BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02450 Putting out the compost tonight and the sky looked really interesting. I used the Night Sight setting on the phone to capture it. Trying to capture the moon is tough with a cell phone but I think this caught it fairly well.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02449 I'm making progress on my comic book cleanup. I've gotten most of my Transformers comics rehomed in the new boxes. I'll need a couple of more to complete the rehousing. I have a set of black ones coming Wednesday for comics other than Transformers. But I'm pretty sure I would need more to cover everything. Progress is being made. Photographing each cover is what is taking the most time, though.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02448 Today we went to see the Attleboro Community Theater performance of And Then There Were None. We were joined my our friends Frank and Heather. Frank and I had made plans back in July when we met up last time. It is a great thing that we can catch up every once and a while around a performance. We're making plans for The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge in December.  The kids went with us to see the show too. they both enjoyed it as well. After the show we dropped them off at home and then went to dinner with Frank and Heather at Wetherlaine's. When I was at Granite State Comicon I bought a book and print from one of the vendors. The book was of 20 80's movies and I knew that it would be the perfect book for Frank. The print is for the movie Better Off Dead, a favorite of mine and of Frank. The book is a good one but I knew I'd only read it once and I knew that Frank would appreciate it more than me so I gave it to him along with the print for his podcast...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02447 When I was younger I made these labels for my copies of Transformers Universe. I had some stickers of letters and used them to make these comic book boards. As I have been organizing and documenting my comic books I found these. I replaced them with some newer boards. But I had to get them documented. I've only completed two of the new boxes and have three additional boxes just filled with Transformers comics. I've got to go through them all and organize them and figure out what ones I might be missing. There are a bunch that I have never read and I need to organize them a bit more to put them in the correct reading order. Today Andy went over to their friend Onyx's house. Andy made 5 pans of mac and cheese and a bunch of cilantro lime sugar cookies. They came out really well, too. 

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02446 When I was at Granite State Comicon I found someone selling special minifigs including a Voltron Minifig. LEGO oes not make these but I liked it well enough to get it to add to my Voltron display. Th minifig sits atop Voltron. Today I was busy working on my second box of comic books. These were all Transformers books. I am finding a few that I am missing including a couple from my set of Transformers Collectors Club books. Strange that I am missing two of them and these should have all been mailed directly to me. So I am hoping that those two are somewhere mixed in with other books because I did not file them well or something like that.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02445 Today is National Comic Book Day. I have been hard at work reorganizing and cataloging my comic book collection starting with the Transformers. What you see on my desk is a stack of Transformers books that will finish up my first completed box of comics. However, my collection is not complete. I am missing 18 comics that should be in that box. I'll have to be ont he lookout for them at future conventions and at comic book shops around the area. I hope that I can find them all to complete the collection.  Speaking of completing things, I have also been trying to complete watching the Thundercats on Hulu but I am not going to be able to do that since I cancelled Hulu and my membership ends today. I got up to Episode 46 of Season 2. There are 65 episodes in the season. So, I'll figure out a way to watch the rest of them. The shirt is a new one from the convention. Both Eva and I liked it. I got it, though.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02444 Andy has a new project. The other day Andy asked about borrowing a jackknife that I had gotten from ABD because they would like to start carving. Andy actually asked if I would pick them up from school yesterday and take them to Home Depot so that they could get some wood for carving. We talked more about this and I looked online for a carving intro kit and ordered one for Andy. The key part of this kit is special gloves that protect Andy's hands from the carving knives.  It was raining today so I picked Andy up from school and when we got home they got out some sand paper and a saw from the garage to cut and sand the pieces of wood that came with the kit. I checked on Andy later and they were covered in sawdust. I've been trying to be much more relaxed and calm with andy when they do things like this. Andy executes first, thinks second. But I also want to encourage Andy's creativity and the less time online and the more time using that creativity, th...