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Anniversary Trip To New York

Written By: Jason - Nov• 12•11

This year for our wedding anniversary, Heidi and I took a trip to New York.  We left on a Saturday morning, and took the Bolt Bus to New York.  Then we checked into our hotel, the Club Quarters and figured out our plan of action.  The first stop of the day was in honor of Occupy Wall Street, so we went to the Morgan Library and Museum, which was founded by capitalists. We spend several hours there, then went to see a movie at the Film Forum.  The movie we saw was called The Mill and the Cross, and  I think it is safe to say that neither I nor Heidi agreed with the mostly positive reviews.  It was just a little too long for our tastes.  Although it had “Roy Batty” from Blade Runner in it.

The next day we went to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and then to Central Park for several more hours.  We ended the day at a Comedy Club and headed (more…)

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Halloween 2011

Written By: Jason - Nov• 06•11

About a month after last Halloween, Whitney and Mason watched The Dark Knight. At that instant they decided that they would be characters from that movie for Halloween. Whitney decided she would be the Joker and Mason decided to be Two Face. They planned their costumes for several months, and began gathering their clothes a month in advance. Heidi made Whitney’s costume basically from scratch and I worked on Mason’s clothes, burning holes in them.

On Halloween night, Whitney went with one of her friends and Mason stayed around here. I made a fake table out of a cardboard box and made it look like we were serving a head for dinner, and set that up on the front porch. Quite a few of the kids coming up the sidewalk got scared and didn’t want to come closer.

At the end of the night the kids had a lot of candy and ended up having a great time.

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Another Spider Video

Written By: Jason - Oct• 08•11

It is now Spider Season at our house, which means we have spiders all over the place. As usual, they are huge and scary, but we found what I erroneously called a yellow banana spider that we hadn’t seen before. It was actually a “garden spider“. Mason and I caught a green grasshopper and thought we would feed the spider. We don’t like the green grasshoppers because they bite. It doesn’t hurt but it is just gross and they are pests. We do like the spiders because they keep the bad bugs like mosquitoes down.

So, we fed the grasshopper to the spider and this was the result. The spider quickly won the match, and we checked on him frequently over the next few days until he disappeared for the season. These spiders are pretty neat, and make some of the coolest webs in all of spiderdom.

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Buy Popcorn Now Please!

Written By: Jason - Sep• 26•11

Mason is selling popcorn for Cub Scouts. It is great popcorn and helps out the cub scouts. Please click this link to but delicious popcorn and help support the cub scouts!

http://www.trails-end.com/estore/scouts/email_referral.jsp?id=15839207

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Rebuilding the Cat House

Written By: Jason - Sep• 06•11

Some 25 years ago, more or less, I embarked on a quest to build a mansion fit for a king for our dogs and cats.  It was a grand design.  It consisted of a typical dog house, but with a second level for the cats.  It took me at least one day to build using lumber I found around the shop.  I was concerned with durability and made the house with extra nails, as can be seen in the picture.  Although you can’t see it, there was a carpet for the cats and I made sure to put a wooden roof on, then tin over the wood.  I didn’t want to use straight tin because I was worried of all the noise that would make when it rained.

After completion, the dogs never did really like their part of the house, but the many cats did.  It eventually became known as just the cat house, since they would all congregate on the top level and wait for food.

Anyway, over the years, despite the initial build quality, (more…)

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DC Earthquake Devastation

Written By: Jason - Aug• 23•11

Today I had taken the day off because Heidi and the kids had just come home from Idaho, and me, Heidi and Whitney were watching a movie in the living room and Mason was watching one on the computer in the kitchen. All of a sudden, the house started shaking and it just got worse and worse. The kids jumped up and Mason ran into the living room. They were wondering what was going on and Heidi and I said it felt like an earthquake. It just got stronger and stronger, so we went outside until it calmed down.

Our neighbor opened her window and said it felt like her house was falling down. When we got back in we saw on the Internet that there had been a strong earthquake in Virginia, and we did have some things knocked off the walls and shelves. (I also included a picture of Mason’s room, which he wanted me to take. It looks like there was a natural disaster in there too, but it is normal.)

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Fourth of July

Written By: Jason - Jul• 23•11

This year for the fourth of July before evening we had our own set of explosions. I bought some dry ice and we made a lot of dry ice bombs. They worked pretty well. I learned that wider lids tend to leak more though, so one of them just wouldn’t blow up cause the seal wasn’t tight enough. That led to Mason grabbing his BB gun to explode it. So he grabbed his gun and aimed and then, imitating Martin Brody from Jaws and shot it to make it blow up. And at about 3:50, you can see a bottle explode and rocket into a tupperware thing, which cracked from the impact. Next year we might try to figure out how to explode one under water.

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Mason pulls out a tooth

Written By: Jason - Jul• 11•11

This is one of the better movies we’ve ever gotten of a tooth being pulled out, and neither Heidi nor I actually video taped it. I was just transferring the movies off of the video camera and saw that the kids had filmed this by themselves. Usually Mason and Whitney aren’t good at pulling their teeth out on film, but this was the exception. The tooth was pretty loose and he just reached in there and yanked it right out.

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Whitney Saves a Bird

Written By: Jason - Jun• 13•11

Whitney found a bird that was tangled up in the trampoline springs. It had already twisted its leg around so it was just dangling by the exposed bone. So Whitney did like that guy who got trapped in the canyon in Utah and cut its leg off so it could live. She wants to be a vet when she grows up and was glad to help this bird.

You can see in the video that the bone is exposed. Heidi was trying to help and video at the same time, but you can definitely see when Whitney does the surgery. You can hear how excited she was that the bird was OK and was able to fly away.

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Piano Recital

Written By: Jason - Jun• 05•11

The other day Whitney and Mason had a piano recital. They are both pretty good piano players and practiced their songs for quite a while. The only bad part was that after Whitney had been practicing for more than a month, and when the recital was about a week away, she realized that she was missing page two of a three page song. So she had to really practice all week long and see if she could get it down. That is the first song in the video, and you can see she did just fine. Mason is one of the favorite piano students because he always does such a good job practicing, and is a good player too.

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