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Mar 30, 2009I am back from Wisconsin! It was an amazing trip. Hayden and I spent most of our time in the woods, making maple syrup and building awesome forts. Well, maybe our forts were not so awesome. This picture should explain something…
FORT BUILDING FAIL.
Hayden fell through our makeshift roof. A classic AFV moment. We even considered sending this to FailBlog.org, but we thought it might be a little to obscure.
When we weren’t in the woods, we watched Netflix movies and made donuts. Yes, made donuts. Also, it was Hayden’s dad’s fiftieth birthday, so that was fun. They bought him an iPod Classic, while MY dad’s iPod was stolen out of his car this weekend. Huh. ~THE CIRCLE OF LIFE~.
Hayden and I chopped up most of that fallen tree. It was very fun.
I love my hat.
I heard that Chicago had a so-called “spring fail” this weekend. In other words, half-solid water particles fell from the sky. It snowed in Wisconsin, too, which was both fun and irritating. You see, Hayden and I had been planning to make a camp and (try to) sleep out in the woods, but it was too cold to do that. Instead, we went sledding for 2 1/2 minutes and then came back inside to play on AddictingGames.com.
The “furnace” we built.
This morning, we woke up and made French toast. But it wasn’t just any french toast. It was DUCK EGG FRENCH TOAST.
Duck egg french toast, deliciously accompanied by our homemade maple syrup.
… and then I had to come back to Chicago for a meeting with my Cantor about my Bar Mitzvah. My mom started bawling just thinking about my Bar Mitzvah, especially when we mentioned all the family honor type stuff, where my relatives come up and say stuff and things like that. Yeah.
Wisconsin sure is beautiful. It would (will) be even better when the leaves come out. Oh, leaves, please come out.
P.S. This car is awesome and I love it and it is amazing.
(photo via macinate)
It reminds me of Mexico where there are things just like this.. maybe this is in Mexico.
You could probably find, say, eighty percent of these things in my house. I don’t know if I should be proud or disgusted.
P.P.S. Bob Dylan has a free song out on his site for download. “Hmm.. I dunno. There’s like this gypsy-ish feeling to it that I’m not so sure about. I need to listen again.”
Looks like a FUN trip. Except the cool photos of your fort reminded me of my ill-fated incident on that log in Indiana. And how do you make maple syrup so fast? I thought that after you tapped a maple tree you had to boil the bejeesus out of the sap. Like, for days?
Get ready. Your mom is going to cry so much at your Bar Mitzvah we should have an oxygen mask and several paramedics standing by.
Your hat is so freaking cool! =D Does that french toast taste any different then regular-egg made french toast?
I wonder how it took to make that there car…. I can never remember which order the colors of the rainbow appear, so it would’ve taken me ages.
wow your weekend sounded so transcendental! im jealous. also your photography, especially the night skyline one, is staggering!
Danny- We did boil the bejeesus out of it! I didn’t mention the hours we spent around the campfire (and latterly the kitchen stove).
Nope, duck eggs taste just the same :).
Thanks, elvellon03!
You would like the movie “Wild Wheels” by Harrod Blank if you like that car. I haven’t seen it in years but I remember loving it. Apparently Mr. Blank recently completed another one called “Automorphosis,” which sounds like it focuses more on the people who make the cars.
I’m just impressed that you made your own maple syrup! How do you do that?
And I’m wondering what your Dad had on his iPod…
The Wisconsin night sky sure is pretty.
Here are some more art cars to check out http://www.artcar.co.nz/
The pic of you holding the ax: you are making a super classic Spencer-face.
Sounds like a great vacation!
I did get to see your dad perform in Northampton and in Beacon N.Y. with Pete Seeger he was amazing. Both shows were incredible, cant wait to se him again.
Try that Dylan song again. I just downloaded it and is sounds great after a few times.
He’ll make you breakfast, he’ll make you toast
But he don’t use chicken eggs, and he don’t use geese
He don’t use robin eggs or any of these
He uses duck eggs!
Just a little somethin’ I came up with.
Ha, I get it! (Sarah J)
Duck egg french toast? crazy.
Hey I bet you’ll like this Rube Goldberg machine I made…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqWhwL_CTE&feature=channel_page
Whoa! That’s awesome. A kid in my class built something like that for science fair this year.
I’m glad you liked it! We’re taking it apart this week though… (sigh)