Dave's employee picnic

A great time was had by all the the Northfield Hospital employee picnic. We took Jack and Parker and they both had a good time - cheeseburgers, fries, lemonade and ice cream. Horseback rides, a little baseball, some running (walking fast), and lots of visiting with Dave's friends.

Miss P Video

Peek-a-boo and waving bye bye!

Miss P has teeth!

The adorable girls...

Jack's last T-ball game was Wednesday!

Jack had his last T-ball game of the year on Wednesday. We watched and had a lot of fun and took a trip to Dairy Queen afterwards. Fun, fun, fun!!!!! Jack has a good arm and a good eye. We look forward to years of baseball!!

Moths!

Check out the luna moth that paid us a visit. Beautiful. It hung out on the kitchen window for awhile and then moved on.

The other moth visited us at the lake. It was on the ground.

How I spent my summer vacation. By Luke.

I was put to work on the farm! Cleaning chicken waterers, hauling supplies, doing dishes, mopping, mowing, berry pickin', you name it, they made me do it!

The lake was fun - notice how low the water is!

The lawn mower is from Woodgate!

New Guinea Babies - 19 of them!

The Guinea babies hatched the middle of June. They start out adorable and quickly turn into gangly teenagers, then back to their ugly-adorable full grown selves. They eat tons of bugs - we haven't had a tick yet!

We hatched 10 in the incubator Dave made and put 10 eggs under a broody hen. When our eggs hatched we put the keets under mom and she took over. The hen is "Broody Mama" - she hatched out 3 chicks last year. She is a great mom!

Our Guinea mom decided SHE wanted babies too, so she is sitting on her nest of 20 eggs which are due to hatch the last week of August. Guinea moms typically aren't the best - hopefully she learned something from Broody Mama!

Parker's Baptism

Little Miss P was baptised today at St. John's Church in Northfield. The ceremony was very nice and Parker looked beautiful in her outfit (knit by Great Grandma Rose 26 years ago). Her sponsors are Kenzie and Sam, Nicole's sister and step-sister. Afterwards everyone came to our house for lunch. Nicole made a fabulous cake ~It was a great day.

Some new pics and a Chicken Movie!

Little Miss P holding her bottle. The picture has been cropped for your viewing pleasure (and mine!)

It's garage sale time! Latest Best Find - a Scooby Do costume for Jack. 3 Bucks. Yup, 3 bucks.

The Chicken movie! I love my girls and they love me.

Easy ones

Here's an easy one:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTSN&cp=qmc1jn66tss4&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=26886398&encType=1

Next one:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=r08whn7pfdp8&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=11353546&encType=1

Next:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=pjt1695pjmkp&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=5801783&encType=1

Now they will get more difficult....

Luke scores!



Good luck on this one - I wish we could zoom in more. Bird's eye is not available. Turn on "labels" if you need a hint....



http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=45.802848~-89.716222&style=a&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Where in the world???

Good job guys! Here's the next one:

My money is on Luke!

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCC&cp=rgjrvk7696hb&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6258935&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

Where is this? Identify the location. First in a series.

Here's the challenge - click on the link - it's an aerial view (bird's eye view) of a location the Hoffmans are familiar with. Where are we? Once you click on the link, you can change the view by hitting the rotate buttons when you are in the "bird's eye view". This is awesome.

Ready?

Set?

Click. If you have trouble clicking, copy and paste the address below.

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTSN&cp=r29nff7n4sxc&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=24675346&encType=1

First one to comment with the correct location wins!!!

Happy Easter!!!

Winter and a Turkey...just passing through

this is what it looks like outside right now.....

Sunday, April 5

Happy Birthday Diane!!!!

this is what we woke up to this morning....


The joys of living in MN.....

Check out this Tom passing through. We never know what we'll see when we look out the window. One of the delights of living in paradise!

Parker's First School Picture

Look at the deer!

Click on the picture to see it larger. I count 6 deer. How many do you see?

The chickens watch the deer run through the valley

Another Parker Video

Parker

Just discovered the VIDEO function of my camera...

I'll get better at this video stuff I promise!