Friday, November 2, 2012

Pumpkin#5......

 

Last but not least.............this artist wasn't given fair edge(knife), but did do wonderfully with a few markers.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Pumpkin#4.................

 

Tisk tisk..........cannibal pumpkin......

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Pumpkin#3........

 

Oooooooooooooo..................aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..........

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Pumpkin #2......

 

Ahhhhhhhhh..........what large eyes you have.........

Monday, October 29, 2012

Carving....

 

Here we have a pic of some of the local concordians gathered for a pumpkin carving session. Here they are busy drawing out their chosen design upon the orange surface.

With some hot cider introduced, and in guts removed the carving began.....Malia is inspecting one of the pumpkin carvings.

And of course here we have our first pic of one of the artist creations, now it's up to you to guess the artist. The participants were Holly, Nate, Malia, Momma Mandy, and daddy Dave. Let the guessing begin, stay tuned,for another carving will post daily until they've all been viewed.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Tough mudder.......

Here we have a before pic of some of the Anderson clan that participated in a recent event called the "Tough Mudder". Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. With the most innovative courses, half a million inspiring participants, and more than $3 million raised for the Wounded Warrior Project, Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world.

One of the first obsticals was a ice bath referred to as the "ice Emmna" here's a pic of daddy Dave and uncle joel fresh out of the cold water, notice the duck tape this was done to help prevent chaffing of the nipples. This tape disappeared some were along the course it's unknown where, this may have been for the better being now daddy Dave diddnt have to remove it.

Here's holly coming out of the ice bath, you have to go completely under water to get by an obstical placed inside.

And holly and Kia doing one of the many crawls...this one was bar wire and mud others had electrically charged wires dangling while you scooted on your stomach. Daddy Dave took his fair share of electro-shock therapy there.

A couple of pics of Anderson's defeating one of the last obsticals, it was a slippery half-pike which you had to run up and grab the top, help was greatly appreciated.

Uncle joel...

Aunt holly.....

One of the last obsticals was electrically charged, which you had to run through, here Holly makes quick work of it, uncle Joel got a good jolt but daddy Dave made it through un scathed.

And of course a after pic, the mud was well earned......we all had a blast.......look it up online for more info and videos of past events its truly tough.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Short cut.....

 

Being my first encounter with wall paper while renovating a rental I decided to just paint over it. Time being of the essence I thought this wouldn't look bad and would save time. Well I was wrong, when I tried to paint the wall paper started to bubble up. This looked like crap, of course I could have turned a blind eye and let it slide but that wouldn't be the cowboy way.

So after some research it was decided that the wallpaper had to come off no amount of sanding, filler or painting could fix this eyesore(which I tried all three). So it looks like all that was left to do was wet it and scrape so I picked up the handy dandy tool to aid in the penetration of the water. It scores the wallpaper allowing the water to soak in behind. I am happy to report that the removal went well and soon fresh paint will be on the wall minus the bubbles.