Not June Cleaver
Not June Cleaver: age 46
Ward Cleaver: age 45
Simon: ds age 12
Alvin: ds age 10
Theodore: ds age 9
Jerry: Betta fish, age unknown
Albert (as in Gator mascot): hermit crab, age unknown
Tiger (as in Tiger Woods): hermit crab, age unknown
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These Go To Eleven
NIGEL: All the way up. You’re on ten on your guitar, where can you go from there? Where?
MARTY: I don’t know.
NIGEL: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
MARTY: Put it up to eleven.
NIGEL: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
MARTY: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
NIGEL: These go to eleven.Curious about the title of this blog? Here's a link to a video clip of one of my favorite scenes in "This Is Spinal Tap"
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Obsidian and Other Treasures
Finally something worth posting!! It just took me a month to get it here (and a YEAR since my last “real” post).
In August and September, we spent almost 3 weeks traveling around South Dakota and Wyoming. It was the most amazing trip ever. If I can get my face out of Facebook, I’ll try to post a real summary of our trip. For now, I just wanted to point out something in my photos that I found really interesting.
Here are the collections of rocks Simon and Alvin found on a beach near Grant Village in Yellowstone National Park. Since you can’t take stuff with you from the parks — not even rocks (shame on you if you did!), we took photographs of their treasures. I found it so interesting the difference in their collections.
Simon’s collection looked like this:
Alvin’s collection looked like this:
Isn’t that fascinating? Or is it just me?
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It’s not just you.
So while we were home watching Ken Burns’ series on our national parks — see it if you can — you were off experiencing them! Love it . . .
My boys made collections just like those at Lewis lake (in Yellowstone) this summer. But it was a bit traumatic when they had to leave the collections behind, even with the photos. There’s something about that obsidian.
Yes, Rolfe, (btw, nice to have you comment here!), they are a little bit obsessed with obsidian, mainly due to their obsession with the online game Runescape. Do your kids play that? Perhaps they are a little young for it.
Alvin found the coolest specimen of obsidian, it was BROWN. I truly wanted to take it with us, but my sister made me feel like crap for even thinking about it (she worked at Yellowstone the last two summers).