Combat Carl

Would somebody please get this guy in a Toy Story movie?  Combat Carl is one of our favorite characters to come back to this time each year, and tonight was such fun watching these Toy Story shorts.  All four of them on this collection are so much fun, we sit and watch them all back-to-back-to-back-to-back.  Madison even loves the fake commercials in between, so we watch those as well.

Daddy was back to work today, but we did do a little bit of shopping afterwards, heading out together to get groceries for the 501st, and speaking of Star Wars, we picked up the movie we pre-purchased, "Solo."  We stopped over at the Disney Store to do that, and were happy to hear that our coupon that came with "Solo" could be applied to a pre-purchase of "The Incredibles 2," so we did that and got yet another Disney lithograph to add to the collection.  We have so many lithographs at the house now - it's an impressive collection!

Madison did do a little piano today, but maybe not enough.  We have some catching up to do there.  No matter:  we'll be back on schedule once Monday rolls around and we're back in school.

We bought a pumpkin at the grocery store today, although it isn't our official pumpkin.  We like to have a few extra just in case one of our guests to the pumpkin carving party doesn't bring a pumpkin. We'll probably be visiting a pumpkin farm next weekend, I suspect.  It might be crowded, but gone are the days that we can do much right after school on a weekday.  Madison gets off of school so late that it's nearly impossible, not to mention she's got things to do Monday through Thursday after school.

We went to the library today, and picked it up, a book called "The End."  It's the last book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events," and I can't believe we're already there at the end.  We're waiting on another book called "The Beatrice Letters," one we'll read before that last book.  But this is pretty much it, the ending.  That last book, by the way, is being sent from another library.  We can do that within the Forsyth system, and it's been pretty handy.

One of the other things that Madison was doing today was artwork.  She was making this sign that says "BEWARE," and she wanted to make it look as weathered and old as possible.  So she had all kinds of paints and the sort of colors that you use a blow pen for.  The end result was something that looked like an old treasure map, only there weren't any map symbols.  It just was a piece of parchment paper that says, "BEWARE!"

We're not entirely sure what it is we need to beware of, though.  Is there something in the woods at night that we don't know about?  Is there something in the basement?  Or is it a warning about telemarketers or bad candidates running for office?

Yes, there are those right now.  It's time for elections soon, and in fact Georgia has a few candidates running for Governor this year.  We have two very different candidates, and the media is reporting that the contest between the two is very close.  Of course, the same media reported that the contest two years ago was very close as well, and we know how that turned out.  Anyway, we'll be voting soon, and the robocalls will stop soon.  We have candidates running for all kinds of offices, but the real election in Georgia seems to be back in May during the primaries.  It seems a foregone conclusion here that one party will always win, and therefore everyone tries to win the spot for that party back in May.  Hopefully everyone will remember to vote November though, because there is a lot on the line this year.  As usual.  The news has been pretty vicious in Washington, with the partisan vitriol sinking to new levels, and that's saying quite a lot.  What has happened to us as a country?

I know what candidate can unite us, and bring us together once more.  I think you do too.

His name is Combat Carl!