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I will update shortly.  However, I do a lot more on Facebook.  (Nathan Lane --UTA network.)  If you know me, you will recognize my profile pic.

Winter Fun

Who says old kids can't have fun in the snow?  Yesterday saw an unexpected (though delightful) snowfall that cancelled classes at UTA (Yeah.)  Though a few kids made snowballs or two-foot snowmen, I decided to make a snow man of truly Lane-sized dimensions.  At 7:00 AM, I started gathering ice out of the street (I even used the wheelbarrow to help me shovel it in.)  Then I made the snowman.  It took me hours to make.  The base became so heavy I could hardly move it and the middle required me building a ramp in order to hoist it into position.  Afterwards, he topped out at six feet and who knows how many pounds.  All that from a fe "flurries."

What to title this?

This is going to be a fun week.  Tonight, I went through the ritual of turning the kitchen into a complete mess as I threw flour everywhere.  Then I added water to make it a sticky mess that quickly softens into concrete.  No, I am not remodeling, I am just making hardtack for another reenactment this weekend.  It will be a guy event (I get to be head cook!)  I am excited, as well as is Byron.

Last night, I went to church dressed to kill.  Literally!  No, I don't have a girl; I just went in as a legion. (Sandals, tunics, armor, helmet, and sword!)   I was signing up for the Celebrate Christmas 2006 drive-through (nativity through crucifixion).   Naturally, they asked me what part I wanted, and I told them I wanted to be a civilian.  Instead, I get to help in the "Street Scene" as Jesus is taken to Calvary.  It will be weird being one of the soldiers participating in the slaying of the Son of God, but in a very real sense, it was my sins which put Him there.

Until later.

QVINTVS PVBLIVS, LEGIO VI VICTORIA, JUDEA.

Enjoy my Yarn.

The early evening moon majestically rose in the sky and silhouetted the limp sails and spars of the Conquista del Oro.  Upon the silvery, still waters of the cove only a faint breeze from land could be felt.  A few flecks of shredded cloud hove in the sky like puffs of powder smoke from some long-ago battle in the sky.  A solitary owl hooted occassionally, and a lonely sentry stifled a yawn as he unergetically paced upon the balwark of the ship's for'castle.  The hot, humid, almost-still air encouraged all who felt it to carelessly dream on this careless, secure night.

A small craft approaches unchallenged the sleeping vessel.  At the front a man dramatically poses with his foot on the prow.  The Spanish ship should be terrified, yet they sleep, for that man is no other than Nataniel Scruffy-Beard the most cunning of all the pirates on the Seven Seas.  The boat bumps into the ship and Nataniel grins a wicked smile revealing all his GOLD teeth.  Tossing a rope onboard, he heaves himkslef onboard with a giant leap and hogties the sentry in 3.287 seconds--a new ship record for the crew of the Black Dutchman.  The Spanish somehow are alerted and rush out from below deck.  Wielding a sword and a bottle of Lysol, Scruffy-Beard soon cleans out all the Spanish.  However the noise of shrieking Spanish alert the fort at the cove's entrance.  Soon, shells are falling all around the Conquista del Oro. 

How will the Captain survive?  I tag everyone who reads this to add their own corky ending. 

Captain Scruffy-Beard