Fan of the Month

Todays post is to give credit to the only person whom has commented on our blog.  This individual has also shown outstanding dedication to the success of this site by checking often for updates, voting in our polls, and even inviting us to his house for food and drink.  The rest of you are a bunch of bastards (pronounced bay - steads).  Therefore, I declare June's fan of the month... Hein99!!  Congratulations, and thanks for your support!

                                                          Fan of the Month:  Hein99

Belly buttons

Lint-Free Button

First of all: check out our simple new poll: Innie or outtie? This poll was inspired by something that we heard on tv the other day: there has been a study to determine why/how people get bellybutton lint. We heard of it on Breakfast Television so it must be legit but of course at this moment we can't find reference to the study they were mentioning... but here is a similar one. Anyways, we have both been witness to this phenomena (I laughed until I cried). Not from our own buttons of course (yes, you know who you are). I originally thought that this would only result from poor hygiene habits, however, have since been set straight. Belly buttons come in all shapes and sizes and depths (I swear I saw blue/green mould growing there once. Not in mine, of course.), however, we are all most familiar with the "innie" or "outtie". Unless you made your "outtie" an "innie" (yes, you know who you are!) we are all born with one or the other (temporary outties due to pregnancy DO NOT count). Yes, we are rambling. Take the survey and off with you!

More Visitors!!!

Robinsby Acres has gone universal!  We thought we were hot cheese when we reached out to Germany with the Smurfs... we also have noticed some visitors from Greece... welcome everyone.  However, and this is truly amazing... it appears that there IS in fact extra-terrestrial life out there in the form of living robots.  

Optimus Prime (from the 80's cartoon... not the current Transformers movie... that's complege rubbish!) has decided to visit us from the planet Cybertron.  Welcome Autobots.  We humans hope we can share our technology for the greater gain of both races.  Though we don't have much to offer you in return, we do have IPad 2's... and CEO of Apple Inc,. Steve Jobs recently announced ICloud... i have no idea what it does (or care for that matter), but i'm sure it will help the Autobots defeat those bastard Decepticons into oblivion!!  Speaking of Oblivion, I'm really looking forward to Skyrim!  I will not stop until all dragons have been killed, and I  have been proclaimed the supreme ruler as dictated in the Elder Scrolls.

Alright... enough is enough... here is proof of Prime's visit

The dude abides...

It has been many years since I set the family screen saver to continuously scroll "the dude abides" and I got to thinking that it has been a least two months since we have seen The Big Lebowski. There are Lebowskifests all over the U.S. and none in Canada :( If anyone knows of any please let us know! This inspired us to do our inaugural weekly poll (at right). If I ever get ahold of a big old phone I'm totally dressing as The Dude for Halloween.

Check out The Big Lebowski 2 - the best thing Tara Reid has done in a long time.

Avocado Bomb

So some friends of ours have moved out of town and we were feeling a little bit lonely, however the loneliness quickly faded and we found a replacement friend.  Actually we've been meaning to try this for a while... every time we eat guacamole.  So we finally took the initiative and planted ourselves an avocado tree.  After reading about it, it seems that this can be a bit difficult so we are hoping for the best.

Also our morning glories are becoming more glorious and have started to twist their way around our TV antenna.

And I got my blue belt!!  Watch out evil doers... I'm coming for you!

Friendly Visitors

Well we were awakened this morning by what I thought to be rats trying to steal our produce, but it turned out to be a few Smurfs.  I was still in a half dream state and at first thought we were being invaded by little blue demons straight from the bowels of Hell.  I was terribly frightened and was about to take drastic measures, but the Grandpa Smurf must have cast a charm spell on us as we quickly realized they were visiting from Germany.  It turns out they are HUGE fans of our blog and was checking out Robinsby Acres as a possible tourist destination.  Grandpa and I negotiated a very nice vacation package which is all inclusive.  Do Smurfs have a high alcohol tolerance?  I mean there is no way they can drink more than a thimble full of spirits... or can they?  Did I have the wool pulled over my eyes?  Dooohhhh!

I asked Grandpa Smurf about the upcoming Smurf movie and questioned why he would consider a project that was sure to bomb at the box office.  It turns out that things aren't so peachy in the Smurf village.  Gargamel had a heart attack and collapsed in the village centre; destroying 2/3 of the standing structures, and killing 17.  The deceased include Jokey, Brainy, and Vanity... however as they were the most annoying on the cartoon show, they won't be missed.  In fact grandpa said they seen as abominations of the Smurf community, and would thus not be buried in the regular graveyard.  Anyways Hollywood offered lots of $$$ which will be used to repair the damage caused by Gargamel, so that's why there will be a movie coming out this summer.  I won't be going to see it, so it won't be reviewed on this blog by me.

Checking out the damage to Smurf Village

The graveyard which Jokey, Brainy, and Vanity will NOT be buried at!!!

A critical review of Eric and Aileen's garden

The Rival Gardeners!!!!!!

Some people like to rub it in our faces that they have outdoor space and can have a so-called "real" garden. Eric and Aileen have sent us a photo of their new garden. Here are our thoughts:

The good:

1. The colour coordination is great - pink and yellow definitely go together.

2. The spacing is superb - we see a lot of symmetry happening here.

The bad:

3. Nothing is bad per se, however there is a lack of variety. I see no vegetables in sight...

The ugly:

4. Ugly is a pretty harsh word. The garden space itself is quite nice. What we do take issue with is the fact that the garden could have (and should have!) been much larger!!!!!! When we last saw the space there was no sod - just fertile soil... What happened guys?????

In conclusion: a good effort, however they should have taken full advantage of the space they had and planted a pear tree. A consultation with the Peterborough gardening guru is recommended.