BenSpark Family Adventures

Congratulations to our friend Autumn Grant Ms. Wheelchair America 2007. You may remember that she had won Ms. Wheelchair Massachusetts. She went on to win the whole show this past week in Little Rock, AR. We are so happy to see that Autumn won.

Last night I typed out recaps of the weekend and formatted all the pictures. They have all been uploaded to a gallery on Buzznet and I added thumbnails of each picture to the write ups below. Just scroll down to the Photo-A-Day blog entries that mysteriously appeared on their appropriate days. Or you can go right to the first picture in the 100+ set by clicking on this picture.

Photo-A-Day #487 08/08/06 The theme continues. Yes it is Buffett week once again. This Thursday Allison and I are going to go with the work crowd to party all day and night. Mom and Dad are going to arrive later in the day. We have reserved lawn seats and even have 3 tickets available for interested parties ($100.00 a ticket, reserved lawn, you’ll have a seat.) Duncan is starting to pre-party. How did I catch that. (The secret is a little vanilla ice cream on the end of the straw.) I wanted to get them both to do it but Oliver got skittish, surprise.

Photo-A-Day #486 08/07/06 My piratical friend here is taking a drive in my new Optimus Prime Alternator.

I took a few days off from the Blog. I have much to recap… which I will do tonight. Just a few things. Good luck to my cousin Carissa and her boyfriend Chris, they start a 2 week cross country trip to move to San Diego. We went to their going away party last night. I hope they keep that photo journal we talked about. Road trip sounds like so much fun. Chris, Carissa, Allison and I. Speaking of Road trip I did manage to tape at least one episode of Feasting on Asphalt, granted Mo and her Dad didn’t like it but I’ll give it my own shot before I pass judgment. This comic was partly inspired by a conversation that was had on the YHT forums regarding displaying toys in the house. Thanks Don for capturing the fully weight of the issue. Autobots darkest hour. Life on Pause Click for Life on Pause website, blog entry and full size comic. Much more to come later tonight.

Photo-A-Day #485 On Sunday Allison and I left Great Diamond Island. We had a lot of fun there but it was time to head home. I slept late while Allison read a book on the porch. Then we had some tasty donuts from a place called the Cookie Jar. Thea picked them up while we were in Portland on Saturday. At 9:40 the small bus that runs between the two docks on the island picked us up. There are two docks: The Diamond Cove dock that we could walk to and the Great Diamond dock that was one the other side of the locked gate. You see, on the island there was some spat over golf carts from the Diamond Cove being parked on the Great Diamond side and how unsightly they were. This started the Golf Cart Wars and this occurred about two years ago. Now the folks on each side of the island have separate stickers for their carts; as well as two locked gates separating the two sides of the island. It is all wound a bit too tight for my liking. Elise and Charles were leaving today as well so the four of ...

Photo-A-Day #484 08/05/06 This morning Allison and I got up very early and headed to Sea Glass Beach. Sea Glass Beach is where you can find lots of sea glass because this is where the fort would dump trash. There was a grind house that took the trash and ground it up and shot it out through a pipe into the ocean. Environmentally not friendly but now things like glass bottles, ceramic plates and pottery pieces that have been tumbled by the surf against the rocks for many years washes up on Sea Glass Beach to adorn the homes of the islanders. We also walked over to the moon garden. I wanted to get out and take as many pictures of the island as I could. There were some really interesting rock formations on the shores. After our walk we headed back to the house, took showers and had some homemade blueberry muffins for breakfast. Great big blueberries, fresh from Maine. We took the ferry into Portland and on the way back stopped at Long Island and the Great Diamond Island stop, there are tw...