Crochet Me Crazy

Feeling stressed? Well, maybe these pictures will make you feel better.




I found these pictures on my camera that Michael apparently took while he was out walking last night.

Michael wants to start an online photo album to put the pictures of all the stuff he makes in. That's good because that means he'll be taking the pictures of his creations and I won't have to round him and his stuff up to get the pictures!

Michael just got his Taxidermy DVD course in the mail yesterday and he's started watching. I do think Michael could be very good at this but it's not going to be a cheap thing to practice as you have to have supplies. He's already asked to order scalpels. Also, I can see what might be ahead for us. Does this mean we have to have ice chests of dead animals and stinky smells in our future. Where is he going to get his first practice animal? He's been making knives this week that have real frog skin on the handles this week. Lucikly, I think he's tired of the frog skins after two of them. The rest of the frogs in the pond can relax now.

We talked to the park superintendent yesreday and told him our intentions of possibly leaving the park within the next month. We could stay longer if we want to. We are feeling the stress of getting the volunteer hours in along with our other responsibilities. He practically offered Michael a job in the park. He said he could use him even if Michael doesn't have a driver's license he can ride with one of the other guys. Michael likes working at the gate but I don't think that's what he had in mind. Driving around sounds like custodial/maintenance stuff to me. Michael has been going to the gate in the evenings by himself and getting some of our hours in for us.

Alison is going to have to miss her first week of dance classes this week because we are going to Houston this week. The end of the month snuck up on us and we have to get our pop-up from our old friends and neighbor's back yard because they are selling their house and moving! I think we must be crazy going to Houston in mid-August to move all that stuff out of storage but it must be done! It's going to be a week of mad-crazy working trying to get everything we need to get done and get back here before Memorial Day weekend.

Well, here are a few more pictures of Michael's handy-work:

This is the knife with the frog skin on it...



This snake was previously a stick....


Handy-work from Cedar...