mine craft styled pick-axe hair and warm fall weather fire pit
#2 son has been refusing hair cuts. he said he wanted to be able to put his hair "in a rubber band". then, I did help him put his hair in a rubber band, he was not satisfied. he explained he wanted TWO rubber bands; one front, and one back. and he let it be known that he didn't like it "all floppy", it needed to "poke out to a point, like a pickaxe!".
this was not a passing interest, he talked about this pickaxe hair every day. we let him grow his hair out, and one day I picked up some extreme hold spray and we made his dreams into reality...
inspired by minecraft, pickaxe hair!
later that evening, I served BLT sandwiches for dinner. he bobbed his head and said "look! I'm mining my sandwich" as he poked his toasted bread with his pickaxe hair.... we couldn't help but laugh along with his enthusiasm.
we are back to warm days and really cool nights. temps drop quickly once the sun sets. it was time for the first fire in our wimberley screen room fireplace. notice how the kids gathered around the warm light of the..... ipad? that's not right.
and we grilled, a LOT of eats, a pre-turkey day feast. we had pork loin, shrimp, chicken and grilled okra too.
then it got COLD outside, and the fire put out some big heat. the pit area around the FP turned out exactly how I'd imagined it.
and in the morning, we rekindled the fire and enjoyed our french press coffee
kat grilled some sweet onion and sprinkled garlic salt over it.
who knew grilled onions would be such a popular breakfast item? they were really good and that plate was soon empty.
after breakfast we asked the kids to help us level the ground under the trellis, just outside the screen room. getting ready for sand and pavers. I used my pickaxe (not a hair style) to break up the higher ground while kat and the kids tossed dirt clods and filled buckets.
we moved a lot of earth. then I spent the day slaughtering cedar trees. the lot is nearly 100% cedar free now!
found this living inside an old cedar chunk.
fall colors on the blanco river near wimberley and fischer texas. this is the section that wraps around our little neighborhood.
we attended a yelp/airBNB F1 party. then kat and I applied our artists hats and went to bar96 for the blue moon art project, three hours to create a blue moon + "wildcard" original artwork.
kat put a lot of thought into her art project. it's based on a chinese poem form, similar to haiku. she also featured JAVA code for "wildcard". the event was judged by other bar 96 patrons. I think hers required a bit more thought than they were willing to apply.
we found that nearly all the other participants did not incorporate the "wildcard" theme at all. most painted the blue moon logo and a bottle of beer. it was fun, and fun is good enough for us.
my typical hillbilly guy playing his "wildcard" guitar. he ended up looking a bit too Pirate-ish for my liking.