The Jack Noodle Journal

We pounded out some major yard work yesterday! I am sore today.

Thanks once again to Seth and Alicia who helped with the holly tree pruning and front yard clean up. Cutting and picking up the hundreds of pounds of pokey leaved holly branches is hard work! We were offered some dumpster space so we tried to cut down as much as possible.

The yards are coming along. It’s quite enjoyable and relaxing now out back sitting in a lawn chair. It has been therapeutic for me getting outside and working. We built G Noodle a nice sandbox in the back that he has been having lots of fun in. K has gotten seeds and plants put in her raised bed gardens. It’s going to look great once stuff starts growing.

This year we are going to have corn and sunflowers on the side of the house like we had four or so years ago. A whole row of corn and sunflowers will be cool over there.

The weekend of sunny weather was just amazing.

Most of the Memorial Day weekend was spent at Lianne and Martin’s. There was a big leaving for Germany send off, overnighter, camping sleep over, croquet competition. What? Oh, you hadn’t heard? Yeah, Lianne and Martin are leaving for Germany for a couple of years. Stupid Germany.

We tried the camping thing out with the G Man sort of as a test run at the shindig. It didn’t work out so well. G wasn’t able to settle in and fall asleep in the tent. He ended up getting pretty cranky. Not use to his surroundings. We had to go home and come back the next morning.

It might be a little soon this year for camping with G. Maybe we could set up the tent in our backyard and try to get some camping practice in that way?

If last weekend’s fun is any indication, I think it is safe to say that this summer season coming up may be the best summer ever!

Hey there.

Yes, well we did it. We headed over to Radio Shack last night and purchased our digital converter box for the television. Now when the analog blackout comes next month we will be safe. You know, not being able to see broadcast television leaves you open to terrorist attacks and the swine flu. Also the King of England can come in to your house and push you around if you can’t get your “must see TV” signal. Yes, I was planning on protesting the digital switch by not upgrading. Yeah.

Hey, be warned though, those government issue coupons that you receive actually expire. Our converter box coupons were a year old and the cashier wasn’t able to fudge it for me. While I was complaining to the store clerk about how lame it was that the coupons would expire and trying to figure out a loop hole to get my 40 bucks off, it suddenly hit me. I’m a cheapskate! I don’t want to spend the money to get cable or satellite TV, and I also moan and grown because the 40 dollars off coupon on my free digital broadcast TV expired.

The reason we jumped up to the modern digital world finally was to see the season finale of LOST last night with a crystal clear picture. It was magnificent. Not sure why we didn’t upgrade earlier in the season. We had been watching it all season with fuzzy analog reception.

So how’s about that LOST season finale? It was something else wasn’t it? It was pretty awesome. I did have a few problems with it right after I saw it and thought about it for a bit. After sleeping on it though I’m okay with it. LOST wouldn’t be LOST if it had more answers than questions right?

I was a tad annoyed at all of the quick fixes and things they seemed to be throwing in all at the end. The Jacob business seemed a bit rushed. After reading a few comments on the internets though, I guess that’s the way they had to do it so as to not show their hand to early. Maybe they could have had Jacob show up earlier in the season and just not said anything about who he was until later?

I was definitely surprised and shocked by the big surprises they dropped.

They are going to have to do a lot of explaining, hole filling and loose end tying when next season rolls around.

LOST is an amazing series when you figure in how much it has turned upside down now in season 5 compared to where they were in season 1. K and I were laughing a couple of times this season at how absolutely bizarre the show would seem if you tuned in to watch it now without ever having seen it before. I like that it doesn’t make sense unless you have watched all of the episodes. Well, actually after watching all of the episode there are still some head scratchers.

Overall it was a great season finale. There were hundreds of marvelous cliffhangers that made you sick to your stomach when you realized you had to wait 8 and a half months until the next (and final) season starts to see a new episode.