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Ok, so we go to Jambo every year, and every year I compile my music into a Jambo playlist of artists that are going to be at the event.

I use Itunes on my desktop, and for managing my Ipod of course, but I also stream my collection to my Xbox on the home stereo.

I do a search of the 28,000 plus songs for a particular artist and change the info of Genre to something like JITH 2010. Then I do a search of all music with that genre and create a playlist in Itunes called JITH 2010. The reason I change the genre is because Xbox doesn't recognize Itunes playlists but it will recognize genres. So I can load up that genre in Xbox and set it on shuffle and I've got hours of beer drinkin' tunes.

Spaghetti is one of my families staples and the "easy go-to" when my wife is in charge of the meals for a night. Instead of reaching into the pantry for that jar of Ragoo or Praygo, I wanted to give them something better.

So I made up a 3 gallon batch of homemade spaghetti sauce and today I will try my hand at canning it. I would probably prefer to freeze it, however I need to keep our modest garage freezer cleaned out for the beef that will arrive in a month or so.

I'll try and recall the recipe, but truthfully I didn't use one. Since local tomatoes are long out of season, I chose to use canned tomatoes. I did procure local garlic, carrots, celery, onion and basil from a family owned grocer.

Anyway, I'll try and remember to either shoot some video or take some pictures today when I get around to canning everything.

Cracked FiberglassWe took our little sailer out on Mosquito Lake for the second sail and she fared very well. We tacked across the lake, and on our way back across, she was bumping on the waves pretty good. We heard a loud crack and the sound of crunching fiberglass. We immediately pulled down the sails to investigate. Here is was we found. We limped back to the dock with the jib and loaded her up and brought her home.

The line is tied to the keel lever.

Spindrift Day SailerStacey and I found this little sailboat down on Guilford Lake by Lisbon, Ohio. It's a class of sailboat known as a Day Sailor and it was manufactured by Rebel Industries.

Here is what I know about the sailboat so far:

Year: 1986
Length: 16'
Sails: Main and Jib (optional Spinnaker)

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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.