Friday 7-24 Pumpkin Project

Just having fun

We had a fun day.

We started the day out by going to the lake. While we were driving through Morgan Point to get to Rogers Park we saw a few deer. We saw a couple of does with two fawns each. It was a nice thing to see early in the morning. When we got to the ramp there were a lot of vehicles in the parking lot. There was very little wind but the lake was a little rough because of the jet skis and boat traffic. Larry drove the down the lake to find water that wasn't too rough. We decided to wake surf. When Larry was getting up he felt something pop in his side and he released the rope, he thinks he pulled a muscle. He had a similar problem a couple of years ago also caused by getting up on the wake surfer. He got back in the boat and I got ready and did a set of wake surfing. When I got finished we swam a little bit. We had a nice morning on the lake. I hope that Larry's muscle feels better tomorrow.

Wiping down the boat

  

After putting the boat in the garage we took the truck to town to fill it up with gas. On the way home we swung by Jack 'n' Jill Donuts to get a couple of donuts.

After lunch I did my daily challenges and The Event: Free Cell Mini of 10 games. It took me 1 hour, 16 minutes and 35 seconds, which put me in 17th place in my group. Today Microsoft Solitaire had a special day, it was called Fun Friday, where the points on any Free Cell people play will be doubled. 

Afterwards Larry and I spent the rest of the afternoon working on a project on the Cameo. The project was making a pumpkin using paper. Larry showed me and explained how to use the Cameo. The pumpkin project has seven layers of paper. First thing we did was decide on the colors to use for each layer for the pumpkin. We used both card stock and regular paper. In order for the Cameo to cut the paper Larry had to adjust the blade to cut for both card stock and paper. Each time he did a layer he had to adjust the blade and did a practice cut to make sure that the blade cuts through the paper. After the layer was cut I did the weeding. The first layer was the hardest because it had a lot of detail. It was a fun project. We'll continue playing with the pumpkin using different colors.

The finished product on a cutting board

The same pumpkin on white board

The first layer of the pumpkin

The second layer of the pumpkin

   

From left to right the sixth and seventh layer of the pumpkin

In the evening we watched a documentary on Amazon called Every Little Step. It was about auditioning for the Chorus Line. It was very good. Then I continued watching the third season of Psych. I did 26,000 steps.

We had an outstanding day of having fun.