BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02597 Today was another Snow Day and that meant more shoveling and more snowblowing. This is our corner and I made sure to snowblow a path along the whole of our sidewalk minus one part that I just simply could not get through and was getting too tired to complete after doing 4+ hours and 3 refills of the gas tank. I did both neighbors again and after I had made my first pass the city came by and made their pass which meant I had to redo everything. Allison and Eva took care of taking the snow off the cars. It was warmer so the sun took care of more of the snow.  The bad. I scraped the heck out of the side of my car with the snowblower. Looks like I'm going to have to get more scratch stickers. My car has taken a major beating this winter. Seeing the city come by and fill in my whole path was tough but the guy driving the truck apologized and I know that cannot be helped. It simply cannot. I am glad that they did not plow in the corner like they usually do. I did get t...

Photo-A-Day #02596 We've had snow since 1978 but I think this is the first REAL legitimate Blizzard that we have seen since then. I've even seen reports that the amount of snow we got is more than that blizzard. I slept till about 12:30 and then went outside around 2pm. I was out snow blowing and shoveling until about 5pm. The kids and allison came to help me out as well. We dug a path to the garage so I could use the snowblower.  Took this one at 3:43am Snow at 6:38am. The Side Porch. Backyard at 12:48pm Clearing a bit of the sidewalk. Front of the house.

Photo-A-Day #02595 Today was rehearsal for The Winter Wolf. I have been working hard to get my lines memorized. I've talked with a few friends who are actors on what they do to get the lines down. I got some great advice and I think that overall Today was good. I'm at 88% of my lines down pat. There are a few that I am still mixing up the timing for but i am getting there. I don't feel as bad as I did earlier in the week. I feel better about my handle on the lines. Today we got our Cora back from her vacation but the Mother, Stephanie, she is on a work trip for another week. So I'll see her next week. We've got a lot of work still to do but I'm feeling good. The set looks amazing and I can't wait for people to see the play.

Photo-A-Day #02594 Allison and Eva went to London ... and all I got was a sweet Transformers t-shirt, and more. While in London, Allison, Eva and Mimi went to Battlesea Station, a converted Power station that is now an indoor mall. Inside is a store that is 100% dedicated to Transformers. I had seen it on Tik Tok and joked that if they saw it they need to go. I wanted a pin from the place but they came home with two pins, some mini Transformers Funko characters and a keychain and a t-shirt of Optimus Prime with the Battlesea Station. Inside the building they have a large mural that tells the story of Battlesea Station actually being a Transformer. I thought that was cool for lore of the place. It makes sense to have a London store dedicated to Transformers. One of our greatest Transformers writers Simon Furman wrote the UK version of the Transformers comic books for years and then over to the US for many more.

Photo-A-Day #02593 Earlier this week Andy and I went to the Providence Place Mall and while we were there I picked up this LEGO Postcard. LEGO has a few of these in a series but when I saw it was London I had to get it and build it as a welcome home for Allison and Eva. I picked them up from the airport today. Their flight came in around 3:45 I had gotten to the cell phone lot at 3:30 and just waited till they were ready to leave the airport. It was pretty good just going to that lot before getting them. I hadn't done that before. Allison and Eva brought home some fun gifts for Andy and me. They had gone to the Transformers Store at Battle Sea Station and got me a couple of fun things including a tshirt and some pins.

Photo-A-Day #02592 This week Andy and I have been playing through the game, One Hit Heroes. It is a cooperative game that we've been playing for some time but haven't gotten far enough through the whole thing to really delve into each story. this week we've gone through almost the whole game. There are two more bosses that we have to face and we will work on them tomorrow. Today I also finally built the LEGO fortnite Battle Bus. I've been wanting to build this but I have no good place to display it and I have a lighting kit for it. It would look cool hanging from the ceiling or something like that. I probably won't be doing that but it would be neat. I did not add the lights yet. I may take it apart and build it again and add the light kit. We'll see. As I was building the set I was listening to the read through of the play so I could focus more on getting my lines down. We had rehearsal tonight and I think I did better. Our director was sick and our assistant d...

Photo-A-Day #02591 Tonight andy had three friends come over for games and, pizza and a movie. Their friends, Nyla, Avery and Jazzie came over. I probably should have timed the pizza better. I placed the order and it was ready right before the friends came over. I ran out around the corner, grabbed it and got right back but wasn't there in time to meet one of the kids' parents but Andy said that they just dropped the girls and left. The last to show up was Nyla and her mom came in and we chatted for a bit. She liked the bookshelf in the hallway. So, I made myself scarce and headed up to my office. I could listen how things were going and it sounded like the kids were having a fun time. Then it got quiet. I went downstairs and again I had missed one of the parents or I still would have missed them because they did not come in. The girls just went out to the car. But, I came down and said goodnight to Nyla and her mom. Afterwards Andy did a nice job of taking care of cleaning the ...