Playing with Snow

After the pile of snow that came down we couldn't resist doing a little playing in the snow. Phillip built a giant snowman, our neighbor built her own Nessie in her yard, and then came the fish. I am so proud. OK, I was just bored. And I should admit that Phillip helped with it.

It gets warmer out every day. It won't be long before the river goes out and the mud, mud, mud will be here.

A Quiet Easter

Easter seemed to come and go quietly. I boiled a ton of eggs in the hopes of coloring them. Alas, I had to work on curriculum at the school. Thank goodness Desiree and Phillip took over and colored the eggs for me.

It snowed all day Easter Sunday so other than church Phillip and I didn't go anywhere. It continued to snow into the night and the next morning. School had a delayed start and the car was so buried you could hardly see it. So much for April showers. Here we have May meltdown and June flowers.

Yes, I am 9-Ball Champ Again!

Things have been busy around here as we head into spring. I traveled to Anchorage last weekend with some colleagues for the NEA-Alaska Leadership conference. We were able to get our association calendar together and generate some ideas for the coming year. I was also able to do some massive grocery shopping and restock our cupboards and freezer at home with all kinds of goodies.

Our driveway is a mess after months of snow being packed down on it. Now that it has started to thaw we have a lake where we usually park. The biggest problem is knowing where the ground is still solid and where it isn’t. It is no fun falling through the ice and into ankle deep water. Last night when Phillip and I came home from playing pool (where I slaughtered him in 9ball) he tried to park the truck off to the side so we could get out on solid ground. I had no problems getting around the car but he ended up trying to stand on an ice spit at the edge of our pond, desperately holding onto the truck to keep from slipping, while trying to get the truck door closed and get around it. I came around and offered to help but after realizing his predicament I thought it would be better to get the camera. Laughing, I ran to the house for it. Unfortunately I was laughing too hard to move quickly and I missed the photo opportunity.

Phillip’s love of oatmeal cookies has finally gone too far. Yesterday he made a batch and brought me some at lunch. He then made a side comment that he had put coffee beans in some of them and he wasn’t sure which ones had them. Knowing my extreme aversion to coffee in any form he then offered to try the cookie to see if it was acceptable for me to consume. After eating half of the cookies I was on to his scheme. He can’t trick me! I finally got a couple of them from the batch after I called him on his little trick. We both laughed until tears were running it was so funny!

Back to the pool game. Last night I won all but the last game of 9-Ball against Phillip. He believes that whoever wins the last game gets "bragging rights" so we always quit after he finally wins a game. He can brag about winning that last game, but we all know who is the champ.

Big Muscles + Broken Hammer + Chihuahua = Manly

He is a manly man alright. Here is Phillip with the broken hammer, and Pickles, our neighbor. There is nothing more sexy than a man with tools and a Chihuahua! (He is truly patient with my camera and this blog, I love him for it!)

I am guessing you are wondering how this picture came to be. This is my proof that I was correct in stating, two years ago, that Phillip can break anything. The other day he walked in the house, with MY hammer, and said to me, “This is why you should buy Craftsmen tools.” My nose was buried in my laptop, probably writing some nonsense (or looking at ebay), and it took me a moment to make sense of what he said. Now I have seen a broken hammer before, usually where the head of the hammer splits from the handle. However, this hammer, my hammer, had a broken head. Thus proving that Phillip can break anything.

If this isn’t enough proof for you, I can also testify that Phillip has spent most of his time over the past two weeks alternately breaking and repairing his snow machine. I won’t even go into the state of the skiff trailer or the truck…