I always asked for chicken & dumplings and cherry cheescake for my Birthday dinner when I was a kid. It was awesome 'cuz on our Birthday we didn't have to do the dishes. Ahhh, to be a kid again. :-)
So...the Vikings picked Tyler Thigpin from Coastal Carolina instead of Brady Quinn!! Is Thigpin a swedish name...Quinn was just too Irish, haha. Now that the draft is over I sort of miss it! Notre Dame had 6 players go! Actually Dad is here and he and Mike have been tracking it online.
Is there an actual plan for Uncle Bob's birthday? It would be nice to know. We wanna go see him and to help celebrate!
Also: With our plans to move toward a finished house as soon as possible, we have very little weekend time to spend, so knowing what is up will help immensely. Thanks!
Well, you saw Uncle Bob's schedule. I think the only time he will be available to celebrate his birthday will be next Sunday afternoon. And that's assuming he won't be hearing confessions all afternoon. But we'll check with him. Felicidades, Sean-o! I think we'll have Reubens tonight in your honor! The pork roast was awesome. Dad kept taking the platter around the table offering "Car-r-r-r-rne?" to everyone who was stuffed already.
I always asked for spagetti & meatballs for my birthday. Still my favorite dinner. Any more thoughts on Memorial Day weekend by anyone? The draft - the true test of a sports broadcaster's ability to fill up long stretches of nothing with endless but sometimes informative babble. If you can do the draft, you can do baseball. Brady Quinn ended up playing professional football close to his home for probably a couple million a year. He'll be fine.
Lisa...look at the schedule for Uncle Bob...and see what works best for you...we had him twice for dinner at our house already and then Dad took everyone out also. He workd every night this week, I think I'll try to hit a few of his talks. We totally work around his mission schedule and what Fr. Damien wants...I think this Sunday would be great...also the BIG parade on Saturday...
Tom, the pork loin was great! besides for the "rub" it soaked in beer all afternoon.
Today, I should be doing housework and bookwork. Instead, we are doing yardwork. Hey, it's work! Currently, Tom is creating the prototype for the board-n-batten style shutters we are going to hang on our casa. Once, we make a decision...I will paint them the color of our front door. I am very excited to turn our boring nanch into a cottagey-looking ranch. Mmm...I should have salad for lunch.
Who soaked in beer all afternoon? Pancake is no more. He lived up to the name Betty prophetically gave him about a month ago on River Road. It's time to start thinking about events for the Graveyard Games. We gotta keep the bicycle/polo mallet event. Remember, the travelling trophy must return.
It's called Mayan brown. It's along the lines of a rich, rusty...teracotta. The house is Camel. Tom hung window boxes on all the windows. They are a metal strapped, and coconut/moss filled style planter.
Everyone keep your eyes open for a cheap sturdy bike for bicycle croquet polo. I think one of those street bike types from a few years back would be best. We have a portable basketball hoop which I wouldlove to get out of my driveway. I think it would fit on our trailer and it could live at the farm in the pole barn. Think of an event for that. OK, now my computer is not allowing me to go back and insert corrections unless they take up the exact same number of spaces as the previous mistake. What gives? Make it stop! I don'tlike the football hike one,not just because I was the worst at it. How about some Tai Chi? My class starts next week (kidding). What about some kind of water balloon accuracy event or tossing eggs into a bucket on top of the head of the previous contestant?
I thought we could use those outdoor cooking devices that are usually, "poised," out on the tables...yes? :-) Like...what could one do with a wiener...or, a wing...or, any other animal body part we have left lying around! Ha, ha. :-<>
Happy Birthday Sean! We will be at the farm memorial day weekend. Ryan wants to know if he should bring the pressure washer and paint sprayer. He thinks we'll only have time to do the front of the house... unless more people show up to scrape. We could have an iron chef contest with wild game as the ingredient. Squirrel, anyone? How about HORSE for the b-ball hoop?
I cannot imagine pressure washing and painting on the same day...but, I dunno. Joe3 may know as I think he pressure washed and stained, his deck, last year.
Unless I hear otherwise from you, I am assuming that something is being planned for Sunday afternoon. I'm glad you had pork loin already... pork with saurkraut and arabsabrai with applesauce is his favourite dinner. Spaghetti is always a good bet.
I am still living at work and taping when I get home. Sorry to sound so blunt... I have a wrap-up meeting on the auction tomorrow night and I haven't even seen the data yet!
I have to paint my house this summer. It is peeling a lot and looks crappy, even though I just had it done three years ago. I just reserved an electric hydraulic "Z lift" for the first week in August for $600 from a place in Spencer, since hiring it out would cost well over $2000. The lift will go up to 27 feet and is safe. I won't go up on a ladder or let Joe either. I've been working in critical care long enough to nix that for anybody I love! Nobody do a rain dance the first week in August, ok!!! I think Joe3 is going to borrow a power washer for us to use, too. Home ownership is way over rated. Even with a new home, there is always something to do and life is short.
Potato Sack Race. How fast can you change your clothes? Log chopping contest. How long can you hold your hand over a flame? Burping Contest Hot Dog eating contest How fast can you find a croquet ball randomly placed with a bucket over your head? Who can get the dog to listen to them? Who smells the worst? Beer chug event.
Happy May Day! Today I must make May Day baskets to share with my friends/neighbors. It's a bit nerve wracking as there is someone who always sends us one that I have not made one for. This year, I think I will give out Free Dessert Gift Certificates for Sarah's. I mean, how many popcorn/candy cups can one person rceive? "Is it tacky to send out GC's?"
May Day is a commie holiday, Tom. However, it's maypole roots actually extend to pagan spring fertility rites. Google it!
I am about to ask my committee to help finish up some of these auction things that are really keeping me from accomplishing much of anything. Let's hope they say yes.
There is a big difference between giving out a few paper cups filled with popcorn and a few pieces of candy corn and giving a gift certificates. If it feels like an obligation and you don't have the desire/time to do anything, then just don't! When they bring their little cups over, you simply say thank you. Like Christmas cards, next year you'll just be off their lists. What's the worst that could happen? You'd be known as "that Straub family who doesn't give out their May baskets!!"
Yah, the boys really like being a part of the whole dealey-o. I just thought that GC's would be an, "easy," way out for me! Perhaps, I will buy a bunch-o-popcorn-balls when I am in Mason City today. :-)
May Day was one of my favorites...but here in Omaha you put the "cups" down on the front porch (with a clue as to who you are), ring the doorbell and run! It's fun, kids don't care what's in the cups...popcorn balls sound expensive. Caitlin and I did it untill just a few years ago!
Lisa...I'm think I'm done with dinners this week, I was thinking we should eat Mexican, since we'll be in South Omaha...or Polish at Cathy's!! I could look into getting a Mexican birthday cake, or else German Chocolate!
m.e.~ Yes, the boys love it :-) I think I'll just buy popcorn balls ($1/each). I'm trying to avoid the whole, "make the basket," thing we do every year. We have, like, 10 to make and Eli and Liam get super bored after basket #5. :-)
If you guys wanna buy something, at cost, through my Dad...that's cool. If not, that's cool too. :-) He can get almost anything that a person would place a Logo on. Perhaps, someone could be nominated to create the design? I nominate Desmond. :-)
We will host the birthday party for Uncle Bob. Sunday afternoon, don't know anything more specific than that. We also have lots of unoccupied bedrooms. The bathroom is ugly but the plumbing works. Stevo thinks pressure washing would be bad for such an old, porous house, possibly leading to mold problems inside, etc. I don't know if he's right or not. Any expert input? Ed, all your events are slanted toward the peculiar talents of males, except for tolerating pain and finding things. I like that event; all a woman would have to do to win is hide the ball under or behind something. I guess the dog one is neutral. How about: How fast can you change your bra without taking off your shirt? I have six fairly large, brightly colored buckets if anyone can devise a challenge using them (maybe for the kids) They're pretty and festive. Hey, I'm beginning to imagine a contest with six people at a time with buckets on their heads...
Martha Stewart says you should make simple paper cones out of pretty handmade paper with leaves and ferns embedded in the paper, make the handles out of pretty satin ribbons tied through holes you punch in the cones with your decorative-shape paper punch, and fill them with freshly picked violets and pansies and hang them on your neighbors' doorknobs and ring the doorbell and run away. Your neighbors will surrender in futility and leave you alone next year.
I don't think that any of my events were male biased execpt for perhaps the log splitting.
Potato Sack Race (might be biased) Change clothes? Not biased. Log chopping contest. Hold your hand over flame (not biased) Burping Contest (not biased) Hot Dog eating contest (not biased) How fast can you find a croquet ball randomly placed with a bucket over your head? (not biased) Who can get the dog to listen to them? (not biased - except for the owner) Who smells the worst? (not biased) Beer chug event. (not biased)
I too think the buckethead competition could be fun.
What about that silly game where you put your nose on the end of a bat and spin around ten times and then try to run. It always makes me laugh on America's Funniest Videos.
I went to Target today and just after Jude and I walked in we heard a terrible screech and crash. We walked back outside and saw a car had crashed into the corner of the building, taking out a chunk about 5 feet high and 2 feet deep. The lady next to me called 911 as well as several other people. I didn't see the driver, but apparently she was cut up pretty badly but seemed to have no serious injuries. When I was checking out,I said hello and how are you to the the 19ish looking little blonde checkout girl and she said that she alomost got hit by the car as she was walking into work and that she was pretty shaken up but her asshole manager wouldn't let her sit down for a minute. I told her to have some tea. I don't know why I said that. I guess I spent too much time in Macedonia where they think tea cures everything.
Take some. It's not like you're busy training for a marathon right now. Sorry!
Ellen got her lisence today and Sean tried to get his permit. He passed everything but the vision test. Stupid Straub eyes. Spent over two hours at the DMV. The computers crashed and they couldn't get the form to print up saying Sean had passed the written test. Hope he doesn't have to take it over.
I like the tv event. I wouldn't want to spoil the opportunity to gorge on great food by filling up at a hot dog eating contest. Maybe a pork chop contest. I went to a track meet here in Algona last nite. Boy, they're a lotta fun when you know some of the kids.
Should we have a competition for the dogs? Tom has crutches, too, for the wee bit taller contestant...of course, Randy would have to bring his own. Perhaps, for the bike/croquet ball event we should use a hockey stick? Ideas: Lawn darts. Red light, green light. Simon says. Duck, duck, gray duck.
If you are willing to host a birthday party, thank you so much. Just tell me what to bring. (within reason).
I do not believe we need to do games that show what idiots we can be... like holding your hand over a flame or beer chugging or even hot dog eating (I agree Joe's response on that one). I did like the football toss, despite the humiliating stace the tosser needs to take in order to hike the ball.
Let's not forget the trivial pursuit leg of the competition.
I say that we each get to pick our category. We will be asked 10 questions from that category. The one with the most right answers wins. In the unlikely event of a tie (cause I got this baby, hands down) questions will be asked until the contestent gets one wrong. The person answering the most consecutive questions wins.
Also, pin the tail on the donkey. Or some such version after taking a shot of liqour, being blindfolded and spun around 3 times.
My Straubgut is wreaking havoc on my summer wardrobe. Namely, my shorts. Other than elastic banded shorts I'm down to 1 pair of cargo type short that I can wear.
The thing is I'm not any heavier than I was this time last year. But, my gut has desecended forcing me to position the cargo shorts below the gut/love handle equator and suck in massively to get them on.
I'm too cheap to buy anymore until I try to lose some weight. Maybe I need a mangirdle. But, I'm sure that would screw up my picturesque golf swing.
On another note: who wants to canoe down the mighty Des Moines river with our family early this summer? The route I have planned will take about 5 hours and will end up about at the Call Park Bridge. We'll pack sammiches. Tom
hola! mi madre no esta bien. ella esta enferma mis primas y primos muy bien grasias. mi abuelita enferma. yo deceo ver toda la familia Straub y a tio padre pablo. yo mal de mi cavesa mucho dolor todos los dias. dice m.e. yo quiero aprender a halar y escribir espanol es muy buena idea que m.e.aprenda espanol. con amor Mely
yo deceo ver a todos ustedes muy pronto. nos veremos en la proxima rehunion. tengo mucho de que platicar si Dios lo permite llevare comida. una sorpresa de comida, mexicana.
Hello! My mother is not well. She is sick and my cousins are well, thank you. I wish to see the whole Straub family and Padre Pablo. The pain in my head hurts very much every day. Tell m.e. I want to teach her to write and speak Spanish, it's a very good idea for m.e. to learn spanish.
with love, Mely
Then anon wrote something like:
I hope to see you all soon. We will see you at the reunion shortly. I have something something if God will permit something food. Something something Mexican food.
Tom that canoe trip sounds like so much fun. I wish we lived closer to home.
Tom, if you go to www.desmoinesriver.org/canoeguide/dsmef.pdf it will describe your trip. We've gone on a few of the rivers around here and there are some really scenic trips around NE IA. We usually go on the Turkey River in August. It would be fun to go on a two day trip on the Upper Iowa. Ned Beatty said he would even join us, and my son Tom is learning "Dueling Banjos" on the guitar while grinning goofily.
Hey Tom, I've been thinking about your gravity problem - if that's what you want to call it. I have some ideas for you to shed lbs and inches quickly - and guys lose much more quickly than women, so seeing results should keep you motivated. First, give up all things white. Bread, pasta, rice potatoes.Ideally you should give up beer, but that's no fun. Switch to Ultra. This is not the no-carb diet, but lower, smarter carb diet. Then maybe you and the boys could make some sort of fitness contest since the weather is nice. For example, a few times a week, see how many times you can run around the perimeter of you back yard in twenty minutes, how may push-ups you can do in a minute. Finish with three minutes of crunches (full situps aren't that effective and place too much strain on the neck) and five minutes of stretching. I think maybe you and the boys (and Nance if she wants to of course) will take great satisfaction in improving your stats. Maybe say you'll do it three times a week all summer long to see how good you can get before school starts. The important thing is to get y our heart rate up for at least twenty minutes three times a week.
Or maybe you'd rather just sit down and have a beer and maybe the boys will take no interest in such an activity. Just a suggestion.
Also everyone, we've often lamented the bad Straub traits: Straubgut, Straubbutt, Straubeyes. But what about the good traits? Aside from a superiour intellect, of course. I'll go first. I think all the girls have a nice head of hair and none of us are freakishly tall.
Tom, if you do this or some similar program, I bet you lose at least three inches from your waist in three weeks. I'm serious. Measure yourself and see.
Straub traits: Familial love and loyalty. This is one of the many apsects, of Tom, that I fell in love with. I really liked how highly he spoke of his family. I felt as if I knew everyone before we ever met. Sometimes, people will ask me what it's like to be married into such a large family. I always respond that it is really nice and that his parents raised 14 people who grew up to really love and like one another.
Today is Grandparents Day at Seton. Your folks and mine are at Mass and then they get to visit Eli, Betty and Liam's classrooms and have a treat together in the Rochleau center. :-)
Hey, how about an event using exercise dance videos? With judging? We could go in heats of 4 or 6 and have a panel of kids (not our own) judge with little score paddles 1 thru 10. Example: a heat with Joe3, Tom, Nance, Joe K & Monica would not have any Straub or Kennedy kids judging. Or maybe judged by audience applause. Athletic and silly. Tae-bo, anyone?
I have Tae-bo; Richard Simmons; Weight Watcher's;buns, hips, thighs and abs-o-steal;Yoga for Dummies and Pilates. Of course, they're all still cellophane wrapped...
Also, an advantage of a dance-exercise vidoe competition is that if we made it official right now, everyone will start buying exercise videos now to secretly practice and we will all be in better shape and have some smokin' hot moves by game day. Hey! A Napoleon Dynamite dance-alike contest! Come on! It would be great!
The people who stayed with us last night (Uncle Bob's friends)...one was a 20 year old college student from Kansas City (real pretty) and hew Mom from St. Louis...They are putting together with a cruise line, an "Alaskan Cruise With Padre Pablo Straub"! for next summer...sounds pretty cool. Along with some other nationally known Catholics...I bet it sells out!
George Tenet is a yes-man appointed by Clinton. When GBII took over he was looking at replacing GT and some Congressman with whom GT was buddy buddy told GBII that GT was a good man and right for the job and if he didn't believe it he should ask his (GBII's) father about it. Well GBII DID ask his father (GBI) about GT and GBI vouged for him.
A couple of months later GT spearheaded the movement to get the CIA headquarters named after Bush Senior. So - GT may be a good political mover, but he is shit for a CIA head and this is the kind of crap GB surrounds himself with. Kiss asses with no real ability.
Re: The Straub teeth and glasses. Mike LaVelle told me a cute story...a while back. He said that when he and Mary were first together...that he was sitting, at your folks, and reading the paper. He felt like he was being watched and when he moved his paper to the side...all he saw were three sets of glasses and teeth. The three sets were Pete, Tom and Jim.
(I hope I got that story right...Mike can correct me if I'm wrong.) :-)
All that may be true, Ed. I mentioned what I did because, while I've come to realize Bush is incompetent, I still believe he did not seek to fabric any facts as to whether or not there were WMDs in Iraq. He didn't have to.
solo espanol yo fui a mexico y ay mucho calor. mi madre vive en una casita muy chiquita donde tienen problemas con la preccion del agua. y mal drenaje, y las casitas no estan vien edificadas. tio padre pablo cuando hira a Ciudad Hidalgo o sea Suchiate? my Mom new addrees is Maria Antonia Aquino Barrios Fraccionamiento Vida Mejor Manzana 7 L#244 Municipio de Suchiate or Ciudad Hidalgo Chiapas Mexico Codigo Postal 30840 mi madre no esta muy bien de salud y no vive muy vien por las problemas de las casas y ya enpesaron las lluvias y bueno solo les pido muchas oraciones para mi madre y toda la jente en Suchiate or Ciudad Hidalgo hey Emily que puedes traducir todo lo escrito? Dios los vendiga los veremos muy pronto en la rehunion
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Happy Birthday, Sean
Gonna mow the lawn?
Not on your special day
Just say, "No way!"
Flex that Birthday brawn.
Happy Birthday! Have a spectacular day!
Sean's requested birthday menu:
Reubens
Seasalt and Vinegar Chips
Strawberry Shortcake
Happy Birthday Sean!
You're my favorite 14 year old.
Well, add a beer and that sounds like the perfect meal.
p
I always asked for chicken & dumplings and cherry cheescake for my Birthday dinner when I was a kid. It was awesome 'cuz on our Birthday we didn't have to do the dishes. Ahhh, to be a kid again. :-)
i think i'm gonna have a rueben too... that sounds great. happy birthday sean.
Happy Birthday Sean!
You are the rock...
'cause you're cool,
and like reubens...
with salty chips.
Have a great birthday!
So...the Vikings picked Tyler Thigpin from Coastal Carolina instead of Brady Quinn!! Is Thigpin a swedish name...Quinn was just too Irish, haha. Now that the draft is over I sort of miss it! Notre Dame had 6 players go! Actually Dad is here and he and Mike have been tracking it online.
Mike, how did the pork loin turn out?
Tom
We spent literally all day, yesterday, working in the yard. My body aches.
I think I wanna go eat at Monical's for Sean's birthday dinner. And to tell Sean HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GUY! Driver's permit just around the corner!
Is there an actual plan for Uncle Bob's birthday? It would be nice to know. We wanna go see him and to help celebrate!
Also: With our plans to move toward a finished house as soon as possible, we have very little weekend time to spend, so knowing what is up will help immensely. Thanks!
Happy Birthday Sean!
Well, you saw Uncle Bob's schedule. I think the only time he will be available to celebrate his birthday will be next Sunday afternoon. And that's assuming he won't be hearing confessions all afternoon. But we'll check with him.
Felicidades, Sean-o! I think we'll have Reubens tonight in your honor!
The pork roast was awesome. Dad kept taking the platter around the table offering "Car-r-r-r-rne?" to everyone who was stuffed already.
I always asked for spagetti & meatballs for my birthday. Still my favorite dinner.
Any more thoughts on Memorial Day weekend by anyone?
The draft - the true test of a sports broadcaster's ability to fill up long stretches of nothing with endless but sometimes informative babble. If you can do the draft, you can do baseball. Brady Quinn ended up playing professional football close to his home for probably a couple million a year. He'll be fine.
Cathy we can be there for Memeorial Day if needed. We have no real plans.
Just came back from an hour and a half bike ride. Now my bum hurts.
We worked outside yesterday too Nance. I love this time of year.
Oops, that was Monica not Monca.
Lisa...look at the schedule for Uncle Bob...and see what works best for you...we had him twice for dinner at our house already and then Dad took everyone out also. He workd every night this week, I think I'll try to hit a few of his talks.
We totally work around his mission schedule and what Fr. Damien wants...I think this Sunday would be great...also the BIG parade on Saturday...
Tom, the pork loin was great! besides for the "rub" it soaked in beer all afternoon.
Today, I should be doing housework and bookwork. Instead, we are doing yardwork. Hey, it's work!
Currently, Tom is creating the prototype for the board-n-batten style shutters we are going to hang on our casa. Once, we make a decision...I will paint them the color of our front door. I am very excited to turn our boring nanch into a cottagey-looking ranch. Mmm...I should have salad for lunch.
Sounds like a pretty plan...I can't remember what color your front door is.
Who soaked in beer all afternoon?
Pancake is no more. He lived up to the name Betty prophetically gave him about a month ago on River Road.
It's time to start thinking about events for the Graveyard Games. We gotta keep the bicycle/polo mallet event. Remember, the travelling trophy must return.
It's called Mayan brown. It's along the lines of a rich, rusty...teracotta. The house is Camel. Tom hung window boxes on all the windows. They are a metal strapped, and coconut/moss filled style planter.
Sorry about Pancake.
Everyone keep your eyes open for a cheap sturdy bike for bicycle croquet polo. I think one of those street bike types from a few years back would be best. We have a portable basketball hoop which I wouldlove to get out of my driveway. I think it would fit on our trailer and it could live at the farm in the pole barn. Think of an event for that. OK, now my computer is not allowing me to go back and insert corrections unless they take up the exact same number of spaces as the previous mistake. What gives? Make it stop!
I don'tlike the football hike one,not just because I was the worst at it. How about some Tai Chi? My class starts next week (kidding). What about some kind of water balloon accuracy event or tossing eggs into a bucket on top of the head of the previous contestant?
The second round of favorite mascott voting is here, Notre Dame is wayyyyy behind, to the Wyoming Cowboys. So get on this web site and vote:
http://www.sportsline.com/spin/story/10153562?spinpollhumans7v15
Don't be a slacker, and vote for ISU
How 'bout an Iron Chef contest? Would, probably, have to limit the number of contestants. Could be a contest in the event of a tie?
Iron Chef without using the kitchen...that would be fun!
Cathy, hit the insert button on your keyboard. It's above the arrows. Scott had to show me that.
Happy BIrthday Sean! I think we'll have reubens tomorrow. Actually we'll have Rachaels.
I thought we could use those outdoor cooking devices that are usually, "poised," out on the tables...yes? :-)
Like...what could one do with a wiener...or, a wing...or, any other animal body part we have left lying around! Ha, ha. :-<>
Happy Birthday Sean!
We will be at the farm memorial day weekend. Ryan wants to know if he should bring the pressure washer and paint sprayer. He thinks we'll only have time to do the front of the house... unless more people show up to scrape.
We could have an iron chef contest with wild game as the ingredient. Squirrel, anyone? How about HORSE for the b-ball hoop?
Can you pressure wash and paint the same day, or should the wood dry out overnight? Don mentioned that last year.
I cannot imagine pressure washing and painting on the same day...but, I dunno. Joe3 may know as I think he pressure washed and stained, his deck, last year.
Unless I hear otherwise from you, I am assuming that something is being planned for Sunday afternoon. I'm glad you had pork loin already... pork with saurkraut and arabsabrai with applesauce is his favourite dinner. Spaghetti is always a good bet.
I am still living at work and taping when I get home. Sorry to sound so blunt... I have a wrap-up meeting on the auction tomorrow night and I haven't even seen the data yet!
I think you have to let the wood dry a few days before you paint.
We had it done last year to our deck before we moved.
I have to paint my house this summer. It is peeling a lot and looks crappy, even though I just had it done three years ago. I just reserved an electric hydraulic "Z lift" for the first week in August for $600 from a place in Spencer, since hiring it out would cost well over $2000. The lift will go up to 27 feet and is safe. I won't go up on a ladder or let Joe either. I've been working in critical care long enough to nix that for anybody I love! Nobody do a rain dance the first week in August, ok!!! I think Joe3 is going to borrow a power washer for us to use, too. Home ownership is way over rated. Even with a new home, there is always something to do and life is short.
Kel
Sean,
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Des
I agree (about home ownership).
What is a rachael?
Event for the games:
Potato Sack Race.
How fast can you change your clothes?
Log chopping contest.
How long can you hold your hand over a flame?
Burping Contest
Hot Dog eating contest
How fast can you find a croquet ball randomly placed with a bucket over your head?
Who can get the dog to listen to them?
Who smells the worst?
Beer chug event.
Those are my ideas.
A Rachel is a Rueben made with turkey. :-)
Happy May Day! Today I must make May Day baskets to share with my friends/neighbors. It's a bit nerve wracking as there is someone who always sends us one that I have not made one for. This year, I think I will give out Free Dessert Gift Certificates for Sarah's. I mean, how many popcorn/candy cups can one person rceive?
"Is it tacky to send out GC's?"
May Day is a by gone notion, but unfortunately not in our neighborhood. (Isn't it a holdover from the commie revolutionary days anyway?)
I say "forget" that it is May Day>
Tom
May Day is a commie holiday, Tom. However, it's maypole roots actually extend to pagan spring fertility rites. Google it!
I am about to ask my committee to help finish up some of these auction things that are really keeping me from accomplishing much of anything. Let's hope they say yes.
The first year we realized that our neighbor's love to celebrate May Day, I thought it was so very sweet. Now, it feels like an obligation.
There is a big difference between giving out a few paper cups filled with popcorn and a few pieces of candy corn and giving a gift certificates. If it feels like an obligation and you don't have the desire/time to do anything, then just don't! When they bring their little cups over, you simply say thank you. Like Christmas cards, next year you'll just be off their lists. What's the worst that could happen? You'd be known as "that Straub family who doesn't give out their May baskets!!"
Yah, the boys really like being a part of the whole dealey-o. I just thought that GC's would be an, "easy," way out for me! Perhaps, I will buy a bunch-o-popcorn-balls when I am in Mason City today. :-)
Maybe buy some popcorn, candy corn, cups, and ribbon or stickers and let the boys make the cups this year after school!! Easy and fun!!
May Day was one of my favorites...but here in Omaha you put the "cups" down on the front porch (with a clue as to who you are), ring the doorbell and run! It's fun, kids don't care what's in the cups...popcorn balls sound expensive. Caitlin and I did it untill just a few years ago!
Lisa...I'm think I'm done with dinners this week, I was thinking we should eat Mexican, since we'll be in South Omaha...or Polish at Cathy's!! I could look into getting a Mexican birthday cake, or else German Chocolate!
m.e.~ Yes, the boys love it :-) I think I'll just buy popcorn balls ($1/each). I'm trying to avoid the whole, "make the basket," thing we do every year. We have, like, 10 to make and Eli and Liam get super bored after basket #5. :-)
Glad we are talking about the Graveyard games. I have so... many t-shirts. Can we try something else? Maybe bandanna, coolie hat or cup holder.
who is anon? is it P?
A beer stein?
Tom
If you guys wanna buy something, at cost, through my Dad...that's cool. If not, that's cool too. :-) He can get almost anything that a person would place a Logo on. Perhaps, someone could be nominated to create the design?
I nominate Desmond. :-)
Sweat bands.
capes?
What about a tshirt with the phelan coat of arms on it? Mom and Dad have it hanging at home.
No. I don't post anonymous.
P
happy birthday Sean!!
We will host the birthday party for Uncle Bob. Sunday afternoon, don't know anything more specific than that. We also have lots of unoccupied bedrooms. The bathroom is ugly but the plumbing works.
Stevo thinks pressure washing would be bad for such an old, porous house, possibly leading to mold problems inside, etc. I don't know if he's right or not. Any expert input?
Ed, all your events are slanted toward the peculiar talents of males, except for tolerating pain and finding things. I like that event; all a woman would have to do to win is hide the ball under or behind something. I guess the dog one is neutral. How about: How fast can you change your bra without taking off your shirt? I have six fairly large, brightly colored buckets if anyone can devise a challenge using them (maybe for the kids) They're pretty and festive. Hey, I'm beginning to imagine a contest with six people at a time with buckets on their heads...
Six people, lurching between the trees, with bright blue, purple and teal buckets on their heads...help me out here. It's good.
How about cheap straw cowboy hats with a logo on the front?
A squirrel cooking contest sounds kind of fun and edgy.
I'm also firmly in favor of pagan spring fertility celebrations - any way you can.
Martha Stewart says you should make simple paper cones out of pretty handmade paper with leaves and ferns embedded in the paper, make the handles out of pretty satin ribbons tied through holes you punch in the cones with your decorative-shape paper punch, and fill them with freshly picked violets and pansies and hang them on your neighbors' doorknobs and ring the doorbell and run away. Your neighbors will surrender in futility and leave you alone next year.
I don't think that any of my events were male biased execpt for perhaps the log splitting.
Potato Sack Race (might be biased)
Change clothes? Not biased.
Log chopping contest.
Hold your hand over flame (not biased)
Burping Contest (not biased)
Hot Dog eating contest (not biased)
How fast can you find a croquet ball randomly placed with a bucket over your head? (not biased)
Who can get the dog to listen to them? (not biased - except for the owner)
Who smells the worst? (not biased)
Beer chug event. (not biased)
I too think the buckethead competition could be fun.
It is also Law Day, so happy Law Day Joe III and Grampa. And the rest of you, I guess.
We could get coozies, Molly and Brian did that for their wedding.
Game ideas:
Frisbee catch is fun.
Water Balloon toss
Who can get the best reception on the TV?
How 'bout a pug toss competition?
Tom
Howabout a silly law competition?
What about that silly game where you put your nose on the end of a bat and spin around ten times and then try to run. It always makes me laugh on America's Funniest Videos.
I went to Target today and just after Jude and I walked in we heard a terrible screech and crash. We walked back outside and saw a car had crashed into the corner of the building, taking out a chunk about 5 feet high and 2 feet deep. The lady next to me called 911 as well as several other people. I didn't see the driver, but apparently she was cut up pretty badly but seemed to have no serious injuries. When I was checking out,I said hello and how are you to the the 19ish looking little blonde checkout girl and she said that she alomost got hit by the car as she was walking into work and that she was pretty shaken up but her asshole manager wouldn't let her sit down for a minute. I told her to have some tea. I don't know why I said that. I guess I spent too much time in Macedonia where they think tea cures everything.
Mely...como esta? Como esta su Madre y primas y primos?
Yo quiere habla espanol...tiengo habla espanol a Tio Padre Pablo y Sr. Ana Marie en Omaha...I want to take Spanish classes!
HOla M.E. y Mely.
Quiero hablar espanol tambien. Mary, dice Tio Padre Pable "Hola" para mi por favor. Deseo verlo pronto.
Take some. It's not like you're busy training for a marathon right now. Sorry!
Ellen got her lisence today and Sean tried to get his permit. He passed everything but the vision test. Stupid Straub eyes. Spent over two hours at the DMV. The computers crashed and they couldn't get the form to print up saying Sean had passed the written test. Hope he doesn't have to take it over.
Oops license. I thought it looked wrong.
Monica
We rec'd many cups-o-popcorn/candy and we delivered boxes-o-juice bags to wash 'em down. It's all good in the hood.
Congratulations Monica, Ellen and Sean at the DMV! :-)
Monica, usted no es remorseful, yo tienga a crutch marathon, manana...usted es a futball(soccer) mama.
Emilia, que es deseo verlo?
Deseo verlo pronto = I hope to see him soon.
Ellen, I like your idea about the coozies...or ball caps.
How do you say coozie in spanish, Mary?
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I like the tv event.
I wouldn't want to spoil the opportunity to gorge on great food by filling up at a hot dog eating contest. Maybe a pork chop contest.
I went to a track meet here in Algona last nite. Boy, they're a lotta fun when you know some of the kids.
Should we have a competition for the dogs?
Tom has crutches, too, for the wee bit taller contestant...of course, Randy would have to bring his own.
Perhaps, for the bike/croquet ball event we should use a hockey stick?
Ideas:
Lawn darts.
Red light, green light.
Simon says.
Duck, duck, gray duck.
Some of the events may have to be contingent upon whether or not Dr. Kennedy is present...yes? Ha, ha.
Kat, from Miami Ink, could come and put tattoo's on us?!
Cathy
If you are willing to host a birthday party, thank you so much. Just tell me what to bring. (within reason).
I do not believe we need to do games that show what idiots we can be... like holding your hand over a flame or beer chugging or even hot dog eating (I agree Joe's response on that one). I did like the football toss, despite the humiliating stace the tosser needs to take in order to hike the ball.
P..ese es cervesa brassierre.
I believe that's how you say beer coozie!
What about an event with a slip-n-slide? Hmm.
I also liked the walnut chipping.
Regarding kids: A foot race is obvious, also some others like who stole the cookie from the cookie jar, long jump, hula hoop, etc.
points: does the lowest score win? Do those who don't participate in an event get a score equal to the number of people who are playing?
Let's not forget the trivial pursuit leg of the competition.
I say that we each get to pick our category. We will be asked 10 questions from that category. The one with the most right answers wins. In the unlikely event of a tie (cause I got this baby, hands down) questions will be asked until the contestent gets one wrong. The person answering the most consecutive questions wins.
Also, pin the tail on the donkey. Or some such version after taking a shot of liqour, being blindfolded and spun around 3 times.
Tom
My Straubgut is wreaking havoc on my summer wardrobe. Namely, my shorts. Other than elastic banded shorts I'm down to 1 pair of cargo type short that I can wear.
The thing is I'm not any heavier than I was this time last year. But, my gut has desecended forcing me to position the cargo shorts below the gut/love handle equator and suck in massively to get them on.
I'm too cheap to buy anymore until I try to lose some weight. Maybe I need a mangirdle. But, I'm sure that would screw up my picturesque golf swing.
On another note: who wants to canoe down the mighty Des Moines river with our family early this summer? The route I have planned will take about 5 hours and will end up about at the Call Park Bridge. We'll pack sammiches.
Tom
You better not pack too many.
hola! mi madre no esta bien.
ella esta enferma
mis primas y primos muy bien grasias.
mi abuelita enferma.
yo deceo ver toda la familia Straub
y a tio padre pablo.
yo mal de mi cavesa mucho dolor
todos los dias.
dice m.e. yo quiero aprender a halar y escribir espanol
es muy buena idea que m.e.aprenda espanol.
con amor
Mely
yo deceo ver a todos ustedes muy pronto.
nos veremos en la proxima rehunion.
tengo mucho de que platicar
si Dios lo permite llevare comida.
una sorpresa de comida, mexicana.
What? Huh?
Ok, this is what I understood from Mely's post:
Hello! My mother is not well. She is sick and my cousins are well, thank you. I wish to see the whole Straub family and Padre Pablo. The pain in my head hurts very much every day. Tell m.e. I want to teach her to write and speak Spanish, it's a very good idea for m.e. to learn spanish.
with love, Mely
Then anon wrote something like:
I hope to see you all soon. We will see you at the reunion shortly. I have something something if God will permit something food. Something something Mexican food.
Tom that canoe trip sounds like so much fun. I wish we lived closer to home.
Can the swamp people be involved in the games this year?
Lawn darts are illegal, but I know where I can get my hands on some...
A good dog contest would be to see whose dog can eat the most flies out of the window?
Gracias, Mely!! La mal de cavesa usted, yo habla a Tio Padre Pablo y habla a Dios, todos habla a Dios por la mal de cavesa a Mely :-(
I was saying I'll ask Uncle Fr. Bob to say a prayer for your headaches!
Uncl Bob just called and asked if 2 people who just flew in from St. Louis can stay here...I said sure...I better let Mike know! hehe
Tom, if you go to www.desmoinesriver.org/canoeguide/dsmef.pdf it will describe your trip. We've gone on a few of the rivers around here and there are some really scenic trips around NE IA. We usually go on the Turkey River in August. It would be fun to go on a two day trip on the Upper Iowa. Ned Beatty said he would even join us, and my son Tom is learning "Dueling Banjos" on the guitar while grinning goofily.
Oh, you guys! Girls just wanna have fun-hn.
Hey Tom, I've been thinking about your gravity problem - if that's what you want to call it. I have some ideas for you to shed lbs and inches quickly - and guys lose much more quickly than women, so seeing results should keep you motivated. First, give up all things white. Bread, pasta, rice potatoes.Ideally you should give up beer, but that's no fun. Switch to Ultra. This is not the no-carb diet, but lower, smarter carb diet. Then maybe you and the boys could make some sort of fitness contest since the weather is nice. For example, a few times a week, see how many times you can run around the perimeter of you back yard in twenty minutes, how may push-ups you can do in a minute. Finish with three minutes of crunches (full situps aren't that effective and place too much strain on the neck) and five minutes of stretching. I think maybe you and the boys (and Nance if she wants to of course) will take great satisfaction in improving your stats. Maybe say you'll do it three times a week all summer long to see how good you can get before school starts. The important thing is to get y our heart rate up for at least twenty minutes three times a week.
Or maybe you'd rather just sit down and have a beer and maybe the boys will take no interest in such an activity. Just a suggestion.
Also everyone, we've often lamented the bad Straub traits: Straubgut, Straubbutt, Straubeyes. But what about the good traits? Aside from a superiour intellect, of course.
I'll go first. I think all the girls have a nice head of hair and none of us are freakishly tall.
Tom, if you do this or some similar program, I bet you lose at least three inches from your waist in three weeks. I'm serious. Measure yourself and see.
wait, Tom, your stomach dropped? doesn't that mean the baby is due?
What about man boobs? What can be done about those?
Straub traits: Familial love and loyalty.
This is one of the many apsects, of Tom, that I fell in love with. I really liked how highly he spoke of his family. I felt as if I knew everyone before we ever met. Sometimes, people will ask me what it's like to be married into such a large family. I always respond that it is really nice and that his parents raised 14 people who grew up to really love and like one another.
Today is Grandparents Day at Seton.
Your folks and mine are at Mass and then they get to visit Eli, Betty and Liam's classrooms and have a treat together in the Rochleau center. :-)
Re: Man boobs.
Do you mean personally or as an event...or, both?
I would settle for some man boobs.
Hey, how about an event using exercise dance videos? With judging? We could go in heats of 4 or 6 and have a panel of kids (not our own) judge with little score paddles 1 thru 10. Example: a heat with Joe3, Tom, Nance, Joe K & Monica would not have any Straub or Kennedy kids judging. Or maybe judged by audience applause. Athletic and silly. Tae-bo, anyone?
I have Tae-bo; Richard Simmons; Weight Watcher's;buns, hips, thighs and abs-o-steal;Yoga for Dummies and Pilates. Of course, they're all still cellophane wrapped...
I think if we have any kind of cooking competition it should be a catch-or-harvest the food yourself contest. Mmmm...tiny frog legs...
Also, an advantage of a dance-exercise vidoe competition is that if we made it official right now, everyone will start buying exercise videos now to secretly practice and we will all be in better shape and have some smokin' hot moves by game day. Hey! A Napoleon Dynamite dance-alike contest! Come on! It would be great!
The people who stayed with us last night (Uncle Bob's friends)...one was a 20 year old college student from Kansas City (real pretty) and hew Mom from St. Louis...They are putting together with a cruise line, an "Alaskan Cruise With Padre Pablo Straub"! for next summer...sounds pretty cool. Along with some other nationally known Catholics...I bet it sells out!
George Bush: "Mr. Director, does your agency believe Saddam to have weapons of mass destruction?"
George Tenant: "Yes, we can be certian that he does, given the information we have."
Staight from the horses mouth.
Tom
George Tenet is a yes-man appointed by Clinton. When GBII took over he was looking at replacing GT and some Congressman with whom GT was buddy buddy told GBII that GT was a good man and right for the job and if he didn't believe it he should ask his (GBII's) father about it. Well GBII DID ask his father (GBI) about GT and GBI vouged for him.
A couple of months later GT spearheaded the movement to get the CIA headquarters named after Bush Senior. So - GT may be a good political mover, but he is shit for a CIA head and this is the kind of crap GB surrounds himself with. Kiss asses with no real ability.
Well said, Ed.
Well, Straubs may not have the straightest teeth, but they seem to be sturdy. That's a good trait.
P
I would like to get an idea of who is coming on Sunday to celebrate Uncle Bob's birthday. It's in the afternoon, probably early. Come if you can.
Re: The Straub teeth and glasses.
Mike LaVelle told me a cute story...a while back. He said that when he and Mary were first together...that he was sitting, at your folks, and reading the paper. He felt like he was being watched and when he moved his paper to the side...all he saw were three sets of glasses and teeth. The three sets were Pete, Tom and Jim.
(I hope I got that story right...Mike can correct me if I'm wrong.) :-)
All that may be true, Ed. I mentioned what I did because, while I've come to realize Bush is incompetent, I still believe he did not seek to fabric any facts as to whether or not there were WMDs in Iraq. He didn't have to.
Tom
solo espanol
yo fui a mexico y ay mucho calor.
mi madre vive en una casita muy chiquita donde tienen problemas con la preccion del agua. y mal drenaje, y las casitas no estan vien edificadas.
tio padre pablo cuando hira a Ciudad Hidalgo o sea Suchiate? my Mom new addrees is
Maria Antonia Aquino Barrios
Fraccionamiento Vida Mejor
Manzana 7 L#244
Municipio de Suchiate or Ciudad Hidalgo Chiapas Mexico
Codigo Postal 30840
mi madre no esta muy bien de salud y no vive muy vien por las problemas de las casas y ya enpesaron las lluvias y bueno
solo les pido muchas oraciones para mi madre y toda la jente en Suchiate or Ciudad Hidalgo
hey Emily que puedes traducir todo lo escrito? Dios los vendiga los
veremos muy pronto en la rehunion
Stop that!
Thanks for saying happy birthday to me everyone
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