Bare with me here. You might have noticed we’re going through a few growing pains. However, this is all going to be a good thing in the end, once I figure out how to edit up this stuff properly. You might notice, this is now a right and true .com. No more blogspot. As such, I am free to add some additional pages and sections that I’ve always wanted to. So, look for new things coming soon in the future.
Most things converted over just great, however, my whole sidebar of links and stuff did not, so if you don’t see yourself over there anymore, just give me a little while to rebuild that.
With the lab finished, it’s projects mostly put away, and the countdown swiftly flying towards it’s ultimate end…it was time to sit down, and decide just what gets done in this, the final year of the whole tribal theme.
There was the tattered remains of the Charr project leaning against the wall in the Garage. Battered, abused, tossed aside for months on end.
And, there was Project Nightfall. Personally, a take-or-leave-it project…but Jen has be very vocal of how much she LIKES it. It had suffered at the hands of the wrath wraught upon it by the forces of nature on Halloween night, turning it’s mounds into piles of mush.
Year of the Charr…finish? Or scrap?
Some window shopping told me I could probably fit it in under the budget easily enough, and Saturday evening I set out to repair, and add onto…
A nice calm evening, nothing on the forecast…The batch of glue still warm as I set out the door. Skies darkened, wind rose, and as I laid down the last strips of paper this batch of glue would yield, the sky split open and Zeus let fly his fury at the sight of this abomination being constructed in our yard.
Moving a 5 foot radius, 3 pronged blob of gooey paper, flour, water, and glue into the garage is not as easy as it sounds…and as soon as it was under cover, the fury of the sky come complete rushing it’s wrath down the storm drain.
Presently, it’s 7 feet tall. Each leg is 5′ long. The feet are 3 feet tall. The feet disassemble from the legs, and the body from the legs as well for storage…
The grave mounds from Project Nightfall are on the backburner. They will be constructed from styrofoam over a wood frame. But, that can wait till I find a suitable glue.
See, Bob’s reason for being is currently in limbo. There just may not be a classroom to make the lab for this year.
Oh, I’ll still finish it up, and maybe do the lab at the house one year.
BUT, it’s been difficult to get fired up when folks might not even see it this year.
There is the Charr effigy to work on, but the weather has been just sour enough to make it risky to work on that thing outside. Rain every other day here. Oh, just a sprinkle. Enough to be problematic…
So…we’ve been playing a bit. Swimming, Lagoon, playstation…not Halloween.
I did stumble upon an interesting cartoon the other day.
Oh, ignore the political message and watch the snake oil salesman.
I’m telling you…a whole medicine show setup would be a complete riot for a haunt.
And, my wife got a new camera for her birthday. And, got us an upgraded video of Dracula’s Castle.
And a video of the Terror Ride.
(She had the same problem as me on the Terror Ride, it’s changed too much since we last went, we’ll get a better video another time after I get a good feel for how to film it.)
And, the most precious look on Alec’s face at 0:40
OLD, OLD WOODEN roller coaster, that.
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I’ve been rumbling around some new and exciting ideas in my mind as well. Not sure exactly how to bring them to fruition quite yet.
But, we’ll come up with something.
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The wierdo grass that may or may not be correct seems to have taken root fine. I’m still skeptical…
And, most of the stuff planted last year is thriving now. Even the Karl Forester grass looks like it will hit 6′ high this year. We should be able to show you WHY I picked the stuff out this year.
