BenSpark Family Adventures

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01911 This year we had Easter at home. Mom and Dad came down from the Cape and went to church with us and then came over for Easter brunch. We did not do an easter egg hunt this year. I don’t think either of the kids minded that much. I did make each of them special Rainbow Eggs that I 3D printed. We had a nice meal with roast, ham, a breakfast casserole that Allison made and more. Allison took care of getting everything ready around the house because I worked all weekend except for Sunday. We had a nice relaxed day at the house enjoying the company of family. The weather even held out and was fairly decent.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01910 My Transformers Collection is now in residence in my office. Well, not the whole collection as there are so many more in the attic that are in boxes. I think I may have two or three more that are in boxes. There are also two more that I have not yet gotten in the mail. One of them is sold out but I hope to find it. I also dug out a huge box of my original Transformers toys and I set them up in my display case. The top of the case are some specialty figures that I ordered. The next shelf down are my Autobots. Then the Decepticons. Under that are a mixture of figures from the 1986 movie and the bottom is full of random ones that I opened and like. Many are homage characters to their G1 counterparts. I realized that I had 5 out of the six original seekers (Decepticon jets) and maybe I might have another one up in the attic. I’ll have to look later this week. My Optimus and Wheeljack figures. These were my first two figures. The bottom row with random Transform...

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01909 Earlier in the week I packed up my Skylanders and Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions figures. Today I started going through the boxes in the attic to find the box of all my original Transformers figures. It took some digging but I found it. Now I’ll have to go through it and set them up in the display cases. I figured that I would do this because it is the 40th Anniversary of the Transformers and I turn 50 in less than two weeks. I’ve been a fan of Transformers for the past 40 years, too. So this will be a great display to enjoy. I’ll also start re-reading all of my Transformers comic books this year.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01908 Tonight Andy had a band concert over at the High School. It was a much better venue because the first concert was at the school’s cafeteria and it was so packed that we had to stand outside. This time we had fairly decent seats and enjoyed the concert. The concert was also livestreamed and recorded. We were able to share the link with my parents and sisters as well as Allison’s parents. My sister told me that there were some close ups of Andy so that is cerynice. I’ll have to check it out when it comes to Youtube. I was able to zoom in a bit with my phone to capture a few photos of Andy. After the concert there was a Krav Maga social over at Angle Tree Brewery. I went over for a few hours. It was nice to catch up with my friends from Krav.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01907 I’ve been talking about it for a while but I finally boxed up my Skylanders, Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions figures. Those have been moved to the attic and I started bringing down some of my Transformers figures. I started with the crossover figures like the Megatron/ H.I.S.S. Tank, Bumblebee/A.W.E. Striker and Soundwave/Thunder Machine. I also have a crossover figure that was Transformers and X-Men and also Back to the Future. At this point those are the only figures I still purchase. I also purchase any version of Wheeljack that I can find. There are two new ones coming out that I am excited to get when they are released. One of them is hard to find and I am hoping I can pick one up on Sunday. This is a figure that has Wheeljack in his original Cybertronian form. And there is also a Transformers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figure coming in October. I’ll have more updates when I put more figures in the case.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01906 We had stripe tests at Krav today. Mine was in the morning and Eva had hers in the afternoon. Eva is still doing very well in class and she continues to improve over and over. I’m hoping that because this was the end of the session and that many students graduated to new belts that Eva will have more of a pool of people to train with. She hasn’t had the best partners for a while. Not ones that challenge her likes she needs and wants to be challenged. My test was quite challenging. Lots of groundwork and that is always a challenge. But, I made it through.

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01905 Tonight we went to a new place for dinner. We went to Halligan’s. This is a firefighter themed restaurant in North Attleboro that is run by North Firefighters or a retired North Firefighter. It has great bar fare and their burgers were excellent. The place had a bunch of photos from the North Attleboro Fire House. I liked the lighting fixtures and also the sculpture that they had at the bar. That was really cool looking.