Wine Bottle Party Trick

Step 1: Remove cork and wine from bottle.


Step 2: Return cork to bottle and jam it in all the way.

Step 3: Remove cork from bottle (with a little help).

Happy Thanksgiving!

Salad Time

Instead of going to Ruby Tuesdays to enjoy their salad bar, I recently made dinner salads instead. Brian mocked me for taking pictures of the salads, but they took a long time because of the number of different ingredients that had to be chopped. If I remember correctly, these salads include lettuce, red onions, carrots, cucumbers, red peppers, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, celery, and grated cheese. Even though they took a while to make, they were tasty to eat!

Disc Golfing

This afternoon was so beautiful that we went disc golfing with Kristina and Rick. Kristina works with Brian. Here they are showing some enthusiasm for their discs.


I always use the same disc, an orange one that I bought it Columbus years ago. Brian was already warming up at this point, so I took this picture myself.


Before his warm-up, I stopped Brian for a picture. That is kind of a silly expression. :) Brian usually carries two discs when he plays, one for the long shots and one to putt with.


After we played the course, we took a minute for a photo by one of the trees in Tom Brown Park.

Halloween Party

Last weekend, Brian and I went to a Halloween party of sorts (more like grown-ups sitting around talking, but whatever). Since it was a costume party, we both went dressed up. Brian is a pirate (as I'm sure you could guess), and I am an angel (we were meeting someone at the party who was bringing me wings).

to hold you over

Hello everyone,
It has been several days since we posted, and we have some pictures to get off the camera and post soon, but I wanted to put a couple pictures up to hold you over. The ferrets still love their fountain, and here you can see Rex and Chewbacca drinking from it. The bottom picture shows Brussels eating from one food dish while sitting in the other.

Keeping things interesting...

The ferrets are a lot of fun, but lately they have become obsessed with climbing the back of the computer (where all the cords plug in) to get onto Brian's desk. Eve even got up there and knocked a glass of water onto Brian's keyboard, which meant we were off to the store to get a new keyboard soon after. Now we try to remember that no place is safe from climbing ferrets.


Brian was feeling a little pips last week, so here he is snuggled under a blanket. The ferrets love to explore blankets, so they are coming up to see what he is doing. You can see it was a beautiful day, and we had the windows open.


Here Brussels and Rex are playing with the tube. Brussels has just leapt over the tube (center of picture), and Rex is zipping out of it (to the right).


Brian decided to clean out his closet this week, so here is the result (the closet is clean, but the clothes are on the futon). He did do some good sorting and pulled out a lot of items to go to Goodwill. The rest will (eventually) make it back into the closet. The ferrets enjoy climbing the pile of clothes and burrowing into it. I can see three of them in this picture. Can you?