Apparently it's contagious

I am originally from Minnesota and you know what they say

'you can take the girl out of Minnesota but you can't take

the Minnesota out of the girl'

They say that right?

Anyway apparently it is contagious.

Just look at this photo of my husband Gapetto with

The Bunny Rabbit and the Dolly Llama.

If that hat isn't Minnesotan I don't know what is.

It makes me laugh every time it graces his head

Oh JEEZ!

The art of the award

Lest Natasha, my friend over at Exile on Mom Street thinks 

me a TOTAL INGRATE I must thank her for the Premios 

Dardo Award she gave me nearly a month ago. 

Not very timely at these things I am afraid. Her friend 

Christine told her this about said award:

"Given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and 

personal values transmitted in the form of creative and 

original writing... created with the intention of promoting 

fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection 

and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web". 

Pretty fancy, huh? They call it the Smoking Typewriter 

Award. So it is written. So it shall be.

Rule One of accepting this prestigious award calls for me 

to put my name in a Google image search and share the 

results. Turns out there is an artist with my name who 

does some, um, interesting stuff. Check it out.

Now I don't know what you see here or what the artist's 

intention was but what I see is, well:

A Perfectly Formed Turd

And then there was this little number:

Seems to me that A Perfectly Formed Turd has been 

stretched out a bit, petrified and is holding a young lady's 

legs apart. Um, I got nothin' on this one. Certainly nothing 

fit to print in the same blog mentioning a fancy award. 

Perhaps Blogland would like to provide comments on 

this one?

None of this seems to be very cultural, ethical or literary 

but maybe the inventor of this award never counted on me 

getting it and apparently NEVER Googled my name. So I ask 

you, can I help it if those are the rules? 

And so onward and upward hopefully.

Rule Two of award acceptance calls for me to pass the 

award along to 10 worthy bloggers who also exemplify the 

spirit of the Premios Dardo. Now you'd think this part would 

be easy, I mean if I got it the bar is pretty low here...

(No offense Natasha - you are the bomb!) 

I will do a few anyway...

1. Jim and Wood over at Sweet Juniper! An amazing look at 

life in America's most dangerous city and raising a family in it.

Thought provoking and powerful and amazing photos to boot.

2. Idiot's Stew for allowing us an inside look at a thinking 

man's thoughts.

3. Irish Gumbo ditto on #2 description.

Wow so far they are all men (number one is a husband and wife 

team) - I didn't even follow any men for the first few months...

4. Her Bad Mother Again a thought provoking blog - willing to 

go where no one dares with dignity and grace.

5. KEEP BELIEVING Angie is facing life in the aftermath of 

losing her true love, her soulmate and her husband of nearly 

12 years. Written in letters. Moving. Amazing.

Y'all run off now and read these amazing bloggers. I got 

nothing here...