When Pirate Monkeys Play "Fair"...

Everyone wins.

Mario Girl & One-Eyed-Jack joined 4-H this yr. & showed off their piratey monkey skills at the county fair.



Mario Girl showing her smiley skirt. She got a blue ribbon in construction, & a blue ribbon in modeling for this one of a kind fashion piece.


She modeled this storybook summer dress winning a blue in modeling, a purple in construction, meaning it went to state, & a $100 scholarship for most creative construction.





This is Oreo but not the cookie kind you can eat.
It's the bunny kind that you can eat; if it wasn't so dang cute.
Mario Girl won 4th in Showmanship, & 1st in her class. Apparently this Oreo is a good mini dutch specimen, except for one little tiny freckle on her nose. She is also a good breed for showmanship 'cuz they are so mellow. Which explains why she has not killed over during any of our frightful rival pirate raids. You know like when the neighbor's dogs come over & bark under her cage.


This is Goldie. Mario Girl showed her in open class & won like last place. She still got $2 for it though.


Mario Girl also entered 6 pictures 2 of which made purple, the others got blue. She entered brownies that got a blue ribbon, & a widget thingy that got a red ribbon.
All purple ribbons went to state fair!!!



One-Eyed-Jack entered Totoro the mighty cat in the fair & won blue ribbons for him. The seas where a little rocky that day so the pictures are blurry from all the rocking back & forth of the ship. The Capt'n is going to try & finagle something up to post later.

He entered Aspen the prickly cannonball and got these nice plaques for him. I think he got ribbons too but I don't remember.


He also entered a lego mindstorm robot that he got for his birthday getting a purple ribbon. He also entered a widget thingy getting a red ribbon for that. Note that his one purple ribbon also went to state fair.

They are pretty excited about the ribbons they got. Next year they want to put more in the fair for 4-H & for open class. There is loot to be got at the county fair & this year was just the beginning...



As for the Capt'n & I, we plundered people by selling the magical candy no one can resist!!!!!
COTTON CANDY

We pirates & monkeys have been busy pillaging again, ARGG!!

Catch up:

One-Eyed-Jack was promoted to the next level of pirate school. I am not so sure that I want him to be getting older. 9th grade people! 9th GRADE!!! None of the pictures turned out :(


Sulfur, geysers & grizzly bears OH MY!! We tried to pillage Yellowstone National Park, but the rain got in our way. We sailed through & pillaged Jackson Hole.
On our sail through the majestic park we saw a grizzly bear, lots of bison, stopped a lot to look at geysers & hot springs.


The Capt'n wore his kilt which brought about some great reactions of people around us. Some people commented that they liked it, others gave glares of disapproval, while others tried to just not look. We like to walk behind him when he wears it so that we can see & hear peoples reactions. It makes for great entertainment.




We sailed around our home port taking pictures of the flooding that resulted from the massive cloud bursts we had during the 5th month of the pirate calendar. Pirates & monkeys like flooding; it tickles our hearts with giddiness.

Happy Birthday Mario Girl

As you may know Mario Girl turned 9 recently. To celebrate she had friends over on Saturday for a party. They made their own individual pizzas, watched G-force, and ate cupcakes that Zoe made(all of which I took no pictures of). On her birthday she got a guinea pig cage & a guinea pig. This animal has been living in her school class as a pet for most of the year & they love each other very much. Her name is Goldie.



I was going to put a short video of Goldie making sounds, but once again blogger has failed me.

I often go walking...

I often go walking
in sage brush & cactus
& I find all kinds of great junk to adore...
WARNING: Long walks = lots of pics.
Plus we arrrre pirrrates & like to bragggg about ourrrr loot!!!
Dog tag

cute little flowers

Cactus that should be blooming, but isn't 'cuz it has been to freakin' cold!

Shells in a big rock!

A small "cave"

Another flower

Big nut; made Capt'n jealous LOL

Junk

Licken on rocks

Snow

More snow

balancing snow

A cool retreat

Dead brush

Dead animal

rock disguised as turtle

Horny toad

Galley Princess learns a trade or 2

In April Mario Girl learned how to make french toast because:
"All my friends know how to make it".
forget that she can make brownies, pancakes, bacon, cookies...
Step 1: crack the eggs

Step 2: whip eggs & dip bread

Step 3: flip bread when brown

Step 4: EAT!!! No picture of this, but it was very good french toast!!

She also made a twirly skirt. I think that the socks make the skirt, but that could just be me. Thanks for the accessories Aunt M.

One-Eyed-Jack did not make a skirt although he given the option.
& he already knows how to make french toast.
Mostly he plays video games & that is not as exciting to take pictures of.
I will have to give him some pirating to do that is exciting.

Adventures in PirateMonkeyville!!

The adventure starts in the galley with Mario Girl perfecting her brownie making. This is just one batch that she made in the last month. They were very tastey by the way!! YUM YUM!!


The next arggventure was at the school of pirates & monkeys where One-Eyed Jack showed off his trumpeting. He did GREAT!!!


Then we got ready for the holiday of bunnies, & chocolate, & colored eggs.
Her is M.G. & a friend decorating Easter sugar cookies.




Here is One-Eyed Jack Not decorating Easter cookies...
notice the sunburned face. He went snowboarding for the first time. LOVED IT!!
Snowboarding bum in the making.


The kids coloring eggs for Easter Day.






WARNING: the following pictures contain graphic scenes of Peep mutilations.

PEEP SUSHI what monkeys do with their peeps. NOT for the faint of heart.




This is a cute little baby cow that we saw on our drive south the other day. These are my favorite kind of cow. I like the red color and the curls. This baby was brand new & not with his mom & we saw a coyote near the herd so I think it got eaten. :(
He will live on in this blog & in our pictures, & the part of my heart that loves red cows.