Well Henry decided that oatmeal and yogurt weren’t enough for breakfast this morning so he ate his crayons for a snack. It took me about 10 minutes to get them all out of his teeth. Then this afternoon he proceeded to eat my cherry chapstick in the car after I gave it to him to calm him down. Crazy child!
We had an unconventional Halloween this year. We didn’t take Henry trick or treating but rather did some stuff around the house, went climbing and had some friends over for dinner. We had homemade pumpkin soup, zuchinni squares, roasted pumpkin seeds, homemade donuts and apple cider! YOWZA!! So delicious and super fun!
Went up to Flagstaff over the weekend for our annual shooting trip. Froze our butts off while out trying to shoot stuff for 5 hours. The weather didn’t cooperate too well but we still had a great time hanging out with Keith and Dana and got a couple hours of climbing in too.
Keto lighting things up:
Maria’s turn:
Tom taking a knee:
Well, it’s been about 3 1/2 years since my last furniture project, and even longer since I made something for our own enjoyment. This project came about after we finally upgraded our TV from the 300 lb behemoth that I got after college to a nice, new flatscreen. With all my audio equipment, DVD, CD player and everything else sitting in disarray underneath the new TV, Maria politely suggested that we get a TV stand. Being the frugal person that I am, I decided that rather than drop a hundred dollars or more on something that would look decent, but still not match our other living room furniture, I would come up with a design of my own that mimics our coffe and end tables. However, since I didn’t have any substantial amount of mahogany on hand, or a fancy production line to make elaborate glue-ups, I had to get creative to mimic the ‘butcher-block’ table top and stain the cherry that I had to match. The result turned out great, and since I had 90% of the materials on hand, the project cost less than $30!!
We spontaneously decided this morning that we would run up the mountain and go for a hike on the butterfly trail. I’ve never been on it but Tommy said he and his friends hiked it a while ago and that there was some wreckage along the way of an airplane crash. It was an F-86 which is what interested me because that’s what my dad used to fly. He would have loved seeing it. You can read up on the crash here (http://www.aircraftarchaeology.com/F-86D%20Sabre%20Dog.htm).
It was a fun hike overall, but we bit off a little more than we could chew as we are not in as good of shape as we used to be! Tomorrow is going to be painful!
