Dangerous

That sure is a pack of trouble up there, but don't you fret none.

Bear was given a voucher for his birthday from Grandma Chris and Grampa Burt for a picture from one of those old time photo booth places. Last weekend he got to collect on Mackinac Island and picked out the people, the scene, and the style.

Eyeball Quiz VII

Who is this person???

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Stephen, Cassandra, and Carol...you got it absolutely right. That eyeball up there belongs to the one and only Susan Marie Pasquali. Suzie is the daughter of a two-time Olympic boxer, driver of a pristine 1982 Corvette, planner of an enormously successful shotgun wedding, owner of various small animals over time, high school salutatorian, and the only person I can imagine as having raised Danielle Pasquali. She is able to sum up very complicated scenarios in short and sassy bits of wisdom that eliminate argument. She was set up on a date with a wild Italian football player and ended up marrying his quietier and more dangerous Michael Corleone-ish brother.

Here is the proof:

KFC Secret recipe???

I googled to find the secret recipe and found this...anyone willing to test it out???

2 tablespoons paprika
1 tablespoon onion salt
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 teaspoon rubbed sage
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground oregano
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon basil leaves, crushed
1 teaspoon marjoram leaves, crushed finely

Mix together 4 teaspoons mixture, 1 cup flour, 2 Tbls. packed light brown sugar and 1 teaspoons salt. Place in a doubled plastic food bag and add chicken to coat. Fry, drain on paper towels, serve!

President Bear M Nelson

So, Bear says that some day he would like to be President of the United States of America...when asked why he said it was because he has lots of good ideas. We then naturally asked what these ideas were..."Well, i would lower taxes and all lego guys would be $1!" I would totally vote for you Bear, those sound like the best ideas yet!!! -Love, Mom

Asian Style

So, I never desired to ride a motorcycle before, until i noticed cute asian chicks at MSU riding around on crotch rockets. I never had admired crotch rockets before, but rather preferred the classic Indian style motorcycles, if I had to choose....but i now, thanks to asian chicks, realize that they are rather well suited to the female species. Asian, specifically Japanese, girls have a style i want to copy unrepentantly. I like their clothes, i like their bikes (motor and non-motor alike) their backpacks and goofy ballerina costumes with high socks i saw one wearing on campus the other day, and even their poker straight, very thick, course black hair that is always styled effortlessly and looks great, even better when dyed to a dark brown. Their petite, slim stature doesn't hurt either. That's it....i think i'm turning japanese...i really think so!

Love- Dani

That's the future me in the middle...the tall pale one

By the way....you're all getting scarves for christmas.......you're welcome!!!

Couple of Videos

Here we are at Millies on Main on Mackinaw Island. John is unaware that a video is being taken and instead thinks Danielle is balking at taking a picture so he keeps shifting his face into various stupid poses that he thinks would make a funny picture.

Here is Willow doing three of her favorite things: saying hereyago, bluntly attending to Juneau, and doing sniffly sideways breathing through a scrunched up nose.

Weekend

This weekend we went to Mackinaw at the last minute. Cheryl, Kevin, Walker, and Taylor were there, too. Lots o fun.

Danielle went to her "dealer" and was all, 'Where's my money, man. Give me my money, man. Where's my money? Give me my money, man." She got a fist full of cash and the rest of her inventory and it funded our trip. As she was collecting, Willow and Bear generally terrorized Mackinaw Crossing.

We had breakfast Saturday morning at the Senior Center, where seniors Burt and Chris frequent. It was $2.50 per adult and the kids were free.

Danielle got compliments on her hats that she has made. She talked to some retailer from a store called Caddywampus on the island and they might sell them for her there.

The whole drive home, Danielle read out loud to us from an American road trip travel memoir called Travels with Charlie by John Steinbeck. It is great so far.

Another of the hats. This one Willow will wear for Halloween as Leia.

Sonofagun

So today Suzie and Dino were all "You spelled Juneau's name like three different ways on your blog! You're the one who named him that you have to at least spell it right!"

So in a mission to prove them wrong I scoured this blog and discovered that I, John, had indeed misspelled the name Juneau consistently. Two misspelled versions (Juenau and Jeneau or something like that) and the right version. That makes three. Darn it.

On my defense, I firmly maintain that I do know how to spell Juneau (as it happens the same way the capital of Alaska is spelled), I just suffered from a consistent typo. You know, every time I typed it out it felt like I blew it but then I would look quickly and sure enough it looked ok. What does that mean? Do I have a very specific form of brain damage or just a very general common form of brain damage, as Cheryl maintains?

Anyways, for the record...
J...U...N...E...A...U.