It was very good to be at GBC on a regular basis again and encourage/be encouraged by the folks there. That's something I really miss when I'm in Tahlequah.
Mostly stayed at the house, unlike most of the folks posting on FB and stuff about the different places they've been to. But through books, I've visited early 1900's Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia(everything Lucy Maud Montgomery), late 1500's England(Sackett's Land) and 1840's Alaska and San Francisco(Sitka, Louis L'Amour), the mountains of far western North Carolina(Mitford series, Jan Karon), not to mention Chincoteague Island ,Virginia(Marguerite Henry) or Harmony, Indiana(Philip Gulley) or jaunts across England and the Middle East with Agatha Christie.
Explored a South American cave in this adventure story(first part linked) that Ash and I worked on. And also got a bit farther on a handful of other projects.
Made several pilgrimages to the rather-unfamiliar territory of the movie theater, which is always a really interesting experience, and from there went back to D.C. with The Winter Soldier and saw New York with The Amazing Spider-Man's new adventures. And explored the sometimes-bizarre world of imagination with The LEGO Movie. Through Netflix and DVDs, went to WWII with Captain America, saw Greenland for the first time with Walter Mitty(strange movie, but good), visited New York again with The Avengers and again in the Amazing Spider-Man movies, as well as trying to figure out "...but What About Bob?" The Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs sequel was unnecessary(though the first was surprisingly good). New Mexico in Thor, Tennessee and Miami in Iron Man 3, and London in Thor: The Dark World. Elma, Texas again in The Big Green. Paris with The Aristocats. Chicago for both A League of Their Own and While You Were Sleeping. And PBS is fantastic, with specials on the National Barn Dance radio show, the early years of TV sitcoms and Saturday night movies of the week like Fiddler on the Roof or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Spent a lot of time with Amy, getting pretend haircuts and pretend grocery-shopping and Hot Wheels or driving PlasmaCars, reading The Animals of Maple Hill Farm and other books to her, that kind of thing. That's been nice.
Ping pong with Courtney and Caleb, lots of that, and then quite a bit of volleyball on the new court we set up in the yard. (Regulation-size court and everything, we'd been talking about it for years before actually setting it up. It's pretty awesome.)
Trevor's really liked sharing a room the last couple months.
Rags has been happy that I've been home for a while. And her kittens have been great to have around, they really like Amy and allow her to drag them around for some time longer than you'd expect. Full of personality. Licorice has always been very curious, a careful observer of life and growing up to be a laid-back tomcat. Drysa is beautiful and she is very aware of it, but she also likes hunting and pouncing things. May and Glory are kind of like twins, and both just those types that you really enjoy knowing.
Of the bucklings, Thor is the calmest, most easy-going goat you could imagine. (I'm biased, though - Nubians have always been my favorite goat breed.) Shenanigans is a handful, really lives up to his name. Trick is something else....he might be a handful when he grows up, too.
Well, it's a beautiful July day outside, sunshiny and cool, so I'll wrap this up and go spend some time outside in nature.
Mostly stayed at the house, unlike most of the folks posting on FB and stuff about the different places they've been to. But through books, I've visited early 1900's Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia(everything Lucy Maud Montgomery), late 1500's England(Sackett's Land) and 1840's Alaska and San Francisco(Sitka, Louis L'Amour), the mountains of far western North Carolina(Mitford series, Jan Karon), not to mention Chincoteague Island ,Virginia(Marguerite Henry) or Harmony, Indiana(Philip Gulley) or jaunts across England and the Middle East with Agatha Christie.
Explored a South American cave in this adventure story(first part linked) that Ash and I worked on. And also got a bit farther on a handful of other projects.
Made several pilgrimages to the rather-unfamiliar territory of the movie theater, which is always a really interesting experience, and from there went back to D.C. with The Winter Soldier and saw New York with The Amazing Spider-Man's new adventures. And explored the sometimes-bizarre world of imagination with The LEGO Movie. Through Netflix and DVDs, went to WWII with Captain America, saw Greenland for the first time with Walter Mitty(strange movie, but good), visited New York again with The Avengers and again in the Amazing Spider-Man movies, as well as trying to figure out "...but What About Bob?" The Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs sequel was unnecessary(though the first was surprisingly good). New Mexico in Thor, Tennessee and Miami in Iron Man 3, and London in Thor: The Dark World. Elma, Texas again in The Big Green. Paris with The Aristocats. Chicago for both A League of Their Own and While You Were Sleeping. And PBS is fantastic, with specials on the National Barn Dance radio show, the early years of TV sitcoms and Saturday night movies of the week like Fiddler on the Roof or The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Spent a lot of time with Amy, getting pretend haircuts and pretend grocery-shopping and Hot Wheels or driving PlasmaCars, reading The Animals of Maple Hill Farm and other books to her, that kind of thing. That's been nice.
Ping pong with Courtney and Caleb, lots of that, and then quite a bit of volleyball on the new court we set up in the yard. (Regulation-size court and everything, we'd been talking about it for years before actually setting it up. It's pretty awesome.)
Trevor's really liked sharing a room the last couple months.
Rags has been happy that I've been home for a while. And her kittens have been great to have around, they really like Amy and allow her to drag them around for some time longer than you'd expect. Full of personality. Licorice has always been very curious, a careful observer of life and growing up to be a laid-back tomcat. Drysa is beautiful and she is very aware of it, but she also likes hunting and pouncing things. May and Glory are kind of like twins, and both just those types that you really enjoy knowing.
Of the bucklings, Thor is the calmest, most easy-going goat you could imagine. (I'm biased, though - Nubians have always been my favorite goat breed.) Shenanigans is a handful, really lives up to his name. Trick is something else....he might be a handful when he grows up, too.
Well, it's a beautiful July day outside, sunshiny and cool, so I'll wrap this up and go spend some time outside in nature.
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