Local Shout Out world record holder

I found this video while checking out the local entertainment magazine VolumeOne. This guy is a world record holding whipcracker. Check out the video.

Fishie Fishie

I thought I would post an update about our baby fish. I'm pretty sure there are still two babies in there. It is hard to tell because I never see them at the same time. There is one baby that has about doubled in size and another that isn't quite as big. Here is a picture of the big one.

Biking for bread.

The kids and I took a walk today through the cemetery. We like to walk there because it has little traffic and you can just loop all around. It's quiet and peaceful. I find it interesting in a way. Looking at the grave dates and such. Seeing which graves have flowers and which do not. In a way it amazes me that graves from the 50's and 60's still get flowers from their loved ones. Then you see some from 5 years ago and they have nothing. Kinda sad. Of course it could just be someones job to put flowers on random graves to make the cemetery look better. Then you see the graves of people who are not dead yet. I guess they like to plan ahead. Sometimes I'll calculate how old the person was when they died. You start to notice that a lot of people in the 1800's didn't live much past 35. Which I guess we kinda already knew. You'll see a lot of gravestones that have someone dying in the 1980's but their spouse is still alive. Sad. I probably sound like a loon but I guess I'm more interested in the person's history than the fact that they are all dead.

So as were taking this walk that we usually go on once or twice a week, some guy on a bike comes up and starts biking right towards the kids and I. (I've seen this guy before but he's never stopped me or even tried to talk to me) So I was a little creeped out by this and started to walk around him. He says, " Bet you are wondering how far I have biked" I said.. "uuhh.. yea sure" He starts to figure it all out by getting a paper out of his pocket. I stand by the kids and part of me was thinking good god is this guy going to knife me to death. He finds his info and says, "986miles"(I can't rememer the exact number) I said.. "how long did that take?" "since April" I said.. Of this year? He says, " yeah, I do it for feed my people" (which is a food bank) He said he was about to reach 1000 miles. I said.. "well great job, good luck with that" and we went on our way.

I get home tonight and I look up the food bank online. I go to the programs section and what do I see at the bottom?

"Biking for Bread is done by Larry Everson with support from St. John’s Lutheran Church in Eau Claire. Larry collects pledges for the food bank while biking thousands of miles each April through October."

I wondered why I always see that guy.

Cookies!

Decided to bake some cookies tonight!
1. I fail because they were box cookies
2. I win because they are organic cookies
3. I win because I bought them onsale for super cheap
4. I fail because I didn't use organic butter
5. I win because the kids helped
6. I win because now I get to eat cookies! nom nom nom!


mmm Lets make some cookies!


Stir stir stir.


Stir a little more.


Time to make perfectly round cookies! haha Just kidding!


Patience my dear children...


Waiting waiting waiting..


COOKIES!


Nom nom nom!


Chocolate face and fingers!

Fishies!!

A couple of weeks ago my son was feeding our fish. We had just gotten them about 2 weeks before that. He got all excited because he said he had just seen a teeny tiny baby fish. My husband and I tried to look for it, but we never saw anything. We told him it was probably just a flake of something and wasn't actually a fish.

Jump ahead to three days ago and I'm feeding the fish and what do I see swimming around in the sunk'n ship!?!? A baby fishie!! Of course I hop online to see what I can find out about our fish. Apparently they give birth to live fish. (kinda cool) and if you have a female fish she is most likely pregnant because they can store sperm in their uterus. Which may have been nice to know when we got them. The fact that we would most likely end up with babies.

I've only seen two, I'm guessing that if there were any more they probably got eaten. These two seem to be doing well. They spend most of their time hiding though.

Old ugly buttons

So what do you do when you have a pile of old ugly buttons, that most likely would never sell as destash? Even if they did sell it probably wouldn't be worth the trouble of listing them. You string them together and turn ugly into fashion. You make a new bracelet out of them! Although it is still kinda ugly, but in a fashionable kind of way.

A little more green

I was recently visiting a friend who uses cloth napkins. I try and do my part to be more 'green' but for some reason I never really thought about using reusable napkins.

We always just ripped the napkin or paper towel in half to make them go a little farther. After using the cloth ones for the weekend, I realized how much paper and money we were wasting. So I made my own! Right now I only have some green and pink ones done. The kids love them! At dinner time it is my daughter's job to count out enough napkins for everyone. I didn't make them fancy or anything. Just used some cheap fabric and serged up the sides. I have more colors to make, but my serger went wonky on me.