Baby Maples

The adorable thing about tiny, just germinated maple seeds is how the leaves are teeny tiny maple leaves! Now who would have guessed that! Just like the ones the size of your hand that you rake up in the fall. Only on the diminutive scale. If you ask me, these are right up there on the cute scale with baby shoes.

The Boys Are 6

Newton now

Einstein now

Baby Newt

Baby Steinie

We Wuz at Zorbaz!

On the lakefront patio.

Theze people have a zenze of humor. They're Norwegian, too. Amazing.

They take their clever mizzpellingz zeriouzly.

Oh, yeah, there waz a band, too.

And adult beveragez.

In the Zorbaz ztore. We couldn't rezizt the shirtz. They had zunglazzes, too.

Ze view from our table. I zwear I'm never going back there, it juzt wazn't any fun at all.

Camping Observations

* It has been revealed that my superhero power is the ability to fart and frighten deer off the bike trail. Perhaps this shall open the door to unconsidered career opportunities, such as strapping myself to the hood of a vehicle and reducing roadkill!


* We had great fun at Zorbaz in Spicer, MN. Live music on their huge outdoor patio with a panoramic view of Green Lake. Couldn't resist their gift shop tshirts as well as the don't-take-it-so-seriously atmosphere where they substitute Z for S wherever possible.


* Thank you Karen! For owning a pickup with room for people and stuff, including bikes, and a comfy pop-up camper!  And for driving! 


* If you are ever in Willmar. MN, I recommend Grizzly's. Reasonably priced very yummy food. I had the applewood bacon wrapped sirloin. Delicious.


* The campfire transforms Nacho Cheese Doritos and beer into haute cuisine.


* Thanks to Karen again for whipping up an excellent campsite breakfast of eggs and hashbrowns and venison bacon. 


* Thanks to Colleen for the most excellent salmon mousse and fresh, home baked bread for our Friday night treat!


* Considering all of this wonderful food, it's probably a good thing that we biked over twenty miles and took a couple of long walks around the park. 


* Twice I proved my single match campfire lighting prowess. This former Campfire Girl totally rocks the category.


* A major discovery in finding that inserting inappropriate language into Christmas songs can be outrageously funny. Yes, it was late. Yes, we had been drinking. Still, it was pretty darn funny.

Open Letter to Reg

Dear Reg,


It has been a fun and pleasant stretch of text, email and phone exchanges. Unfortunately, my patience, interest, and BotD have once again reached their limit. Despite your reassurances that you are working on it, let's be honest,  clearly you truly are unable to give me what I want or need. In six weeks' time you haven't accomplished setting aside a few hours to share a meal with me. One last opportunity to discover if our connection was worthy of giving a relationship one more try. I will leave you with a quote from Suzi Loomis in the movie Duets. You'll be jerking off to my memory on your deathbed. You, sir, have been deleted.


Sincerely,


Bellona

Minnesota Biker Girls

Colleen consorts with the local wildlife.

Karen, me in the middle, and Colleen. Not quite halfway through our 24 mile ride and still smiling!

Colleen. Cute in her pink baseball cap.

On the Glacial Lakes Trail somewhere between Spicer and Willmar, MN .

Old Crows

Krahe has arrived. She is suitably matted and framed. She joins others of her kind, completing the old crow motif in the Queen Bath. Isn't she lovely?