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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Grumpy and the Ghost of Kamanga

In the Bouncy Zone

National Night Out.
Music by Bloodline.

The plane is down; the evacuation slide is in place. Your next move?

Pablo and Emi are prepared.

"Too Tall" Jones couldn't handle the wall. Robert Newhouse couldn't handle the wall. Pablo will be able to handle the wall.

Next challenge: Don't get distracted by the tackling dummy forest.

Pablo and Emilio: Your mission, should you accept it, is to extract Nina from this Bouncy Trap.

Now, go back in and find that boy's shoe!
(Both missions were successful.)

Banksy!

Banksy is my new favorite artist. Thanks for the book, Jaime and Maria Rosa!

Hilary, Norgay, and . . . Tabei?

Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hilary begin their ascent (which is which?).

Success!

But soon they are consumed by the thought: Let's do it again!

This time, they'll take a third: Junko Tabei!

An anxious abuela waits below . . .

Help arrives from the Mysterious Spirit of the Mountain . . .

Hilary, Norgay, and Tabei have done it. Woo hoo!

Monday, August 02, 2010

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Early last spring, I was six months behind on this blog and my children's abuela wondered if I'd still be six months behind by the time she and el abuelo arrived for their annual summer visit at the beginning of August. I made it my goal to close the gap. And I succeeded (one of my few successes this summer, I might add).

To mark the occasion of the blog's return to live (or semi-live) posting, I am going to begin experimenting with a redesign of the space, using some of blogger's new design tools (including the slideshow implant). We'll see how it goes and how long this live (or semi-live) blogging goes.