Phineas Blogg

Winter went straight into Summer without giving Spring a chance, which didn't give me much of a chance to use my Hammock this year. But I finally got to lay out and read and even take a nap. It was GREAT! While I laid with Keeks RK pushed Braska on the swing. When swinging was over she joined us. RK didn't get in the hammock with us because it's too hard to take pictures while you are swinging.

The girls make hammock time even better.

Munch in the dark
On Father's Day at my Dad's church they handed out these little screwdriver/flashlight combo gizmos to all the guys. Shortly after getting home the power in the house went out. Normally, we wouldn't care so much but it was like 100 degrees out and was rapidly becoming uncomfortable. A lady in Illinois had died due to the heat and while I figure I'm resourceful enough to get the family to some place that won't cook them inside their delicious fleshy shells I still wanted to find out what was wrong. Down in the basement where the fuse box is it's pitch dark (I've heard some say that before) and I happened to have the flashlight thing in my pocket so I went and checked the breakers on the very day I got the thing. (Yeah, that's right nitpickers I checked breakers on a fuse box). The problem was the electric company's which they fixed in about 45 minutes so I didn't have to check on the elderly neighbor lady. Then later in the day I used the screwdriver portion to open up a laptop.

Chipper Rachel, Grumpy MuncherOne of these people has been working in 95 degree weather for about 4 hours. One has been working for about 15 minutes. Which is which?

Woodward and Amy
This was so long ago I don't even remember much about it except the cool dude behind us playing live traditional Mexican music. At least until he broke into The Doors and Jimmy Buffett. Totally True.

Praying Mantis
I found this guy at church. No lie. I thought that was cool so I made my wife take a picture. He had just finished Eucharist. If you look close you can see some wafer crumbs on his mandibles.

Rk, Muncher, & Chris
Chris was free for the evening so it seemed wise for he and I and my wife to go see Star Trek. It was the first time for both of them but the third time I had seen it. It was awesome. I freakin' loved it. It was great. And I want to watch it again. I wanted to write about it after I first saw it but I procrastinated which is odd since I'm normally right on top of things. We stood in front of the Trek poster and took a bunch of shoot on our phones. Chris's came out the best even if you mostly notice the Wolverine poster instead of the Star Trek one. And that's right I'm wearing a Star Trek shirt to a Star Trek movie. It's called nerd tech.

If you have a sign with the word FLICK on it make sure the L and I are not too close together.

Poe and I eat pizza. Kiki doesn't.
After hanging out with Mike, my family headed over to Cindy's house for poolside fun in the sun. We played in the water and Braska had a great time splashing around and pretending to be a motor boat. Dad, the brothers and I all played bolo and of course me and Dad won because I'm awesome. He's a little awesome. After though we all went to Happy Joes! This time with Ethon so that was awesome. A lot of awesomeness for one day.