Day Off

As you can see here, we returned a third time to the library today - and this time Daddy brought along a camera. You see, Madison always has a seat next to the two bronze kids at the front entrance of Hampton Park Library, and she always tries to see what they're reading. For those of you who need to know, it's something about Tarzan.

Anyway, we spent a little time here and picked up some books and movies. Also, we went to Wal-Mart afterwards in order to pick up some more red mulch for the front yard. It's a work in progress, but it is moving forward!

Mommy spent a lot of time preparing tax information today, as it is that happy time of year once more. She should have all that done tomorrow, as our appointment to get it all figured out is on Wednesday morning. This is probably the earliest we've ever done it, a whole five days before the last minute. I'm sure you're noting the sarcasm in that last sentence.

Daddy spent a good deal of time finishing things in the garage, hanging signs and so forth. We've got these retro metal signs that look pretty neat on the wall, especially below that line of license plates all along the top. Another late entry to the garage: Herbie the Love Bug. You'll see a photo later, once I've cleaned him up a bit. A long time ago, Ye-Ye carved out of styrofoam this Herbie, which he painted and actually installed working headlights and real windshield wipers. It's a neat thing that we didn't want to see go to waste - it was made for a church series many years ago, and up until recently was sitting in a warehouse, probably never to be used again. Rather than see it disposed of, Daddy got the church van (it was too big to fit in his car), and now Herbie is in our garage, up against a wall. He's a 2-D sculpture, although he extends out just a little. And he looks great just below the Herbie movie poster I have on the wall there. So glad to have Herbie in the garage!

Another thing we're glad to have: the Bat House! More on that later this week, but we'll be putting that up sometime soon. First, Daddy wants to decorate it. We've been doing the research on where to hang it, and I think I've got just the place. My hopes are up for an immediate move-in, but they say it can take two years to five years for bats to get interested in a house you've set up for them. We'll see, and of course I'll keep that posted here. But before I put it up, it absolutely has to have the Batman logo on it. Oh yeah...!

Today officially ends Madison's spring break - tomorrow we have music class and school. For this reason, Madison spent quite a bit of time behind the piano this afternoon. She's got some catching up to do! She worked hard at that, and also was quite helpful today. In fact, when we went to Wal-Mart, there was this moment where Daddy saw an older woman trying to get a large lawnmower into the back of her SUV all by herself. Daddy was wondering why there wasn't a Wal-Mart employee out there helping, but rather than wait for that, he offered to help while Madison stood nearby. Sure enough though, Madison reached up to help "push" the lawnmower into place. She's such a good Samaritan!

Tonight's entertainment was short-lived because of the early night before school. We plugged in the old Gamecube once more. This was in honor of the Masters this past weekend, where a guy named Bubba won. It makes me extremely happy to hear a guy named Bubba winning at something. But back to the Gamecube: we played Mario Golf.

Madison had fun with this, and although she wasn't 100% on the game mechanics, she still had a great time hitting the ball as far as she could. It was sort of like our strategy with bowling: velocity before accuracy!

"I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose." ~ Gerald Ford