Kel bought a Power Rangers costume for Dyson. As if he didn’t have enough "dress up" crap scattered throughout the house. Since Dyson doesn’t watch the Power Rangers (except, perhaps, on occasion at school), he’s used this primarily to be Daredevil, and sometimes Spiderman…

Of course, he doesn’t need one o’ them fancy store-bought costumes to dress up. Sometimes all it takes is a pair of Kelleigh’s underwear….

(It’s going to be soooo easy to blackmail this kid when he’s a teenager….)

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Kel’s mom was having headaches and blood pressure issues, so she went in to the emergency room. While there, they found out she had shingles on her face. She spent around five days in the hospital before being released, but she’s still really weak. For a couple of days after getting out of the hospital, she was complaining of double vision, so we let her use Dyson’s pirate eye patch.

While she doesn’t have double vision any more, she has reduced vision in that eye. Her eye doctor says it is possible that she’ll permanently lose sight in that eye.

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Apparently someone forced another car off the road, and it hit our mailbox. You can see the mailbox (black, circled in red) in the far left of the picture, while the support is on the far right. That’s at least 25 feet away. The mailbox survived the impact, so I just put it back together, got it upright and propped it up with some rocks…

There were some pretty wild flowers near the spot the mailbox landed…

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I was in New Orleans last week. Because my time was mostly occupied by the conference I attended (including a reception & meal each evening), I didn’t get out of the French Quarter or the area near the conference center. My view from the hotel room was awesome (if you like the shipping industry):

Since downtown and the French Quarter are on "high" ground, they didn’t get flooded. But there are still businesses and restaurants that haven’t reopened. I’m sure the relative lack of tourists, a full year later, contributes to the problem. Bourbon Street was practically dead (compared to our last visit, but that was on a weekend.)