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Melinda learning to drive Luke.

“Luke” is Melinda’s 1969 Ford F-100.
Fully Manual.

Its not easy. But she has been practicing a few months now, and she is really getting a hold of it. I can tell you there are few teenagers that could handle this truck. It’s a handful. I’m impressed. <3

Posted on 4 October '20 by , under Activities, kids. No Comments.

New Pony.

Got my 500$ 1995 Harley sportster on the road.
Runs well! I need to g back and tell the story of how I picked this up late last year. It was an adventure.

Posted on 27 September '20 by , under projects. No Comments.

Messing with Dry Ice.

Hannah God some food for her Sneks, and it came packed in dry ice.
I asked the two Hannahs (Red and Blue) if they ever made a dry ice bomb before.
“no”

Well, its time to check it out!
It was much louder than they expected.. and loud enough that a Police officer that was at the church came up to investigate what was going on… 🙂
It was us officer.. just doing science!
🙂 🙂

Posted on 23 September '20 by , under Uncategorized. No Comments.

Rockwell’s last first day of k-12.

It had to happen sometime. Rockwell is a senior at NAHS. I wish him well. He will do great.

Posted on 15 September '20 by , under kids, school, seasons. No Comments.

Doing a thing.

Hannah talked me into doing “Aerial silks”.. I’m not gonna include one of me, But here is one of Hannah! 🙂

Posted on 3 September '20 by , under Activities, kids. No Comments.

Rockwell FINALLY gets a Blue Tongue skink!

This kid has been waiting for years to get one of these as a pet! We picked him up at the Columbia Repticon last weekend.

His name is George. Pretty sure he named it after Watsky, a musician he likes.

 

George is already digging in the cage we made for him!

Here he is in Rockwell’s room.

Posted on 5 November '18 by , under kids, pets. No Comments.

Melinda receives her Academic letter!

Watching Melinda receiver her letter, and the important people addressing the small crowd, You really get a sense of the seriousness of the occasion. I was impressed!

 

All of the people on the left are the teachers in their hoods and caps, the people in front are the senior students. You get an idea of the teacher student ratio!

And here is Melinda with her Roommate! I am proud of both of them.

Posted on 10 October '18 by , under Awards, kids, school. No Comments.

Parents day at GSSM.

This is the day where we get to visit all of Melinda’s classes and teachers.  I did that, but we ended up having more fun in art class than anywhere else.

The teacher had us all work with clay. And that teacher had taught this process across the world (literally),  so she had the process down. It was pretty funny listening to her actually.

In the process!

Some of the art Melinda was working on. I recognized them right away. The “Melinda with cheerios” picture from 2002, and Rockwell in the parkinglot with the Iguana 2013(?)

 

And our finished (but not fired) friends!

Posted on 29 September '18 by , under Activities, kids, school. No Comments.

Knife making with Hannah and Amber

 

First we started out with some plain old railroad spikes.

 

Had to heat them up a bit before we flattened them out!

Elbow Grease.

Strike while the Iron is hot they say.

The twisted handles. They are nice.

 

Turned out well IMO!

Practicing to be Thor I guess.

Posted on 14 August '18 by , under Activities, kids. No Comments.

Melinda and I visit the history museum in Columbia SC.

 

 

I’m guessing these are regional? I suppose I should know.

lol.. We spent more time at this display than we probably should have..

 

But part of the reason was, their display was wrong! We did it the right way, above.. 🙂

Here we are in a triangular mirror box.. Some day I will adjust the brightness to make the pic better. sorry.

Posted on 11 August '18 by , under Activities, kids. No Comments.