Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Backlog Blog


If you read blogs (and apparently you do), you've probably noticed how frequently the postings start with something like "Wow, I haven't posted in a long time". It happens to almost everyone. A week turns into a month and pretty soon you've got a pile of pictures and stories that are waiting in queue to be immortalized in your blog.

And that's why it's called a blog.

You may have heard that "blog" is short for "web blog". Yeah, well, you heard wrong. It's actually "b-log", as in "back-log". This is my latest b-log entry:

The few evenings in the week when R has to work, Scotty and I hang out together. For most of the fall, it has been nice enough to go out in the wagon or walk to the park. With winter rapidly closing in, visits to the park are becoming scarce. However, two weeks ago, we went to the park to try out a new camera that we bought for the Scouts to use on camps. It's supposedly waterproof to 13 meters and highly dustproof, because it has no external moving parts.

That's great, but the test subject for this new camera tends to move quite a bit.



We also tested out the video function and I captured a few funny moments, like this wipe-out on the pathway leading to the park:



As soon as we got back inside where it was toasty warm, Scott wanted to go right back outside. I caught the typical routine that we go through whenever he wants to go out and play (which is quite often):



Once we tell him he can't go outside, he leaves the front door and tries his luck at the back door. As far as we're concerned, they both lead outside, so this trick hasn't fooled us yet.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great to read your b-log again. I love the Scotty pictures and video. What a cutie ! He just reminds me so much of you when you were a wee lad.

Lisa and Doug said...

He is simply adorable!

Jessica said...

I can't believe Scotty is so big now. Keep putting up video clips so we can hear him talk.

Grandma Walters said...

He handled the wipe out very well!! Most kids would have cried, right? (another questions but you are not answering them!)

D said...

Maybe other kids would have cried. I think it helped that Scotty had a bag full of snacks to help him forget his misfortune.