Vonnahme family blog

Rick and Heidi gave Beren a helicopter for his birthday, and while we were flying it Monday the inevitable happened– it landed 30 feet up in a spruce tree in the middle of our lawn.

I demonstrated my dad skills by gently shooting blunt tipped arrows at it until I got all three of them cradled nicely in the branches. Then it was time to get drastic. The rake! I grabbed our longest rake but it was way too short. I began throwing the rake, hoping to rotate it just right and knock the helicopter and all three arrows down.

It only took three tries before the rake was caught 20 feet up in the tree along with the rest.

Time to cut our losses and wait for the wind to blow them down. We had our first snow tonight though– if it starts sticking I’ll probably have to clamber up there with the extension ladder.

Last week, the day after a certain remark about a certain Daddy and his family members being “poky” we heard from Lily:

“Us not poky. Grandma and Grampa are poky. Kind of like hedgehogs…”

Now, is that really fair?

We had humongous pea vines this year that kept producing like crazy. The brassicas did pretty well but our potatoes didn’t yield as much as last year, and the beets were dismally small. Carrots were quite a bit better than last year though, and we managed to harvest enough basil for 17 jars of pesto, if I remember right.
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She can’t say “Shalom”

Here we go, and welcome! We hope to use this to record and share thoughts and stories about our kids or whatever else is noteworthy along the way.

To do:

• post some funny quotes from Beren and Lily
• integrate with Gallery 2
• show Betsy how to use this thing
• reveal it to our friends and family!
• link to:
  • Leif
  • Erin
  • Sarah
  • Ann Chow
  • Gideon
  • Regent blogroll
  • Chris Lott
• cheeseball access control?
• show the Grandparents how to particpate?!