A monthly download of photos, sprinkled with words. Not nearly as good as cupcakes sprinkled with sprinkles, but better than Vegemite. Anything is better than Vegemite.
I learned you can now print 3′ posters for $50, so I updated the drone photo-ed backyard trail map (white lines are the trails) and art-ed our wall:
Somewhere in that forest, a bunch of deer hide out:
We spent xmas with Mom in Montana.
Zach, Nick/Chloe, Max/Clark, and Aya/Eric joined us for all kinds of fun. Puzzles were solved:
Games were played.
Books were read:
Bughouse chess (2 teams of 2) was a blast!
Big boys were manly:
Little boys were cute:
Max was facinated by the deer skull bones we had at the cave:
The rest of us were fascinated by fire and warm jackets:
We pulled 6 garbage bags of out-dated supplies from the study and medicine closet:
We timed our trip back to hit a nice snowstorm in Denver. This guy is trying to convince us to wait out in the sub-zero wind chill for our gate checked bags:
We were happy to get back to balmy Alabama … dogs were happy too
We snuck in one more trip down to the gulf before it got too cold:
We watched workers embedded a bunch of poles in the sand for a new house. They excavated the holes using nothing but a 15′ pressurized water wand:
Back home we had some guests come visit. Elie is a world traveling rabbi:
We visited a controversial mural (on the left) that depicts whites ruling over slaves. Rather than destroy it, the city recently decided to add a modern mural to show we are better now (on the right):
Our second guest was Kisa from Philadelphia:
She and Helen had fun creating pink eared clay creatures:
Our dog creatures developed red beards from eating colored dog food:
I didn’t notice it much, thanks to our family color blind gene, but Helen didn’t like it so we did some aggressive cutting:
Helen played with a black but not-blackface face mask:
She also discovered a lamp-less way to do night time book reading:
Closing with another riveting pine cone convulsion:
