House Plant 9-1-1

This poor spider plant was about to be thrown out by some friends who were overwhelmed by how big it grew, so of course it came home with Mom and Dad after their road trip "Up North" to visit them last weekend.


It took most of the afternoon today, but we managed to salvage eight healthy new plants from it. They are resting inside our garage right now, but soon they will all go to loving new homes!


And just because we love "before and after" photos, here's one that shows just the biggest babies that were sprouting from this plant .....


..... and here they are all ready to donate to Mom's school for the Biology Club's semi-annual plant sale!

The Boys Are Back In Town

We love the Packer season around here because it brings all kinds of friends and relatives to town, like Mom's cousins Mike and Jay who came for the season opener against the Vikings on September 8th. They picked a good one because they actually got to see the Packers win!


Friends Paul and Bob weren't so lucky today .... as they watched the Packers lose to the Falcons in a heartbreakingly close game. At least they had awesome seats though. Mom lucked out and scored four extra tickets from a co-worker at the last minute so they could all go today.


Our tickets were already promised to Uncle Jim and his son Hunter, who came up from Chicago for a father-son day with their friends Mike and Jake. We had quite a crowd here at the house both before and after the game and I had lots of people to throw the ball for me!


The boys from Illinois in the Lambeau Field atrium above, and walking through the neighborhood back to our house after the game below.

More new toys for the boys .....

That's Jake on a Ripstik, the latest craze among the elementary school set. Believe it or not, this was the first time he ever tried it but he caught on really fast!


Hunter has been practicing since last May, and he's already outgrown his starter stik and got an upgraded model (possibly because someone bigger than him...ahem... wore the first one out!) He can even throw and catch a football while he rides, which is pretty impressive.


What's even more impressive is that Jim has learned how to ride it too. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?!?!?!