Don't try this at home

Dad + saddle = The Daddle. Wow. $50? $32 for kneepads? I guess it's a gift for dads who take their horsing around VERY seriously. By the time you got suited up, though, wouldn't the kids lose interest?

Zonked.

Rick Monday

If you don't know who he is, you need to watch this.

Laughing quadruplets

Funny.

Back to the future

I love reading old predictions about what people thought life in the future would be like. Here are several predictions made in 1982 about life in the year 2000. Some are funny, but many are very accurate.

Check out this Japanese magician

He's especially good at the end, when he sneezes and his head comes off.

What Earth looks like from Mars

Not much different than the way Mars looks from Earth (just a star), but it's cool nonetheless.

Hey Jooj

You take much better pictures than I do. I wish, looking back, that I had exercised a tiny bit of wisdom when taking photos of places I will probably never visit again. You and I must have stood in almost the exact same spot, just a few years apart.

I'm the idiot on the left, by the way. Nice pants. Dang it.

Water paint

I used to love doing this when I was little. Ginger remembered it today and suggested the kids give it a try. What a hit! It's fun, it's mess-free, and it takes a LOT of work to make the deck look just right.

Genghis Khan

Some scientists searched people's DNA to find descendants of Genghis Khan. The search uncovered an accounting professor in Miami with very close ties to the 13th century marauder. The money quote:

'I think I do have a certain number of administrative skills,'' Robinson said, noting he was once president of a local financial analyst society. ``I haven't done any conquering, per se.''

We found a moth today

(See Andrew's blog.) The moth was bright white, which was cool, but even better was the fact that the moth looked like the fallen flower petals it was resting by. In the photo above, one of the flower petals is on the left. Like a nature show right on our front porch!

An update on the Sea Princess

Yikes. Glad it wasn't like that when we were on it.

Crazy ping pong action

Crazy.

Working from home

This is one of the benefits. My old office had a view of a pond with ducks, but this view is much better.

If the door's open, she'll run into my office and stand at my desk, waiting until I look up and tell her to come give me a hug.

He's on his way to nationals

Andrew won his school's first grade spelling bee today. First he won his class competition, then moved on to the finals, where he competed against 28 finalists from the seven first grade classes. To win, he correctly spelled the word "difference."

The finals were held in front of the entire first grade. We wish we could have been there to see it! He said everyone cheered when he won and received his prize--candy. This afternoon his piano teacher told him congratulations, and he said that's what everyone kept telling him at recess today.

Only half a school day left tomorrow, then it's summer!