Lego maniac my boy is

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My 5-year-old son has been obsessed with Legos for, what seems to be, his whole short life. He will sit and work on a Lego project until it’s complete. So, for Christmas I thought I’d get him a Lego set that posed a little challenge for him – the Fire Brigade. Ages 16+ Pieces: 2,231.

Yes! This should take him at least a few months to work on and what a fun “mommy & me project”. Despite a few frustrations and three times that mommy had to step in and correct a build sequence, my son completed the project in about 3 1/2 weeks. My role was reduced to consultant and “I’ll call you when I need you” status.

Now it’s on to rebuilding all the small sets he’s destroyed and reconfigured so we can set up a Lego village where he can enjoy all his builds.

Lego’s description of the Fire Brigade:

Build an authentic vintage fire station!

Ding ding ding! There’s a fire in town! The fire brigade drives to the scene from this detailed and realistic 1930’s fire station. Designed to fit with other modular buildings like 10182 Café Corner and 10185 Green Grocer, the station features rare LEGO® pieces and innovative construction techniques. It includes a ‘30s-style fire truck, 4 minifigures, a fire-dog, an opening station garage door, and a removable building roof for interior access. It also includes 2 fully-furnished floors with fire-fighting tools, racks for the firemen’s helmets, fire-pole, ping-pong table, kitchen with fully-stocked fridge, couch, bookshelf and a roof with a water tower and bell. Measures 14″ (35cm) high and 10″ (25cm) wide.

• Includes a 1930’s-style fire truck, 4 minifigures and a fire-dog!
• Features lots of realistic details including fire-fighting tools, racks for firemen’s helmets and even a fire-pole!
• The station house features an opening station garage door and 2 fully-furnished floors including a kitchen with fully-stocked fridge and a ping-pong table!
• Remove the roof for interior access!
• The roof is equipped with a water tower and bell!
• Fire Brigade features rare LEGO elements including bricks and plates in dark tan, 1×1 dark red tiles, a red hot dog and the 3x6x5 Belleville® arch. It also features gold fireman’s helmets, a tan hand bag and a red sliding garage door!
• Measures 14″ (35 cm) high and 10″ (25 cm) wide!
• Add Fire Brigade to your LEGO Town and combine it with other modular buildings like 10182 Café Corner and 10185 Green Grocer!

Rain, rain go away … come back again like next year

This is probably why I have a hard time falling asleep – stupid crap pops into my head & I have to act on it. It’s been raining here, day in and day out, for what seems like two weeks straight. Every one of those nights, when I try to fall asleep, it seems the rain becomes more pronounced. They say the sound of rain soothes? Ha!

I’m laying there tonight, staring at the ceiling, wind, rain, etc and this memory of a movie I saw when I was a child pops into my head. All I remeber of ithe movie is it rained pretty much the entire film, there were kids and the sun came out for a few minutes and then it vanished, not to be seen for years.

So immediately I had to dig around on the internet to see if this was actually a movie or if I was delusional from lack of sleep. Sure enough, “All Summer In A Day”, based on a 1954 novel by Ray Bradbury. The movie adaptation was a whopping 25 minutes long and aired in 1982 on PBS children’s series “Wonderworks”.

The story is about a class of school children on Venus. And it is constantly raining. The sun is only visible for one hour every seven years on the planet.

I even saw a few post that wonder if it was filmed at a fort in Washington state, but couldn’t find anywhere it stated the actual film location. But wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it was actually filmed here in this great state … where else would it rain long enough to shoot a short film?

Then naturally I had to jump on YouTube to see if there were any clips to satisfy my curiosity. Sure enough, I found almost the entire movie spilt in a few bite-sized chunks.

The beauty though, is I wrote and posted this whole rant from my iPhone, while remaining in bed.

Hooray!! Maybe now I can sleep.