Anatomy lesson

Things are looking good. Our 19 week ultrasound shows that everything looks normal.

Red Sox 5, Rays 3

This is what we do after work. Ian is eating a bowl of chocolate chips for dinner. Cindy is knitting a cat hair sweater.

This is what Ashfield does after work. In the evening he works as a rug warmer. His day job is furniture supervisor.

Darn Good Pizza

We had pizza for dinner this evening...with bah-bah-choo sauce!

Eagles on the Mississippi

Sunday we drove to Wabasha, MN to see if we could spot some eagles along the river. We saw many eagles, as well as some seagulls (boring!) and vultures. Also, thousands of pelicans were sitting together in the river, which at first glance we thought were seagulls and then perhaps swans. We also made a quick stop at our favorite toy shop in Kellogg, MN, Lark Toys. They have some neat handcrafted wooden animal pull toys that we just love. Greeley the grasshopper is our favorite.

You can't see it well in this picture, but sitting in that 11 foot wide eagle nest is a bald eagle. We could barely make out the white head peering out over the top.

While we were checking out all of the eagles perched in the trees along the river at the National Eagle Center, this huge barge came by. It's amazing how much a little tugboat can push.

We ran into our friends, John and Sylvia, at the eagle center and joined them for a venture across the Mississippi into Wisconsin. We stopped in this quaint town of Stockholm. Across from this nifty looking eatery, we found a little homemade pie shop. There was an amazing selection of pies. I had a slice of triple berry with raspberry yogurt and Ian got half slices of peanut butter chocolate and lemon. We got a pie cookie for the road (Ian ate his half of on the way back to the car).

We then drove to Maiden Rock Bluff for a hike. At the start of the trail there was this dilapidated, old barn that made for a cool picture.

Extending for nearly a mile, the 400 ft high bluff is especially noteworthy for the presence of nesting peregrine falcons, a state endangered species.

Situated along the Mississippi Flyway, the bluff is an important migration corridor for raptors and neotropical songbirds. The rock bluff provides hunting perches and habitat for a variety of other raptors including gyrfalcon, golden eagle, bald eagle and turkey vulture.

Sunset on our drive home.