Thursday, April 4, 2019
Bring May Flowers
Back in 2010, my wife decided we should plant sunflowers in our front yard. I didn't care. I was never super into landscaping. I've always been nothing more than the grunt when it comes to landscaping. I'm always the shlub pushing the lawnmower or pulling the weeds, and never the one making the decisions, so hearing the word landscaping, or planting, or gardening always brings thoughts of hours of thankless work to my mind. I can't say why, but the sunflowers changed that for me.
Man, I loved those things. We grew them again the next year, partially on my behest. I wanted them again.
I really love the things. I loved how tall they were. I loved how big and impressive they were. I loved taking pictures of them. It may also have been due to the sheer size of the things.
In 2017, though, we moved to Houston, and arrived there in the middle of the summer. It was way too late to plant anything. Then again, last year, I forgot to plant some sunflowers until really late in the year. Nothing came of the seeds that I ran out to the backyard and stuffed in the ground at the last minute. The seeds may have just been crappy and cheap, unlikely to actually sprout, or they may have sprouted only to be burned to death immediately by the scorching Texas sun. I don't know. What I do know is that it's been several years since I've had any sunflowers in my yard...in my life.
But it's a new year...It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good.
Man, I loved those things. We grew them again the next year, partially on my behest. I wanted them again.
I really love the things. I loved how tall they were. I loved how big and impressive they were. I loved taking pictures of them. It may also have been due to the sheer size of the things.
In 2017, though, we moved to Houston, and arrived there in the middle of the summer. It was way too late to plant anything. Then again, last year, I forgot to plant some sunflowers until really late in the year. Nothing came of the seeds that I ran out to the backyard and stuffed in the ground at the last minute. The seeds may have just been crappy and cheap, unlikely to actually sprout, or they may have sprouted only to be burned to death immediately by the scorching Texas sun. I don't know. What I do know is that it's been several years since I've had any sunflowers in my yard...in my life.
But it's a new year...It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good.
We bought some new seeds from the store the other day. My wife was buying vegetables and the like, but I saw the sunflowers, and bought several different kinds. I even managed to get my youngest daughter to come outside of her own free will and help me plant them. She's invested enough in them because of that, that she went out and watered them all on her own. She wants to have some plants that she can call her own, I guess. There's nothing like having a stake in something to get you to care.
It's been ten days since we put those seeds in the ground, and sprouts are popping up all over the yard!
We're gonna have so many sunflowers this year. It's gonna be awesome.
You can expect some follow-ups to this post, with progress reports of my plants...I hope. I hope they don't inexplicably die off on me or something. I'll try to keep them watered...or make sure my daughter keeps them watered anyway. Heh heh.
I suppose all those sunflowers should inspire me to get the Sunny & Gray saga written too.
April POWERS!
Okay, it was day two, and I managed to write again. I think I would have all on my own, but Rish made sure to keep on my back about it. This was his text to me yesterday:
Ain't he a punny guy?
Anyway, I wrote on my lunch break again. Two days in a row, and this time around I got in 778 words. That's twice what I got last time.
We'll see how it goes today.
Words Today: 787
Words Total: 1088
Ain't he a punny guy?
Anyway, I wrote on my lunch break again. Two days in a row, and this time around I got in 778 words. That's twice what I got last time.
We'll see how it goes today.
Words Today: 787
Words Total: 1088
Journey Into IFC
Marshal had me over to his Journey Into... Podcast to do a voice on a story from a contest that he ran. This story is called "Journey Into IFC." I play the part of Rob.
You should subscribe to Marshal's podcast, because then you'd get each new episode delivered to you automatically. Also, you can listen to the episode below by pushing the play button.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Hulkbuster Repaint
It's another toy video, and more specifically another video about customizing a Titan Heroes figure. This time I went for it with my Hulkbuster. Check out how it went.
April...Powers?
Last month, Rish decided to make it his goal to write every day of the month. He called it March Madness, or Gladness, or Radness, or Sadness, depending on how he did. He bothered me pretty relentlessly to join him in the goal. Since I'm the world's laziest, least worthwhile human being, I mostly ignored him. I did read his blog posts about his process though, and despite all the struggle and hard work that he spoke of, it kind of made me wish I'd taken him up on his challenge.
Well, now it's a new month. A new chance to make a goal and keep it. A new chance for Rish to renew his push to get me writing. Which he did. April 1st was no joke for me. It was texts and phone calls suggesting that I better get writing.
Well, yesterday...April 2nd, not the first...I finally took him up on it.
I pulled out my Christmas story that I started in December but left fallow for yea these many moons, and wrote another 300 words on it. 301 to be exact. I guess that means I'm going to have to keep it up. There's a whole month to go. I'll try to keep you updated on my progress throughout the month, and we'll see how this whole thing goes.
Oh, I was thinking I could emulate Rish's March Madness/Gladness/Radness thing, but April Showers is the only thing that I could come up with that is April related. So, I modified it to April Powers. Does that suck as bad as I think it does?
Well, now it's a new month. A new chance to make a goal and keep it. A new chance for Rish to renew his push to get me writing. Which he did. April 1st was no joke for me. It was texts and phone calls suggesting that I better get writing.
Well, yesterday...April 2nd, not the first...I finally took him up on it.
I pulled out my Christmas story that I started in December but left fallow for yea these many moons, and wrote another 300 words on it. 301 to be exact. I guess that means I'm going to have to keep it up. There's a whole month to go. I'll try to keep you updated on my progress throughout the month, and we'll see how this whole thing goes.
Oh, I was thinking I could emulate Rish's March Madness/Gladness/Radness thing, but April Showers is the only thing that I could come up with that is April related. So, I modified it to April Powers. Does that suck as bad as I think it does?
Who You Gonna Call?
When you've got a big, green guy that needs some busting, who you gonna call? It's not Slimer though, better call someone else.
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