so its been really busy for me lately.  i have been working over at ProMedia Productions for the past 2 weeks and it has been great.  it sounds like i may be working over there on a freelance bassis for a while now.  that is great for us!  other than that we have just been busy outside working in the yard or playing with Miles.  he loves being out there.  some days we can’t get he inside with out a fit!  but that is fine, we are glad he likes to be outside.  he also enjoys going for a bike ride with us.  he has his own little pull behid trailer that is hooked onto Miriams bike.  we have also been speding time at my grandparents house since they are back from Arizona for the summer.  always good times there!

so yesterday my wife wanted to mow the lawn. which is fine by me, it really needed it anyway. we also had a

lot of dandelions in our yard this year. Miles discovered that he could blow on some of them to make the seeds fly away. that was cute to see. but that is not what this post is about. this post is about the freak mutant dandelion that my wife found while mowing. it was crazy and looked like something taht would attack us if it was allowed to grow.

what had happened was 3 plants fused together some how and creatated this stem with like 6 blooms on it! it was nasty ugly. is this a new species? Or is it jsut strange sci-fi, now sci-fa? Check out the photos…

for the past two years my wife and i have received a gift card to Linder’s Green House from my Grandma.  last year we got a birch tree and tulip magnolia.  this year we got 2 apple trees, a Honey Crisp and a Zestar!  both of which were genetically engineered in Minnesota!  both apples are very good and also a little spendy at the store.  both they are so good.  so after a few years we should have a healthy crop of apples!  this year and next we should only see a few apples, but it will all be worth the wait!

ah spring. its been a long winter and i am ready for spring. we have had several days where it has been around 70 and it has been glorious! Last week my wife and i had a nice lunch outside int he back patio. that is one of our favorite things to do in the warmer months! well that and have a nice fire with an occasional adult beverage.

Since my wife works in the afternoon twice a week i get to spend time with my boy and now that is is warm out we can go explore and have fun. the other day we put up the hammock in the back patio. we had fun sitting in it. it is great to see his little personality develope and it is really fun to see that he is turning into a little me! we tend to make the same goofy faces as well as the same interests. The past few days we have started drawing and coloring together. those pieces of art are on our refrigerator for all to see.

we went to como zoo this weekend with our best friends.  it was a lot of fun.  como is a nice zoo for a free zoo.  they have monkees and giraffes and lots of animals!  we actually saw one of the gorillas up close just taking it easy.  this does not happen often.  usually they sit back and do nothing this time of year because it can still be a little too cold for them to be outside.  oh well, it was still fun.  there is also a brand new baby orangoutang named Java!  it is very cute!  (i wish that i could have gotten a photo).  it was also amazing to watch the mother orangoutang and see the parenting skills that she has.  just amazing.  

man the weather has been fantastic the past couple of days! yesterday i broke out the grill for the first time this season and made Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches! MMMmmmMMM. yesterday was really windy and i ended up haveing to get on the roof the take care of some things, like taking the Christmas lights, that normally are supposed to stay on the house, down because the wind pulled them off half the roof. While i was up there i cleaned out the gutters from winter debris. not much there but there was enough.

Also with this nice weather, the bugs come out. and since my office in the basement the spiders start to crawl around the walls because it is a little warmer in here now and i think they live in one of the corners. something will have to be done soon i think.