Aug
25
2008
So, it’s been 30 years, and he’s still as cool as the day I played with them on my bedroom floor. Lego’s Miniman graces our home as well, and Andy and I still huddle on the floor around bricks and wheels building and imagining.
Tags: Lego, Miniman
Aug
22
2008
So the quote above came from Andy’s mouth this afternoon. He was out front, and picking up some grasshopper he had found on our front porch. I’m guessing he thought it was the same grasshopper he had released back into the wild a couple of nights before in our back yard.
Got to love [...]
Tags: Andy, grasshopper
Aug
18
2008
Satellite imagery has become so pervasive that in many ways we simply take it for granted. With Google Maps and Google Earth, there’s very little of the earth’s surface that we can’t see. Recently a group of Australia based artists called the Glue Society recreated some scenes from the Bible using Google Earth. [...]
Tags: Glue Society, God's Eye View, Google Earth, satellite
Aug
15
2008
So, ArayMonkey is sporting a new hairdo. A nice and short buzz cut all the way around. Of course he wasn’t to pleased about getting this haircut, but then we hope he’s learned his lesson. It all goes something like this . . .
Yesterday, Andy’s friend Hannah was over, and the two [...]
Tags: Andy, haircut, Hannah
Aug
11
2008
My wonderful mother-in-law called today to share a piece of news she heard this week regarding Wall Arch in Arches National Park. Apparently, the arch has fallen, and is no more. We didn’t get to actually see this one, but it wasn’t far from one of the arches I did see in The [...]
Tags: Arches National Park, Devil's Gardn, Wall Arch