Yes as I look out my window right now it's sunny and gorgeous and is going to be for the next couple of days. So why an anti-rain dance?
They are threatening rain for Saturday evening. When I may have close to 30 some people in my house. And I promised these 30 some people a bonfire, weather permittting.
Well weather, you'd better permit yourself!!!
No matter what the Oktoberfest event will still happen. I guess it could be worse - last year we had snow. At least there's no chance of that happening!
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10/6/10
10/4/10
The countdown begins
We're getting there.
Five, almost six, beers ready to be sampled.
Pieces of the bar coming together and final bits being attached and touched up on.
Yardwork accomplished and making things clean and neat.
House slowly getting cleaned up.
We have some shopping to do yet and a few other small things. But it's coming together.
Oktoberfest 2010 here we come, six days and counting....
Five, almost six, beers ready to be sampled.
Pieces of the bar coming together and final bits being attached and touched up on.
Yardwork accomplished and making things clean and neat.
House slowly getting cleaned up.
We have some shopping to do yet and a few other small things. But it's coming together.
Oktoberfest 2010 here we come, six days and counting....
9/30/10
Gorgeous
The fall color so far has just blown me away. After last year's pathetic showing of color - this year has been simply amazing. And we're not even at peak yet.
There are several trees I pass on my way home that are so vibrant against the sky - magnificent reds, oranges and golds. Gorgeous. Beautiful. Lovely.
Guess our wet, humid summer was good for something.
This is why I LOVE fall.
There are several trees I pass on my way home that are so vibrant against the sky - magnificent reds, oranges and golds. Gorgeous. Beautiful. Lovely.
Guess our wet, humid summer was good for something.
This is why I LOVE fall.
9/28/10
High and low
Well stick a fork in me I am done.
The living room is finished. There might be some touch up work at a later point - but for all intense and purposes it is DONE. And I am SO happy with how it turned out! We have artwork back up on the walls and everything and it looks like a home again instead of a work in progress. Pictures will be coming soon.
In other news, our neighbor's dogs kept us awake far too long last night. I don't know what is going on at this house - the owners appear to not be around lately, we think at least the guy is possibly sick or something and now the woman hasn't been around either and some other woman is staying there and she is horrible with these dogs. She lets them out and lets them bark after 10:00 at night. Normally it only happens once in the night but last night, she had them out five times between 9:30 and 12:30 am. Nate finally called the police at 12:30 but I don't know if anything happened and we finally gave up and shut the windows and actually turned on our air. How sad is that? Did I also mention this woman was on her phone half the time as well? We have a right to sleep with windows open when it's nice out and this is just ridiculous. I hope it improves soon.
So a high and a low for Tuesday I guess!
The living room is finished. There might be some touch up work at a later point - but for all intense and purposes it is DONE. And I am SO happy with how it turned out! We have artwork back up on the walls and everything and it looks like a home again instead of a work in progress. Pictures will be coming soon.
In other news, our neighbor's dogs kept us awake far too long last night. I don't know what is going on at this house - the owners appear to not be around lately, we think at least the guy is possibly sick or something and now the woman hasn't been around either and some other woman is staying there and she is horrible with these dogs. She lets them out and lets them bark after 10:00 at night. Normally it only happens once in the night but last night, she had them out five times between 9:30 and 12:30 am. Nate finally called the police at 12:30 but I don't know if anything happened and we finally gave up and shut the windows and actually turned on our air. How sad is that? Did I also mention this woman was on her phone half the time as well? We have a right to sleep with windows open when it's nice out and this is just ridiculous. I hope it improves soon.
So a high and a low for Tuesday I guess!
9/27/10
Going off the rails on a Crazy Train
"Crazy, but that's how it goes" - Crazy Train, Black Sabbath
No I'm not a heavy metal fan - but this song kind of describes my life at the moment! We're at just under two weeks now to our Oktoberfest celebration and I'm nervous about things getting done. The bar is nearly ready - but listening to my dad and Nate talk I'm not 100% certain it will all be finished, but I'm hopeful. I know they are working hard on it. It's looking good though, as evidenced by this picture:
We had a busy weekend with our family golf tournament - I did not take last place again and neither did Nate! Hurray! It rained on us a bit in the beginning of the day, but it improved a bit as we kept going. We made jokes that it was all of our family members up in heaven playing a joke on us - which would be just like some of them. Ha ha.
No I'm not a heavy metal fan - but this song kind of describes my life at the moment! We're at just under two weeks now to our Oktoberfest celebration and I'm nervous about things getting done. The bar is nearly ready - but listening to my dad and Nate talk I'm not 100% certain it will all be finished, but I'm hopeful. I know they are working hard on it. It's looking good though, as evidenced by this picture:
We had a busy weekend with our family golf tournament - I did not take last place again and neither did Nate! Hurray! It rained on us a bit in the beginning of the day, but it improved a bit as we kept going. We made jokes that it was all of our family members up in heaven playing a joke on us - which would be just like some of them. Ha ha.
Mom and I braving the rain
Nate spent all of Sunday brewing another batch of beer to hopefully have ready for the party and he also cleaned some kegs to put this beer and one other batch that's ready into.
This week Nate starts a drawing class on Wednesday evenings. I'm glad he is doing something like this for himself. I plan to finish our living room painting project tonight. I have two doorways to paint and that is it. It will be DONE.
My head is a bit swimmy at the moment just because of all the things I have to do and as Ozzy sings "I'm going off the rails on a crazy train" a bit right now. But I know it's all going to be worth it in the end!
9/24/10
Muppets....and controversy??
So you all know what a huge Muppet fan I am - at least I would assume so if you know me pretty well and if you're a reader of this blog, you probably do. And this week, the Sesame Street Muppets are in the midst of kind of a ridiculous controversy if you ask me.
A video was released from Sesame Street's 41st season on YouTube featuring pop star Katy Perry and Elmo singing a parody of Katy's song "Hot N' Cold". And then several days after it debuted, Sesame Workshop has now pulled it because she is wearing a rather low cut dress and apparently there were complaints that it was too "hot for TV".
I would like to go on record that I am not a fan of Katy Perry at all - I think she's rather annoying actually. And I would also like to go on record that Elmo is my least favorite of all the Muppets. That being said, after hearing all this controversy, I found the video on YouTube as it's still available through Katy's YouTube channel. I watched it once. I watched it again.
I really don't see what the big deal is. It is a sort of low cut dress but the video is cute, her lady bits do not fall out at any time or even appear to be in risk of doing so. And quite frankly, I take the opinion of some that most little children are going to be paying more attention to Elmo and the activities in the video than the singer's wardrobe.
Now, I'm not a parent yet, so maybe I would feel differently if I had children. But I just feel that this issue was blown way out of proportion. It seems society is becoming maybe just a hair too sensitive on some issues.
This is strictly just my own opinion - I wish to ruffle no feathers. I can be conservative with the best of them on some things. But I think that this video was just good old fashioned fun and it's kind of shame that kids will miss out on this.
A video was released from Sesame Street's 41st season on YouTube featuring pop star Katy Perry and Elmo singing a parody of Katy's song "Hot N' Cold". And then several days after it debuted, Sesame Workshop has now pulled it because she is wearing a rather low cut dress and apparently there were complaints that it was too "hot for TV".
I would like to go on record that I am not a fan of Katy Perry at all - I think she's rather annoying actually. And I would also like to go on record that Elmo is my least favorite of all the Muppets. That being said, after hearing all this controversy, I found the video on YouTube as it's still available through Katy's YouTube channel. I watched it once. I watched it again.
I really don't see what the big deal is. It is a sort of low cut dress but the video is cute, her lady bits do not fall out at any time or even appear to be in risk of doing so. And quite frankly, I take the opinion of some that most little children are going to be paying more attention to Elmo and the activities in the video than the singer's wardrobe.
Now, I'm not a parent yet, so maybe I would feel differently if I had children. But I just feel that this issue was blown way out of proportion. It seems society is becoming maybe just a hair too sensitive on some issues.
This is strictly just my own opinion - I wish to ruffle no feathers. I can be conservative with the best of them on some things. But I think that this video was just good old fashioned fun and it's kind of shame that kids will miss out on this.
9/20/10
Told ya we've been busy!
Seems we have been just here, there and everywhere lately! Just off another busy, but decent weekend.
Friday Nate and I got a night to ourselves and chose to try a new to us restaurant in White Bear Lake called Manitou Station. If I get around to it I'll review it in more detail on our food blog, but the abbreviated version is, it's an Irish themed restaurant with decent, but kind of spendy food. We were a little shocked by the bill, but it seems most places you go now you can't get away with a real low bill anymore. But anyway, we still had a nice time. Headed home and played some Wii games and watched TV.
Saturday I got up, had coffee with my mom, got a haircut and then came back to my house where my awesome mom helped me clean out and rearrange my closet and dressers. She used to always help me when I lived at home before I was married, and I've missed that in the last four years! She's got a good eye and can help me either breathe new life into some clothes by showing me outfit ideas or telling me - you never ever wear that, get rid of it! I now have two bags for Goodwill!
I cleaned the house, Nate and my dad putzed with the bar a bit, then Nate and I went to the homebrew store and then over to Gina and Steve's for Steve's birthday party. Had a nice time sitting on their patio eating some good food. Headed over to rehearsal after that, made it an early evening so we could get up early to drive to Mankato on Sunday morning.
Sunday morning we got up, got our Caribou and headed down for my goddaughter Elsa's dedication in Mankato. She was very well behaved during the service. It turned out to be a pretty nice day and we were able to take some pictures outside.
After we got back up to the Cities we bought stain for the bar and went over to my parents for dinner and then Nate and my dad stained the bar with it's first coat. It's starting to look pretty awesome. I can't wait until they bring it over to start putting it together!
So very full, but pretty productive weekend. More of the same coming up for this week and next weekend. But, I don't mind so much - I kind of like it.
Friday Nate and I got a night to ourselves and chose to try a new to us restaurant in White Bear Lake called Manitou Station. If I get around to it I'll review it in more detail on our food blog, but the abbreviated version is, it's an Irish themed restaurant with decent, but kind of spendy food. We were a little shocked by the bill, but it seems most places you go now you can't get away with a real low bill anymore. But anyway, we still had a nice time. Headed home and played some Wii games and watched TV.
Saturday I got up, had coffee with my mom, got a haircut and then came back to my house where my awesome mom helped me clean out and rearrange my closet and dressers. She used to always help me when I lived at home before I was married, and I've missed that in the last four years! She's got a good eye and can help me either breathe new life into some clothes by showing me outfit ideas or telling me - you never ever wear that, get rid of it! I now have two bags for Goodwill!
I cleaned the house, Nate and my dad putzed with the bar a bit, then Nate and I went to the homebrew store and then over to Gina and Steve's for Steve's birthday party. Had a nice time sitting on their patio eating some good food. Headed over to rehearsal after that, made it an early evening so we could get up early to drive to Mankato on Sunday morning.
Sunday morning we got up, got our Caribou and headed down for my goddaughter Elsa's dedication in Mankato. She was very well behaved during the service. It turned out to be a pretty nice day and we were able to take some pictures outside.
After we got back up to the Cities we bought stain for the bar and went over to my parents for dinner and then Nate and my dad stained the bar with it's first coat. It's starting to look pretty awesome. I can't wait until they bring it over to start putting it together!
So very full, but pretty productive weekend. More of the same coming up for this week and next weekend. But, I don't mind so much - I kind of like it.
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