Flying Just like Superman

Our resident cowboys played 'gitty-up' this morning ... they have lessons twice a month. Anyways, Craig is great on the horses, even was able to manuever around a charging horse. Of course the charging horse was Daniel's who bucked him off real good. He can barely walk, and it's only going to get even more sore. Must have pulled a muscle in his leg or strained it somehow. He did dust himself off and ride the horse (he was scared to death) for 10 more minutes.

Yes, the 'flying like superman' reference refers to Reaves, and yes, I'm very twisted.

The smaller house in the neighborhood

Just took the family thru the open house for the Draper Temple. Very nice, very clean and elegant, amazing chandiler in the celestial room, really nice (and really elegant) open house in the adjacent stake center that made the Riverside Temple Open House very Riverside-ish in comparison .... we had a nice time.

BUT HOLY COW, CAN WE TOUR THE BIGGER HOUSES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD!?!!! A COUPLE OF THE HOUSES, err I mean castles DUE SOUTH FROM THE TEMPLE MAKE THE TEMPLE LOOK LIKE THE GUEST HOUSE AND I'M NOT EXAGGERATING HERE!!!!!

One temple worker told me he felt like the temple was merely an annex to next door. In hind sight, I would have made the temple out of the brillant white stone to help it stand out a little. Of course, the temple also wasn't for sell like much of the neighborhood ... or should I say foreclosed like much of the neighborhood.

Saper Veder ... if you read the blog long enough, the comparison will be obvious.

It's saper veder, two words in Latin. It was a phrase oft said about Leonardo Da Vinci, who was probably the most gifted person to walk the planet outside of you know who. It translates into the "art of seeing", and describes Leo to a T. To be so brillant in so many different endeavors takes a unique vision. Besides, it's said he could see so well he could count the number of flaps a humingbird made while hovering.

I'll let the public make the comparisons to my rants and ravings ... but I think its obvious, don't you?

Mad Game or Pure Talent?

In the arena of life that we call "the ladies" in our home, Craig has been and continues to be by far the most successful Player that we have. First day riding the bus to school, a girl demanded he sit next to her. A couple of evenings ago, 3 girls stood across the street pointing at our house. I noticed it first, not understanding what they were doing. Craig noticed them and stepped outside to say Hi and that sent the 3 girls running and screaming and giggling 'there he is ... there he is'.

I then watched and wondered as I saw the very elementary school style interaction continue. I saw a number of holes in Craig's game, or at least elements to it that I would deem flawed. I started wondering if Craig was just adapting to the elementary game and that in his own brillance he was just showing a mastery of the game. No one can doubt or question the results. It's a game he is winning and winning easily. But is it brillant, mad skills or just dominating lesser competition with raw, pure talent? Will his game adapt as the level of play increases in middle school? High School? College?