Another Monday, another FHE

So, way back on the 15th I had surgery on my left foot. They sent me home with a splint of plaster held to my leg and foot by something akin to an ace bandage. Then, after 10 days, I had to go back in to get a regular cast put on. That ended up being on a Monday so I'm thinking that maybe we could parley this into some kind of fun family night activity. So when they asked me what color cast I wanted and listed off several bright and fun colors they almost seemed disappointed when I said white. So later than evening, when it was time for the activity, out came the colored markers and we got started.

Schwarzebeere worked long and hard on his and came up with a very novel piece of art work. He was quite pleased when he was done. He is an imaginative kid.

Maulbeere got to work on her's.

Among other things, she did a portrait of our little pooch, SID - I mean Quasar. Quite artistic.


Himbeere's art work is always interesting, leaning a bit toward the abstract. This time he decided to showcase some of what he's been learning in his German class at school.

I'll let let you figure out exactly what he was trying to say.

And then Stachelbeere. He can actually be quite artistic when he wants to. He's turned out some pretty incredible artwork in the last few months.
But this time he opted for something simplier and a bit sci-fi, as well. And he signed his work with his new moniker.

But, like the old saying goes, "last the best of all the game."

This one is my favorite.

Technological Marvelings

Oh, the marvels of modern technology. Today a friend 1,500 miles away had lunch delivered to my door, all while sitting in her office at work. She called to see how things were going and make sure I was up to it, after having just had surgery. Then she ordered pizza and 20 minutes later it was delivered. Took longer to cook than it did to order and deliver. And it was yummy, too! I find that amazing. Having lived most of my life before the internet, back when just finding someone to deliver the pizza would have been a major undertaking, I think it’s cool that this kind of stuff is now so easy.

Ready for the Polar Bears Club?

Soooooooo, for New Year's Eve the youth in the branch decided to have a New Year's party at the home of one of the members that lives a little ways out of town. Among the festivities they planned was a dip in the hot tub, which was out of doors. Now to truely appreciate this you have to understand that all day the tempurature was way down. It never got above 10 (that was at midnight, as the day began) and by the time of evening they decided to get in the tub it had dropped down to -9.

Stachelbeere was the first in the water, followed soon by Schwarzebeere.

Didn't take him long to settle in. But then came the real fun. They would get out of the tub and take a roll in the snow.

Himbeere; seems a bit crazy to me.

Stachelbeere was every bit as crazy. This is the same kid that did the official Polar Bear plunge in the lake a few years ago. The water was 101 so I suppose that once they got back in they got warmed up pretty quick. He said the hardest part was getting back into the tub. You'd be a little cold while in the snow but when you'd get back in the water it would burn.

And then there was Himbeere's walks around the back yard. He had said he wanted to go sit on an old, broke down snowmobile that was parked out in the back yard but we talked him out of it. We were afraid he'd freeze to it and be stuck. It was amazing how the steam would rise off them when they were out of the tub. Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!