What we have here, is a failure to communicate

As I was on the way home from OKC this evening, I called the house to tell Debbie I was coming home. 

"Can you look in the front closet to see if there is a sun screen?"

Deb said, "I saw one somewhere."

I said, "I think there is one in the closet.  Or maybe there is one in the garage."

She said, "Here is an orange bottle of SPF 40 or something." 

I asked, "What does that have to do with the sun screen for the car."

Debbie, "What are you talking about?"

I told her, "I need a bigger sun screen like the one in her car because the one in mine is too small.  If there is a bigger one at the house, I won't stop and buy a new one."

She said, "Oh, yeah, there is another screen in the closet. You said, 'sunscreen'."

I asked how big the screen in the closet was.  She said, "It is taller than my knee."

"That doesn't tell me anything because everything is taller than your knee."

She called me an asshole.

   

Happy Birthday, Oliver!!!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Oliver, happy birthday to you!

Love ya,

Nana and Opie

Cars with fins

Well, just Alfa Romeo cars.  Back in the 50's, lots of auto makers were putting fins on their cars.  Alfa Romeo was no different, except they were really different as you can see.  Cool, but crazy looking cars!

Alfa Romeo designs from the 1950's

Glacier Caves

Pretty cool.  Never thought about the existence of caves inside a glacier.

Inside glacier caves.

TGIF

HAVE A GOOD DAY!!!

The Falls at Schlitterbahn

Here is a huge, new ride at Schlitterbahn that should open this weekend, July 30.

Schlitterbahn's new ride: The Falls.

This looks like fun.

Happy Anniversary, Tara and John.

Happy anniversary!  Love you!

Mom and Dad.

Crash test: 1959 Impala versus 2009 Malibu

Some people say the old, heavy steel cars of yesteryear are more sturdy and probably would not get much damage in a crash with a newer, lighter, mostly plastic automobiles.  Well, someone decided to test that theory.  Here is the video.

Shocking.

Hair art

Fourteen photos of back hair art.  Too dang funny!  By the way, I saw the second guy in person at Texas Motor Speedway.

Weekend in Greenville

Deb and I went to Tara's this last weekend.  We left work in OKC early and got there just about dusk.  The kids were still up and luckily, not too tired cuz we had to start rasslin'!  Saturday started early as usual with the kids getting up early.  Debbie bought some birthday gifts for Oliver and we took them with us to give to him.  One of the gifts is a Super-fun Marble Run game.  Lots of plastic pieces that you stack together like a maze and roll marbles through the maze.  Kinda like a cross between Legos and Lincoln Logs.  We unpacked 363 pieces, 30 marbles and John started building.  By the end of the day, he had used almost all of the pieces to build a maze taller than the kids.  They had to stand on a stool to put marbles in parts of it.  Pretty cool.  John might like it more than Oliver!

Unpacking and the assembly is beginning.

Input from Maggie and Oliver.

Everyone is adding stuff.  This is the first big maze.

After we got home from the antique stores and pool party, John created another maze.   He added a few more pieces after I took this photo.  Some of the towers were so tall the kids needed a stool to put the marbles into the orange funnels.

This is all that remained of the 363 pieces.  Pretty cool!

I bet John and Tara will hear marbles running through that maze forever.  hee hee hee

No Poop Fairy

You have heard of the tooth fairy.  The allegedly mythical tiny person with wings who sneaks into the house under the cover of darkness while you sleep and trades cash for the baby tooth that you put under the pillow.  There is another myth about a poop fairy that goes around the neighborhood collecting animal poop.  It happens to all of us from time to time.   Go out of the house and there is a huge pile o' poo on the front lawn.   Ain't your dog's stuff.  But somehow, that pile is gone after a day or two.  Think about it, where does all that dog poop go?  Must be the poop fairy.  Well, the Jefferson County sheriff's office in Colorado says there ain't no poop fairy.  The sheriff's office says people are responsible for picking up after their own animals because there is no such thing as a poop fairy.  No poop fairy, huh?  I wish someone had told me that BEFORE I PUT THE CAT POOP UNDER MY PILLOW!!!

Have a nice day.

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear, Tara, happy birthday to you!! 

Happy Birthday, Tara!  Love you bunches.

Mom and Dad.

Catching up

A few photos from Tara's visit to Stillwater in early June.

Watching the kids play at the playground near the house.

The blue tube and funnel is connected to another one at the other side of the playground.  The kids can talk to each other through the tube.

Let the photo speak for itself.  LOL

Sunday morning, we went to a miniature golf course near the house.

Practicing putting.

Someone discovered rock chunking was more fun than putting a golf ball.

A friend of Megan worked at the miniature golf course.  She let us play on the bumper boats for free.  Each bumper boat had a super soaker.  John and Oliver, Tara and Maggie, and Megan and Evie had a blast squirting each other and floating around on the pond. 

They had fun squirting those of us sitting on the dock.

Eleanor discovered she can move pretty fast when she needs to.

Megan wore a nice dress just to get soaked.

Tara was soaked from head to toe.  As was everyone else who played on the boats.

"Great" weekend.

Civics exam

Intercollegiate Studies Institute - Civic Liberties Exam

Give it a try and see how you do.  The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better?

I missed 4 of the 33 questions for an 88% score.  Good luck.