Jumping Gigawatts!

Tonight we finished our viewing of the "Back to the Future" trilogy with part three, but there's a lot more to this set we got back in 2015.  I remember thinking it was my birthday, and why not ask for this amazing box set of the movies, plus a whole lot more.  One of the things inside here is the complete animated series, which is admittedly dated, but it does feature a lot of live action footage of Doc Brown doing some science experiments or talking about his adventures through time.  I sort of like that motif, actually, for a devotional, rather than an ongoing series.  I think I'll be assembling a collections of recollections, as if told by Doc Brown, but of course not calling him out by name, as he's writing it all in the first person.  That should be a nice angle on it, actually.  Anyway, I saw a few episodes already of the cartoon, and its' been fun, and clearly the kind of thing we'd see on Saturday morning.

Ah, Saturday morning.  If we could time travel back to that era, it was a place of wonder!  Kids would actually get up early on Saturday morning, just for the chance to see their favorite cartoons all lined up.  And the three big stations would be competing for your attention, and then there were four, and it all ended with some random dance shows that I never watched.  But in there we saw the Superfriends, and Spider-Man and his friends.  The Tick showed up eventually, as did the X-men later on when I was older.  That whole series is on Disney Plus, and by gum I need to see it again.  The Smurfs ruled for a few seasons, but there were the great race cartoons, and of course Scooby Doo was solving mysteries for a time, along with Blue Falcon and Dynomutt.  I remember Mighty Mouse making a comeback, and a whole lot of unusual stuff that networks were trying back then.  Believe it or not, I never saw the animated "Back to the Future" on television.  This might have come later on, like the amazing animated Batman series, or "Eek" the cat.

Here's one thing we did watch this morning.  You can see our fish talking puppet friends back for another appearance at KidPak.  We used these for our "Under the Sea" stage presentation a few years ago, and Josh and I actually created these, sculpting, gluing and painting foam and styrofoam.  The triggers actually move the mouths up and down.  We were so proud of these that they've been on display in my office ever since.

Anyway, you can see us holding them up in this screen capture from this morning's KidPak service.  It was one of my favorites that we've done, with some great classic videos included that we used not long ago, including the one with a visit from Quaker Oats Man.  One of my favorites!

We had a good day today, one made better with root beer floats.  We got the root beers about twenty days ago from Jaemor Farms, and were holding on to them as an incentive to get to the end of the fast.  At the end of this fast, we said, we'll have a root beer float!  So today, Madison and I sat down and made good on that promise!  We enjoyed some root beer floats just after we made a trip down the road a bit. 

Not far from us lives Pastor Skelton and his wife, and today was his ninety-first birthday.  Given the pandemic, today's celebration was a parade that we enjoyed, all of us lining up in our cars, behind two large fire trucks, including a hook and ladder that we were not far behind ourselves.  It was pretty nice though, although fairly brief.  Pastor Skleton is such an iconic person in the missions field, a warm-hearted man who has made such a huge impact on the world.

We had a nice day today, doing a bit of creating for the upcoming weekend at KidPak, and doing some writing.  Madison was studying some today, and took a bath later on, which of course is always a bit investment in time.  

We continued reading tonight, reading from our devotional and from the latest chapter of "Allegiance."  It was a quiet day, and a nice one together with family.