A SHOCKING Discovery

Yesterday Nicholas and I replaced the shocks on the van.  We did this because  the van has been bouncy, to increase stopping power, and because the shocks just needed replaced.  To get to the shocks we had to jack up one side of one of the ends of the van to take a wheel off.  We only jacked up one wheel at a time because the van is just so very BIG.  When we pulled the shocks off I realized how badly they needed replaced.  I, by myself, could compress the shocks and then they wouldn’t decompress themselves.  See that shiny yellow part behind the spring?20150813_114008  That’s the brand new shock.

Gardening (A fancy name for weeding)

The little boys and I had to do some “gardening” in the front flower bed last week because it had gotten kinda overgrown, and some of the bushes had died.  So while Christopher mowed the lawn, Robert and I weeded the flower bed.  And weeded.  And weeded.  And weeded until it was finally all weeded out.  This is what it looked like afterwards.20150811_140403 Mom says I should plant something there, but I think it looks fine.

Dinosaur World!

I never actually wrote a blog post about the time we went to Dinosaur World so I figured I could write one now.  We went to Dinosaur World when Dad, Mom, Anne, and Veronica were in Ohio at a wedding.  We were greeted at the door by the Iron Triceratops Sentry. KIMG0294 We found him very agreeable and he even let us take a picture with him.  Once inside we found one of Stephen old friends.  I mean really old friend: he’s practically a fossil now.KIMG0303Christopher had a narrow escape from a T-Rex.KIMG0352I wasn’t so lucky.KIMG0315While we were looking at some dinosaur fossils we saw a strange lump on one T-Rex’s head.KIMG0334Though apparently they are born with it. KIMG0362We also met these sad fellows.KIMG0370We didn’t know why they were sad, but it seemed polite to join in.  Maybe this was one of their friends.KIMG0344My favorite of all the dinosaurs is this one. KIMG0421Pretty cool, huh?

Glass

Yesterday Jonathan and I went to the eye doctor.  Jonathan was going in to get his eyes checked and to get new glasses, and I was going in for a follow up for the contacts I had gotten the week before.  So today the new frames for Jonathan were in and my contacts were in so Stephen went to get them and to have his sunglasses adjusted.  During the morning a man came in from the insurance company to replace the windshield on Dad’s car because the old one was cracked.  Then, during the dinner dishes Robert broke a glass.  So all in all it was a day of glass at our house.

The Beach (and Cinderella)

Last Sunday I started grilling at six… a.m.  It happened like this.  We planned to go to the beach on Sunday and, we left at five a.m. since we wanted to get there early and, the beach is two hours from our house.  Right after we left the house Mom checked the weather and, found that it was very likely to rain.  Because of this we turned around and, went home.  The weather was predicted to be clear for the afternoon so, we planned to go out then.  Since we were planning on making chicken that day and, we definitely couldn’t make it that night, I went out to make the chicken.  It was about a half an hour after we got back home and, most of the neighbors were still asleep.  I started making the chicken just as the sun was coming up.  When I had finished the chicken we ate it for breakfast and, discussed our plans for what we were going to do that evening besides going to the beach and, as it turns out while I was grilling the chicken it was decided that we were going to see the new live action Cinderella in theaters.  Cinderella was an excellent movie.  In fact, I might do a review of it soon.  We also learned that it never actually rained that morning.  Ironically, as we pulled out of our driveway and began our journey it started to rain.

Origami

Things have been very busy around here since we have started on new merchandise for Longbow.  We have a new postcard in the works for Comic Con.  We are working on a new comic.  We might even make a Longbow coffee mug.  The high point of all we are doing, however, are the origami figures we are making for some of the comics.  We are making specially designed Longbow dinosaurs for comic #1.  Not all the dinosaurs will be specially designed but, all the dinosaurs will be specially colored.  We also have a new form of animation, we will be using at some point.