Father's Day 2010

Great Father’s Day today!

We rode our bikes to breakfast at First Watch where they offered me a free golf ball. I don’t golf so I suggested they give the next dad 2.

After breakfast a bike ride to Whetstone Park, but we only made it as far as Tuttle Park.

On the way we found a turtle on the bike path.

Cartoons

Saturday wasn’t the best weather so Rachael and I took in Cartoon Capers at The Ohio Theatre. These are cartoons people 40 and over grew up with and they are a much different pace than today’s animation for children.

In the first 6 seconds of a Yosemite Sam cartoon one cowboy shoots another for his glass of whiskey. Sam entered soon after firing more bullets than Rambo.

Rachael really didn’t know what to think of Popeye’s eyelids puckering up and whistling later either.

This is NOTHING like she sees in Dora The Explorer

She really liked the pink lemonade at intermission so I think she and dad will go again.

Market

This is Teresa’s new booth at the Lynn and Pearl Alley Market. She made new table cloths and people really took notice. She had a great day.

Grandma and Grandpa's House

Teresa and the kids spent a few days at Grandma and Grandpa’s house last week.

They really had fun doing crafts and grandma pulled out Teresa's old toys and cleaned them up.

The kids had a blast.

Parks

It’s rained so much we take the kids to the parks as much as we can. The Audubon Park it their favorite, but there are more kids at Schiller.

The parks are easy enough to get to, I load the kids in the bike trailer and sometimes we have supper there if Teresa is working late. They don’t actually sit down to eat so much as running over to take a bite of something then running back to the play equipment.

Pioneer

Well our garden is in and I’m finding I still don’t have time to tend it well. I would have made a horrible pioneer.

I probably wouldn’t have even remembered to bring seeds and I’d have to go try to beg seeds off the neighbors. I can hear it now:

“Excuse me Uriah, I seem to have left my seeds back in Philidelphia. Would you have any to spare?”

“You hear that everybody?!?!? Steve doesn’t have any seeds! Tell you what, if you want seeds you can visit my outhouse tomorrow morning.”

And then the prayer hall would erupt with laughter.

They would have written that poem about the pioneers on the next homestead.

At the farm

On Saturday we took everyone to Slate Run Historic Farm. This is a working farm set in the 1880's.
Rachael and Slane really got a kick out of seeing so many animals up close. Slane tried to pet a horse, but that didn't work out. He poked the horse in the eye. The horse is fine and didn't hold a grudge.
He also loved the geese. As he was running toward a pair, which were as tall as he was, they came at him hissing. I picked him up to carry him away and saw the geese were protecting their goslings.