BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02713 A few years ago before my Grandma Bennett passed away she had asked me to convert VHS tapes to DVDs using a combination DVD/VCR that she had. I did a few at that time. A few weeks ago my cousin found some old VHS tapes from the other side of the family and one of those tapes was a trip to Disney that Grandma and Grandpa Williams took me on. It was just after Grandpa bought a VHS camera, it was one of the first commercial ones, too. I had not seen that video since the days after returning from the trip. So I want to convert that to digital to have it. Making DVDs with this thing is so much about Trial and Error. You would think it was a one button thing but it is not. There is more that has to be done to do it right and we are learning that we don't have it right, quite yet. But we are working on it and making it work correctly. I hope.

Photo-A-Day #02712 Everyone had the day off from school today. Allison and Eva are already out of school but Andy still has a week left. Allison and Eva went and got haircuts and later on I took Andy with me over to An Unlikely Story. Andy had some gift cards and picked up a watercolor set and a special book for painting watercolors of birds. Andy said that they would pace themselves as they painted so as not to go through the whole book too quickly. In the afternoon I went to work at The Pretzel Factory. Today was a very short day. I only worked 3 hours but the first hour was super busy. More busy than normal. One of the people from ACT had come in for pretzels and then he went and left a review of the place and mentioned me. My boss there was very happy. Then we had an order from one of the marriage prep couples that we work with. They had gotten pretzels from me a while back, too. I keep trying to bring in more customers.

Photo-A-Day #02711 Today I brought some sliced olives and banana peppers into the Pretzel Factory to make another pizza. Tim took the pizza dough and put it in the lye bath and added salt tot he crust. Then he fired it in the oven for 2 rotations. He next took it out and I added the toppings. Then we baked it a full 7 minutes. The pizza came out great. Tonight I went to the Attleboro Community Theater for the Board meeting. I brought a bunch of pretzels with me along with many of the dips. The main point of the meeting tonight was to vote int he new board. I decided to run as a write in and was elected. Now I have lots of events to attend with ACT. My first will be North Attleboro Pride Festival next Saturday. should be a lot of fun.

Photo-A-Day #02710 Allison had her last day of school at SMSH today. She made a bunch of shirts for the teachers that featured the most frequently asked questions. After school she and some of the other teachers took one of her teacher friends to lunch at Los Antojitos.  I had work at the Pretzel Factory today. Very busy towards the end of the night. I am in constant motion while I am there. We had a bunch of pretzels left at the end of the night so I took a whole Founder's Day Box over to the Fire Station that was on our way home. The fire fighters were very happy to receive a ton of pretzels.

Photo-A-Day #02709 We went to IKEA today after school to get a few things for Eva and College and Andy and their room. Andy wants to put a workspace into their closet. So we picked up up a desktop that we will have to cut down by an inch. The closet has molding on the inside and the desktop is a shade too large for the space. Andy is holding a pegboard that we'll be putting up on the wall of the closet. With that Andy can organize items for their crafting projects. Let's hope this works out.

Photo-A-Day #02708 The other day Eva and I went to The Blue Pride Bistro for lunch and there were some items being sold by the school from the Welding students. They had made a bunch of Cast Iron Butterflies. I thought this one would be a great addition to the garden.