Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

That’s how the city patched up the cracks on the street.  I took this picture of townhomes on one of my usual routes with the boys on Sunday.   The white strip of plastic thing will wear off sooner or later.  Underneath the white strip is some sort of black goo to patch up the cracks.  When the white strip of plastic wears off, the black goo-ey thing will then be dried but it is kinda slippery when the road is wet or if there’s snow on the road.  Why can’t they resurface the entire street with asphalt?  The city is that poor?  I don’t think so!

This weekend Simmie and I went on a trip to the Minnetonka Apple Orchard on Sunday.  What a beautiful to be out in picking apples.  It is my first time out in the apple orchard.  I know, really pathetic of me.  Been here for almost a dozen years and I have not gone to an apple orchard till yesterday.  anyways, I really had a good time.  Thanks again to Simmie for a wonderful time. 

Of course I went there without checking my camera battery.  Of two cameras sitting on the dining table I grabbed the one with the lowest battery life.  I should have known better.  So, I used my cellphone camera and most of the pictures were taken on Simmie’s camera.

The fee to get in was $4 and if we want a bag for picking apples, it will be $25.  Spendy if you ask me.  So, we just picked and ate the apples right off the tree as many as we can.  I was most interested in Honeycrisp apples.  Minnesota home grown.  So crispy.

I think I ate about 5 honeycrisps.  For a while I thought I was gonna “lou sai” (diarhea).  But it was false alarm.  Probably just too much sun. 

I really like the orchard very much.  The golden leaves of fall, just so pretty.  Then there is the corn maze where we camwhore again.  The corn maze was more for the kids I guess, something for them to run around to burn off the sugar from the apples!  Just kidding.

And we saw turkeys in the corn maze.  So, of course, we have to take a picture of it.

Then there was camwhoring at the pumpkin patch, me and Simmie.  We have known each other for two years now, we have not taken a picture together.  This was the first.  Thanks for the pictures, Simmie.

Here we go again.  Our company’s annual benefits enrollment first wave started today.  There are not much changes for this coming year benefits except that there is an increase in health care FSA (Flexible Spending Account) from 4K to 5K.  The next best is an increased on spouse or domestic partner life insurance coverage up to $150K and there is no need to give evidence of insurability.  That is so nice.  I told that to DBs he said “Are you expecting me to die soon?”  He knew I was asking around for a life insurance quote for quite some time but now that since my company is offering this great life insurance benefit, I don’t have to go scouting around now for a price that is affordable.  Then the next change is the amount I pay for medical coverage will depends on my pay.  I earn less, I pay less for the same coverage compared to the other employees who are earning more.  That’s definitely a nice change.

Since the weather is getting cooler and eventually it will get colder, we need to get ready the boys’ winter covers for their beds.  The pet beds are fill with cedar chips and some synthetic foamy things, not sure what they are called but the boys sure like them in the winter.  I put a fleece cover over their beds to make it warmer.  I notice since the two older ones are getting older, 8 and 9 years old, they prefer to keep warmer during the cool and cold nights.  They will all curled up to keep warm.  I suppose it is just the same in humans.  The older you get, you are less cold tolerant.  I think it’s true.  Anyhoo, the boys are now liking the thick shaggy rug in the dining room but when it’s bed time, they will hang in our room, that’s when their beds come in handy.