Father's Day 2023

 

It's Father's Day, and this is the card that Maddie made for me - she started out with the stamps, leaves, water and figures there, making a nice little scene, but then noticed the angle there of the horizon.  At which point, Mom made a suggestion that it was the Titanic, and now I have a Titanic-themed Father's Day card.  With palm leaves.  It was a fun card, and then I opened it up...

Ha!  It was laugh out loud funny!  Maddie was laughing too - it was a really nice card, and both she and Mom got me a really cool gift for Father's Day:

This is the Electric Mayhem's first album, so I actually  now own a vinyl record from some of my favorite Muppet characters.  Of course I put the record on right away, listening to both sides.  The record itself is really groovy.  Yes, it has grooves in it.  But furthermore, it's this translucent purple color, and the cover of the album itself is psychedelic, and just amazing.  

So what did I want for Father's Day?  Well, went to Colby, Texas for a revisit with an old game we had a really good time with.  

The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride again!  We were exploring this old Western town, completing missions, and just largely folding around to be honest.  There's the things the programmers planned for players to do, and then there's the stuff we always wind up doing, which usually involves fighting each other with cannons and gatling guns.  And mystical Indian spirits too.  The aesthetic of the game is nice, and the memories of playing this with Maddie for the first time back ten years ago... nice memories.  

The fledging wrens are loose!  They have a little empire there in the room where we store the wood, the three of the fledglings having free rein there.  The parents pop in and out, bringing all kinds of food, much of it coming from our feeders just a few feet away.  They have a pretty good set up there!

So we had another good morning at KidPak this morning.  A family emergency left me doing an entirely new and goofy skit for this morning, but I actually really enjoyed it.  Maddie and Skylar were friends of Jeremiah, who had a fun character on the verge of a big life changing decision:  would he do a dare and have them record himself eating a piece of cheese off the ground?

Fortunately, some time travelers from the future come and tell him the bad results of what would happen if he succumbs to peer pressure and allies himself with people he shouldn't.  It was a simple sort of skit, but it was pretty fun.  The kids were laughing all the way through.

It was a good day.  We closed out tonight watching "Frequency," which is a great Father's Day movie if you think about it.  It's also somewhat of a time travel movie, so there's that.  Maddie hasn't seen it before, but enjoyed the mystery and the twists and turns.  There's a lot of concept to this movie, and it's one of our old favorites from the past.

We closed out the day with some more time travel, as we read about Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect going backwards in time on the planet Earth.  It hasn't been revealed yet, but it's somewhat of a cliffhanger on the way.  They're way back there in the past, so what happens next?  We'll be reading "Life, the Universe, and Everything" next to find out!

After prayers, it was time for bed.  It was a noisy night though - we had another one of those very loud thunderstorms coming through that made it difficult to sleep through all the fireworks.  It's going to be rainy all week - a very wet summer so far.