Colonial Fleets - 2 Word/ Alternating Word/ Word Association

This is the "Two-Word, Alternating-Word, Word-Association" thread. It is like the One Word word association thread, but there is more to it. Every time you post you post two words unrelated to each other, yet related to the two unrelated words posted before you. There would be an invisible X between the post before you and your own post.

From the post preceding yours, the first word connects to your second word, and the second word connects to your first word.

Say the first person, me, begins with:

Tree--Refridgerator

The next person associates a word with the last person's second word

Groceries--
and then follows that with a word that is associated with the last person's first word. --bluejay

So now we have:
Tree--Refridgerator
Groceries--Bluejay

Groceries connects to the last person's Refridgerator, and Bluejay (the bird) connects to the last person's Tree.

Get it now?

Tree--Refridgerator
Groceries--Bluejay
wing--vegetable
soil--airplane
altitude--insect
ardvark--Himalaya
Yeti--snout

And that's how we do it guys and gals. Everybody with me? No? C'mon, it'll be fun, I promise!

Since we are civilized people (with some exceptions) we have to have rules. The first rule is, we have to have rules. Since the first rule says that we have to have rules, here are the rules:
2) The 2nd rule is that we have to have the rules listed in order, which brings us to rule #3:
3) The 3rd rule is that rule #3 has to come after rule #2. I know that sounds awfully similar to rule #2, but trust me it isn't. Don't ask me why, just trust me on this.
4) The 4th rule is that you must post after the preceding person, not before. Get in line like everybody else, bub.
5) The 5th rule is that if 2 people post at the same time responding to the same previous post, the next person follows up in response to the second post posted at the same time as the first post which appears before it.
6) The 6th rule is, never forget the most important rule of all, rule #1.
8) The 8th rule is, there is no need for a 7th rule.

Okay then, now, do you remember the pattern?

Tree--Refridgerator
Groceries--Bluejay
wing--vegetable
soil--airplane
altitude--insect
ardvark--Himalaya
Yeti--snout

Somebody take it from there, if you please.