Line Rider – Better then Fly Guy?

We found this new game on Jay is Games today. It’s awesome! It’s called Line Rider, and basically you draw a ski slope, and this little guy sleds down the slope you just drew. It involves speed, crashes, and artwork all in one game. This game may give Fly Guy a run for its money.

(click the image to play the game)

Making a Ukulele – Part 4

We got the call from Grandma last week that the paint job was finished. We drove over on Sunday to pick it up; it’s awesome! It turned out even better then we had hoped. Just looking at it makes Jimy and I want to drink a fruity beverage out of a coconut shell with a little umbrella sticking out of it.

  

The next step is to glue on the nut and bridge, then apply the finish to the wood. We still haven’t decided if we’re going to use a lacquer or something like Tru-Oil yet. We’re leaning towards the Tru-Oil, but that would mean we have to put about 10 to 15 coats on. We also have to check to make sure it won’t mess up Grandma’s paint job.

  

We’ll post again when we start applying the finish.

Pick UR Own

Ever had a burning desire to get up early on a holiday, drive into the country, and then pick apples off of trees – apples that you then have to pay for instead of getting paid to pick them?……We don’t either, but that’s exactly what we did last week.

Why did we do it? Because if we didn’t help pick the apples then Janice said we wouldn’t be able to eat any of the apple cobbler she was going to make that night. Actually, it turned out to be kinda fun…a little bit. When we got to the farm the first thing we got to do is pet a couple of dogs that were eating husks of corn. Then we got baskets and walked to the apple trees. Jimy had no idea what he was doing. He thought the more ripe the apple was the better the apple, and was picking the worst apples you’ve ever seen. Eventually we had to ask him to stop helping.

Eventually we picked 2 whole baskets of apples! The hardest part was climbing up the trees to get to them though, and when we were finished we sure were tired. Falling out of the tree a couple of times wasn’t fun either. Another thing we found out is that there’s a bunch of different kinds of apples. I can’t remember all the apple names now, but I think we were picking Jonathan apples.

Neither JImy or I want to be migrant farm workers when we grow up, but we sure were feeling good about the day when we were eating that apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream later that night!