Consumption log

I am going to track everything that I consume over the course of a year. Here is my first day.

I will jump forward and tell you that it lasted a little over a week. One week is about the point when counting the number of peanuts you've eaten or squares of toilet paper you have used starts to be more work than it's worth.

Notes from the underground

This is a mural we are helping facilatate at the health center.

It's about dinosaurs and nutrition.

It was about dragons, however, some people thought that dragons might scare little children/remind people of Hairy Potter and in turn refer to Satan.

So, dinosaurs it is.

We tried another Mexican restaurant in Roseburg. This painting of Poncho Villa, and the fact that they serve Horchata, were the only redeeming features.

What can I say on this one?

Umpqua Dairy now makes organic milk. I wrote them a letter (email) telling them that I was happy to have an organic milk option that was produced locally, I also may have mentioned that the packaging is very busy and it makes it very difficult to figure out what kind of milk you are getting.

Terrifying.

Bizarre.

And amazing.

Kids are people too

This is a giant tub of pink lemonade that I made for our Kids Summer Art Show. The following are some highlights from that show, I will comment where it seems appropriate.














































I guess there really wasn't anything for me to say.

Bands with stupid names

Today we prepare for the Summer Arts Festival. Steve brought over his Summer Associates; Sarah and Lynsey. I like the fact that I don't need to learn any new names.

Here is Sarah doing some work.

Lynsey helping.

Steve supervising.

Me being quite pleased with the distribution of labor.

Various attempts were made to thread the rope though this sign. Eventually we decided to staple the rope to the end of a dowel and thread it through that way.

It did work, however, the first attempt ended up threaded backwards.

As the Summer Associates are teenagers; they felt impelled to talk about bands I had never heard of.

I told them that "___ is not a band name" and "bands today need to come up with less stupid names."

I took my car in to have the door problem remedied.

While they didn't fix the problem, they did wash the car for free.

Here is the paint-by-number black velvet fantasy mural I got for Christmas.


I am very good at coloring.

Megan is doing a mosaic version of Starry Night.

It's pretty nice.

Here is another detail.

Megan and I; went over to Megan's to read magazines.

Megan and Megan thought it would be a good idea to dress up the dog.

I'll let you be the judge.

I told them that I was only going to include one picture of Megan's dog wearing clothes.

I feel, slightly, tricked.