Once again Laura outdid herself with her creations for Mother's Day.  This time instead of just a snowman for her mother, she made a cow for mine.  Check them out:

You can see the rest of her creations here.

Laura and I went to my 10 year high school reunion on Saturday...  as many of you know, my graduating class was only 50 people, so there weren't a whole lot of people there.  I will try to get a picture from someone (I didn't take my digital camera into the restaurant).  It was good catching up with the few people that managed to make it.

Wilson (aka "loaner" aka "devil cat") was dropped off at our house while we were up in Huntsville this weekend...  He is my brother-in-law's cat and is used to being an only cat.  Needless to say, when he's over, one of our cats is always hiding and the other one gets a good workout chasing him around (or being chased around).

I took it upon myself to make Laura a birthday cake...  the frosting never really became frosting...

It did finally harden a little and start sticking to the cake.  So I took a knife and believe it or not, it finally looked like a normal frosted cake.  Glad it worked out ok.

This is one of those times that everyone should run and hide.  The Perfect Storm is upon us.  Two of the famed trucks of death were spotted in a row today waiting to get on US280.  I really wish Rob had seen this since he loves these trucks (threatens to turn them in to the police for "cruising" every time he sees one).  His main complaint is that their only purpose is to drive around, which translates into getting in the way since they do things like stay in the left lane going very slowly on very busy streets, etc.  Amos would call the Perfect Storm that would come off of having two such negatively charged objects so close together a "Noreaster".

I believe there is a guerilla war going on in our yard.  On several occasions I have noticed this squirrel digging up nuts from our yard, taking them across the street, and burying them in a neighbor's yard.  Is it rotating nuclear ordinance to keep other squirrels from stealing it?  Or is it stealing from those squirrels to increase its own military standing within the neighborhood?  And when will our squirrels be coming by to teach this one a lesson?

http://www.widro.com/throwpaper.html

It's amazing how much time you could spend doing this and never get bored.

So this is just wrong on so many levels.

I saw this link and couldn't help but wonder if they put lights on them at Christmas....

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/faketree.htm

There is one of these in Vestavia Hills that doens't even look like a tree...  it looks like a traditional pole with three branches - like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree that has cell antennas on it.

Another lazy sunday...

We lost our soccer game yesterday (it was on a saturday instead of a sunday this time).  We had a 2-0 lead at halftime and ended up losing 2-4.  I am quite disappointed.  And as an added bonus, I think about 5 people are injured on our team.  Hopefully the next two weeks (we have next weekend off for Mother's Day) will allow people to heal.

Need I say more?

I found a VERY useful utility the other day...  it's avidemux.  This utility will open virtually any video file and allow you to transcode it to virtually any other format (compression scheme, etc) of video file.  It opened quite a few that I couldn't in Premiere and ULead and allowed me to convert it into a format that is readable by those two programs.  You can read more about it here.

Over the past few months, Laura has been making snowmen creations for her mom.  Check here to see them a little closer.  They are created with polymer clay.  Quite frankly, it amazes me at amount of detail on each one.

I have seen this thing around town a good bit and finally caught it while it was not moving at interstate speeds.  I can't believe someone actually has to drive this for their job.  It looks like it was originally a Suzuki Grand Vitara (or something slightly smaller) with a few slight modifications and a paint job.  I think the brush guard on the front is a nice touch.  Just makes me wonder if this is more or less embarrasing than the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

 

Caught everyone enjoying the sunshine this afternoon.

From left to right:  Bill, Persey, Maggie, George, Petunia, and Bella.

We lost our soccer game today 3-4.  I am unhappy with the referees, but that's a very long story.

These are pictures taken from our deck of a little hummingbird.  Last night we saw two of them out there at once (but did not have the camera with us).  The feeder is courtesy of my in-laws (thanks guys!).

Had a game today...  we lost 1-2.

A while ago now we remodeled our 1/2 bath.  Really this meant we pulled everything out (except the bottom half of the toilet), painted, and put everything back in.  The paint idea was Laura's - it's alternating high gloss and flat paint of the same color.  We also added the crown molding to make it match the rest of the house.