Monday: stuff

 We got another picture of Tornado in a Tornado picture.  He has the same annoyed expression.

I got through a bunch of my chores today.  Not only did I actually get through a lot of things, it looks like I got a lot of things done.

Hmm.  I thought there was something interesting that happened today, but it isn't coming to mind.  Oh!  It was our first good snow.  It was during the afternoon, so I was able to enjoy it.  It's that lovely time when the snow sticks on the grass (and leaves) but not on the roads.

Sunday: D&D

 We played some more D&D today.  Isaac changed it up quite a bit and a spider that I was controlling scouted out a big dungeon that we need to go enter.  The best part was when a sentry saw the spider and proceeded to think to himself that he needed to call in the cleaning people because some of his bad guy group was scared of spiders.

Friday/Saturday

 

Thursday: pickleball

Today was supposed to be another Captain's Ball day, but not enough people showed up.  Last time barely enough showed up, but we couldn't even fudge it this time.  However, there was a pickleball net in the back and someone had the paddles in their car.  It was my first time playing pickleball.

It was fun!  Easier than tennis, and not quite as fun as racquetball, but still a lot of fun.

Wednesday: pictures

 I don't know what Isaac and Joshua were doing, but Ben and I found this hilarious.

The professional pictures from senderpics.com came through from the competition.

Tuesday: not much

Not much of note has happened in the last few days.  The kids didn't have school yesterday.  Today they were back to school and I was back to work.  

Oh!  There was something I wanted to mention.

I realized that pop cans can go in the 12 pack box the "normal" way or perpendicular to the normal way.  It's much easier to repack them for recycling if they're perpendicular.  I can't believe it took me so long to realize that this was an option.

Saturday: rock climbing comp

Isaac had a rock climbing competition today!  It was near South Bend and he was in the afternoon session.  It meant that we could have an easy morning and we were home by dinner.

The format of the competition was four minutes on every route, but Isaac got to see someone climbing the routes last night and he could look at all the routes in the gym ahead of time.  He started watching them last night and laughed.  The first one he watched had a start parallel to the floor - they were difficult!  He was a bit worried going into them.

He ended up doing a great job.  He got points on three of the four routes - and he could tell he was making progress within the four minutes so he was very happy at the end of the competition.

The videos are the best try that he had.

Ben and Joshua spent a lot of time working on their spaceship.

We also had our yearly mummy dogs.