Breda showed us hers, and so did Neanderpundit, North, Weer’d, and JayG (who is also Kilted to Kick Cancer so give him some love and donate) so I guess I’ll do it too.
Here’s the knives my wife and I carry at all times, her’s is the smaller one. We got them for each other as anniversary presents three years ago when we were in San Francisco. Romantic, yes?
UPDATE – Mike W whipped his out too
So, while most people have actual lives and go and do things, for me it has been so long since I had free time to go and relax that the thought doesn’t often occur to me.
With that in mind, last week I said to the wife “We should go to the zoo” and so we did. I was too busy having a good time to take a lot of shots, so I’ll have to do more of that next time, but I did get a few of Jamie and Matthew that I thought I would post up from my phone. The others are on the camera and I need to dig out the cable for it and off load them.
We first hit the zoo portion of the biopark and walked around there looking at the raptors, birds, elephants, giraffes and primates. We had originally planned on making it over to see the big cats, but they were opposite the direction to get to the train that goes to the aquarium. So, since it was getting hot we decided that the aquarium called and headed to the trains.
Matthew handled the train and the zoo like a champ, mostly sleeping, but once we were at the aquarium and in where it was nice and cool he woke up and happily gazed at all the colors and watched the fish swimming by ten foot high glass walls. There was even a spot where you could pet the fish. You would stick two fingers in the water and the rays would swim past and rub up against you. One ray was a really attention hound and would push the others out of his way so he could rub against your hand. All in all very cool and I look forward to introducing Matthew to that when he is old enough.
He did become enchanted with the jellyfish tank and I got a very good shot of him and Jamie in front of it. I was in dumbfounded amazement though as I watched people try to take pictures in a dark room to try and capture the atmosphere of the tanks and they would use a flash – which totally ruins the shot. Ah well, people are stupid I guess.
Anyway, here are a few shots for now
Matt – ready to go (he just had his bottle)
Hangin’ with the Jellies.
Next month we are thinking of going to an Isotopes game, we’ll leave Matt with the grandparents for that though since he probably wouldn’t enjoy it as much.
Pictures of the boy to brighten the day. He’s gotten so big, so quick!
A friend asked how I felt being a dad now. I described it like this:
It’s like my whole world was in black and white but then when he was born it suddenly turned to color and I realized that this was the way it should be
Yep – welcome to Oz
Matt with an expression I usually have at work
My dad and my son.
Below the fold – silly cat pictures
I know my dad is up to something anytime he says “Come out to the garage with me for a moment”. Last time he said that he gave my wife this. This time was no exception.
We had been talking about my wife’s Ruger SP101 and getting (or possibly making – more on that later) new grips for it since the current ones are a bit large for her hands. Well, we go out to the garage and my dad’s gun safe where he pulls this out and says “See if this fits her hand.”
So now, not only does she have a 1897 12 gauge shotgun, a Ruger SP101, and now a very sweet .45 single action revolver but dad is also giving her a .22 single action revolver as well so she has something with less kick to practice her technique with.
My wife now has more firearms than I do!!!
On a side note, when dad handed it to her the first thing she said was “Wow, this is a really pretty gun.” Dad I know was glad she liked it but he said in a very sarcastic tone “We don’t care how pretty it is, guns aren’t pretty, they are tools. And it’s not a ‘gun’ it’s a revolver.”
But still, it’s a very nice looking revolver.
