Happy Super Birthday Uncle Tom!

**This is a new, superior video.**

This are our first attempt at putting video together. While we had fun, we hope to improve (we realize there are some errors and poor picture quality).

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY OPA... 

ERR GRANDPA!

Hope your birthday is udderly fantastic. Maybe you have already herd this, but go on and milk it for all its worth. Unlike milk, you have not curdled with age and heat. Gee whiz, hope our puns haven't soured you. Well, we'd butter get going, this is getting cheezy at the tail end.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRAMS!

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.

Last week we had a doozy of a storm push through. The eighty mph winds ( in metric that equates to damn that's a strong wind) effected a four block wide stretch of the Como Park area of St Paul. The power went out on Friday nite and did not come back on until Monday afternoon. Luckily, we suffered no damage, but several neighbors did not escape damage. Above is a picture of the tree that fell between our neighbor's home and garage, causing several thousand dollars of damage.

This is across the street. A maple tree sliced through the neighboring ash tree that provided a great shaded yard.

Here is another view of the sliced tree. The wind pushed over literally hundreds of trees. Our amateur opinion is that the dry summer led to brittle roots, add strong winds....

Oh yeah, that is why summer is so nice.

We snapped this photo on a visit to the hilltop- Mt. Angel Seminary and Abbey, osk's alma mater. It would be great if Elijah decided to be the 3rd generation to attend.

Where's the 1989 Cadillac DeVille with gold rims?

Happy 1st Birthday!