Heather has now started a great blog and she's very good at updating it. Much like myself. :-D
Check it out!
http://countrymandm.blogspot.com/
More to come...I promise...
Monday, October 29, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
So I'm not a morning person
as written first thing after sitting down to the computer this morning:
Tomorrow is my birthday...29. The last of the 'in my twenties.'
But tomorrow is also 'Sunflower Days' in Dexter (softball tournies, auctions, food, etc...) which is interesting because I think we are the only ones I know growing sunflowers...oh well. So we decided that we can go out for birthday dinner tonight and 'head into town' tomorrow. We still haven't decided where we will do dinner yet. Heather is a fan of the Rochester restaurants, and I'd prefer something new and low key in one of the neigboring small towns...considering how Rochester people drive! But that is not a decision to be made in the morning just after waking up. Guess I can be kinda crabby?
K so I'll wake up here throughout the day and we will decide later. I am grateful that my wife doesn't just throw her hands in the air and say, "forget it - treat yourself to dinner" but rather just waits for me to get past my morning crabbies and will work with me later...and she still wants to treat me for dinner. Thanks Baby... And she made me a Cheese Cake - my favorite. With Blue Berries for topping! Awesome.
More to come...
Tomorrow is my birthday...29. The last of the 'in my twenties.'
But tomorrow is also 'Sunflower Days' in Dexter (softball tournies, auctions, food, etc...) which is interesting because I think we are the only ones I know growing sunflowers...oh well. So we decided that we can go out for birthday dinner tonight and 'head into town' tomorrow. We still haven't decided where we will do dinner yet. Heather is a fan of the Rochester restaurants, and I'd prefer something new and low key in one of the neigboring small towns...considering how Rochester people drive! But that is not a decision to be made in the morning just after waking up. Guess I can be kinda crabby?
K so I'll wake up here throughout the day and we will decide later. I am grateful that my wife doesn't just throw her hands in the air and say, "forget it - treat yourself to dinner" but rather just waits for me to get past my morning crabbies and will work with me later...and she still wants to treat me for dinner. Thanks Baby... And she made me a Cheese Cake - my favorite. With Blue Berries for topping! Awesome.
More to come...
Thursday, June 14, 2007
By the way:
k Mom I blogged (happy? :D) and i'm getting ready to make the 'sour heads' in the next couple week...
I don't miss this one bit! I'll take the 80's and sunburns over this any day. Click on picture for larger version.
More to come...
I don't miss this one bit! I'll take the 80's and sunburns over this any day. Click on picture for larger version.
More to come...
We got "Spring" in our step
Wow - I put this blog together so I can keep everyone up to date on the Goings-ons with us...but so much is Goings-on, I don't get the time to update. :) But I'll take a couple minutes to update.
The garden has been in for a month now, unfortunately had to do significant replanting of corn, beans and many other things. Not quite sure why as I know it didn't get too cold. It was a new turn over of the sod so maybe there was something in the soil that some of the vegies don't like. Will till in straw and chicken manure this fall and I'm sure next year will be much better. Don't have the pictures downloaded yet. 8 long rows of corn, a section of cantaloupe, yellow squash, zucchini, large pumpkins, cucumbers, lots of sunflowers as section dividers, 3 rows each of green and yellow beans, taters, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, cabbage (for the home made kraut,) kohlrabi, beats, peppers, and the perimeter is bordered by Marigolds... Ufda Heather and I spent a good portion of last weekend weeding and tilling.
Also finally finished the chicken coop, so last Friday afternoon I moved the 44 chickens to the barn. The garage was starting to get a little ripe. :P They seem to really like their new home. The 25 meat birds are the size of large footballs already at just less then 5 weeks old but are a little tough to play catch with. And I think our inherited barn cat 'Dot' is keeping the gophers/ground hogs at bay.
We've already seen 1 new robin nestling grow big enough to leave the nest...waiting now on the other three in a neighboring nest under back deck to hatch. A not-so-bright kildeer also made a nest in the middle of our driveway with 4 eggs. Its marked with a utility flag now so we don't run it over.
The fields are all planted w/soybeans and corn; much of which is already almost 'knee-high.'
We are loving our 'new' home, especially this time of year when everything is so green and new babies are in abundance. I'll try to get some pictures added soon from the recent past; Spring flowers, project progress, and of course pugs. :-)
We (Heather) put together the vacation plans for the summer, a week of camping in the UP of Michigan in July.
In the mean time a couple of pictures from March making homemade sour kraut...45 lbs of cabbage = 23 quarts...just fyi ;-)
And we are also in the market for a mattress...does anyone have any good suggestions? Has anyone bought a sleep number or temperpedic bed? We'd be interested in any feedback...
And closing with a little wisdom: You only need two tools in life: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
More to come...
The garden has been in for a month now, unfortunately had to do significant replanting of corn, beans and many other things. Not quite sure why as I know it didn't get too cold. It was a new turn over of the sod so maybe there was something in the soil that some of the vegies don't like. Will till in straw and chicken manure this fall and I'm sure next year will be much better. Don't have the pictures downloaded yet. 8 long rows of corn, a section of cantaloupe, yellow squash, zucchini, large pumpkins, cucumbers, lots of sunflowers as section dividers, 3 rows each of green and yellow beans, taters, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, cabbage (for the home made kraut,) kohlrabi, beats, peppers, and the perimeter is bordered by Marigolds... Ufda Heather and I spent a good portion of last weekend weeding and tilling.
Also finally finished the chicken coop, so last Friday afternoon I moved the 44 chickens to the barn. The garage was starting to get a little ripe. :P They seem to really like their new home. The 25 meat birds are the size of large footballs already at just less then 5 weeks old but are a little tough to play catch with. And I think our inherited barn cat 'Dot' is keeping the gophers/ground hogs at bay.
We've already seen 1 new robin nestling grow big enough to leave the nest...waiting now on the other three in a neighboring nest under back deck to hatch. A not-so-bright kildeer also made a nest in the middle of our driveway with 4 eggs. Its marked with a utility flag now so we don't run it over.
The fields are all planted w/soybeans and corn; much of which is already almost 'knee-high.'
We are loving our 'new' home, especially this time of year when everything is so green and new babies are in abundance. I'll try to get some pictures added soon from the recent past; Spring flowers, project progress, and of course pugs. :-)
We (Heather) put together the vacation plans for the summer, a week of camping in the UP of Michigan in July.
In the mean time a couple of pictures from March making homemade sour kraut...45 lbs of cabbage = 23 quarts...just fyi ;-)
And we are also in the market for a mattress...does anyone have any good suggestions? Has anyone bought a sleep number or temperpedic bed? We'd be interested in any feedback...
And closing with a little wisdom: You only need two tools in life: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
More to come...
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Its a pugs life....
We can do some introductions here.
Heather my wife braving the Arkansas River in Colorado.
Me trying to be brave too. Someone told me I look like Gilligan?
Vito Giovanni is almost 5 years old. He was my pup before getting married.
His younger sister who is almost 1 1/2 now and our pretty pug princess, Pinot Noir.
Sherlock the Cat
I'm not finding any pictures of our 2 zebra finches. And we haven't taken any yet of the 44 chickens...but then again we shouldn't include most of them as parts of the family for obvious reasons. :) More to come...
Heather my wife braving the Arkansas River in Colorado.
Me trying to be brave too. Someone told me I look like Gilligan?
Vito Giovanni is almost 5 years old. He was my pup before getting married.
His younger sister who is almost 1 1/2 now and our pretty pug princess, Pinot Noir.
Sherlock the Cat
I'm not finding any pictures of our 2 zebra finches. And we haven't taken any yet of the 44 chickens...but then again we shouldn't include most of them as parts of the family for obvious reasons. :) More to come...
Friday, May 25, 2007
The first post...
I want to say first off that this blogging is inspired by Sarah who I don't know but through my wife Heather. She is a mother of 5 boys (yes 1 of them is her husband) but what I know of them and their family, they are great people...they are Christian people most importantly...and her words express that. I want to model our family (boys and GIRLS :)) around theirs. I think they are great examples of reality in the aspect of young Christian families and pray God blesses that family. Here is her link...it is worth the hours of reading. Thanks Sarah! http://sarahsdandelions.blogspot.com/
Well here we are. It took some time and finally we are now blogging. What a word, blog. Ask Webster 10 years ago if blog was a word....or even BLOGGING. Weird. Anyway, 29 years (almost) to catch up on and I'm going to do it all here in this first one so tomorrow (or the near future) we can start fresh.
OK so there was the 70s, 1978 to be exact, June 16th of that year to be more exact...yes go ahead and start sending cards :) So I did 1 1/2 years of that decade, was great. I ate, pooped, cried, made my Dad do miles in the basement and my mom do miles in the living room. Etc... :) Then the 80s, blah blah blah, the shuttle blew up while i was in 2nd grade, i met my best friends Jeremy and Hubie (David...now my brother-in-law) and learned most of what I appreciate today. And then the 90s, blah blah blah....and blah. A lot happened in the 90s and if you're reading this you probably experienced most or some of it with me. I graduated from high school after years of Math team and Band (GEEK) :-D, I started college at Hibbing Community College (many new friends added here) and then on to University of North Dakota (repeat, many new friends added here...and brothers.) I joined a Fraternity :-O Lambda Chi Alpha and was in the Fighting Sioux Marching, Pep band and drum line. 2000 brought a pretty decent New Years event as you can imagine, my computer(s) didn't succumb to Y2K :) and we didn't see all the other scary things expected that day/evening. It is now 2007 and yeah, I'll leave the rest for future posts. But in that time (and what I'll dive into more in the future) is that God blessed me with a miraculous meeting of a woman whom I married and who has become my 1st humanly reason for being (and the future mother of my children....) We are looking at 4 years of being married in October!! :-O where has the time gone?? I have experienced the process of buying (and refinancing) 2 homes...the 2nd of which will probably bring you most of the updates. In the 2000s I've gone from living at Dad's in his basement and owning nothing, to buying my first brand new vehicle (still have the 2000 Gold Ford Ranger,) to going to school, to being a hot-shot Engineer-to-be and going to live in Chicago and travel the world, to working for IBM, to remodeling a bathroom :-P and working my backyard until there was nothing left to work, to moving back to the country and the "simple" life with 8 Acres.... I've found the place where I want to live my life, grow my family, and leave my legacy. I Love my family, home, land, and yes even the 100 year old barn... More to come...
Well here we are. It took some time and finally we are now blogging. What a word, blog. Ask Webster 10 years ago if blog was a word....or even BLOGGING. Weird. Anyway, 29 years (almost) to catch up on and I'm going to do it all here in this first one so tomorrow (or the near future) we can start fresh.
OK so there was the 70s, 1978 to be exact, June 16th of that year to be more exact...yes go ahead and start sending cards :) So I did 1 1/2 years of that decade, was great. I ate, pooped, cried, made my Dad do miles in the basement and my mom do miles in the living room. Etc... :) Then the 80s, blah blah blah, the shuttle blew up while i was in 2nd grade, i met my best friends Jeremy and Hubie (David...now my brother-in-law) and learned most of what I appreciate today. And then the 90s, blah blah blah....and blah. A lot happened in the 90s and if you're reading this you probably experienced most or some of it with me. I graduated from high school after years of Math team and Band (GEEK) :-D, I started college at Hibbing Community College (many new friends added here) and then on to University of North Dakota (repeat, many new friends added here...and brothers.) I joined a Fraternity :-O Lambda Chi Alpha and was in the Fighting Sioux Marching, Pep band and drum line. 2000 brought a pretty decent New Years event as you can imagine, my computer(s) didn't succumb to Y2K :) and we didn't see all the other scary things expected that day/evening. It is now 2007 and yeah, I'll leave the rest for future posts. But in that time (and what I'll dive into more in the future) is that God blessed me with a miraculous meeting of a woman whom I married and who has become my 1st humanly reason for being (and the future mother of my children....) We are looking at 4 years of being married in October!! :-O where has the time gone?? I have experienced the process of buying (and refinancing) 2 homes...the 2nd of which will probably bring you most of the updates. In the 2000s I've gone from living at Dad's in his basement and owning nothing, to buying my first brand new vehicle (still have the 2000 Gold Ford Ranger,) to going to school, to being a hot-shot Engineer-to-be and going to live in Chicago and travel the world, to working for IBM, to remodeling a bathroom :-P and working my backyard until there was nothing left to work, to moving back to the country and the "simple" life with 8 Acres.... I've found the place where I want to live my life, grow my family, and leave my legacy. I Love my family, home, land, and yes even the 100 year old barn... More to come...
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