Playing with concrete is fun.  And oddly relaxing.  If I could, I would pour concrete everywhere, for days.

Over the weekend, my brother, Dad, and I continued to shore up the Lodge, to ensure that she never goes tumbling down that hill.  We finished up what's to be the retaining wall for the basement hallway, as well as finished building up a cinderblock wall on the exterior.  No more crappy plywood to cover up unsightly gaps and keep the cats out!  Hardi-backer is the way to go.

"Three buckets and a cloud of dust!"

Step 1: Build a wall.
Step 2: TEAR DOWN THE WALL!
Step 3: ???

You can't see them very well, but a feline visitor left its prints in the concrete as it set overnight.

So much work we've done so far, and thousand times more that's left to be done!

I love our space program.

Anecdotes like this one never cease to amaze me, that the entire space program could have come to a grinding halt, all for a corned beef sandwich.

What if the space program did get shut down over John Young's corned beef sandwich?  What if the Russians were the ones to land on the moon while America remained grounded?  Would we all be speaking Russian today, and have things like socialized medicine, and Putin Day?

Eat your corned beef sandwiches, America.

Fun weekend planned!

Get to head up north to the Lodge to do some more work on her.  I foresee many, many bags of concrete in my future, and lots of dust.

When I go to the bathroom, I will make bricks.

So the reason I've been posting rather infrequently is because lately I've had a different project taking up much of my time.  For a while, it's been largely preliminary, but now we finally have something to show for it.

Introducing... The Sketch Fellows

Ever since the junior high, I have had the acting bug.  I acted in nearly every production all through high school, and even found time to do a show in college.  Now, I've been too long without a creative outlet in the realm of performing arts, and after talking with some friends who feel the same, we have come up with a podcast featuring all of the stuff we've missed for so long!

The stories that will be featured in our podcast were all written by us, and performed by us.  Every week a new segment will be released, with a month between new episodes of each of the four segments.

What you see is all that the site is for now, but once we've recorded and begun releasing episodes, we'll be including lots of stuff like synopses, bios, and maybe behind-the-scenes features.