Fort in the Van

It all fit in the van! Beam us up, Scotty.
I hope we can get it out when we get to Clemson...

Naomi Spends the Night

Naomi came over to spend the night this weekend. It was a really nice day, so we picked up some acorns from the big red oak tree in the back yard.

After we had a good batch, she took them to the bird pond.
There were a lot of acorns.
They looked really good in the bird pond.
After that, we painted things with water.
Naomi let Pa paint some, too.
We had a good time!

Paint The Fort

Since we had a couple of nice, sunny days this week, we got the fort painted.
Before
During
After (it was getting late, thus the color shift)
It only took about 4 hours.

Hornucopia 2009 - Where to Begin?

It began with a Plan...
Shopping...
Great Smoky Mountains
Hiking
Touristing in Gatlinburg
Riding
Playing at the Corn Maize
Shooting the "Corn Cannon"
Making T-Shirts for Twohy - fronts
... backs
Fakesgiving Dinner
Games - especially San Juan...
Revising the Plan...
Climbing Cousins...
Pitching pennies...
Stacking quarters...
Visiting the Tree of Shame at Deal's Gap...
Walking under a waterfall...
Riding...
Seeing Lake Jocassee...
Eating ice creamBeing there together!
It was GREAT!

New Horse for the Course

Bike number 11.
The VFR and VT600 are gone. Long live the VFR.

John's Fort

Before move.
After move.

Hope I can remember how it goes together!

The One Thing....

... that sets me apart from most of humanity:
















I own a Google t-shirt.

A View of Life

Life is so daily.
~ Apparently said by a lot of people

Painted Fence

Before:
























After:

Third Birthday Party

Since we missed Naomi's official birthday party, she came over so we could celebrate with her. This may have been her Third party (yes, third birthday, but that's beside the point.)
She demonstrated extreme precision and speed removing the wrapping paper from her gifts. Her most frequent response was "I LOVE it!"

One of them was a great book about NASA and Cape Canaveral from Aunt Jessica. (Yes, they changed it back from Cape Kennedy to its original name due to objections from the local residents. It is still Kennedy Space Center, though.)

Here was one that didn't register on the "oh, what a great gift" scale. Until later.























Mimi got to try out the nifty mirror built into the nifty purse.

There was also a t-shirt with a portrait of "The Big Dog". A Keatshirt?

There were balloons, too. This one had a happy face behind it!























After the opening ceremony, we took a break and went outside to check for tomatoes, among other things.

It turns out the strange present was an Ice Cream Ball. It has an opening on one side for ice and salt, and on the other side for cream and sugar.

You roll and shake the ball to freeze the ice cream. It makes one pint. It actually worked quite well

John Michael - Back Home

Amazingly, John seems to just go on like nothing happened. Except he gets to watch a lot more videos than normal ("Cars" and "Veggie Tales", mostly.)

When asked to show the neat Cars pillow Aunt Jennie & Cousin Naomi sent him, he decided to bite it.

Lots of videos...