My weekend, or, a treatise on manly activities

This weekend, my parents came in to town. Hurray! Given that my parents both subscribe to the “busybody” theory of vacation (Heather subscribes to the “chillin’ hardcore” theory of vacation), we were in motion nearly the entire time they were here. Stone Mountain, trip to the mall and/or taco mac, and then dinner at Canoe on Saturday. Here’s a pic from the top of Stone Mountain:

Last week, I borrowed an axe from my brother-in-law Andrew, for the purpose of trying to chop some of the logs in our back yard into firewood. Jason, our pet teenager, and the son of the Mooney’s, Micah, came outside to watch the festivities.

I tried to make an animated gif using the “sports shot” from the Mooney’s camera. Sadly, I missed the log entirely the one shot that had me all the way down… oh well. Here’s the finished product. Jason is the esteemed photographer in the animated gif, with Becca and I taking the other pictures:

So there you have it. Interestingly, my brother-in-law just came over, and tried to split the log that you see in the last photo. He informed me that wood is typically not this tough to split, and that usually it gives way alot easier than the log I had was. Which is actually good, cause I’m chopping it more for exercise and less for any real need for mounds of firewood.