i took the boys and the potato cannon out for it’s initial trial run. this was the first time that my boys had experienced the joys of flying a spud over 350 feet. you should have seen their faces. there is just something about seeing a tuber travel through the air around 400 feet. when i told them what was going to happen you could see they’re disbeief. they were thinking “sure! i bet this potato is going to fly that far.” when i told them that the power for the experiment was going to come from a two second spray of hairspray their lack of faith in my common sense only increased. yet, all that changed when they pressed the ignition switch. when that potato flew my sons belief in me increased dramatically. they loved it and i had a blast introducing them to it.
happy new year
i’m just hoping you have a great 2005.
thus far my new year has been full of a sick wife, an oldest boy who is sick enough that we are having to do breathing treatments every 4 hours and and youngest son who is coughing up a lung. it’s been a whole lot of fun thus far.