The Coveted Panda Hat

Panda Hat

Warning to Bennett (my brother): you will not find this post interesting.

To the rest of you: sorry ’bout that. I just take so much flak from my brother, I thought I’d save us both some time. His from reading it and mine from his play-by-play critique.

On with the show!

Also. I just [...]

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    Merry Christmas to All!

    frost on viburnum

    Thanks to anyone who takes time out of their busy lives to stop by and read this drivel. I am truly honored, because I know how hard it is to carve out time in my own day to read other’s writings.

    It’s Christmas and WE MADE IT!

    (I mean, I think I made it. [...]

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      It’s Christmas Eve!

      Christmas Card Retrospective 2006 – 2009, aka “the Really-Big-Pictures” years.

      OK, well, I lied. But not intentionally. 2006 was not a really big picture. It was a really bad picture. I look like an 80′s rock star. A male one. Dave looks like an ax murderer. But the kids looked OK, I guess.

      I’ve [...]

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        Another Christmas Retrospective

        Frost on Rose Hips

        Christmas Cards Years 2000 – 2005. AKA, the Psycho Years

        Yeah, I was pretty psychotic during those years…

        And that was actually before menopause. At least now I have a culturally acceptable reason for it.

        We start off with the photo from 2000. It might look like we are having fun in this photo, [...]

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          The Five Days of Christmas

          Christmas Ornament

          Of course, it was supposed to be the TWELVE days of Christmas, but… You know how it goes.

          I DIDN’T GET AROUND TO IT, OKAY? I’d love to detail all the goings-on in the Menke house, but

          your eyes would roll back into your head and you might never come back here. you don’t [...]

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            Must-Have Gift for Teenage Girls

            Zip It is amazing

            I’m trying to get into the spirit of the season.

            We got our tree. We haven’t put it up yet, but we’ve got it. I have the tree tops for the planters. I haven’t put them in yet, but I did haul the soggy pumpkins to the compost, so the steps are an open [...]

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              Bury Your Dead

              kale medley

              Or at least make compost out of it.

              It’s that time of year in the garden. Of doing the final tasks.

              What amazes me to no end is that the final tasks never actually seem to end. I’ve been doing these final tasks for what seems likes weeks now and I’m still not done!

              [...]

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                Invasion of the Body Snatchers

                Happy First Day of Autumn Happy Boxelder Bug Day

                All of the photos here were taken on September 22nd. The first day of Fall for most. Boxelder Bug Day for me.

                I hate Boxelder Bugs. They are benign, yes. But their tendency to buzz around and land on anything drives me batty. Their need [...]

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                  It Smells Like Worms

                  It’s raining (again). It’s been raining for day upon endless day in Minnesota. Well, except for last weekend. We had a nice weekend.

                  Before today I was at 6+ inches for the month. I emptied about 1″ out of my rain gauge this morning and there is no end in sight

                  So, [...]

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                    THE AGONY OF DEFEAT

                    FIFA World Cup, Watertown. Minnesota. June 27, 2010

                    I have long been known for two things by my nieces and nephews (aside from the obvious abject sarcasm): fancy birthday cakes and themed birthday parties for Charlie in June. Given that they are mostly all grown up now, I assumed — wrongly — that they would [...]

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