What is the point of being a masculine child if you do not immediately after your birth go to look at tools?
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
First Trip to Home Depot
What is the point of being a masculine child if you do not immediately after your birth go to look at tools?
Sunday, June 26, 2011
A Life Changing Announcement
[Announcement made 6/26/2011]
Dear Family and Friends,
We are pleased and proud to announce the birth of Edmund Sebastian Nelson at 2:52 this morning.
Mother and child are doing well.
Length: 20 inches
Weight: 8 lb. 12.4 oz.
Time for everyone to get some rest.
Much love,
Jonathan & Jenny
& now Edmund!
Dear Family and Friends,
We are pleased and proud to announce the birth of Edmund Sebastian Nelson at 2:52 this morning.
Mother and child are doing well.
Length: 20 inches
Weight: 8 lb. 12.4 oz.
Time for everyone to get some rest.
Much love,
Jonathan & Jenny
& now Edmund!
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Man Loose In The Kitchen
This morning for breakfast Jonathan made Cajun Wraps. They are filled with cheddar cheese, scrambled eggs, and andouille sausage. Paired with a freshly brewed glass of iced coffee it was a marvelous way to start the day.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Chronicle of Cocktails: Moonlit Kiss
1 oz coconut rum
1/2 oz amaretto
1/2 oz creme de cacao
Shake well, serve in rocks glass, sip slowly, kiss the bar tender.
First Lathe Project
This is the first completed project that Jonathan made on his lathe. It is a ring holder for my kitchen window by the sink. I am very happy that I will have a better place to drop my rings when I am prepping meat or other messy chores. I have been trying to be good and not leave them in pockets or on shelves where they might be forgotten or dropped. Now, I have an excellent and safe solution to my problem. 
Here is a view from the top. The piece is crape myrtle which we picked up from from a neighbor's yard waste pile. They had cleared some branches from their tree and left the wood for collection. Fortunately, we decided to walk around the neighborhood and encountered the pile before the "recycling management" chaps got to it.
Rainbows & Smoothies
This evening Jonathan took me out to Tropical Smoothie in celebration of National Flip Flop Day. There is nothing like flip flops and smoothies in the summer. Especially when you really don't fit into most other footwear.
On the way home from TS it started to drip big drops on us. We had Warwick's windows open because it was such a nice evening and the drops were as big as my fingers on which the drops were falling. By the time we got back to the house the rain was pouring down in sheets. This is the second time in as many weeks that we have made it home just in time to be cut off from the house. We must plan badly. One of the hazards of a detached garage, I surmise.
I decided this time instead of running through the rain we would just pull out the camp chairs and enjoy ourselves. We keep getting told to rest and relax, so that is what we did. Rains here never last too long and the smoothies were huge. Because we did not rush into the house we had a chance to see the amazing rainbows pictured above. The camera did not capture them as beautifully as they really looked, but it is a close approximation. You can also see the muddy stream flowing by the garage through our little courtyard.
The rain and the smoothies and the rainbows lasted about as long as each other and just about the time we were done the weather had cleared off to soak someone else in the region and we did make it back to the house. While sheltering in our own garage we found a few things which the previous owners conveyed to us, probably unintentionally. We now have an additional fan, which does work, though it needs to be cleaned, and I have my own needle nose pliers and another pair of scissors. The fan is black and the tools have red handles. Perhaps you did not need to know this, but the colours make me happy.
On the way home from TS it started to drip big drops on us. We had Warwick's windows open because it was such a nice evening and the drops were as big as my fingers on which the drops were falling. By the time we got back to the house the rain was pouring down in sheets. This is the second time in as many weeks that we have made it home just in time to be cut off from the house. We must plan badly. One of the hazards of a detached garage, I surmise.
I decided this time instead of running through the rain we would just pull out the camp chairs and enjoy ourselves. We keep getting told to rest and relax, so that is what we did. Rains here never last too long and the smoothies were huge. Because we did not rush into the house we had a chance to see the amazing rainbows pictured above. The camera did not capture them as beautifully as they really looked, but it is a close approximation. You can also see the muddy stream flowing by the garage through our little courtyard.
The rain and the smoothies and the rainbows lasted about as long as each other and just about the time we were done the weather had cleared off to soak someone else in the region and we did make it back to the house. While sheltering in our own garage we found a few things which the previous owners conveyed to us, probably unintentionally. We now have an additional fan, which does work, though it needs to be cleaned, and I have my own needle nose pliers and another pair of scissors. The fan is black and the tools have red handles. Perhaps you did not need to know this, but the colours make me happy.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Red
Check out my new red earrings and necklace set. Sometimes shopping is the only thing that helps. And sometimes even shopping does not help, but it does take the edge off life. And chocolate. Lots of chocolate. That helps too. Sometimes. Or chocolate milk, because it is hot out now. I think I will go make chocolate chip cookies. Maybe that will soothe my soul.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Stuff of the Month! - May
Book: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Quirky fun little book about an orphan raised by ghosts and the dark forces out to kill him. Very interesting characters, moves quickly, involves some historical interaction (they are ghosts, after all, and lived at various times) as well as a good amount of learning to relate well to people.
Movie (theater): Thor. Visually grand and certainly action filled, this story clearly benefits from the Branaugh influence in its use of dialog (imagine that!) and interpersonal presentation. One of the great things about comic book movies is their ability to take one character development issue and just work that. Here, it is humility, which is highlighted for the audience by the minimal role played by Earth (and even when it does show up, we see no more than a few desert diner towns). But despite our many problems, sometimes instead of receiving from others, our role is to simply help them see to their own needs and growth. Plus, as we have said before, there aren't enough viking movies.
Movie (home viewing): The Fighter. A film that tells both a boxing story and a family struggle story reasonably well. It did feel like it needed a bit more attention paid to the process of recovery and reconciliation - sure we know they (or at least some of them) wanted to stop doing drugs and get along with each other, but how did they actually do it?
Music: World Gone Crazy by The Doobie Brothers. Good classic rock. Wailing lead guitar, interesting keyboard backups, tight vocals, and variety of tempos, beats, and dynamics. There is a reason these guys' recordings won't be disappearing anytime soon.
Household project: Ceiling fan installation in nursery. Reported here earlier, I had a great time working with my dad to get everything braced, wired, and running. Puzzle solving is one of the great things about construction and maintenance projects like this, as we tried to work around the existing lumber, brackets, and wires to get the new pieces entered. Plus I got to show off the planer attachment for the Dremel when the 2x4 we were mounting to wouldn't quite fit between the rafters. (On a side note, I am glad we were able to fit it in before the heat wave hit, or that attic would have been miserable).
Low point: Tangled. I may get some hate mail for this one, but I found the story an uncompelling mix of a traditional rescued princess story with the new self-reliant princess formula Disney has been using more recently (to good effect in films like Mulan). Additionally, while the 3D CG animation was well done technically (and included some well executed visual gags, such as the horse which moved like a dog), the departure from the hand drawn look lost the decades of association the princess story could have drawn on, and instead gave it a feel of just another part of the Shrek franchise, but not as funny.
Other thoughts: Hat tip to Legal Guard for sharing some nicely instructional (and theological) videos. Well, and just plain funny.
Movie (theater): Thor. Visually grand and certainly action filled, this story clearly benefits from the Branaugh influence in its use of dialog (imagine that!) and interpersonal presentation. One of the great things about comic book movies is their ability to take one character development issue and just work that. Here, it is humility, which is highlighted for the audience by the minimal role played by Earth (and even when it does show up, we see no more than a few desert diner towns). But despite our many problems, sometimes instead of receiving from others, our role is to simply help them see to their own needs and growth. Plus, as we have said before, there aren't enough viking movies.
Movie (home viewing): The Fighter. A film that tells both a boxing story and a family struggle story reasonably well. It did feel like it needed a bit more attention paid to the process of recovery and reconciliation - sure we know they (or at least some of them) wanted to stop doing drugs and get along with each other, but how did they actually do it?
Music: World Gone Crazy by The Doobie Brothers. Good classic rock. Wailing lead guitar, interesting keyboard backups, tight vocals, and variety of tempos, beats, and dynamics. There is a reason these guys' recordings won't be disappearing anytime soon.
Household project: Ceiling fan installation in nursery. Reported here earlier, I had a great time working with my dad to get everything braced, wired, and running. Puzzle solving is one of the great things about construction and maintenance projects like this, as we tried to work around the existing lumber, brackets, and wires to get the new pieces entered. Plus I got to show off the planer attachment for the Dremel when the 2x4 we were mounting to wouldn't quite fit between the rafters. (On a side note, I am glad we were able to fit it in before the heat wave hit, or that attic would have been miserable).
Low point: Tangled. I may get some hate mail for this one, but I found the story an uncompelling mix of a traditional rescued princess story with the new self-reliant princess formula Disney has been using more recently (to good effect in films like Mulan). Additionally, while the 3D CG animation was well done technically (and included some well executed visual gags, such as the horse which moved like a dog), the departure from the hand drawn look lost the decades of association the princess story could have drawn on, and instead gave it a feel of just another part of the Shrek franchise, but not as funny.
Other thoughts: Hat tip to Legal Guard for sharing some nicely instructional (and theological) videos. Well, and just plain funny.
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