Category: Randomness

Now I am not known to have a very green thumb. At least I don't think so. But I decided I wanted some planters in the front of the house. So that meant I had to plant some flowers. We went to Home Depot and I got a bunch of plants and went crazy. HERE are pictures I took of what I planted. I am hoping I can keep them looking good for a while. I found a few other plants I wanted, but we'll see if I am still interested in them in a couple weeks.

We did some fishing this weekend. HERE are pictures of a couple of the fish we caught. We brought them home and Chuck used his new electric filet knife to get them ready for eating!

We also went to Cabela's this weekend and got this nifty camping device.

I am really looking forward to camping now that we have this. We also picked up a couple extra fishing poles and miscelaneous fishing stuff for the year.

It was a nice weekend. We got the shed put up and some things done around the yard. I am looking forward to this weekend when it will be a little cooler outside. Much more tolerable for yard work.

Both of Chuck's grandfathers are having heart surgery within a week of each other. Keep Grandpa Hays and Grandpa Schminke in your thoughts and prayers.

*Grandpa Hays*

Update: Grandpa Hays got through his surgery. It went well. He had triple bypass surgery. I have been told he was sitting in bed, watching basketball and joking with the nurses.

Update 2: Grandpa Hays is home now and doing well.

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*Grandpa Schminke*

Update: Grandpa Schminke's surgery went better than expected and he is doing well. They ended up doing one bypass. What a fighter!

Update2: Grandpa Schminke should be going home Saturday or Monday. It will depend on whether or not he gets a pace maker. Other than that, he seems to be doing well. He was up and talking and looking for some food!

We went to St. Louis last weekend for Paige's graduation. The weather was nice, but the speeches at the ceremony lasted too long.

We did a little sight seeing while we were there, too. We went to the Gateway Arch, the City Museum and the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. It was a lot of fun.

HERE are pictures of the graduation and some from the sight seeing.

I went on the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure walk on Mother's day. It was a good time. Thankfully, it didn't rain while we were walking. That was nice. It was still a bit chilly outside, though. It did clear up as we went along and was almost sunny when we left. Unfortunately, we had to walk around the Mall of America. Blah. We did go around a few residential streets, so we werent looking at the parking lots the whole time. We met up with a couple of my mom's friends and some of their kids. It was nice seeing them. It has been a while.

HERE are some pictures from the walk. I bet there were about 50k people there. The highest number on the shirts I saw was 49,933 or something close to that.

After the walk we went to Fort Snelling Cemetary to visit family that has passed. It was the first time I had been to my grandma's grave. But I was glad I could go on Mother's day to visit. I will have to go back soon. I didn't know we were going there, so I didn't have any flowers or anything to leave there.

Now we are off to Chuck's mom's house for dinner.

My brother's new photography site is done… NorlingImages.com.
You can buy pictures and everything there. Enjoy!…And buy some pictures!

Great Mitch Bits

They're not the same without the quirky drawl and the slight, nervous smile. But here are some of Hedberg's bits:

• I got a business card made, because I want to win some lunches. That's what my business card says: “Mitch Hedberg, potential lunch winner.”
• Mr. Pibb is a poor imitation of Dr. Pepper. Dude didn't even get his degree.
• I'm not into sports. I like Gatorade, but that's about as far as it goes.
• I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that day.
• I want to be a race-car passenger — just a guy who bugs the driver. “Say, man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Boy, you really like Tide.”
• This shirt is dry-clean only. Which means it's dirty.
• I'm against picketing. But I don't know how to show it.
• I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying it.
• I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semicircle.
• Alcoholism is a disease. But it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having. Dammit, Otto! You're an alcoholic! Dammit, Otto, you have lupus! One of those two doesn't sound right.
• When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light. And I would hear things that sounded an awful lot like car horns.
• I bought myself a parrot, and it could talk. But it did not say it was hungry, so it died.
• I got to smoke fake pot with Peter Frampton [on the set of “Almost Famous”. That's a cool story. It's as cool as smoking real pot with a guy who looks like Peter Frampton. I've done that way more.
• Rice is great when you're hungry and want 2000 of something.
• I was in a casino, minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move. You're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit. Unless you're a table.
• An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. You would never see an 'Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order' sign, just 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.'

HERE is a fun website with Mitch quotes on it.

There is a tribute to him this weekend in town. This is his site if you want to know more about the tribute show or him.

Mitch Hedberg
1968-2005

We have been working on the yard this past week. We took down the fence on the side of our house because it makes it hard to get to the rest of the yard. We are keeping up the fence in the back of the house since Tuxedo Road is behind us. Chuck's dad rented a Dingo for a week and he'll be out of town this weekend, so we are going to move some boulders around and take out the posts from the fence we took out. Here's a picture of a Dingo.

We rented a chipper yesterday to chip the trees we had cut down in the back to make way for the shed Chuck wants to build. It will be nice to have one back there. We are also going to sod a part in back and build a patio area where we can't keep grass to grow. It's going to look really nice. I also found a patio set I want.

Hopefully I can go get that today. That's about it. I'll post some pictures of the yard when we get it done. If you want to see some of the pictures we have taken so far, you can go HERE. There are some pictures from a survey we had done as well as some of the things taken down.

We put the boat in yesterday and took a little cruise around Lake Minnetonka. It was such a nice afternoon. Once the sun started to go down it started to get a little chilly. We went fishing for a while and didn't have a whole lot of luck. Chuck caught a Crappie and I had one on, but I didn't get it in the boat. He flopped around and got himself off the hook. Oh well. At least I felt like I got something. It was good time. Chuck even had me drive around a while and he helped me dock to boat. I am not real comfortable when it comes to driving that thing, so he's trying to build my confidence. Overall, it was a good time and I am looking forward to living much closer to the lake.

1. Indecision is the key to flexibility.
2. You cannot tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
3. There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
4. Happiness is merely the remission of pain.
5. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
6. Sometimes too much drink is not enough.
7. The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.
8. The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.
9. Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.
10. Things are more like they are today than they ever have been before.
11. Anything worth fighting for is worth fighting dirty for.
12. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
13. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
14. I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
15. Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism.
16. All things being equal, fat people use more soap.
17. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
18. One-seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
19. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
20. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
21. The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
22. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
23. This is as bad as it can get, but don't bet on it.
24. Never wrestle with a pig: You both get all dirty, and the pig likes it.
25. The trouble with life is, you're halfway through it before you realize it's a 'do it yourself' thing.