Andy and Darcy’s Blog

I stole this link from Megan, but I don’t think she’ll mind because who isn’t a supporter of grammar awareness!?

Go here and watch this video.

And now you’re back. This is a summary of the video: Birmingham has banned apostrophes in street signs because they aren’t uniformly used across the city. Isn’t it hard to believe that the homeland of Eats, Shoots & Leaves decided to go grammarless? I am kind of appalled.

Andy installed a new deadbolt and did a great job.

It was a little alarming to see the hole through the door, but it worked!

We have piles and piles of snow. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine if you lift in a tropical climate (like Kansas).

We have had this gift going through our Christmas party gift exchanges for several years. I just thought everyone might like to know who got it.

It was Nate. And the neon angel has finally run out of batteries. That is a picture from last year.

He is thrilled, as is every recipient of the neon angel. He wasn’t available for comment.

We celebrated Christmas in January again.

We had a wonderful dinner. Everyone brought a dish and the Aslaksons made a tenderloin.

The food was fabulous. Below is the feta, sun dried tomato, basil, and orzo salad that we made. Also, you’ll see the pie that Alton Brown and Jon make.

We decorated Christmas cookies.

Then we had the gift exchange or gift grab or something like that.

Andy won us a pack of cards…

But we left with a marble cheese cutter. It was a good deal for us!

And the most important thing to know is: who got the angel? To be concluded soon…

This is the last of my previous summer blogs (I think!). This one was in a more incomplete state than the rest of my post-summer summer blog posts, so I had to choose some of the pictures. It was really hard! Oxbow Park is just a beautiful place. And it makes me miss summer! But only one more month of winter to go, right?

June 29, 2008

Here I will share some of my pictures from our hike (today) through Oxbow Park (and zoo).

We went through the zoo first. We saw the bear, the coyotes, and the prairie dogs. Everything was pretty much the same as last year. For the most entertaining animals, it was a tie between the wild turkeys and the porcupine. As you can see here, the turkeys were being turkeys.

And this porcupine was doing a dance. He was either happy or very disturbed.

Then we went hiking through the trees and out to the meadow. It was beautiful, as always. Here are a few pictures of some of the flowers we saw.

One important thing to note is that it is almost black cap season. We saw a lot of almost ripe black caps, and we actually found one ripe one.

I know where it is. It’s in the basement and has been for a while now. So, today I was lazy and felt like blogging (and I wanted to see if I could right something of the blogging magnitude on my iPhone). This is it. Yes, I don’t actually have any thing to say. All I have for you is hope for tomorrow. I will probably write a real blog post soon. It will have pictures and might even include descriptions of the really exciting recent events in our life like the awesome Obama sunset and Amish friendship bread. Hopefully I’ll make it downstairs soon. And maybe I should tell you how well writing on the iPhone went: it’s ok, but proofreading is really hard.

Here is another summer post. The weather started out great but got progressively worse to the point of storming at the reception.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

We went down to Cedar Rapids for Kristi and Mike’s wedding. This was around the time of the flooding so it was kind of crazy. Our hotel (and the rest of the city) had restricted water usage, so no showers. But the wedding went on, and we are very happy to congratulate Kristi and Mike on their marriage.

Only 2 unblogged summer posts left!

June 28, 2008

This year we went to Breakfast on the Farm as part of Rochesterfest. This was my first breakfast on the farm because this year was the first year that people went at a reasonable hour in the morning.

We carpooled out to RCTC where we waited (in the rain) for the buses out to the farm. We didn’t bring enough umbrellas! Then we rode out to Towerview Farm, which is a dairy farm. There were volunteers there making mass quantities of pancakes. We toured the farm a little bit, but it started raining again.

Later on, in the evening, we went out to the Mayor’s Cup Balloon Race. The rain was against us again because they canceled the race that night because of it. However, they did put on a demonstration. In one of the pictures you can see the burners being lit.

Eh summer. It’s past my bedtime tonight.

May 26, 2008

Andy and I went to the Plummer House to see the gardens and flowers.