Magnet Monday: DC in Bloom

Cheesy Refrigerator Magnet for Monday, May 18, 2015
"Washington DC", 3-D cast resin, circa 2010

The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC is over now, but our cherry tree is just getting started. 

Family on a high school trip to DC picked this up for us. We have them well trained. 


Magnet Monday features a selection from our semi-vast and ever growing collection of cheesy refrigerator magnets. Without doubt the perfect souvenir. Only slightly less cheesy than collecting snow globes but maybe a lot easier to smuggle in your bra. If need be. Which I hope it never is. Unless it's really worth it.

Weekly Randomness for Friday, May 15, 2015

Nora says: A man a plan a canal Panama
Every date between 5-10-15 and 5-19-15 is a palindrome!*


News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• What I want to know: who's going to teach them how to roll one?
• I'm such a romantic sucker for shipwrecks on the great lakes (there are more than 6,000 out there, people). 
• Working in a beer lab trumps working in a poop lab... 

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• Despite being a professional intestinal researcher (seriously), I couldn't find anyone in our lab interested (but it's so stylish!)
• Want. 
• Almost literally shit. I actually dropped my cell phone into the toilet... I was way overdue for an upgrade (still using an S2, but it looks practically new, so how could I not keep using it?). Fortunately the S5 is water-resistant. Unfortunately, there's an app on there driving some adware that means now I get random texts for lunch invitations. Decline, no?
• My Pinteresting Randomness

Weekend Aims

• Southeast Wisconsin Master Gardeners annual plant sale - get 'em while they're hot! My neighbor and I have our wagons at the ready, and husbands prepared to go buy us coffee - perfect! 
• Dinner and a concert. When I was young, this could mean gyros and the Romantics in Madison, or brats and Kenny Rogers at the state fair. Now it means classical-pops and fine French dining. Same thing. 
• Family time - somebody's graduating from FVTC!! 

*Or as we used to say in college, Pat's Tap (thanks for that one - you know who you are!!)

Weekly Randomness for Friday, May 8, 2015

News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• Walk this way. And that way. Not long. But often. 
• Tasty gymnast. 
• Lessons not learned will be re-taught.

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• I'm sure there's a fart joke here somewhere... 
• I'll admit this is not funny, but it is ironic.  
• My Pinteresting Randomness

Weekend Aims

• Wedding Saturday - Catholic mass in Spanish, and then a party (but I repeat myself...)
• Mother's Day: was hoping to take Mom to visit the Anderson Gardens but the weather is going to be uncooperative. Sigh... 
• More yard work (a.k.a. yard yoga). 

Weekly Randomness for Friday, May 1, 2015

News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• Well done!! And isn't it about frickin' time... 
• Ooohhh.... shiny things!

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• Butter burgers can be to Wisconsinites what donuts are to Homer...
• That's because those ole' Paleo-folk were fun-guys... (insert groan and facepalm here.... thanguvurrimuch - I'm here all week!)
• My Pinteresting Randomness
• Because everyone needs a new desk toy now and again - thanks Chuck!!

Weekend Aims

• Finally warm enough for some serious yard work and 
• A decent cookout!
• Hopefully dust off the bicycles even!! 
• Birding season is here in the midwest flyway - warbler walks in Grant Park start Sunday.