Planet Stahl

Got an email from Mike!  Great News, its a big boy! 

Man, I have been very uncool about the updates…. But I have made up for it with the kick’n vids right?

If you have not figured it out, you can click on the YouTube videos to see clips of things going on around here.  I had them messed up before, so if they did not work in the past, try them again.

Christmas is over, and I only have a few comments.  I love putting stuff together all morning, and then fixing it all with super glue by the end of the night!  My kids are hard on toys!  Geeze!

We had a killer dinner at the Ranch today.  Mom, Dad, Syl, Dan, Noel, Linda, Jim, Mary and our family were all here.  Great food.  Even better leftovers!  Finishing a bowl of noodles right now!

Look for pictures soon!

For stupid Stahl tricks! 

1.  After the big snow this past week, we found it near impossible to get our hands on snomelt.  Ang made the most of it by improvising.

Later that night, Tomi and Jeff stopped by, and we noticed that something weird was tracking all over the floor.  Ang ended up spot mopping that next day.  We just assumed that something the kids were playing with was being drug all over.  On Saturday, Joe, Sylvia, Mom and Dad all came over after going out to Larry’s… We had more globs of stuff on our shoes.

Hey, whats that stuff Ang is using for melting the snow???  Kitty Litter!  Clay!!!  Oh Jeeze!  I have this stuff all over now.  We have seen the snow melt, but now the driveway and walkway is covered in this muddy clay mess!  Sweeping it has only made it smear!  Lesson learned…  Kitty litter is good for traction on your car, but dint use it at your house unless you have a cat problem.

2.  I was loading the downstairs fridge last week…  After moving some stuff around, I forgot to notice a gallon of milk on the floor.  The basement floor mind you, so it was not a warm room.

Anyway, 2 days later, I see it sitting there.  And being the frugal bastard I am…I placed it back in the fridge.  A week later when I was making breakfast, I needed that other gallon…  I ran down to the fridge and grabbed the “aged” gallon.

I TASTED IT FIRST!  Don’t think I pawned it off on the Wife and kids first!

After smelling it a few times in a glass… I tasted it.  It was fine!  So, the moral to the story is:  Keeping your house at 60 degrees in the winter may be uncomfortable to people, but it keeps the perishables in fine shape!

Thanks to Hughesnet… I am up and running with a sattelite dish in the back yard…  I can even surf from Ang’s new wifi Palm TX!  Its sweet!  So, I have been doing lots of cool videos and such with our new Pentax Optio (Not name dropping and bragging, but I am soooooooo in love with some of these gadgets!).  I will share those on my YouTube posts.  I hope you enjoy them half as much as I do!

This also means I will be getting my European vacation page done…  Geez…  The thing froze up on me during my last page update…  That was about the last straw…  Except that I had already ordered the dish!

Look for lots of updates and fun stuff…  Like this one:  Kids being pulled by the truck, from the perspective of inside the cab… Not for people with motion sickness!

http://www.youtube.com/v/6uiPfnh0KMo

My last post was the jinx!  Yeah!  We got a foot of snow.  The kids would live out there if they could.  They love it.  I literally had to drag them in from outside yesterday.  Today we pulled them around the pasture on a sled behind the truck.  FUN!  Ang pulled Aiden and I once, but she was out to get me and we flipped over!  (What do you think would happen to me if I did the same thing back?)

I will be finishing up our European Vacation photos when I get my hi-speed connection… That happens Monday!!!!  Watch for videos and other things that are hard for me to upload now to start appearing on the site!