Picture of the month

Taken by Abby. Subject is Jonathan the student.

Unsure

Well for those of you who did not realize it, I am unpredictable. But in my defense I come from the family of unpredictable. I reallize this most when, like the day before yesterday I came
home from TKD to find my brother who was supposed to be in Florida, sitting at in the kitchen.
Wow, And what was more surprising was that I got over it in a couple minutes. I think I am getting used to it. But it is good to see him again even if I did not expect it. So always beware of the unpredictable. Wait isn't that what makes it unprecitable. Oh I am just going to stop. As if it's not boring already. That is latest ramblings from the Chip... whatever.


Chip the chipper

He has risen!

Happy Easter. I had a great Easter. Hope yours was the same.

Chip

Ahhhh Winter is Back

I had to open my big mouth about spring. Now the geese are going to start
heading south again and we will have no water fowl in the north this year.
Well I guess we will just have to have spring again. What was that about the
earth warming up.


Chip

Ah Spring

I like spring. It is a refreashing season. When you can step out side and get
some freash air without running back to the house saying cold cold collld.
It is time when you can go for a walk without first puting on a layer of
restricting clothing that makes you to hot anyway. Ok, I am not saying I do not like winter but everything in it's
time and season. eh. I think I like spring in it's season better
than... oh well never mind.

Chip

Raft

This is the raft I built. Looking for a name. USS something.
Thanks to dad and Michael K. for their help in lifting logs.

Chip

Happy Spring

Oh I love spring all that fresh clean air. And tonight thunder storms Yea!
Sweet!

Chip

The tournament

It went well.

Sadly, I came home with no medals but came home with knowledge and memories of
a good time which can be worth more than all the medals in the world.
I came home with some bruises though. My opponent could kick hard.
Mr. Michael got silver in pattern and sparring and Miss Abby got bronze in breaking.
Good job to all who took part in the tournament.


Pilsung!

Chip

Yaa hooo

I have another niece. She came into this world Tuesday night her name is Claire Simone and she weighs 8lb 14 oz and is 22.5 inches tall. And is cute. Oh, And her birthday is on the same day as her cousin Jak's birthday which is kind of neat.

We also spent the past two days helping H family move to the country. That was fun. I Wish them all the best in ther new place.

And tomorrow we have a tournament in Alexandria. I am hiped and ready.


Vale

Chip

There is a post coming

So here are some pictures for the time being.

Snow

Ok we got some snow this week but it was not a blizzard. They foercasted a blizzard then it came and we got some snow and some wind but no blizzard. Than after the snow fall they called it a blizzard which it was not. So just as a warning if you think that is as bad as it gets it is not. I think that it was smart of them to close the schools for safety reasons. But to call it a blizzard after the fact could give people who have never been in a real one the wrong idea so that they might think that if that was a blizzard it is not that bad which real ones are. Just a pet peeve.


Chip

Fun pictures

My poor T-rex.

A cool beam of light that we saw last night.

The moon.

Chip

The header

Thanks to Lydia B for the idea for my new header.

Chip

Arrrgg

Warning: Choking hazard. If you like pointless posts please feel free to read. But if at this moment you are trying to gain knowledge I suggest omit reading this post. Thank you


The reason for the arrrgg is because no title seemed to fit this post. Well I was going to post pictures because it is a whole lot easier then writing and it is Sunday and I feel relaxed. Oh, Ok I know what your thinking relaxed and lazy are synonyms of each other. Well think that if you like. But this week has been great. Hope the next is better then it though. Arrrgg my mind is really la... I mean relxed this evening. Sorry I think I will have to leave and come and post sometime when my brain is working.

P.S. Here is some more pointless stuff. The state fish of Hawaii is the Humuhumunukunukuapuaa.


Chip

More old good pictures.

Lots of effort into one wink. This is Jonathan B.

Flying Saucer

Even though this picture was taken almost three years ago it
is still one of my favorite. And not just because I am in it.
That was fun!!

Chip

Ok I can Update

Thanks to Abby again. Well I am happy and feel good. Now you may think that scary and not want to know why I am happy. Welll..... I will tell you anyway. It is Sunday today and this week my room that I share with two brothers was upgraded to a new order of cleaness what more could you ask for. "Well lots of things", you say. No but am feeling just fine without the other lots of things. So with that I will rap up this post. Oh, just want to say that on the comment below you find the correct answer to the question on the post below.


Happy Chip of glass

Guess what.

What is this? The awnser will be in the next post.

Chip

I am sick of sickness

Well if you read Abby's Xanga you heard that mom took Michael to the hospital. Well as soon as they got back mom got sick then, Abby got it, then Douglas, then Igot it. I am better now I think but every one just listed is still out. So the past two days have been kind of interesting with half of the people in the house sick.

cough... cough!

Chip

Mall pictures

Douglas on his way into Under Water Adventure.
A giant shoe.
One of the many fish we saw in the Under Water Adventure.

A Mall that I can stand

Well yesterday we went to go and pick up Hannah Tway at the airport in the Twin Citys. But instead of getting there by 10:00a.m. she got there at about 6:00 p.m. So we had lots of time
to burn. Of course we went to the Mall of America. Man, That was not so bad for six hours in a mall. But then I did not really do much shopping. But there where some cool places like Lego
Land and Underwater Adventure that where fun. Sorry but West Acres has a way to go with me. I hope I can get some pictures from the yesterday.

Chip

Pictures from Sioux game

The middle of the fight of the game. They where pretty mad.
Thank you Uncle Jay.

GGGGOOOOO SSSIIIIOOUUIUUXXX

Man, just got back from a Sioux hockey game. That was a lot of fun. The Sioux won 4 to nothing. Also got to see some fights break out. Anyway that was fun. Post some pictures later.


Chip of ice

Sorry I am having trouble uloading pictures this seems like the only one I can post.

Ice-skating on a lake near us.
Jac the cute.

What goes on

Well Josiah and Libby left and so did Andrew, Bethany, and Jac and things are getting back to normal,whatever that is. Tomorrow all the B relatives will be coming. And we also have TKD tomorrow. I will be glad to get back after such a long break. The reason ( if you are wondering) that I have Oh Boy for my quote is because I am looking for a new one. The old one was just grtting old. Always open to ideas.


Chip

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a great year, and pray we shall have another like it.

Chip

I love my nephew. He is so great.

The B girls seconds after being suprised.
Libby and Josiah not long after we picked them up.
The ball we hosted up at our shop.

The Jac.

Double Suprise

Well the other day my brothers, sister, mom, and, I where at a coffee shop to drop off Abby so she could meet some friends. So I was just sort of standing around when I see a couple and there baby walk in the door. For a minute I thought nothing of it till I did a double take "wow they look a lot like Andrew and Bethany and Jac". Well they where Andrew and Bethany and Jac. You could have nocked me over whith a tooth-pick.
Later on Libby and Josiah get out of a car that was behind us when we picked up my dad at work. I have to say that Libby and Josiah where not that big of a suprise to because of things I heard and thought, but I will not go into all of that now. All in all a very odd yet fun afternoon. Than lastnight at the ball Libby and Josiah Suprised the B family which was great. I will post some pictures later.

Chip

Christmas pictures

The feast.











Cheistmas Eve. Me with my new whatch and Stephen with his shirt and tie.

Merry Christmas

Hope everyone has a great Christmas. And remember the reason for the season.

From the North Pole,

This is Chip

I would like snow please!_!

I really really want some snow. Today it got to the edge of our county and just went away. I would like just one inch of white snow. After all Christmas is 4 days away. I am running another vote.

Chip

Christmas quotes

If every day where like Christmas what a wonderful world this would be~ Owner of JCpenny

He can see you when your sleeping, he knows when your awake he knows..... Santa, jolly old elf or C.I.A agent.

He who has not Chritmas in his heart will never find it under a tree~ Roy L. Smith

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

When we were chidren we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton

Nothing's as mean as giving a child something useful for Christmas. ~Kin Hubbard

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. ~ Dr. Seuss


Merry Christmas,
Chip

What I have been doing most of the summer and late fall.

My hand dug fort. Thanks to Seth and Nat B, and to Isaac and Joel B, and to my brother Douglas for the help and effort they put in.
The haze is due to fireplace problems.

Snow

We got snow. We only got about a 1 mm. But I am still glad that it is at least below freezing. Yes yes yes. Thank you for the votes I think they helped. Anyway I am just so glad for some real winter weather. To bad the picture above was not taken by me.

Yikes

Last night we got our Christmas Tree and decorated the house. And I am proud to state that I got all my Christmas shopping done. Also Stephen is home for Christmas. Therefore due to conditons I think Christmas should be here in 17 days. Wait, I just got a weather report that says that says 39*F for tomorrow. And we only have about an inch of snow. AAHHH we need a blizzard. Cast your vote here if you want a blizzard.

Chip

Nice pictures.

I miss my sister Libby. Way to go on the job.

We have snow.

Do I like snow? Yes. Do like it better when there is something that needs to get done before the
the snow comes and it comes just as I finish. Yes Yes. So we got about an inch of snow last night
that came in a windy hurry and left in a... well I am not sure because I was sleeping. But I do know it left for the simple reason that when I woke up it was gone. Now the ground is white and it looks so nice.

Chip

Just some pictures.

The Nat. My aunt and uncle... ah yea
These pictures have no deep meaning. So do not try to figure them out.

Some more history. Because there are no new pictures.

The swastika is an ancient symbol often used as an ornament or religious sighn. The swastika is the form of cross with the ends of the arms bent at right angles in a given direction, usually cloclwise. The swastika has been found on Byzantine buildings, Buddhist inscriptions, Celtic monuments, and Greek coins. Swastikas were widely used symbols among the Indians of North and South America. The clockwise swastika was adopted in 1920 as the symbol of the National Socialist Party of Germany. As such it came to be one of the most hated symbols in the history of humanity. It came to stand for all the evil associated with the Nazis as they gained control of Europe before and during World War ll. After the Allies defeated Germany in 1945, they banned the display of of the swastika emblem.

Chip

Happy Thank... Oh you know what I am going to say.

Sgiving. And happy day after Thanksgiving or black Friday as some call it. And believe it or not my sister is going shopping to day. I mean I do not care for shpping to start out with[shuddder]. Today is also the birthday of Bat Masterson and Scott Joplin. Here is one last bit of neat history about today. On this day in 1962 Dawn Fraser, an Australian swimmer, sets the 11th of her 12 world records and the eighth of nine in a row in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 59.5 seconds. Well have a good Friday I mean a good black friday.


Chip

Missing link

I do not like this phrase because it assumes that there is a missing link. If it is missing and you
have never seen it than how do you know there is such a thing? But if you have found it (which some claim they have) then it is no longer the missing link but the found one. So in truth, for the ones who do not believe that there is such a thing(like myself) , we should call it the link that never was. And I will let the people that think they have found the link that never was think up a name for there so called found link. I think that those who say ,"missing link", should not say it unless they really think that there is a link that is missing.
Even though there is no evidence. But that is a different sort of thing to talk about some other time.

Chip

Trip to Canada

My great, great Aunt.

The border.
Went to Canada (as is stated clearly above) this weekend to visit my great, great Aunt. And had a great time. My grandma and grandpa came with us also.









Thursday night and this afternoon we have been burning the pond.

Well so far this week has been normal(unlike most). Of course it is only Monday. You never know who will walk in the door or call or.. or anything can happen. Though it is only Monday I am in full stride. Did school this morning, this afternoon I went woodcarving, then to TKD, and from there I came home ate dinner, did dishes, and some other odds and ends that are pointless to bring up.

I would stop telling what I am doing and post pictures but due to computer breakdowns and camera breakdowns the amount of pictures in this house are minimal, the maximum of which you have seen on mine and my family members blogs. Hope you get that.

Chip

Random... or sort of

Content cat.

Fall is here and the bees are gone.













No Michael is not going to graduate.

Pictures from when Libby was home.

Libby got a phone call. ahah That is why she is not in this one.
Making that Lefse. Yaa
I took this one and thought it was cool.
I miss her boo hoo hoo.

Oh and conserning the photo of grass below. Ther are is an ox cart
trail that you can hardly make out.

Well October is gone and my sister will be the same way soon/..And with November comes hunters and this year those guys who say," vote for me and you will have everything your way. When if they where
really telling the truth they would say, "vote for
me and you will wish you never had. Ok maybe
that is going a little to far but somtimes it is way to close.

The picture above has something in it besides grass that is important. I will put the answer on my next post.



Well so long.

Chip