Sights and Sounds of the Season

Corn Maze

At the beginning of October, a few of us went corn mazing at Sever's Corn Maze. In it they have a scavenger hunt where you find different plaques. Basically, they give you a card with the map on it and location of these plaques with Viking facts, since this year's maze was celebrating the 50th season of the team. When you found one with particular picture on it, your marked the plaque on your map. I think it took us just under an hour to navigate our way through it. You can see the huge maze at http://severscornmaze.com/about.php?mazesection=currentmaze

First Snow of the Year

I'm sure a lot of you have seen the last couple of days on the news that Minnesota got its first snow fall of the season! (Couple days ago it was in the 60's!) There was about 6" that fell yesterday in my part of the Cities. Some places in the Cities got nearly a foot of snow. It was a particularly extra wet snow and thus really slushy. It's suppose to get warm again this week in the 40's so this snow will probably not last long.

Front of my apartment building

One of the bushes next to my apartment building

Snow falls everywhere
At the intersection around the block from me, this is the fun of driving in winter.

The carOh and the "Sounds" part of the blog title that you might be wondering about? Well yes, we can hear the snow plows working again. There's nothing like the metal of the plow scrapping against the pavement of the road.


This past week I've also been fighting a cold/flu of some sort. Little kids are just a germ factory! I'm still not 100%, but slowly getting better it seems.

Im still working on ancestry.com to work on the holes in my genealogy research. It's a great website and resource. I wish I had subscribed at the time for the 12 months discount instead of the 3 months discount. I thought I'd be done in three months, but that is far from the case! I hope to be finishing up work on Matsui side soon. But once you scrape the surface, you have to dig a well to get all the information!

Tidbit by Thomas: While I am an A's fan first, and probably a Twin's fan over the Giants, I guess the Giants were destined, for different reasons, to be World Series Champs. But one of the reasons I think is because they had Auntie Kiyoka cheering them on from nirvana this year! I'm sure she was proud of them!