Candid... ...Posed

Wood Pile

Do you all have your wood for the winter? If not, I wouldn't be surprized if there's still some in Duluth.

Heidi or Heidi?

This post used to start with the following paragraph. . .
This is a half-welcome to Heidi. She made a brief appearance to criticize her Mom's hair, but notice that the signature was not "Heidi" but "Anonymous". Methinks the Brottlunds need a profile. Somebody give us Heidi and Josh's e-mail address and we can invite them to join. (I suppose I could try her old e-mail address. I like to welcome new people with a photo, but all she gets for now is a hint of a picture.
BUT DeanTheBean has entered some comments (see comments below) convincing me that Anonymous could as well be a Quick as a Brottlund. So will the real Anonymous please step forward?
Note: A few days after this post I did get an e-mail from Heidi Brottlund asking to be invited to join the e-round robin so that is one point on the side of Heidi B. By the way. . .I'm so unobservant that I do not even know if both Heidi's took their husband's names or not.

Brookston Bridge

Things to love about this photo: Dick's pants, white belts, Ralph's sideburns...

Welcome, Heidi! Did everyone notice Heidi's comment about Saturday's post?

Women With Smiles

Since Dancestoomuch guessed correctly (I think) with "Somebody's House" (see post from Thursday), I present this picture as his prize.

Jean, you can, perhaps, make this gift complete by telling us who everyone is - there are three or four I am unsure of. (And welcome by the way.)

I See Carlsons and Tuckers - LIFTOFF!

Welcome Jean and Ralph, Erika and Joe. I don't want to move to quickly here, but now. . .let's see if you can post pictures of two little Celts? Also if the regulars haven't noticed, Jean has gone through October posts and peppered them with comments. And for Erika: Alaska Robin is Mark, Dean the Bean is Dean, Northberger is Paul and Dancelot is Dan.

This is work??

I want some more!!

We are having turnaround. We work for about a month of straight 12 hour night shifts. In order to make it more like home we are cooking eggs, bacon, sausage and potatoes.

For tomorrow we are seasoning 40 lbs of prime rib on the right. There are about 24 of us operators eating on night shift.

During day shift they do most of the work, thankfully. We are usually too full to do much at night.

First snow

It has been a pretty late start for winter. This was taken about 14 hours ago from our bedroom window. I love how the snow sticks to the branches. It looks like a Jackson Pollack painting.

Grampa's Flowers

Four Generations

What happened? Nobody says anything for a week and then everybody wakes up on the same day. What's up with that? I should've been in bed an hour ago, but I end up reading everyone's posts and have to add some of my own. We really need to spread this out a bit.

Sir Dancelot Steps Up To The Plate!

A few weeks ago I submitted a photo puzzle. Within minutes of my publication Little Brother Paul publicly humiliated me with his quick response. Well now the tables have turned. Little Brother Paul has submtted a photo puzzle and now it is my turn to publicly humiliate him. I am, of course, referring to the question. . .what is the name of the restaurant?

The first clue relates to the person on the right near the window. Clearly that person is smoking a cigarette. Any civilized person knows that smoking is banned in any respectable eating establishment. . .ergo. . .this place is NOT a respectable eating establishment.

The second and third clues relate to a photographic effect. . .specifically that a window behind the consumers reflects other frequenters of this establishment. When you zoom in to the upper left you see a shiny can that could be anything but is most likely a CAN OF BEER!!!!!

What sort of establishment is this? Anybody who pays attention knows that smoking and drinking in reputable restaurants has been banned for years. Ergo. . .this place is not a reputable establishment. To pound the nail into the coffin here allow me to present a blowup of a liquid resting on the table in the uppper right of the photo.

A clear liquid. What else could it be but GIN OR VODKA!!!!! This is not good. And then if you will draw your attention to the lower right portion of the picture we have in our view a young woman who can only be described as. . .A TWO-BIT FLOOZIE!!!!!!

My sensitive scruples caution me to stop here. This is not a pretty picture. And the squeemish may choose to stop here, but I now draw your attention to a pale young child. An innocent creature who appears to be coughing, hacking uncontrollably. What could be the cause of this ailment? It could be anything, but following the clues, the most likely reason is a debilitating chronic cough caused by frequent exposure to SECOND HAND SMOKING!!!!! The truly pathetic thing here is that all these people were aware of this pathetic child and could find nothing better to do than to laugh.

So, in summary, we can conclude that this is an establishment of ill repute. But Little Brother will not cough up the reward unless one of us Names the name of this tawdry place. Well. . .look again in the upper right where the window is reflecting back on the place. There is a single "gentleman" (and I use the term loosely here!) who is persuing a menu. If one zooms in on the menu one will find the name of this "restaurant". And it is a name I will not repeat amongst civilized people. Case closed. What is my prize?

Thanksgiving at the Lindstroms

We'll keep a running tally here of what's what. It's starting to take shape, but what in the world is a "Galettes"?

WHO'S GOING TO BE THERE?
1. Dan Lindstrom
2. Jo Lindstrom
3. Peter Lindstrom
4. Jon Lindstrom
5. Dean Stynsberg
6. Kurt Rentschler
7. Jean Carlson
8. Ralph Carlson
9. Ryan Carlson

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO EAT?

• A Local, Free-range, Organically Fed, No Anti-biotic, No Hormone Turkey (Dean and Kurt)
• Mashed Potatoes (Dan and Jo)
• Rutamaten (Dan and Jo)
• Squash Galettes (Dean)
• Dried Corn Casserole (Kurt)
• Salad (Jean and Ralph)
• "Regular" Stuffing (Jean and Ralph)

THANKSGIVING

Dear Everyone,

There's a bite in the air and the leaves are falling. Time to think Fall, specifically - Thanksgiving. Do people have plans? If not, you're all invited to Thanksgiving at Dan and Jo's. Consider this a blanket invitation to all Stynsbergs, Carlsons, Lindstroms as well as kids and the kids of kids and other various and sundry friends and relatives.

There are five requirements:
1. Let us know if you are coming.
2. The sooner the better.
3. Bring something to eat.
4. Let us know what you plan to bring.
5. The sooner the better.

RSVP with a comment here or by e-mail or phone. If you want to use the blog site and haven't established a Profile or are having problems. . .ask Mark, Dean, Paul or Dan what to do.

By the way. . .it has entered my mind before that we should remember this WEB site can be accessed by anyone anywhere in the world and we should be a little careful about giving out info like addresses and phone numbers here. Right? E.g. as part of a joke a week ago I gave our address. I'm going to go back and edit it out right now.

John and Heidi

A while back i just jokingly said that John and Heidi lived on the same lake as Bill Gates, and that they could probably see his house. Well it appears that the point on Fairweather Bay blocks their view, as well as the floating bridge which is highway 520. John and Heidi live on the left side where it says Juanita Bay.


Here is a closer photo of the place John and Heidi are renting. In the corner you can see that it is as if you were 310 feet above it. The Alaska pictures are not this clear and Minnesota is a little better than Alaska. I won't say which one is theirs because i am not certain and also for 'privacy?' matters. I wonder what is private anymore? Also what does the $400 program show?

Does anyone remember the name of the spy movie from 5 or 10 years ago that used a lot of these satellite images?

Google earth

Today i downloaded google earth.... A M A Z I N G !!!!!!!!!
Next time i have some free time i will have to fly to everyones neighborhoods.

Young Brother is watching you.

Dinner

If anyone can remember what restaurant this is they win.

Holly and Ericka

Big Beards, Broken Bones, and Baseball Bats

I can't remember how mom broke her leg... Does anyone remember?

Mr. & Mrs. Lindstrom

The Line Up