Des looks like he's about to impart some great wisdom but he knows the secret of life is really just a great joke. Happy b-day Des. Ty wants to go to Chuck E. Cheese for his b-day. Hurray....
Happy Birthday to the eldest of the cousins May your day be fun and full of bad jokes You never called back to tell me what you wanted So I want to Bomgaars and bought you a baby duck! Love you, Mom
Happy belated wishes to Peter K, super hero and to Ty, who is also full of super mischeif.
Happy birthday to Ryan and to Desy. Desy, looks like you are being blessed by the Spirit in that picture. I'll expect more great things out of you now. I think everyone needs to get a picture like that. Many only the chosen do...
Sunny. The Molly tree is gone plus two huge limbs and assorted smaller branches from the walnut. What's left of my shady garden is cowering in the glare of the sun. I can hear the silent screams: "What IS that??? Turn it off, ple-e-e-e-ease!!!!!"
Happy Birthday, Des. It looks like you're photosynthesizing just great. Happy birthday Ty, you handsome devil. Can't wait to see you.
254 Kenmore Ave. Council Bluffs, IA 51503 712-352-0578
I think it's time everyone sent their addresses and etc. to Cathy for that address list update. We can put it on a spreadsheet this time. It will be easier to update and it will be in a more flexible format. lisa
Happy birthday Des and Ty. Those are great photos of both of you. Who took that photo of Des?
Help! A mama rabbit abandoned her babies in the soft little nest she built for them under the tower portion of the swingset. How can I prevent these little bunnies from starving to death? I don't have time to dropper feed 4 bunnies. They are so cute. Do you think they'll munch on lettuce or carrots? They haven't touched the spinach I threw in there.
Sratch that, it's 7 baby bunnies. I just tried to give them a little water and they're just all huddled togther with their eyes open - staring like they don't know what to do.
Grace, I thought they still served beer, just not pitchers of beer! Is there no beer now? Then forget it...that's what made the pizza taste soooo good. haha
OOOH, poor baby bunnies. Can you domesticate them and sell them? Cathy your yard looks so lush.
Peter says thank you for the birthday wishes. He received a Hummer RC truck and a giant squirt gun and some flashy lights to put on his bike. Oh and a battleship game. He then went to Kernels game which had fireworks afterwards. He also had breakfast in bed and swimming in the afternoon. An all around good day.
Happy Birthday Ty and Des. Des, that's my godmotherly wisdom shining down on you.
I was walking this morning at 7:30...as I walked by an elderly lady sitting on her front steps yelled out to me, "can you help me...can you help me?!!"...I ran across the street up to her steps and said I certainly can help and I moved toward her to help her up...she then reached down by her feet and picked up a pair of hedge clippers and asked me if I could please clip the weed growing up in her hedge!! I did it.
When they keep hiring more administrative staff, it's the beginning of the end, or at least the beginning of things getting all screwed up. That's my uninformed opinion.
Wait until the kids are asleep then put those baby bunnies out of their misery. It's the kind thing to do.
Besides - do you want to find every plant you love in your yard ravaged? While living in Des Moines we had a huge bunny problem and I found out why Mr. McGregor was so cruel to the rabbits in his garden.
I could never bring myself to kill a little bunny. Are you kidding? I can't even picture it in my head. I know they eat everything because the elder ones already are/have, but still...
You know, the ten million questions a day thing was cute for about ten minutes. "Why is it stormy? Why is it so windy? Why are the branches blowing? Why did you breathe like that? Why this? Why that? Why why why???"
So I got this gift certificate to a trendy restaurant in Chicago from some company I work with. It's called Alinea. It's supposed to be the most ridiculous dining experience. We'll be having the four hour 14 course tasting menu. I've been told there is one course that is served on an airy pillow filled with lavender. When they set the plate down, the smell of lavender seeps out of the pillow and trickles up your nose enhancing the taste of whatever strange meat or cheese. I can't wait to hold back the laugher when that arrives.
We had to make reservations about a month and a half ago because its rumored that the 29 year old chef has tongue cancer and wont be with us much longer. It's tough to get a table at a restaurant with a dying chef apparently.
Anyway, when I made the reservation way back when the uptight guy on the other end of the phone asked if me or anybody in my party would have difficulty making it up the stairs. I told him no, but we might need some help getting down the stairs, especially if we have the wine pairing. My joke was met with a moment of judgemental silence.
I think I might ask if they have beer pairing for every course.
Emily, maybe I'll pick up a recipe idea for baby rabbits.
Everything is expensive, but there is a hops shortage so beer is extra expensive. Andy had to go to PA for work and went to some fancy-shmancy restaurant. Their upcoming special is something in a live sea urchin. Weird. They sat at the bar and he said the bartender made fun of everyone else in there because he was so into fashion and they all looked really ugly. Meanwhile, Andy was sitting there in his Target polo and because it was last minute visit, didn;t really pack right so his shoes and pants didn't match. I bet the guy really made fun of him after they left. He was in Hershey, which he said was also a very weird town. What is all factory towns completely embraced their company? I can't imagine living in a town dedicated to like Arm'n'Hammer or something.
In a word: unnecessary. We had 12 courses, each more theatrical than the next. My girlfriend nearly booted by the time we got to the duck leg in a cube of soft chocolate. But there were some interesting dishes to say the least.
There was a cold potato soup served in a shot-glass sized dish with a piece hot potato suspended above it by a wire. When you pulled what equated to a grenade pin, the hot potato dropped in to the cold potato and you shot it like tequila.
There was a dish that was served in a moat of mint leaves. When they brought it to your table, they poured boiling water in the moat to create a spa like effect while you ate whatever it was that was in the middle.
At the beginning of the meal they brought these two wooden pins that held two frozen things in them. As the meal progressed, the frozen things thawed revealing Wagyu beef carpaccio. When it came time, they brought out a hot plate with mound of seed-encrusted butter on it and placed the beef on the butter. I watched as my beef cooked in front of me.
I was freaked out when they brought caprese salad with mozzerella that steamed like dry ice. I thought my tongue was going to stick to it.
All in all, there was a lot of searching for what was good in each dish. You had to look underneath a gelatinous sheet of Guinness to find a perfectly cooked piece of short rib. You had to sift through a pile of lobster and green tea foam to find the tiny bit wonderful lobster. Or, as I described earlier, cut the bar of soft chocolate in half to find a savory strand of duck meat.
It was completely ridiculous, but I think that’s what made it great. You could sense that even the wait staff were holding back the chuckles as they described the bacon swing.
I wouldn’t recommend spending your own money at this place. We had a gift certificate and the average bill is as much as a mortgage payment. But wouldn’t recommend against something like this, either. I’ll remember it for a long time.
At the very least they had some of the best wines I have ever tasted.
Yes, and you will also save $ by not filling your lawn mower tank.
I want to have a completely ridiculous dining experience some day. I suspect it would never live up to the satisfaction of a fish fry using fish caught just hours earlier, though. Paired with a cold beer and cucmber-tomato salad.
The bacon swing (Jen coined that term) is the middle of a three part of a rapid progression of bites. I likened it to lick it, slam it, suck it. It goes as follows:
1. A piece of meat at the end of a wire spike that sticks in your face at about eye level. Eat it with no hands.
2. The bacon swing. Like an eight inch bow (as in bow and arrow) made from metal. The curved part rocks on the table like a rocking horse. A piece of wire connect to the two ends of the bow. From the wire hangs a single piece of bacon soaked in apricot and sprinkled with sea salt. Tear it off and eat it.
3. A shot glass with a mysterious ball floating in it. Close your mouth after shooting it because the ball explodes, gushing strange liquids all over your insides.
I have now been personally introduced to the service industry. I'm doing fine at it all except my feet are having a REALLY hard time of standing for 8 hours. I keep telling myself that older people do it, and kids do it so I'd better be able to stick it out. My shoes are crappy for this, so I've ordered better ones. I already have my leering customer who unfortunately comes every day and is a friend of the owner. Robert. Probably about 65 years old or so. He asked two different servers about me. At least I'll start getting tips tomorrow, and won't be working for $5 / hr anymore. The actual work of it is somewhat enjoyable.
Pat, Ellen's back and feet are killing her too. She stands on concrete barefoot for several hours a day. They only have one chair that the guards sit in. She rotates into it about every 45 minutes or so.
I spoke with a FEMA rep this afternoon and the only worse disasters he has seen were Katrina and the world trade center. I helped clean the house of a guy named Elmer this afternoon. How many people under age 30 do you named Elmer? He only has 28 years left on his mortgage for his house that is now worth almost nothing.
Well, I just got home....worked 7:30 to 4. Feet still not doing well. My new shoes are supposed to arrive tomorrow so geez I hope they do.
Here's what my leering customer said today. First he said he only wants to sit at my table. Then he asked if I played tennis bc he needs a partner. Then when I asked if htey'd decided what they wanted he said "I decided the first time I saw you." Too bad he's the owner's friend. He creeps me out. He comes in every morning. I made $63 in tips today. Not tons for such a long shift, but for a Monday off season not awful. P
Happy Birthday to Desmond on the 9th and Ty on the 10th.
Happy Birthday to Desmond on the 9th and Ty on the 10th.
52 comments:
It's funny how similar your faces are in these photos. Squinty and mischevious! Happy Birthday, I hope it's great!
Happy Birthday, Des! Hope you have a great day! :-)
Happy Birthday, Ty! What a handsome guy you are! :-)
Huh. I posted here and it didnt take. Anyway, Desmond, I hope with that halo you soon earn your wings.
Ty, hope you get all the stuff you want for your bday.
Aunt Pat
Des looks like he's about to impart some great wisdom but he knows the secret of life is really just a great joke.
Happy b-day Des.
Ty wants to go to Chuck E. Cheese for his b-day. Hurray....
Grace, do you guys have the Amazing Pizza Machine? It's way more tolerable than Chuckie Cheese.
Happy Birthday to the eldest of the cousins
May your day be fun and full of bad jokes
You never called back to tell me what you wanted
So I want to Bomgaars and bought you a baby duck!
Love you, Mom
Molly...after all the fun times you had at Chuckee Cheese you would deny this to your clan??? I remember you dancing on stage with the big mouse!
So many birthdays!
Happy belated wishes to Peter K, super hero and to Ty, who is also full of super mischeif.
Happy birthday to Ryan and to Desy. Desy, looks like you are being blessed by the Spirit in that picture. I'll expect more great things out of you now. I think everyone needs to get a picture like that. Many only the chosen do...
lisa
Lisa...what's your address?
Molly,
Is that your tree you planted, that fell? Cathy how does your yard look now?
p
Sunny. The Molly tree is gone plus two huge limbs and assorted smaller branches from the walnut. What's left of my shady garden is cowering in the glare of the sun. I can hear the silent screams: "What IS that??? Turn it off, ple-e-e-e-ease!!!!!"
Happy Birthday, Des. It looks like you're photosynthesizing just great. Happy birthday Ty, you handsome devil. Can't wait to see you.
Lisa's address:
254 Kenmore Ave.
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
712-352-0578
I think it's time everyone sent their addresses and etc. to Cathy for that address list update. We can put it on a spreadsheet this time. It will be easier to update and it will be in a more flexible format.
lisa
Mary, I did used to love the Cheese, but now-a-days the one in Omaha is geared specifically toward 3 and 4 year olds and it's almost unbearable.
Plus the pizza sucks. Showbiz had better pizza. And beer, which helped make it tolerable.
Richardsons - Ty loved his present,thank you.
Happy birthday Des and Ty. Those are great photos of both of you. Who took that photo of Des?
Help! A mama rabbit abandoned her babies in the soft little nest she built for them under the tower portion of the swingset. How can I prevent these little bunnies from starving to death? I don't have time to dropper feed 4 bunnies. They are so cute. Do you think they'll munch on lettuce or carrots? They haven't touched the spinach I threw in there.
Sratch that, it's 7 baby bunnies. I just tried to give them a little water and they're just all huddled togther with their eyes open - staring like they don't know what to do.
Grace, I thought they still served beer, just not pitchers of beer! Is there no beer now? Then forget it...that's what made the pizza taste soooo good. haha
OOOH, poor baby bunnies. Can you domesticate them and sell them?
Cathy your yard looks so lush.
Peter says thank you for the birthday wishes. He received a Hummer RC truck and a giant squirt gun and some flashy lights to put on his bike. Oh and a battleship game. He then went to Kernels game which had fireworks afterwards. He also had breakfast in bed and swimming in the afternoon. An all around good day.
Happy Birthday Ty and Des. Des, that's my godmotherly wisdom shining down on you.
Monica
Don't all bunnies stare like that?
Go to www.hopperhome.com and see if you can find any info on what to do.
p
Guinness the Beagle says...
Bunnies? Bring them to me and I will see to their care. Really! I will. You can trust me.
they just hired another manager for my team. i now have 4 bosses. my life is turning into Office Space.
Happy Birthday Ty!! Aunt Emily has some bunnies for you!
Have fun!
Aunt Mary and Uncle Mike
So Frank, does this mean you're dating Jennifer Aniston?
Tom
I was walking this morning at 7:30...as I walked by an elderly lady sitting on her front steps yelled out to me, "can you help me...can you help me?!!"...I ran across the street up to her steps and said I certainly can help and I moved toward her to help her up...she then reached down by her feet and picked up a pair of hedge clippers and asked me if I could please clip the weed growing up in her hedge!!
I did it.
That picture was taken outside Medieval Times. I added the God rays.
Happy Birthday Ty! You look like a very wise young man in your photo. You need some God rays as well.
Thanks for all the bday wishes!
Des
When they keep hiring more administrative staff, it's the beginning of the end, or at least the beginning of things getting all screwed up. That's my uninformed opinion.
Em -
Wait until the kids are asleep then put those baby bunnies out of their misery. It's the kind thing to do.
Besides - do you want to find every plant you love in your yard ravaged? While living in Des Moines we had a huge bunny problem and I found out why Mr. McGregor was so cruel to the rabbits in his garden.
Lisa
I use blood meal to keep the bunnies away and it works great!
The deer are another problem...they eat a lot of my flowers.
I could never bring myself to kill a little bunny. Are you kidding? I can't even picture it in my head. I know they eat everything because the elder ones already are/have, but still...
You know, the ten million questions a day thing was cute for about ten minutes. "Why is it stormy? Why is it so windy? Why are the branches blowing? Why did you breathe like that? Why this? Why that? Why why why???"
i figured scott would know that stuff... weird. nebraska education, i guess.
oh, it's Jude asking. sorry. my bad. just make up the most insane answer you can come up with and see if he buys it.
Emily, jes bring dem rabbits doun to da farm an' me an da dawgs will do sumpn' wid em!
Why are you hitting the bunnies? Why are you laughing like that? Why are they sleeping? Why did we have to wait till the neighbors were gone?
So I got this gift certificate to a trendy restaurant in Chicago from some company I work with. It's called Alinea. It's supposed to be the most ridiculous dining experience. We'll be having the four hour 14 course tasting menu. I've been told there is one course that is served on an airy pillow filled with lavender. When they set the plate down, the smell of lavender seeps out of the pillow and trickles up your nose enhancing the taste of whatever strange meat or cheese. I can't wait to hold back the laugher when that arrives.
We had to make reservations about a month and a half ago because its rumored that the 29 year old chef has tongue cancer and wont be with us much longer. It's tough to get a table at a restaurant with a dying chef apparently.
Anyway, when I made the reservation way back when the uptight guy on the other end of the phone asked if me or anybody in my party would have difficulty making it up the stairs. I told him no, but we might need some help getting down the stairs, especially if we have the wine pairing. My joke was met with a moment of judgemental silence.
I think I might ask if they have beer pairing for every course.
Emily, maybe I'll pick up a recipe idea for baby rabbits.
Des
Ed, we'll take one case of Straub Regular and one case of Light!
Des-
We will want a full report.
lisa
Lisa, is your email the same?
Des...how was the dining experience?
So, is beer crazy expensive everywhere else? I was just at the store and even michelob ultra was 6.15 a 6 pack.
They had a big story on that chef in The New Yorker.
p
Ed are you going to get beer again?
Everything is expensive, but there is a hops shortage so beer is extra expensive.
Andy had to go to PA for work and went to some fancy-shmancy restaurant. Their upcoming special is something in a live sea urchin. Weird. They sat at the bar and he said the bartender made fun of everyone else in there because he was so into fashion and they all looked really ugly. Meanwhile, Andy was sitting there in his Target polo and because it was last minute visit, didn;t really pack right so his shoes and pants didn't match. I bet the guy really made fun of him after they left. He was in Hershey, which he said was also a very weird town. What is all factory towns completely embraced their company? I can't imagine living in a town dedicated to like Arm'n'Hammer or something.
In a word: unnecessary. We had 12 courses, each more theatrical than the next. My girlfriend nearly booted by the time we got to the duck leg in a cube of soft chocolate. But there were some interesting dishes to say the least.
There was a cold potato soup served in a shot-glass sized dish with a piece hot potato suspended above it by a wire. When you pulled what equated to a grenade pin, the hot potato dropped in to the cold potato and you shot it like tequila.
There was a dish that was served in a moat of mint leaves. When they brought it to your table, they poured boiling water in the moat to create a spa like effect while you ate whatever it was that was in the middle.
At the beginning of the meal they brought these two wooden pins that held two frozen things in them. As the meal progressed, the frozen things thawed revealing Wagyu beef carpaccio. When it came time, they brought out a hot plate with mound of seed-encrusted butter on it and placed the beef on the butter. I watched as my beef cooked in front of me.
I was freaked out when they brought caprese salad with mozzerella that steamed like dry ice. I thought my tongue was going to stick to it.
All in all, there was a lot of searching for what was good in each dish. You had to look underneath a gelatinous sheet of Guinness to find a perfectly cooked piece of short rib. You had to sift through a pile of lobster and green tea foam to find the tiny bit wonderful lobster. Or, as I described earlier, cut the bar of soft chocolate in half to find a savory strand of duck meat.
It was completely ridiculous, but I think that’s what made it great. You could sense that even the wait staff were holding back the chuckles as they described the bacon swing.
I wouldn’t recommend spending your own money at this place. We had a gift certificate and the average bill is as much as a mortgage payment. But wouldn’t recommend against something like this, either. I’ll remember it for a long time.
At the very least they had some of the best wines I have ever tasted.
des
Please describe the bacon swing.
Wow...very cool. How long were you guys there?
Never mind...I read again and you said 4 hours. I wonder if something like this would take off at Sarah's? Ha!
Question:
Do you think feeding a horse would be less expensive than buying gas?
P
Yes, and you will also save $ by not filling your lawn mower tank.
I want to have a completely ridiculous dining experience some day. I suspect it would never live up to the satisfaction of a fish fry using fish caught just hours earlier, though. Paired with a cold beer and cucmber-tomato salad.
The bacon swing (Jen coined that term) is the middle of a three part of a rapid progression of bites. I likened it to lick it, slam it, suck it. It goes as follows:
1. A piece of meat at the end of a wire spike that sticks in your face at about eye level. Eat it with no hands.
2. The bacon swing. Like an eight inch bow (as in bow and arrow) made from metal. The curved part rocks on the table like a rocking horse. A piece of wire connect to the two ends of the bow. From the wire hangs a single piece of bacon soaked in apricot and sprinkled with sea salt. Tear it off and eat it.
3. A shot glass with a mysterious ball floating in it. Close your mouth after shooting it because the ball explodes, gushing strange liquids all over your insides.
Well, I like number 3.
I have now been personally introduced to the service industry. I'm doing fine at it all except my feet are having a REALLY hard time of standing for 8 hours. I keep telling myself that older people do it, and kids do it so I'd better be able to stick it out. My shoes are crappy for this, so I've ordered better ones. I already have my leering customer who unfortunately comes every day and is a friend of the owner. Robert. Probably about 65 years old or so. He asked two different servers about me.
At least I'll start getting tips tomorrow, and won't be working for $5 / hr anymore. The actual work of it is somewhat enjoyable.
P
Pat, Ellen's back and feet are killing her too. She stands on concrete barefoot for several hours a day. They only have one chair that the guards sit in. She rotates into it about every 45 minutes or so.
I spoke with a FEMA rep this afternoon and the only worse disasters he has seen were Katrina and the world trade center. I helped clean the house of a guy named Elmer this afternoon. How many people under age 30 do you named Elmer? He only has 28 years left on his mortgage for his house that is now worth almost nothing.
Monica
Pat, where are you working?
Monica
Well, I just got home....worked 7:30 to 4. Feet still not doing well. My new shoes are supposed to arrive tomorrow so geez I hope they do.
Here's what my leering customer said today. First he said he only wants to sit at my table. Then he asked if I played tennis bc he needs a partner. Then when I asked if htey'd decided what they wanted he said "I decided the first time I saw you."
Too bad he's the owner's friend. He creeps me out. He comes in every morning.
I made $63 in tips today. Not tons for such a long shift, but for a Monday off season not awful.
P
pat. what are you going to do with the $63?
you get some ecco shoes.
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