…he is trying to answer a T/F question about whether or not the Wright Brothers’ first flight was 120 feet…and as you suggest some books to look at to find the answer, he pops off, “Just ask Siri.”
Our Egret
Ben took the day off on Friday. He took the Traverse in to get the A/C fixed (again), and we were prepping for a trip to SA on Saturday.
While heading out to run some errands, we spotted this regal fellow checking out the neighbors across the street.
Then he visited our place (kinda hard to see):
Managed to catch him flying to check out another neighbor’s place:
River Walk In San Antonio
On Saturday, Ben, Heidi, Davison and I headed to San Antonio to do a Steeped Tea tasting and class at a friend’s home.
Brock stayed at his friend’s house (thanks, J!!), Danaya and Daelynn were working, and Mikaela is 2k miles away, so we had two of our eight kids with us.
At one point Ben turned to me and said, “We look like a NORMAL family!”
Walked the river with these fine folks.
Lovely scenery, if a little warm.
Love this covered stairway and the kids in it.
Heidi’s Breakfast Activity
Of course, it didn’t last very long with Davison and Brock eating breaky at the same table.
Lego Undersea Explorer
Another one of the Lego sets that we discovered in our tub-o-Lego was the Underseas Explorer, part of the Atlantis series of Lego models. This one was missing a couple of the wheels (there should be three on each side rather than two) and one of the leg armour modules has been repurposed from Lightning McQueen of Cars fame.
The Undersea Explorer is somewhat of a transformer and converts from its mech/robot form into a more traditional ocean bottom crawling mini-sub.
Lego UFO Abduction
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”.
Lego Plo Koon’s Jedi Starfighter
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.
Lego Rebel Scout Speeder
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.
Lego Arc 170 Fighter
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.
Lego Sith Infiltrator
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).
