Knights of the Round

Hear ye!  Hear Ye!  This very day, let it be known that Lady Madison and Sir Dad had both endeavored on a dangerous quest, as shown clearly above.  It was a quest for THE HOLY GRAIL!  Indeed, our brave knights traveled by foot - and occasionally by horseback - across familiar and dangerous territories inhabited by enemies of the king.  One by one those enemies were vanquished, including this devious rascal here:

Time and again, he entered the scene, leaning on his weapon, and taunting us with his vile laugh!  Verily, this laugh merely inspired us to rain down an onslaught of punishment with each of his visits.  Lo, he paid dearly, as did all these odious rogues!  For in the end, we found victory and glory, along with Merlin and the Holy Grail!

Strangely enough, all those knights you see in the picture above were not around to actually help us in battle.  Perhaps they were off fighting their own battle.  Yes, that's what we'll go with.  Anyway, we just finished up this ancient Capcom game called "Knights of the Round," doing so because, well, I insisted.  But Madison did have a good time with it.

We did some Mario Party after that, where I was Monty Mole again.  Let me just say this:  don't mess with Monty Mole.  I am undefeated as that mole, and I can't explain why or how.  Mario Party is a game that involves a little bit of skill, but a whole lot of sheer luck.  There are some random things that happen that have huge consequences, and literally you can be in first place after ten rounds of hard work, and suddenly find yourself in last place simply because you rolled a four on the die.  But not with Monty Mole today.  No sir!

Today we did a whole lot of lawn work outside, mowing the grass and putting down about twenty bags of mulch on the new steps at the side of the house.  Things are coming along somewhat.  While outside, the Kona truck came by again, so we got ourselves a few frozen treats.  We heard the music coming down the street, and had to get ourselves something there.

The haze is still there outside from the sandstorm, but the frequent rains today helped wash a lot of that away.  We had two significant rain showers today, the second being the stronger and more lasting one.    It cooled things off nicely, although by that time we were done with the lawn work.  The heat and sun were enough to drive us indoors for a shower and a bath.  In fact, all three of us had separate showers and baths today, although not all at the same time.

Madison was doing some piano today, keeping up with that, although it's harder when it is not as guided.  She is working more on a new song that she's learning - okay, it's an old song, but it's Victor's Piano Solo from "The Corpse Bride."

She's been working on this on and off over the years, only doing the part for one hand.  But this summer, she's started on the other hand, and it's slow going, but it's coming together gradually.  She says she's making small progress on it.  Today the focus was on that left hand, getting that figured out a little more smoothly.

It's Sunday, and as always, there's church in the morning.  We had our third KidPak service for the series, "Unleashed," and it was so great seeing all the inflatables again.  This was such a funny idea, having everyone in inflatable costumes and having them compete.  There was a pretty big handicap for the Raptors and the Sharks, when you look at the design of these costumes.  And yet, look who the top two contenders were at the end of Summer Xtreme 2019.  These two haven't really won as much with the games online this series, and again, look at the costumes.  Still, it's been fun to watch the competitions, and it's been great seeing the pastors from all campuses deliver these messages.  It was another good service this morning - we gathered in the living room to "go to church" together, and have some laughs as well.

Tonight we did have another episode of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," but first we saw another production from "Sight and Sound," a play they based on the life of Moses.  It's called "Moses," which seems to be fairly descriptive, but in their defense, most of their plays have a title based on a person in the Bible.  We have a few more of these to watch, including "Samson" and "Noah," but they've been all good so far.
 

The technical achievements on stage are amazing.  Tonight's presentation of the burning bush was just amazing, and the Passover scene was also incredible.  It was another great production from them, and of course we're looking forward to seeing the next few.  We got these back in April, after seeing the production of "Jesus" online.  We thought this would be a great way to use the stimulus check.

Tonight we finished up with prayer.  It was a fairly full day, despite not really going anywhere.  We might go get some more mulch tomorrow, or perhaps some ice cream!  We went to bed a little later, but fell asleep quickly.  The sun and heat outside wore us out somewhat, so we were ready for a good night's rest!