Janjanjan & Mark Too

Friday, October 10, 2008

Mama Mouse and such

I have had a few adventures since I last posted... and one of the coolest things

I have ever seen happened yesterday. Mark was going to grill some burgers on the grill, and when he opened the grill there was a nest in it. He soon discovered that the nest was occupied by a family of mice. He gently picked up the nest and moved it to the yard (actually the neighbor's yard, because I didn't want the mice coming back into our house!)... But they fell out of the nest... and we saw a Mama mouse on this little shelf below the grill with a baby in her mouth. After taking a couple of pictures, she decided to "escape" and ran by us... but in her haste she dropped two of the babies on the deck. I was really sad, and thought they were doomed (I know they will grow up to be mice someday.... ) but we went in the house and closed the door in case the Mama Mouse wanted to come and get them. Mark didn't think she would.... but she did!!!!! She came and got one, and ran

under the deck and then came back and got the other one. She came back again and went on the shelf to look for more babies, but they must have been still in the nest. I thought it was so neat that the mother mouse came back for her babies.... how cool is that? And I didn't even scream... but I did want Mark to wash the grill with bleach before he cooked the hamburgers.

Last weekend we went to Madison to have brunch with Chris and Annie at the Great Dane restaurant, and Neal (Chris' roommate who moved to Texas) and his parents were there too!

Turned out it was Neal's mom's birthday (her name is Jan too!) and she didn't know Neal was in Madison...

A good time and meal was had by all!

And Happy Birthday Jan!!!!

The fall colors are gorgeous this year, this is the view from my office.....

I travelled to Oshkosh last week to have dinner with friends, and shop in Cedarburg with Cindy, Lisa and Brownie

Dinner with the girls at Vitalle's

Cindy

Amy

Cori

And this is our new car... well, this one isn't ours, but it is the one we ordered..... we could get it any day now!

Hope everyone is Happy and Healthy!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Cranberry Fest

WARRENS, WI Cranberry Fest 2008

Harvesting Cranberries, which I thought grew in water... but Michael informed me that cranberries don't actually grow in the water. They grow in a bog, which is somewhere between dry land and a swamp in terms solidity. Because the bog is not solid enough to support machinery, and the fact that cranberries float, the bog is flooded for the harvest.

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(He is his father's son!)
Cranberries are really good for you, and Wisconsin's economy!

A view of a few of the people at the festival.....

Warrens WI Hosts a Cranberry Festival the last weekend in September every year. It started in 1973 with 3,500 people in attendance. It has grown to where 110,000 people attended the 3 day festival last year.

Mark and I went to Warrens yesterday to see what the festival was like. There were at least 50,000 people there, and many of them had carts, or walkers or strollers... and they were all shopping and eating. There were more than 1250 booths, and 3 miles of booth frontage.

For more information on the festival go to http://www.cranfest.com/

If anyone wants to go next year let me know... but make sure your in good shape! I pooped out before I saw everything! Another sign I am getting old......

Monday, September 22, 2008

Bats and Such

Not a whole lot has been going on here in Camelot.... we did have a visitor at our door on Sunday...Ms or Mr. Bat was at the back door... shaking. When Mark went to move her, she flew away. We think she was asleep in the patio umbrella and when Mark opened it up, she must have fallen out and was lying on the deck sort of stunned. Needless to say we decided to have lunch inside instead of on the deck.

Stella as been very clingy lately... sitting on my lap and following me everywhere. Here we are reading together.
She also enjoys cross stitch and working on the lap top. Her favorite TV shows are ones with barking dogs and doorbells.....

I have sighted the pan in pink.... in both camouflage and purple, but I haven't had a chance to get a picture. He wears the bunny ears everywhere!

Friday, September 19, 2008

Some thoughts for the week:

"Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason"
Jerry Seinfeld quotes (American television actor and comedian, b.1954

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
Woody Allen quotes (American actor, author, screenwriter and film director, b.1935)

"Remember as far as anyone knows, we're a nice normal family"
Dan Castellaneta quotes (American actor and writer, b.1958)

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Jack Handey quotes (American Comic Writer, Comedian and Actor on SNL. Famous for his Deep Thoughts, b.1949)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Man in Pink

A couple of weeks ago I was driving down Main Street in Friendship and I thought I saw a man walking down the street in pink underwear, wearing bunny ears. I did a double take, looked over my shoulder, and sure enough there was a man wearing pink underwear and bunny ears walking down the street. Then a few days later, I saw him again, this time wearing Hot Pink or Fushia underwear, bunny ears and carrying an umbrella (which made perfect sense because it was raining.) But darn, I didn't have my camera with me. I did tell several people about this man, but no one else seemed to have seen him. So today when I saw him, and he had a really nice set of underwear on today, I stopped and took a fast picture. I am really sorry the picture isn't clearer.. but if I see him again I will be sure and try for another shot.