Thanks to Pascal for Nederland win

I wore Pascal's jersey to work this morning. When Frances and I came home it was half time and the score was 1-1.

Pascal told me that he needed to put the jersey on. Right after he put it on, Holland scored two goals.

It'll be great to have this magic jersey for the Dutch side if we end up battling the Germans and their psychic octopus in the final.

Photogrammetry

Frances, Kitten Magnet

P.S. Happy Birthday, Roman :)

Octopus Paul

That hole wasn't from Comcast.

Click here to see video about Carpenter Bees. . .

I was sure I hadn't left a big hole in the side of the house when we painted a couple years ago. Here's a link to a video about carpenter bees. They drill round holes into houses and live inside walls! They have big stingers. Maybe I better not put caulking in their entryway because they might prefer to chew through plaster (into Athena's room) rather than through chewy caulking to get back to the outdoors. At least we know what they are now.

One of my coworkers insists that these guys are doing no harm and that I should think twice (and read Wikipedia) before caulking them. . .so I think instead of caulking them I will get one of these and fly it around in the backyard to scare them off the premises:

Click here to see giant remote control wasp

Carsten's Kung-Fu Trophy

Well, Carsten turned four smaller trophies for this big one. As you can see, he got it for perfect attendance. It took four months to get, because it takes one month to get one small one.

Pottery

I got all of our family's pottery that was on the mantel piece, and did a photo shoot of them. Athena made the frog, Frances made the lion and the cup, and Pascal LITERALLY made the lizard thing.

Frances' creature

Pascal's lizard thing.
the lizard cup that Frances painted

Athena's frog