Bulb Break-In

Dave and I spent Friday night at church as part of our first duty as Junior Youth group sponsors. It was a church lock-in, and let's just say we didn't get a lot of sleep. Not only did I forget to feed Wookiee before I left yesterday, but I also forgot to water the flowers. Apparently, the dry dirt in the potted lilies that I had sitting out on the back porch must have been a signal to the animals that they would be an easy dig, because we came home today to find the pot on the floor, dirt all over the place, and bulbs half-eaten and flung around. I'll post a picture later. (Can you tell that I'm cranky?)

Madison Math Nerds

Katherine and I recently headed up to Madison, WI to attend a conference for utility company forecasters. Katherine spent a few days meeting with fellow math nerds (99% middle age or older men) while my attendance was limited to working remotely in various coffee shops and joining in on the dinner cruise, open bar, and tour of the capitol building.

Inside the capitol:

A cute girl I saw at the capitol:

The dinner cruise was the highlight of the trip for sure. We circled Lake Mendota enough times to drink several Spotted Cows (which I highly recommend):


And we enjoyed perfect weather and a beautiful sunset.

Wookiee!

It has been difficult getting back into Corn and Sprinkles ever since we were reduced to Corn. We'll never get completely over the loss of our Binko cat, but we know she would have wanted to pass along her kingdom to another female cat.

To follow up the last brief post, I'm excited to introduce our new resident dust mop, Wookiee! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wookiee should clear up any questions about her name.

Introducing...

A Bite

My mind is BLOWN! Did you know that it's Brussels Sprout, and not Brussel Sprout????

I'd also like to take this time to remind people that it's Sherbet, not Sherbert. Just a personal pet peeve of mine. I wonder if someone out there has a personal pet peeve about brussels sprouts being incorrectly called brussel sprouts.

Okay, let's be honest... I really wanted to talk about sherbet because I randomly found this outrageously rockin' album cover on google image search today.