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Friday, April 29, 2005
1:41 PM

Butterflies

As promised, I'm posting several butterfly pictures. These were taken on my trip to St. Louis. Tom, Lois & I visited a place called the "Butterfly House", an exhibit of butterflies (naturally). The main part of the tour is a huge greenhouse which contains thousands of butterflies. You get to go in and walk around with all the butterflies everywhere. It was really neat.

Blue Butterfly:

Red Butterfly:

Check out the butterflies on the wall. These are ones that have "eyes" on their wings.

Black Butterfly:

This is the inside of the ones with eyes:

Another Black One:

Here's a kind of funny looking butterfly that was out front:

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
2:01 PM

The Birds and the Bears

I managed to squeeze in my annual trek to St. Louis this Spring. Can't go without seeing the Spring bulb displays at the botanical gardens. Though I didn't take a ton of pictures, I thought I'd share a few of my favorites from the zoo and the gardens. (Actually, I did take a ton of pictures but when I got home I realized that they look surprisingly similar to those from last year and I don't think you all are up for another round of penguin pics.)

First, the tulips:

And at the zoo, here are the polar bears:

Please note that this was shortly before it started raining on us and we literally had to run for the car. As a result, not too many zoo pics. But at least the polar bears looked happier that we were.

Luckily the weather was nice (after we left the zoo) so we were able to spend lots of quality time on the screened porch. I took about a gazillion pictures of the birds on the feeders but only about two come out halfway decently.

Here's one of a finch waiting for the feeder:

And here's one of the Blue Jay that built a nest in one of the trees right off of the porch.

Lois tells me that the eggs have now hatched and you can see both Mama and Papa bird feeding the babies.

Coming soon: Pictures of many butterflies from the Butterfly House (the new must see exhibit in STL) as well as pictures of the birds and the Evil Unstoppable Bunny in our yard. Bet you can't wait.

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Monday, April 25, 2005
12:33 PM

Weekend Recap

As many of you know, Uncle Tom, Aunt Linda and family were out from Arizona this past weekend for Tom's 60th Birthday. Naturally there was party for the momentous occasion. The Purcells and Geigers came as well. It was quite a full house. As always, Barbara put together a fabulous dinner and a home-made German Chocolate Cake.

Here's a picture of the Birthday Boy with his cake:

I didn't take too many other pictures, but had to share one of Connor's new and improved, state of the art computer set up in his room:

Yes, he does have and use 4 monitors. And you can see that his tower is almost as tall as the desk. Unfortunately I couldn't capture his surround sound setup, though he did encourage me to take pictures of the speakers.

As I said, the Geiger Family was also down. Here's a cute shot of little Phillip:

He is such a cutie!! But then all of my nieces and nephews are.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Thanks again to Barb for being such a wonderful hostess! It was great to see everyone.

P.S. More pics to follow this week on a variety of subjects.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
11:27 AM

Would You Like Chicken With That Grilled Cheese?

Everyone no doubt remembers the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich (followed by the pan that made it). How could you possibly forget? Just in case Mary was getting lonely out there in eBay collectible food heaven I have good news. Check this out:

Pollo a la Pope

And a picture:

It even has its own website:
Pope Chicken Breast

Yes, the seller thinks the foregoing chicken breast bears the image of the recently passed Pope John Paul II. I quote: "I could not believe the resemblance I saw between my piece of chicken breast and him." Whaaaaat? I guess I can sort of see a face (I think), but the Pope?? Methinks that this person either (1) Had never seen the former Pope before or, more likely (2) Raided the freezer after getting hit with some sort of chemically induced munchie fit. That would certainly explain his/her hallucination about the Pope. Besides, if it looks like anything, it looks like the profile of an Indian with a headband and long braids. But I guess there is just not much money in that.

As always, the bids are ridiculous - currently at $162.00. For a chicken breast of questionable origin (I don't even want to know what was sprinkled on it). I wonder what that comes out to per pound? Note to self - check chicken in freezer to determine if any religious icons happen to be present.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
6:13 PM

Ubiquitous Aldi's

As many of you know, I have various tracking programs on my website which allow me to get a rough idea of who is reading, when, etc. (Just scroll down and look in the right column for links.) I periodically check to see what sorts of hits I am getting from search engines (usually when I am very bored).

I am very bored. (But not really motivated or creative enough to generate a real post.)

So I just checked my trackers. And there is was in all of it's glory.

This past Sunday, someone searched on Yahoo for "working, worked, Aldi's" and ended up on my site. A search for Aldi's led someone to our site.

I can feel Lois' pride all the way from St. Louis. . .

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