All Things Supercinski

Thankfully, we haven’t had much action around here, unless you count building block towers and cleaning out closets.

Sir Spotsky, a resident of Bryan/College Station for 3 years, passed August 2nd, 2008. Spotsky was preceded in death by bowlmates Byte and Giga. Spotsky led a full and at times tumultuous life, beating the odds and outliving his bowl mates and the dire predictions of two pet store clerks.

Sir Spotsky’s latter years were spent imprisoned in solitary confinement after the unexplained death of his one time bowlmate, Giga, whose death was ruled an icthocide by the authorities. The rehabilitation efforts of his wardens seemed to have produce a glimmer of change in his attitude in recent months. Alas, the fruits of those efforts and his positive response will not be seen.

For anyone interested, Josiah was not adversely affected, despite his parents’ attempts at using the occasion as a life lesson. All he could say was ‘fish got died’ and ‘bye fish’.

You will find Sir Spotsky’s burial plot here, if you would like to visit and pay respects.

We have been watching the Olympics… on television.

What’s that you say? The Supercinski’s don’t have a television? Not exactly…

We were generously given a TV-DVD player by the Culpeppers at their wedding. They were paring down their stuff, and I really needed a tv to show videos on during my Bradley classes. After my weekend in Austin and getting to watch the Olympics, I was itching to watch more, and my sweet husband made it work in just ten minutes.

Here he is holding the antenna he made (I am amazed):

That didn’t last very long. The final antenna result:

And the picture… can’t you see the Chinese gymnast doing her bar routine? It isn’t this fuzzy, but it is definitely no HDTV, that’s for sure.

I was able to get away last weekend with some of my dear girlfriends from college days. I had a wonderful time catching up in person with these sweet ladies I don’t get to see very often. I appreciated the break and the one-on-one time with Annalise that seems rare these days.

This is Lacy, Erin, Kelly, Myself and Vanessa. Annalise and Lacy’s daughter didn’t make it into the group shot.

I had such a great time, but the best part of my weekend happened when Josiah and Thomas got home from church. While Josiah was eating his lunch, he said, “Siah so, so, SO happy Momma come home!”

It’s really, really hot outside. Since I am in no place to take a newborn and toddler to the public pool, we have found some fun ways to cool off and socialize at the same time, thanks to our local municipalities.

Sometimes when we go to the splashpads, Josiah barely gets wet. Whatever. He takes the job of turning it back on when it turns off very, very seriously.

He gets all red-faced and sweaty when he gets hot, very much like me and very unlike his barely sweating, never red-faced father.

Here we are with quite a few of our friends one day–it looks like the moms are sorely outnumbered.

We managed to make it to the Farmer’s Market last week, and Josiah loved every second of it. I let him pay the farmer and carry home our finds. Here he is showing off the longest green bean I had ever seen.

These were delicious green beans, though amazingly long. I also stocked up on the best honey ever from a local beekeeper who sells unprocessed honey while sporting a cool beekeeping hat.