Bl.a.

The title of this post is a Swedish phrase that basically means among other things. It's what the Swedes say when there is a list of random things and some are left out, if that makes sense. Translating language is hard. But it means that this post has a few random unrelated things.

Anyways, we carved pumpkins last night but T was inspired to carve a butternut squash instead. We read it about on a friend's blog who found it here. It said he would need an apple corer. Easy enough. Wrong! They don't exist anymore. All apple corers now are the fabulous gadget that also slices the apple into little wedges or else they're flat and blunt on the end. That wouldn't work for hollowing out a rock hard butternut. So after calling many stores and looking online, we decided they are impossible to find now. He said he'd make do. I kept warning him that butternut squash are not soft like pumpkins. He was up for the challenge. He tried many tools and found the ice cream scoop to work best. It was hard work and he probably has sore biceps and a blister today. But the finished product was worth the work.





Also, Boozie's famous. He hearts these wood teethers I bought for him awhile ago and I told the girl that makes them and she put him on her business' blog. Check it here.

And lastly, last Saturday T ran in a 5K-ish race called the Mud Run. It's always the Saturday before Halloween so everyone dresses up, runs around 3 miles through this great park we love, do a random obstacle course along the way, and then frolick through a big freezing cold mud pit. It was very entertaining. There were 2 dudes dressed up as Michael Phelps wearing only black swimsuits and goggles and they dove into the mud pit together. They won for best performance in the mud pit. There was blasting music to inspire the participants to dance and have fun in the mud. Boozie slept on my shoulder through the whole thing. Maybe next year.