We had a little birthday wingding for Graham on Sunday… only a couple weeks late. Our birthday present? Having the gathering at his house which forced him and Tyson to clean up their house before we arrived.
Historian Bruce White has added a blog to the home page of his MinnesotaHistory.net site, and he’s begun blogging.
Bruce is one of the state’s most respected historians and has written extensively about Native Americans.
I first blogged about Bruce back in 2006.
Welcome to the blogosphere, Bruce!
Last week, Robbie and I set up a blog site for the Valley Pond Townhouse Association where we’re members. The townhouses surround Hidden Valley Park in Northfield, Minnesota on three sides.
After building the blogsite for the Blue Door Pub in St. Paul, Tyson now bartends there several nights a week. Robbie and I paid him a visit last week.
We had a their signature Jucy Blucys while we judged his bartending skills to be more than marginally adequate.
Todd and I had dinner at Mom’s last night.
Robbie and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary yesterday. We ate an early lunch at Chapati and spent the evening (hot tub! bubbles!) at the Archer House… both in downtown Northfield.
I used the self-timer on my camera to take the photos above (left and center). I think the last time I did that was for this photo, in the fall of 1976.
Jane Williams, co-owner of Forget-Me-Not Florist here in Northfield with her hubby Jim (right photo below), is my second cousin on my mother’s side… the Lauers of St. Paul, then Mendota Heights, then Rosemount while I was growing up in Eagan. (I went to elementary school in the late 50s/early 60s with Jane and her sibs at St. Peter’s in Mendota. My mother, Audre Wigley, taught 5th grade there and had many of the Lauer kids in her class over the years.)
I stopped by their Northfield florist shop (Water St. at 5th) yesterday to order some flowers (for my sweetie!) and to see how the the 5th St. construction was impacting their business. (Ouch on the latter.)
I’d planned to order flowers via their Northfield florists website (for delivery to Robbie’s hotel room in Salt Lake City) but Jane gave me a money-saving tip: browse the site to find what I wanted, then phone them with the order.
Jane said a large percentage of their flowers have always been supplied by Minnesota growers, part of the Minnesota Grown Program coordinated by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture.
Our niece Ellen visited us in Northfield this weekend.
See the album of 17 photos or this slideshow:
