All Your Weeds Are Belong To Us,Well wicked weekend. My ass is kicked from so much good outdoor activity. My hamstrings burn and when I close my eyes all I see is a fast, movie like montage, of the hundreds of fallen weeds that were systematically rooted out and destroyed by my novice green thumbs. …
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Drizzled to Death Another impossibly dreary day in the land of 10,000 lakes. Something like 25 of the last 27 days of May have been overcast with heavy periods of rain. On the rare occasion when the sun does finally push through the clouds, it’s only long enough to mow the grass that now grows …
The Smell of Rock Great. Just as I begin to write this post my nose begins to bleed. What timing! Some folks have spring allergies, I get spring bloody noses. I guess it could be worse, I could be in a meeting or something bleeding all over my notes and presentations. Went and checked out …
Why Dex Has Me Kicking and Screaming I’m very happily aware and fully engaged with the national do not call list but the list I’m really pining to get on is the ‘national please don’t send me any more freaking analog yellow/white pages list’. In the short time that the misses and I have lived …
The Gift of the Sith We received this menacing Darth Vader gift card for use at Target Stores. ‘Press To Light’ and the saber glows and out of the voice box in the upper left comes Vader’s breathy asthma doom. I have a hunch that if you use the card at Target and you don’t …
Delicious Morels I was treated to a tasty lunch today by my step-father and master morel hunter. The morel season has been kind, probably due to the noah’s ark rains we’ve been experiencing here. On the lunch menu today was the classic morels over toast seasoned with butter, sour cream, garlic and lemon. Yum. The …
Blow It Out Your NoseI’ve got a head cold. An all too brief moment of sunshine wrestled its way through the clouds Sunday night, just long enough for me to dust off the push mower and set out trimming the grass. It’s been raining off and on for the better part of a week now. …
Garage Sale Days Revisited This weekend officially begins the garage sale season. Or as Strongbad puts it, the ‘gar-bage sale’ season. This season will be different however as the misses and I are actually planning on hosting one of our very own garage sales. Ladies will be required to wear extravagant big hats to the …
Out of Beta: Mr & Mrs Skelton Well we did it! Last Friday afternoon, in a small courtroom in Ramsey County, the misses and I made things official. Rings were exchanged and vows were consummated. Sandwiched in between some foul weather days, came Friday with its brilliant sun and extremely mild temperatures, it was an …
Garden Stretches The Star Tribune has gone a little nutty this morning. Perhaps they’re just getting excited over there about the possibility of a new outdoor Twins Stadium. I don’t know. And maybe it’s just me, but I found the paper’s photo gallery of garden stretches both inspired and hilarious. And then there’s a fine …