Well, well, well, I can’t believe it’s July already.
That means only one more month till school starts back *groan* That means getting up early, homework and studying. Just think we only have 16 more years of this…
I have found that we have been way to busy this summer. It seems like we’ve had something going on every weekend. This makes it difficult to keep up with my yard. Luckily, it didn’t rain much after the first week in June. But still, I could bale hay in the back and side yards.
My garden is doing well. My regular tomato plants died due to a fungal disease. Man, I hope that isn’t how I go out…Mr. WunderKraut died from a strange fungal disease. It would be like dying from athlete’s foot. Anyway. I spent a good part of the day Saturday working in the garden. I pulled EVERY SINGLE weed in the entire garden. I mean, I pulled them, roots and all. Then I put down a good thick layer of wheat straw mulch. So you can imagine my surprise when the next morning I found weeds growing in the garden. It took 24 hours, but there they were, standing about 2 inches high. How is that possible?
I am due for a new cell phone. We are with Verizon and have been very happy with them, but I want an iPhone…but AT&T service stinks down here. It really does. Plus all my friends and family are on Verizon, so free calls. Since no iPhone, I’ve been looking at various other smart phones. I don’t know, I may just end up getting one of the new Blackberry’s and be done with it. Do you have an opinion?
And lastly, I really like Heinz ketchup. All other ketchups taste nasty to me.
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
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In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the ‘Californian large’, extends over 900km (560 miles) along the coast of California. A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan
Ladies and gentlemen, er, we’ve just lost the picture, but, uh, what we’ve seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over — ‘conquered’, if you will — by a master race of giant space ants. It’s difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to…toil in their underground sugar caves.
The immortal words of Kent Brockman from [1F13] Deep Space Homer
Looking ahead to late fall, I realized that I still have an abundance of venison in the freezer. I don’t want any of the tasty Bambi bits to go to waste, so I’m stepping up my efforts to ingest every scrap.
To that end, I fried up some cubed steak last night. It was wonderful, as you will see in the pictures, but I’m left wondering if there are better ways to prepare this cut of meat. Any ideas?
Onto the pictures:
I used two packages of cubed steak. I have no idea how much is in each package, but after rinsing and drying, this is what I had to work with:
The WunderFamily is heading up to Tennessee this weekend. Get ready for an 8 hour drive with 4 kids!!! It won’t be that bad
We are meeting up with several of the families we traveled to China with. It will be so good to see everyone, especially the little girls! I can’t wait to see all the China babies. They have all grown so much since that very cold January of last year.
Saturday is a fun filled day as the place we are going is having a China adoption day. Lots of crafts, food and fun. The big event that day will be watching Cirque De Chine which is a Chinese acrobat group. That should be fun.
Sunday will be spent hanging out with our friends and finding something to do. Monday is the trip home.
Needless to say, Jen is busy at home getting everything ready. Packing for a family of 6 takes longer than you would think.
Last week I picked Madi up from pre-school and took her on a lunch date. Life has been so busy lately and she needed some time away from the other kids.
She chose to eat at the Mall and to get Chinese food
After lunch we went shopping for a dress for her. My goodness that girl can shop. How at 5 years old she knows how to do this is beyond me. We would go into a store and she would walk around and pull things out and put them back, the whole time muttering to herself “That is pretty. I don’t like that. That is too big”. It was so much fun to watch her work. After a few minutes, she would announce that what she was looking for was not to be found at this particular store and that we should try another one.
It was good to spend time with her. She always makes me smile.
To “celebrate” this “achievement”, WunderKraut.com has obtained the original photos from the “moon landings”. As we all know, NASA doctored the photos and staged the entire “landing” in the New Mexico desert.
Well, we finally made it through all 11 original Star Trek movies. Thank you NetFlix.
We really did enjoy watching them all in order. You kind of grew attached to the various crews, both the original and the Next Generation.
I did grow tired of the various messages in the movies. Such as:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – we killed all the whales, yet an alien probe has been sent to destroy earth if it can’t talk to the darn whales. Lots of evil 20th century lines. (movie came out in 1986 – think Save The Whales t-shirts and bumper stickers)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – The Klingon’s military industrial complex has destroyed their ozone layer and they are all going to die!!11!!1!! (movie came out in 1991 – think our own ozone hole, which oddly enough we don’t hear anything about any more…wonder why that is)
Star Trek: Insurrection – The Ba’ku have shunned technology. Technology is evil!!! Just because you have superior technology, does not make you a superior race/planet/country.
In the end, my favorite was Star Trek: First Contact. I really like the way Picard had to deal with the borg. He actually had real emotion, real hate. His scene where he explains that he wants to make them pay:
Lily Sloane: Jean Luc, blow up the damn ship!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: No! Noooooooooo!
[Smashes glass and model ships with his phaser] Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We’ve made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And *I* will make them pay for what they’ve done.
Now it’s onto the Firefly series. We watched our first episode last night. Very enjoyable.
