get Channel9 when what I wanted was Marc. I did go back and get Marc’s feed. I found it under the orange XML icon. Yes, this icon.

Not sure what was going on – operator error?! – I left Marc a note saying something “funny” had happened when I did auto-discover to subscribe. He replied that he was “just using plain old Radio”. Perhaps it is something with Radio UserLand or FeedDemon’s auto-discover, or the way the two interact. The auto-discover doesn’t always find the XML-icon-marked feed for the blog. I remembered that when I first tried subscribing to Scoble using auto-discover, the feed that appeared in my aggregator was Scoble’s comments.

In his post, Marc said he’d like to see video from Ted and me on Bainbridge Island in the Channel9 video feed. We don’t have the equipment to make a video feed and we certainly couldn’t post it on Channel9. But if the Channel9 crew would like to come out to the island and make a video of us, drive us around in the truck with cameras and all, we’d be happy to host them. 🙂

In the meantime, I’ll try to take some still photos whenever we go to the beach next…and I’ll try to watch some videos….

At the grocery store yesterday, these grabbed my eye so I grabbed them and put a few in the cart.

Maybe I’ve missed these before, but with the name Flat Fruit they seem like the perfect food for Microserfs. (No wonder Tree Top is testing them in the Northwest)

Ingredients on the Fruit & Veggie Bar include apple, orange and lemon juice concentrate, dried blueberries, dried vegetable blend (tomato, squash, carrot, broccoli, spinach, zucchini, corn, green beans, peas) and rice crisps.

Add a Kraft cheese single and a Poptart or two to make a full nutrtional meal of flat food…

as Michaela demonstrates, slipping a Flat Fruit under her daddy’s door…

The sound of snow peas eaten in the garden.

The other day I discovered these translucent and tender, long green fingers, ready for harvest, hanging from the pea plants. One day we saw the flowers, small and white, nearly unnoticable, and now we have food to eat. It’s a mystery how it happened.

The girls have fun finding the snow peas. It’s like Easter combined with Christmas – searching the tree-like pea plants to find the hidden edible ornaments.

Fred First wrote

Would the garden be the mystery and wonder that it is if we were guaranteed the outcome in the struggle against the wind, too much or too little rain, and flea beetles?

Mystery and wonder for sure … tastes good.