How To Tell Halloween Is Over...

The Skins Game

The best part of the Skins game on Sunday was taking this picture of Grandma and Jack sitting at the bar enjoying some snacks. He looks good in his "uniform", but it didn't help the team any, they lost by a landslide.

I don't think Jack cared one way or another.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!!!
Jack went out on his first Halloween tonight. We went around to some of our neighbors houses and begged for candy and sweets. Got a few good things, too! Daddy likes Milk Duds.


Jack left holding the bag

Where's the free candy?

I'm a JACK-o-lantern!

Mr. Fix-It

This weekend the dishwasher went out on us, made a few funny noises and would not empty the water in the bottom of the pan. After fooling with it for a few minutes, I decided to take it out and get a better look at the guts of the operation. I determined that there must be a clog somewhere and after about an hour, had it isolated at the exchange where the tube that carries the bad water out to the sink hookup. Took off the little cap, pried the tip off and there it was, a wad of grimy gooky crud. Fixed.

On Saturday afternoon, I took the door of the shed off of its hinges and replaced them so that they matched up better for the door frame. I also put up some tool-holders and put all my tools in the shed. Now I have a place for all my shtuff. I also hung a frame for the bicycle in the back of the shed. Fixed.

Monday morning I awoke to a car that would not work, turned over a few times then just made a clicking sound. When I got home I went and got a new battery and installed that, what do you know, it worked. Guess it was that first cold snap of the season and a 7 year-old battery. Fixed.

The upside to all this was that I got all this stuff fixed; dishwwasher, the shed door and the dead car battery - done.

I am officially "Mr. Fix-It".

Its 2am, Do You Know Where Your Cat Is?

So our cat decided to wake us both out of a deep sleep to regurgitate something he had eaten several hours before.

Nothing fills your heart with panic at 2am when your cat begins to make that sound. I call it "The Windup". The delivery, of course, comes a few seconds later. He always seems to be standing over a rug or carpet, even though our house is mostly hardwood flooring.

So after cleaning up the mess, I went back to bed and tried to calm myself from the adrenaline that was released a few minutes earlier from the disturbance.

He's 17, how much longer can he keep this hobby going?

Day at the Fair (and the Pony Ride)

We went to the Fall Fair in Old Town this weekend. Kathleen and Tino (grandma and grandpa) were up from South Carolina and went with us. Of course its politician season, so there were plenty of them there. There was a big fluffy Donkey, so I got a picture of me and Jack standing next to him/her. Jack was not too fond of the big donkey. It wouldn't be the only thing he was scared of that day.


We went straight to the kiddie rides and found the only one he could do was the pony ride, cause sticking him in one of those moon-bounce thingies to get trampled just didn't seem like fun.

He got on and decided to hold onto me, since I seemed more stable. He put up a little fight, but stayed with it. It was a short ride across the lawn of city hall, all of 1 minute. He smiled big when I lifted him off the pony.






Kate and Grandma K with Jack



Jack liked the Pad Thai Noodles and funnel cakes (minus the sugar)

Meow, Bahhh and Neigh

Jack has been learning what animals sound like, so we quiz him periodically. We usually ask about what a kitty, a lamb, a dog, a horse, a cow or a duck sound like.

Yesterday, I was dressing him for the day and he was very chatty, so I quizzed him, He did a horse (Nay), a kitty (meow), a cow (moo) and a dog (wuf). I ask Kate to come in and witness the genius he is displaying and he just babbles, "blahbety-bom-bippy-bing".

So the next morning, I get the camera out and record this gem, he does a Kitty, a Lamb and a Horse, except he sounds kind of country and says "naaaaayyyyy".

He also says bye-bye at the end.