A place to come and have a little chuckle at our family and some funny stories I’ve amassed over the years.
MP was trying to show Doodle Bug a magic trick after watching “The Illusionist.” He told her he was a “Magic Trickishtionist.” Doodle Bug said, “Dad– it’s called a MAGICIAN!”
Oh yeah! But “trickishtionist” is a really good word!
How many of you will be using it now? 2-19-07
I ordered French doors for the office when we started building. Long story short, the guy got mad at us and sold them, so Mr. Perfect and I are having to order new doors. I was looking at one with a seedy Baroque glass. It’s kind of an old fashioned looking glass, a French word pronounced “Burr Oak”. Well, Mr. Perfect called to order the door. When he came home he told me, “I told the guy that my wife wanted the seedy BAR O Q glass.” That’s right—BAR O Q, three syllables and as red neck as you can make it sound. I explained to Mr. Perfect the correct pronunciation. We figure the guy is still laughing about that. Of course, now we have to call them the BAR O Q glass doors, too! Even Doodle Bug knew the right pronunciation. BJ Dude probably does, too ;o). 1/9/06
At Costco, Doodle Bug had her dad buy these really good sorbet’s (pronounced Sore Bay). They are actual halves of fruit– coconut, pineapple, lemon, orange, that are filled with the sorbet, or sherbet-type stuff, and frozen. Yesterday, MP said that he was going to have a Sorbee. When we started laughing, he said, “Okay a Sore Bet.” Finally Doodle Bug told him that they were “Sore Bay’s”. But from now on you can have all the Sorbee’s or SoreBET’s you want! 11/7/05
PS. They are SUPER YUMMY!!!
We were at the pond by our cabin with my uncle and his wife. MP said, “when I was down here this morning, I saw the MARLIN’s on the pond.” There was another awkward pause in the conversation, and I said, “I didn’t know we had such LARGE fish in this pond. Perhaps you meant the MALLARD ducks on the pond.” “Yeah that was it!” My uncle’s wife was laughing and said that she thought marlins were a big fish. I told her that we liked more exotic things in our pond. That pond is so big it may hold one marlin at best =)! 5/30/05
Here’s a picture of our pond:
Here’s a picture of a marlin:
Yeah…it would take up the whole pond… Might not even be able to turn around. 
At the ball game the other night, Paul, my Mom, and I were talking about the fruit stand opening up. Mom said that Grandma was cussing Grandpa for having all that pop in the cooler and they should have watermelon, etc, etc. Paul said, “yeah. They do pretty good selling the sapphire root beer.” Mom kind of paused. I said “SAPPHIRE?” Mom looked at me with a quizzing look. Since I am now fluent in Maloprop-eze, I said to mom, “let me translate for you–SASPARILLA!” Mom was cracking up!!! 5/30/05
It was homecoming around here last week. We love to have some fun with our kids and make their dinner just a little bit more special. Well, let’s be honest, it keeps them from traveling a long way or spending a bunch of money on a dinner. And it’s hard to get a big group in some of the restaurants.
Doodle Bug and MP decided that we should do a pirate theme this year. So I figured that making the deck of the pirate ship would be the easiest.
Here are some photos of the room:
At Paul’s Webelo camp, they did knots at one of the rotations. Since then he has been showing us all kind of knots with a renewed interest and excitement(to him not necessarily to us!) He was showing the clove hitch to Blondie and Scout and while flinging the rope over the tennis racket handle said, “This is how the cowboys hitched their horse up while they went into the SALON!…….uh……I mean SALOON.”
You know those cowboys– always had a concern for their hair! 5/2/05
We were outside the other night talking with our neighbor. She and I were talking about cheese and she said that she didn’t like Monterey Jack cheese very well. Paul pipes up and says, “Yeah, I like seasoned salt better, too!” We all look at him kind of funny and Doodle Bug says, “Dad, what are you talking about? We’re talking about CHEESE here!”
“Oh,” he says, “I thought you were talking about the Monterey seasoning or what is it??….”
Doodle Bug corrected, “That’s MONTREAL steak seasoning!” Monterey, Montreal– they’re all just cities anyway! 11/7/04
Shotgun stayed home from school with a sore throat. He asked me if he had “STRESS throat.” There’s an accurate description for you! Stress throat is much easier to cure than STREP, right??? 11/7/04
Blondie was talking to me about the Page Basketball tournament. I asked about the price and she said, “That includes food and lounging.” Truth is– that is probably more correct than “lodging” !!!! 6/6/04
