BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02683 When I came in to work today the owner was making some pretzel bagels. He had picked up some Everything seasoning and added it to these. I brought a couple of them home for Allison to try. I thought about them a little and suggested that if we prepared this the same way that we prepared our cinnamon rivets we could essentially make donuts. So we tried it. My boss actually had a donut cinnamon sugar because the cinnamon sugar that they normally used was missing. It had not been ordered. They came out really good. Tonight we watched The Outsiders as a family. We've been reading the book, Allison and Eva saw the musical, I listened to the audiobook and Andy is studying the book at school. I had never seen the movie before. Eva watched it with Aviva and Andy saw the Drive-In theater scene and trailer at school. 

Photo-A-Day #02682 I picked up a couple more garden items for the house. We have a small standing planter that we will use for the lettuce that we got at Briggs. The colorful hanging planters are going to be filled with the herbs that we started from seeds. We'll see how this all goes. I installed a large dowel onto the side of the railing on the back porch.

Photo-A-Day #02681 I have been going through all of the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks. They are very entertaining. Before I even started in on those I pre-ordered the graphic novel. That arrived today and it goes through the first 20 or so chapters of the first book. It was a good adaptation of the novel. On the surface Dungeon Crawler Carl is a silly set of books but they are way deeper than just some unlikely hero and his ex-girlfriend's cat trying to survive a world dungeon. There will be 10 books in total and eight have already been released. I am on Book 7 now.

Photo-A-Day #02680 I'm on some new medication and I am attempting to take in some more fiber. I learned about these Shameless Snacks that have very little sugar and lots of fiber. They taste great and I got a big box of them so that I can have a bag each day. I choose only sour ones and they are all very good.

Photo-A-Day #02679 Allison found my this giant jar of Chili crisp. She knows how much I love this in my soups and more. I've tried many different versions of this. My favorite is a garlic Chili Crisp that I find at Eugene Henry's on the Cape but that is a rather small jar for $14. This one was $9.99. 

Photo-A-Day #02678 Our family was featured in the Bishop Feehan magazine called Cornerstone. They interviewed me, my mom, my sister Shelby and Eva. They interviewed a few other families as well about multi generational Feehan families. We each talked about our experiences at the school and the things that linked us to our time there like the theater. Eva and I did the most in theater except for my Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim, Aunt Luann and Uncle Richard were all mentioned in the article, too. I like how they put little family trees on each of the articles. There was also an article about the arts at Feehan and how the Choir, Band and Theater all had great events in March and Eva was mentioned by name.