Death Star Revisited

a lifetime project...

Smiths & Wesson, 1988

Used to be a sweet boy

And this photograph shall be known by the title

... "the wondrous joy preceding the accidental kicking of sand into the eye marking the unofficial yet abrupt end of summer":

Boom De Yada

Some great friends and family came over to celebrate Ferg's birthday...

Some cowboying up before the grand event:

Arrow shooting:

The Goose and The Dude:

Treasure hunt:

This guy wasn't on the itinerary:

(Most of) the gang:

Grandma's double eight cake:

Amy made a wonderful Minecraft Creeper for Fergus:

Kelly's portrait of us:

The Goose is Eight Today

The many faces of...

The All-Nighter

On the weekend, Matt initiated pulling an all-nighter with his friends Effie and Dan... the plan being to stay up all night watching movies and then going to see the sun rise in the wee hours.

Ferg and Noah also got in on the action. Here they are at the 4 am mark (interestingly posing behind some bottles). I think they played Swords and Sandals in those seats all night long.

They made it. Sunrise:

These two were rather "forced" to participate as well (I was snugly sound asleep in my sleeping bag at this moment):

Imaginary Band

The Kristal Tikis

Abducted by aliens

Effie Dan Matt

No New (Earthquake) Tale To Tell

Judging by the questions we've been fielding, it sounds like today's "Vancouver Island Earthquake" was widely reported. Nobody around here felt it and here's hoping it hasn't triggered some increased action. Rest assured that if the big one hits I'll be digging through the rubble to splice some wires together (is that what you do with wires?) to post our whereabouts/ status.

Here's an appropriately fuzzy photo Fergus took of me recently:

Not...

The Hotness

September has brought the summer heat to these parts - slightly overdue. We be crammin.... Blackberrying:

Ferg got right into the Not Back To School beach day this year with some sand duning and allowing himself to be buried:

After their trip to Goldstream with the other radicals I asked Effie how the waterfall was... "er, not really a waterfall - more of a trickle." Hmmm....

This reminds me of the quarry scene from quite possibly one of the best movies ever - Breaking Away:

Rockin the sungear:

Corn Soccer Potato Dig

...and bocci:

Ferry Food

Minecraft Birthday Party

Frankie turned eight and Chris and Kelly hosted an awesome Minecraft-themed do for her today...