I paid Mikaela and Heidi to wash the vehicles on Saturday as we are smack dab in the middle of pollen season here. Apparently there is a drawback to having a nice shiny car, as our itinerant pheasant, Walter, all of a sudden noticed his reflection and presumably mistook it for another male pheasant. I don’t know if he actually pecked the HHR or not (Mikaela thought so), but it got parked in the garage on Sunday. Hopefully it will dirty up fast so as to escape being the target of Walter’s beak.
The latest hanger-on at the Huber Houston house is Walter the ring-necked pheasant. He’s an escapee from the dog shelter/animal menagerie next door. He’s pretty friendly and sort of follows people around (or chases them in Daelynn’s case).
On Sunday afternoon, we were at another family’s home for a birthday party. They love on a couple of acres and have goats and chickens. But those animals are not what this post is about. The neighbor’s dog, Skeeter, was over and brought his not-altogether-hygienic tennis ball with him. While Brock was a little hesitant (see the picture of him tentatively reaching under the dog to get the ball), he played a little throw and fetch with Skeeter.
Sharing some pictures from our white Christmas here in Calgary…
Ben
We’re currently staying at Layne and Elissa’s, prepping for Christmas and more importantly waiting for Munchkin, Layne and Elissa’s baby, to arrive.
This morning Elissa, Danaya, Davison, and myself (Ben) played a game of Settlera of Catan. Davison pulled off a massive win with scoring 10 points while the rest of us were all sitting at 5 or 6. He had the help of the Longest Road, Largest Army, plus multiple 12 and 2 rolls.
Forget that you read the title of this post. You just went and re-read it didn’t you. You do know that re-reading it will make it harder to forget, right?
Anyhow, in some remote country side area (like Lego-Kansas or somewhere), lives a simple Lego farmer with his old fashioned hay pitch fork. He’s going about his business (feeding Lego-hay to Lego-farm-animals who can’t eat it and also don’t make a whole lot of Lego-manure) which given the parenthesised description is somewhat pointless (unlike his pitch fork). Let’s call him “Farmer”.
The next set for building was “Plo Koon’s Jedi Starfighter”. We discovered that we had it by browsing a website showing all of the Lego sets by series and year. It’s cockpit canopy was rather distinctive and matched. Davison also recognized the blue and white wing patterns.
Yesterday I (Davison) finished the arc fighter and I had supper. Then I started building the Rebel Scout Speeder. Since this small model didn’t have many pieces I thought I could build this one that evening. So I started to gather pieces for it and in no time it was done.
Dad: According to our sources, this is the only set which came with the nifty, not seemingly useful Rebel helmets. So this was an easy one to pinpoint as a target set to build.
Yup, another Lego set post, but I’ll try to liven it up with a bit of a story. When we got the tub-o-Lego, there were a bunch of “assemblies”; that being parts of Lego sets that had not been entirely disassembled. We set these aside both to assist in figuring out what we had and then to cut down on the number of pieces that we would have to find. This is the story of one of those assemblies and how it led to a particular set.
The assembly in question was this one, a little unique in that it had an unorthodox manner of narrowing from four wide down to 2 wide. It also had a bit of a beak-like appearance.
Well in case you were wondering what’s been happening on the home front with Mom off in Oregon, one of the answers is “Lego”. Davison continues his quest to keep building models from the Tub-O-Lego purchased at a garage sale a month or so ago. So without much further verbiage, here are the pics of the Sith Infiltrator (which incidentally ended up being quite a bit bigger than we expected).
