Trajan's Disney Story

On our trip to Disneyland, most of my family was kidnapped by Rocket Raccoon.  The transport to their ship was very jerky!  They were imprisoned for two months.  Then they took a robotic leg and fought their way out.  They got back onto the transport and escaped.  This is a picture of their heroic escape.

Story by Trajan
Picture by Disney

DISNEYLAND!!

I forget how much I like Disneyland until I walk through the gates and see the Main Street Station.  You walk in and see that the entire place is designed and built to make YOU happy.  There is not another place like it in the world!

Then it'd down Main Street, and everyone is happy.  The Castle, The Matterhorn, Frontier Land off to the left.  How could a place get more glorious?  Star Wars Land, that's how!!

Sure it's expensive, and the lines can be long, although ours weren't, but for my bet it truly is "The h
Happiest Place on Earth".

And we still couldn't get the kids off their phones.

The Bug

In late September 2019, I drove out from Napa to Durango to pick up a 1969 VW that my brother Jeff had had for years.  He was the second owner.  Mom was out for a visit and we made a road trip of it.

We drove it around for a couple of months, but in the beginning of January we decided that it was time to start work.  Percy and Hadrian took out the seats and we got an upholstery kit.  We will be working on putting it in for the next couple of weeks.

We'll keep you updated.

Trajan Helps Build a Chicken Food Hut

This weekend Hadrian, Trajan , and I built a small building to protect the chicken food from the rain.  The kids did most of the work including design, measuring, cutting, and assembling. It was great fun and worked great until I left the roof open and it rained.  Food got wet, but it was a user error.  We didn't realize that we needed a yellow sticker commenting about how The device will not function properly if the user acts like an idiot.

Percy went to school in his rubber ducky PJ's as he gets in contact with his inner child.  When asked why he chose these particular jammies he said "Duck, Good!"

Snowmobiling at Medicine Lake

Granddad, Percival, Hadrian and I went snowmobiling on the 29th.  The snow was good and we had fun.  Granddad has two new machines, big and fast.

Making Root Beer

For years I have wanted to make root beer with real sassafras.  So a couple of weeks ago we did it.

After making a gallon of root beer we pored it into bottles and capped them.  I think it came out very good.  There was a complexity to the flavor that you just don't find in the dark sugar water you buy in the stores.  Next time we will add a little sarsaparilla.  Can you say YUM!