6/12 - Dad Alien sees a rainbow

Rainbow flowers, to be exact.  Happy pride month!

6/11 - Dad Alien says, "As above, so below."

The workers were up, Dad Alien was down.  (I was taking the photo.  Guess that makes me next to.)

Now Dad Alien wants to be a monster. I think he’d be a good one, don’t you?

6/10 - Strange creatures study Dad Alien

They could not decide who was the alien!

Sheldon (yellow shell) is taking climbing lessons from the new crabs.  Go, Sheldon, go!

6/09 - Derby Tournament and THE MANTIDS HATCHED!

I was off on Friday for a school meeting and to get ready for my team's participation in the Attack of the C Squads tournament.  Here are Disco Brawl and Beryl Belligerent, enjoying some cherry pie with 6 of our fans.

We didn't win any of our bouts (sigh), but we played our hearts out, despite a bunch of incidents that day and the prior week that could easily have kept us home.  Go, TVRG!

Oh, and I jammed!!

And when I got home?  One of the new hermit crabs had escaped *and* the praying mantis egg case had hatched!  O.M.G.

What a weekend!

6/06 - Dad Alien works the smooth

Today on the way to work, we met a monk that gave us a blessing, a shiny gold card, and a special bracelet.  And then shook us down for a donation.  Hrm.

After work, we met our Twitter friend @CheapGirlDraws, who was just as delightful in real life as she is online!  I love it when that happens.

6/05 - Dad Alien gives meetings the boot

#grumble

6/04 - Dad Alien wants a new ride

He can’t decide which cute spaceship –er – car he wants to drive.  Which one do you like best?

6/03 - Dad Alien's new vice

This was on the back of a pick-up truck.  Pretty snazzy, eh?

The last time you twins saw Alan (or his husband Will), you were two years old!! It felt like it had been that long since he and I had lunch, so we decided to do something about it.

5/31 - Propeller is stuck (and some happy news)

BART was having problems this morning.  We had to wait 25 minutes for a train, and then they sent us one that was only 4 cars long!  We couldn’t even get on the train.  When we did, about 10 minutes later, it was slow and had to stop a lot of times.  Oh, BART.

Propeller thought some water would be nice on a hot day.  We thought this fountain looked like Propeller’s cousin, water type.

We've got crabs!  Lil' Gal needed a replacement for Herbert (RIP) and Lil' Guy had to have a new crab for parity, so I have adopted Sheldon.  The new crabs are zippy!  And Lil' Gal's (red shell) escaped his cage the very first night.  We may call him (her?) Houdini!

5/29 - Speed Racer #11 joins the circus (and some sad news)

He isn’t bendy like this performer, so he signed up to drive around and around in the big metal ball.

We saw this cool mural last night.  Speed Racer #11 thought it was for the birds.

We are very sad to announce that Herbert the hermit crab is no longer with us.  We wish him lots of juicy grapes, climbing structures, and a play area with many opportunities for escape. RIP, Herbert.  You kept us on our toes.