It's Official: The 3rd Annual Lefse Party

Yes, that's right everyone. The day has finally come for the 3rd Annual Lefse Making Party. Saturday November 14th is the big day! We will probably be picking up more pots & bowls since we expect this year to be as big, or bigger, than last year. So, if you happen to be in our neck of the woods that weekend, come on over and partake in the deliciousness.

Revenge of the Fallen - On DVD Now!

The newest addition to the live action Transformers film franchise, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, was released on DVD today. Target stuck with what worked for the first movie's DVD release by creating another transforming DVD case. This time around they let Bumblebee join Optimus as the DVD case transformers. If you haven't seen the movie itself yet...what is wrong with you!? :-) It is a great show, and I enjoy having the movies in these fun cases.



During the photo shoot, Yahtzee the ham decided she needed to join in on the fun. She greatly enjoys watching the movie as well.

Yahtzee & Friends - Continued

While watching the neighbor's dogs, we tend to steal one of them away to our house for a visit. This time Shweepie came over for a visit.

Ants... Again

So, you may remember that a few months ago I got ants in my pants. Well, ants in the kitchen isn't quite as bad, but it's still a problem. During the pants episode, we sprayed around the entire house, and after a while, it finally seemed to kill all the ants. Evidently it's time to spray again, because after a lovely meal of spaghetti and a long-needed kitchen cleaning, we suddenly had ants... again.

Interestingly enough, the mess that had been there for way too long hadn't enticed them, but clean it all up and leave one bowl of drippings, and they came running. John performed the usual duct tape and vacuum maneuver, and then, in his wisdom, decided that who we to stop them from eating in our kitchen? He placed a napkin where the bowl had been, and covered it with ant treats, a.k.a Amdro poison. When I came home from work 6 hours later, the napkin was empty. We placed more out, and more again, and the ants are still cleaning.

Mondo's New Workbench

As I was paging through the most recent issue of The Family Handyman, I came across the blueprints for a workbench. This one struck my fancy and I decided to run with it. I have been looking at workbenches to build because I would like to have a real workbench to finish the kitchen remodel work on. So, the supply list for this workbench; 15 8ft 2x4s and 1 Sheet of Plywood. Yep, that's it. Now these supplies don't take into account the customization that I added to the bench to give it some flair and additional functionality. The picture on the left is scanned out of Handyman showing the baseline, and the picture on the right is my customized version of it.


My current customized additions include: 2 parts bins & large drawing board area
My future customized additions include: dowel holder, rag containers, attach point for vise, & attach point for router table...

So, with a new workbench, I got new initiative to reorganize the garage to match the new bench. It was time to retire the loft from its garage storage duties, and it was moved up to the library where it will provide a nice reading cavern and its usual storage space. To handle the loss of the loft storage, we went for a ceiling shelf alternative to handle the lumber lurking about, and we simply got to throwing some more stuff away. When it's all ready, we'll post some pictures of the finished product.

Another Puppy Sleepover

Lacey came over to our house for another visit, for 2 weeks this time. Lacey got to spend the night outside of her kennel in our bedroom. She very quickly learned from Yahtzee what "Go to Bed" was all about. These two were very cute when the hopped up for their betime treat.

Impromptu Party

So, this past Sunday we hit up Surrogates in theaters, it was a pretty good show and gave Lady and I plenty to discuss about the possibilities of that happening in the real world. After the show we hit up lunch with the friends that joined us for the show. During the obligatory after-lunch-stand-around-and-chat time, we decided that what better to do on a gorgeous Sunday evening than have everybody over to our place for some swimming and relaxing! We decided that it wasn't enough to just invite the people either, their dogs were invited as well.

So, the evening was spent swimming with the pets. We had 5 dogs over, and each of them took a swim...only Lacey was a willing participant of the full swim. Jupiter and Yahtzee would hop down on the top step though. Our backyard became a regular dog park, and all seemed to have a good time.

We finished out the shindig with an impromptu menu for dinner and a little gaming.