Chad Pitt is doing great! Had I mentioned I named it? The root is growing like gangbusters, currently measuring in at two inches. Now I’m just waiting for the top of the pit to split open and for the sprout to appear. I’m not very worried about that part yet as long as long as the root keeps growing like it is. It’s a real good thing I didn’t lose hope and trash him in mid-April!
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Sprowkey’s current base camp, the Pathway to Panache, has seen a deluge of rain over the last several days. The area is becoming flooded, and though it seems as if the downpours are only temporarily stalled, Sprowkey will be taking this opportunity in between downpours to relocate his base. When and where he lands next is anybody’s guess, but hopefully it will be much further west, and that much closer to his goal.
Miles traveled since last making camp: 7.2
Total miles traveled: 13.7
Previously:
The Adventures of Sprowkey: Chapter 3
We had a great time yard sailing yesterday. My wife and kids all picked up a bunch of neat stuff. Some of my highlights include finding the game Risk, which I has long been on my list of board games to buy. It had been opened but never played, with all of the armies still in sealed bags – score!
I was equally happy to find a sweet Mayan statue for my bookshelf.
And best of all, we came across a house with an attached garage under the protection of a giant ape! Overall, it was an epic yard sale outing,
Mayan statue: $1.
Risk: $2
Gigantic garage ape: Priceless.
This just in: Sprowkey is back on the grid, having just settled in at his third camp! He had narrowly escaped the local inhabitants at his previous camp, having had to backtrack and change directions multiple times in order to completely throw them from his scent. After regaining his bearings, the search for the next suitable base camp continued, and he is now in a secure container (a full-sized cammo ammo can) getting much-needed rest before his next westward adventure. It is an idyllic location to make camp, being that it is within close proximity to water and is heavily fortified. With the weather being as beautiful as it is, however, this sojourn may not last long. “Westward, Ho!”
Miles traveled since last making camp: 7.2
Total miles traveled: 13.7
Previously:
I purchased this bookmark way back in 1991 at a Waldenbooks (remember those?), and I just realized that it has to be the most consistently used item that I have ever owned! Perhaps this, in part, represents my nostalgic love of Star Trek.
I watched the original series while still running around in diapers, and was later ushered into my teen years while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. Let’s not forget the ritual of my dad, myself, and my dad’s Trekkie friend venturing to see all of the motion pictures (both the good and the bad) in the theater.
While I won’t be going to the premiere midnight showing, I do plan on catching Star Trek: Into Darkness this weekend, and I’m quite excited about it. I enjoyed the 2009 reboot, but I’m even more excited for this installment, especially to see Benedict Cumberbatch play Khan. Unfortunately, my son is several years too young to accompany me this time around, which is okay, because we really should start with the original series and work our way forwards.
And yes, it would be rather unbecoming of me NOT to end this short Trek post with the ever so cliché, yet practically obligatory: “Live long, and prosper.”
I love to play with my food, which is why the CHEETOS MIX-UPS and Life of Dad Show art contest was right up my alley. The grand prize is a trip to the 2014 Dad 2.0 summit in Houston!
Since I already have a history with food art, I wanted to make sure to up the ante by putting more time and effort into this project than I did for my Sweet Tooth candy art from last year. After all was said and done, I think it turned out pretty well.
Here is the official contest page on Life of Dad, where you can see all of the entries. There really are a ton of awesome submissions. A winner should be announced in approximately one week. In the meantime, go ahead check out the other nifty entries, and please feel free to comment on my Cheesy Chester Cheetah. Don’t forget keep your cheesy fingers crossed – I’d love to win a trip to hang out with other cool dads at the 2014 Dad 2.0 summit!
I spent my Sunday afternoon in a recording studio doing a session for a blues band. Maybe when the record comes out I’ll post some links. Anyway, I had to inquire about the very strange-looking item leaning against a corner, which turned out to be a stumpf fiddle.
This was something I had never before seen or heard of, and I have to admit that I was quite annoyed that other people who were there all knew what it was. On the other hand, I love learning about things this way, and so when I got home that evening, a quick Google search provided me with plenty of information about the stumpf fiddle. It’s an instrument popular in polka, bluegrass, and country music in the upper midwest. The only downside of acquiring all of this new stumpf knowledge is that now I kind of want a stumpf fiddle to call my own. Perhaps I should try to make one?
Stump fiddle, stump fiddle, stump fiddle. Doesn’t that sound silly? I bet Beetlejuice can play it heck out of it.
Here’s a video of the stumpf fiddle in action:
I was going about my business mowing the lawn, when I came across this incredible mutated dandelion. It must have had about a dozen flowers fused together onto one massive stem. I hastily removed it from my lawn, fearing any potential for it to grow into another Audrey II from The Little Shop of Horrors. Ironically, one of my neighbors has an uncanny resemblance to Rick Moranis, and for just a moment, I thought it would make perfect sense to lob it into his yard and observe the fallout. Alas, I began to recall scenes from the movie, and I ultimately decided that the world, or at least my immediate neighborhood, would be a better place sans Audrey III.
Well, it looks like I spoke entirely too soon about my perceived avocado pit fail. I was meandering past it this morning, and was totally shocked to see that it is now very much split open! It’s a darn good thing I didn’t throw it away. The increasingly longer days, warmer weather, and more intense sunlight must have finally triggered the germination process. I guess the big takeaway lesson here is patience. After almost three long months of waiting, we’re finally in business, baby!
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My avocado pit that has been sitting on the windowsill since the Super Bowl has yet to sprout. At this point, I think it is safe to say that it’s not going to happen. I was supposed to keep it in a warm place, and my hunch is that sitting on a windowsill in the dead of winter was just way too harsh of an environment. Now that it is spring and things are warming up, I think I’ll give it another go. Time to make some more guacamole!
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