Busy Week End Saturday Oct 30 2010

Grandpa got up early and met Rob and the kids for breakfast. Then they tried out the new Farmer's market in Gilbert. It was a bust, it's so new that there were no produce venders at all, but Grandpa got a loaf of a really good fruit bread. Then Rob and the kids came to our house to see the last minute Halloween decorations. Avery loved the remote control that made the moaning skeleton crawl down the walk. Audrey showed us how she is a ballerina on her scooter. We all went to the neighborhood park, walking through the subdivison's desert nature preserve instead of taking the street. Grandpa and I saw one rabbit there, but he was so fast that avery and Audrey missed him. Reggie saw us passing his house on the way home and we stopped at his house for a while. He has had two carport sales and his garage is now organized and even has some empty shelves.

Rob's Birthday Dinner Thursday Oct 28

Picture 1. Grandpa, Avery and Grandma on one side of the booth. Picture 2. Avery laughing so hard he can't sit up. He and Grandpa telling jokes. Picture 3. Audrey loved Papa's Birthday cake.

*** We took Rob and the kids to Buca Di Beppo for Rob's birthday and had a wonderful meal. We had pre ordered the dinner, all small size plates (these serve 3 people family style) starting with Cheesey Bread Florentine, the Mixed Green Salad with Gorganzola and Prosciutto, then Veal Parmagian and Quattro Al Forno (a big platter of assorted baked pastas) and plates of spagetti and meatballs for the kids. They accidently brought us a plate of Veal Saltimbocca, which we hadn't ordered, so they gave us that for free. We had never tried that before and it was good too. We finished dinner with a fantastic Birthday cake. I had ordered 4 slices, but the waiter pointed out that would cost more than a whole cake, why not get the entire cake? OK, we did - and it was the the biggest cake I have ever seen! 3 layers, I think armaretto flavorings, each layer a different jewel color, red, green and yellow, covered with a white cream frosting that was covered in fresh coconut - WOW. We each had a giant slice. Rob took home a huge half and I offered the waiter the other huge amount because Reg and I could not eat all that cake! Reg and I also took home the leftovers which were a great dinner for us on Friday nite. Us and the kids loved the Italian ambience.

Rob's birthday was today, Oct 27th, but we will be celebrating tomorrow by taking him and the kids out to dinner. Rob got the kids for his birthday today (an extra day, yea! ) and brought them over to practice riding thier bikes in our triple wide driveway. The kids wanted to wash Rob's Van and our Marshmellow car - they loved - it - Averys favorite part is squirting everybody with the power hose - my dry pincurls got all wet. Audrey loved being able to wash the roof of my short little car. Then they came in the house to watch a cartoon movie about a little boy playing baseball. Audrey sat in the kitchen with her "TEA" and watched from the TV from there.

It may still be over 80 degrees but the fall winds in our corner of the world have started and they play havac with Grandpa's setting up the Halloween display. About half the stuff got set up last Sunday.

3rd of How To build A Sarcophagus

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We searched the Internet for pictures of real Hieroglyphics and found the ones that would work best for this project. I printed them and cut them up, Reg arranged them across the long counter to be sure they would work as he wanted. Then he Decoupaged them to the Sarcophagus.

Picture 2 Reg lining up the masking tape to get the Pharoh's headpiece as perfect as possible. It came out great.

Picture 4 The finished Sarcophagus looks wonderful, with his taller shoes it will be a perfect fit on Halloween.

Part 2 Building a Sarcophagus

Picture 1 Forming the elaborate headpiece on a Sarcophagus

Picture 2 Traditional gold for Egyptian Pharohs and High Level dignitaries.

Picture 3 Inside of coffice will have a granite like finish

Picture 4 Crackling the under coating of gold

How To Build a Sarcophagus Part 1

• The word Sarcophagus refers to the carved, generally stone case in which the linen-wrapped mummy was placed. This year for Halloween Reg is going to be a Mummy, as in "The Mummy" , the famous movie from 1932 starring Boris Karloff and Zita Johann. When Grandpa and I researched the movie, we found out lot's of interesting tidbits. There was a lot of footage shot with Boris Karloff in the Mummy costume, but only a little of it was actually used because the director though using less would leave more to the imagination and be more frightening for the movie audience. The costume was put on with glue but no arrangement was made to go to the bathroom. To see a 3 part You tube series about the movie, go to this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEhouFzD7KY Picture 1 Using thin wood board, foam board and expanding insulation a Sarcophagus shape is made with glues, cutting, and filing. Picture 2 white plaster/hole filler covers everything for a base. Picture 3 Double layers are added to base for stabilization, durability and bottom extendtion. Weights have to be used to be sure glue is tight. Picture 4 Top cover is shaped. Both bottom and top have to fitted together perfectly.