I Love This Cereal

They are Fruity Cheerios.

I discovered these at the preschool.  They use them at snack time.  I tasted them to see if I might like them.  I do.  They are not covered in “frosting” and do not leave a slime covering in the mouth or bowl, like certain other round fruit flavored cereals.  When Matt, Ronda, and the Gs were here this last week, they approved them.  And you get Box Tops for Education on the box.


I will be working at the preschool all this week.  I have been pretty busy working there and taking care of other things, so if I can find the energy I will be posting stuff.

Quiz 63

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

It Is A Person Holding A Cup

However it is not a child.

We live next door to a nursing home.  A number of the nurses smoke.  They are not allowed to smoke on nursing home property.  So they cross over into our yard to smoke.  When I see them, I take their pictures smoking in our yard, and in the dry leaves of the tree heavy land behind our house.  Just in-case they set the place on fire, I want there to be evidence of what they are up to.  BTW, I do not hide that I am taking their pictures.  And when ever they see us outside (with or with out the camera) they imediately throw the cigarette down and head back to the nursing home or cross the street.  This picture actually shows her at the barrel.  She normally is not there, but at least if she sets it on fire, it is semi-contained.  When we first moved in one of the nurses came to the door and asked if we mind if she stands out front of our driveway to smoke.  We told her we would prefer that she not, as I am allergic to the smoke.  It was nice of her to ask, we appreciate that.  She is not one of the ones we have caught smoking here, she goes in the other direction in fact to have her smoke-break.  I am pretty sure she passed on the word that we would prefer them not smoking here, but I suspect she is the only one with enough respect to care that it matters.  To her I say, “Thanks!”  As for the rest of them, I am sorely tempted to collect all their cigarette butts in a bag and take them and pictures of the ladies smoking on our land to the managers/owners and ask them to take care of the issue.

Quiz 62

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

Look Lady

Saturday when we went up on the train to Chicago, there was a little family sitting in front of us. On the way back, we happened to be sitting across the aisle from them. They were a family of 3 and in the next couple weeks they will be a family of 4. Brave woman traveling at 8.5 months pregnant. They are expecting a little girl. They have an almost 3 yr old girl. She seemed to think I am nice or something…. She was very well behaved and quiet on the ride up. On the way back she was a lot of fun. She started the return journey by sharing all the bad words she knows (at least I hope that is all she knows, and I am sure her parents hope so too). Her dad was laughing and her mom was appalled. She took to calling me “Lady” Here are some things she said (no, not the bad words):

~ Lady get out of Chicago ~ Lady where are you going? ~ Lady go to sleep ~ Mom did the Lady wake up? ~ Look Lady! (she just wanted to show me some toys she got while in Chicago, but it totally sounded like I was in trouble) ~ Lady you are bothering people ~

The last one was followed by me telling her- I can’t be bothering him I am married to him. (I was kneeling in my seat talking to Jacob and John-I am married to Jacob.)

Girl – gives me a funny look

Dad – Stop calling her Lady, I am sure she has a name, ask her what it is.

Girl – Lady what is your name?

Lady – Marcia

Girl – Marcia, can you come to my house?

Lady – Do you have toys for me?

Girl – Yes

Lady – I’m sorry, I don’t think I can go there, I don’t know where you live.

Mom – (in disbelief that her daughter is talking to a complete stranger -mostly, she did see us on the train earlier) She will probably tell you.

I think Gavyn and Aiden would have had a blast with this little girl!

While in Chicago we visited Millennium Park, I had never been there before.

Here we are in the Bean.

Here is our reflection in the Bean.

The green arrow points to us.

Hair Today Gone Tomorrow

I did it.  Yesterday.  Can you believe I cut off a foot of my hair (well, Betsy actually cut it), and I haven’t cried yet.  I really do like it.  I think it is cute, and while it is odd to have my hair so short, I am not having second thoughts.  Here are pictures of the haircut.

That is a lot of hair!

Back view

First cut

The foot of hair

The votes are in and the popular vote says either hair C or F.  I think there was one more person who said C than F.  However, I love F.  I have since the first time I saw it placed on my head.  That is what I went with.  I hope you like it, if not, too late, it is done.  Also, if you don’t like it, please pretend to.

“CHEESE!”

Flipped out

I did not color it.  I would love to color it bright red, perhaps some day.  The coloring is off because I took this under bathroom lights.  But you get the idea.

Quiz 61

This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.

Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!

My iPhone game is finally available

I’ve written a new game, Boomshine, for the iPhone/iPod touch, which has just become available in the App Store.

It’s a fully authorized recreation of the original Boomshine game that took the web by storm last year, which you can still play at k2xl.com.  Here’s the official description:

Boomshine is an addictive casual game.  Touch the screen to start a chain reaction an try to explode as many dots as needed to pass a level.  The game contains 12 levels ranging from the easy to the hard (25 tries on average to beat level 12).

It was a lot of fun to write, and Danny Miller, the author of the original Boomshine, was a great help in putting it together and getting the gameplay to match the original as closely as possible.  If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, I hope you’ll try it out; it’s highly addicting, and great fun.

Click here to open iTunes and view Boomshine in the app store.