Crystal Skull

We completed our Indiana Jones marathon tonight, and Madison absolutely loved it.  She is talking about Indiana Jones more again, and actually wants the soundtracks on her music player.  That's easy enough.  She enjoyed tonight's movie, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."  Daddy did too - this is the movie we saw just before going off to China to meet Madison for the first time.  Some folks don't like this one, but it's a fun movie, and it's just great to see our heroes back again on the big screen.  It was really great seeing Marion Ravenwood again, or now Marion Jones now.

Work today was busy, a theme you'll see written here time and again leading up to Summer Xtreme.  Meanwhile, subtropical storm Alberto churns northward, and the rainfall is immense.  This was a very damaging storm, despite the fact that it didn't have the wind strength of others, or the impact along the shoreline that you imagine when imagining such a big storm slam into the coast.  This one has left us so much water - too much water.  The flooding is rampant, from Asheville to Helen to Gatlinburg to areas all over the Southeast.  The waterfalls are amazing, and the areas along the rivers are threatening.

Daddy got home to pick up Madison and take her to church tonight, but we had a bit to eat beforehand, and as always, it was good.  Mommy is such a great cook, and she's a healthy one as well.  Daddy doesn't do well with the food of this area - some coworkers wanted to get some classic country food and bring it back, and let's just say country kitchens aren't made for folks who don't have a gall bladder.

We've had some interesting insects in the house lately.  Two years ago, we battled ants, and won that war after several campaigns involving spray and so forth.  This week though, we've spotted five - yes, five - palmetto bugs.  These are huge dinosaur insects that seem to have superior intelligence to other insects.  Not that it matters so much for these five, as our superior intellect has captured them and flushed them down the toilet.  But we've spotted five in this house suddenly, and it might be the rain, or it might be something else.  Whatever it is, it's disturbing, because these things are big and they scurry out and you're taken aback by their size initially.  Updates will follow on this late breaking story:  is it a sign of things to come, or just a temporary skirmish?  Hopefully we got the last of them, or at least hopefully they learned a lesson not to try entering this house...

Madison was playing piano today, and playing a game called "Roboblox" on her handheld device.  It lets her talk with her friends from ballet, a few of which are coming to her birthday party this week.  She's decided to do flamingos for her painting this weekend, and it's an odd choice given all the other opportunities.  She could do ballet shoes, or a sunset, or palm trees at a beach.  But she's chosen flamingos, and that's okay with us.  It should be a lot of fun, something quite different!