Wednesday, February 27, 2008

From the Archives






We borrowed a slide projector for 3 days from the library and then got my scanner running on windows vista. Here are 5 slides that were pretty good. It takes about 10 minutes to do each batch of 4 slides that become JPEG's. These are from 1976 except for the Halsey street house which is from 1971. Hope you enjoy them.











Monday, February 18, 2008

Beaten/Unbeaten

Global warming? Bring it on. Yes, it's been very cold up here for the past month or so. I'm sure that's why I haven't been posting lately.

JaNae was a battered wife in the one-act play this year. Their play, 'Dragons', was very good. It took first place at sections. They certainly would have won the regional competition, also, if the judges would have chosen the most emotional play. JaNae did a great job, as did her make-up team.
While we're on the subject - the Roseau boys hockey team is 25-0 this season. They're rated #1 in the state heading into the playoffs which begin tomorrow.

And, speaking of hockey, the girls hockey team is headed to state for the first time. They will be playing their first game on Wednesday.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Frozen Computers???

I heard that Paul had some cool weather way up there in Northern Minnesota. Have your computers frozen?? We haven't seen any blogger postings lately. Have you begun to thaw out yet?

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Christoffer is a homeowner!






Here are a few shots of the house CBS bought a few weeks ago. He is about 4 miles away from us.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Stepping Boldly into the 21st Century



The Lindstroms have been quiet for awhile. One reason is that the Lindstroms have moved from a dial up connection to high speed access. We have been spending the past few weeks enjoying the new "wonderful world of color"!
Things have been quiet here (quiet is good). So as an excuse for announcing our coming out I have posted a picture from the delightful "three kings" celebration at Greg and Denise's house, documenting my wife's thorough delight and approval of the anticipation of the wedding of Amy and Jadon.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Christmas Day











This post finishes the items on Christmas at the Lindstroms. One tradition we have is to work on a puzzle.






The puzzle needs to be difficult in some way or other. This year there were two dimensions to the difficulty. The first degree was color: every piece was a shade of blue.







Second was speed: we needed to put pieces together faster than Pepper could pull them asunder.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

More Egg Nog for crying out loud!!!




MORE EGG NOG PLEASE!

Apparently, I wasn't the only one hitting the Nog. I haven't used my camera since Christmas and lo and behold what I found! A good time was had by all, I think. You decide who had the most fun!

Sunday, January 20, 2008

What do you all think about the movie SICKO?

I think we need to have a little more feedback and politics on the blog. What are your opinions on this subject?? How can we fix health care in this country??? We watched this movie at work last week and thought it was pretty good since our medical benefits have been getting worse and worse over the years. It was very well done for a documentary.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Splashzooka 65

I hate to introduce a sour note into all this Christmas cheer but the white elephant gifting at the Lindstrom household had its problems. I submit the Supersoaker CPS Splashzooka 65.



1. Before any gift was opened I made a public announcement stating specifically that one of the rules of participation in the white elephant was that everyone must take home with them the gift they selected. Shortly after everyone left, this was found laying on the couch. Now my sons are no snitches and so even though they knew whose it was they refused to tell me. They did give me a hint - the culprit's name rhymes with "Gosh".

2. But even more important. Before we commenced the white elephant opening, I proposed a rule that every white elephant gift had to be fully functional. I was readily booed and scoffed. But I will not be bulllied! There is a difference between a "white elephant: and "garbage". Item in point is the above mentioned Splashzooka 65. I have explored this device up and down the internet and can state categorically that the Splashzooka 65 is worthless unless one has a Q.F.D. (quick fill device). Without the corresponding Q.F.D. this item is not a white elephand but garbage.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

A Holiday At Home...




Since everyone is getting out there Christmas pictures I thought I would share some from our Christmas day celebration here in Lakeville. It was pretty relaxing with a nice brunch to start off the day. Once we were finished with presents, we plunged into a game of Monopoly that ended up lasting for four hours. I think we'll choose a shorter game next year. It was nice to have everyone together. Amy's been gone for the last two Christmas' in Australia and the year before that I was in South Padre Island.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Chrstmas in Alaska






After looking at the priceless ceramic holy cows for
two posts i thought you might be ready to see Christmas from Alaska.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The Cattle Were Lowing

I think I've got it! A mere two weeks and it's solved. We were putting away Christmas stuff and I noticed a family resemblence with our nativity scene and the five cows. My (tentative) conclusion is that it is a member of the nativity.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

The Yellow Cows

At the behest of the Roseau Clan we did white elephants. I forgot to take pictures of that event. Perhaps someone else did.



Anyway, this is what I got, and I am devoting all my mental energies this coming year to figuring out what it is. I've shown it to many people. A medical friend thinks they're cows, so I'm going on that assumption until I hear otherwise. But to my mind the "cows" look like professional cartoon characters from somewhere or other. I know this site is exposed to the entire blogosphere so perhaps there is someone out there in the wide world who can help me out.



It has five small holes at the tips of the fingers and one larger hole on the bottom. Those four tiny black dots are pieces of rubber.

Monday, January 07, 2008

Christmas Eve II




There were more people taking pictures than there were people having their pictures taken. (Does that even make sense?)


The kids didn't need any eggnog to start acting silly.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Eggnog!


As usual, Steve provided the eggnog and pickled herring for Christmas Eve. But this year there has been a lot of speculation about what exactly went into Steve's eggnog. For example here is a picture of Greg before he drank the eggnog.



And this is Greg after the egg nog.

Friday, January 04, 2008

O Christmas Tree


Early December the tree is up. Though the boys are more agile and limber, it's still my job to decorate the upper 2/3rds of the tree using the ladder.
There was a time when I told the boys they couldn't climb the ladder higher than their age. That worked well when they were 3 and 6, but now. . .I suppose I should let them do the ladder stuff.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

Alborn


The tradition here is, shortly after Thanksgiving, head up to Steve's place to get the tree.
Steve and I pride ourselves in the ability to guestimate the height of a standing tree before we cut it. We want 18 feet. This one turned out to be close to 21 feet.
George always comes with. As the years go by it's 50/50 whether the boys will come. This time it was just George.

Going Way Back

OK. The Holidays are over. It's been a good time, but it feels like we've been bouncing from one thing to the next. So it's time to get it all commemorated here over the next few days.

First up, Thanksgiving.

It wasn't a large group that met at the Lindstrom household, but a good time was had by all.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Clever Clue of the Month

Happy New Year!

Please vote for the best clue for December. The Clever Clue of the Month will be announced Thursday night at approximately 9:00 Central. Here are the nominees:

Pink slippers? ...................................FIRERS
Cheaters, to teachers ............................ANAGRAM
It's no longer working ...........................RETIREMENT
The simple life? .................................AMOEBA
Stuck in Pamplona? ...............................GORED
Accord of 1985? ..................................USEDCAR


If you need one of these explained...