I’m a little behind in posting these episodes to Choggymowk.  But this is our Crab Cakes episode and voting is still open!  Please vote!

OK, so we’re having some fun with votisodes these days.  Here’s our second series.  Its a cooking show.  We are on a mission to make lots of new meals that we haven’t tried before.  We ask our kids to be adventurous in what they eat all the time, so we figured we should take up the challenge ourselves.  So… each episode will feature us making a new dish and at the end you get to vote on some choices for us to make next.

This week we made Paprika Schnitzel and Brussels Sprouts.  Wait till you see Micah’s face on the sprouts - pretty awesome. 

OK. Post number one from my video rescue project. Can you guess how old I was when I did this commercial?

I have been threatening for a few years now to buckle down and digitize some of my old VHS tapes before they are irreparably damaged. I knew that I had the technology to do it since the VHS tapes are so bad, I just need to dub them with my MiniDV camera and then dump them to a hard drive for safe-keeping.

Well, recently a small shop for making family videos, wedding videos, etc. opened up on 2nd street. I was walking by the other day and stopped in just to ask what they would charge to digitize a VHS tape. $30. Not bad at all, I thought. I remember the days when that used to be ridiculously expensive. I thought about it for a bit and decided it would be somewhat ridiculous to pay someone to do what I could do myself with just a few hours of effort.

So its back on! I began the project today and digitized a few hours of stuff - some of Christi’s old dance projects from SMU, some crazy video of college days, even the infamous Lola Starr (you know who you are). I have just begun, but I will try to post some snippets here pretty soon. I even have the old LJ Highlights tapes from High School. Those will be fun to restore before they are lost forever.

Stay tuned….

Christi’s Birthday
Posted to Flickr by hookjd on 19th February, 2007.

Ghost Cake
Posted to Flickr by hookjd on 4th November, 2006.

Lucas’s cake
Posted to Flickr by hookjd on 4th February, 2006.