Scrabble

Crystal has had the Scrabble bug lately. We've played 8 games over the last week or so... we've both won 4. She almost had a really good proper name.... almost.

Boxman...

Found on the back of a walk/dont walk lightbox in Cambridge. Reminds me of the Boxman or Dr.Boxhead from Kaiju Big Battle. Curious about the boxcutter/exacto blade in his hand. Box on box crime?

Lego trucks from the past

August evening Scusset beach

Taken on August 4th, 2007. A very nice hot, humid and hazy evening at Scusset beach. Lots of people still on the beach as the sun went down and the lifeguards went home. There is a girl skim boarding in the center of the bottom pic. Crystal is in 2 of them... talking on the phone to Amanda while walking up the beach. Cool summery feel.

Lego Police Station 381 cira '79

Found the directions to this set #381 from 1979 online and decided to build it for Justin. He helped out looking for pieces in our massive bucket but I ended up doing most of the construction myself after he went to bed. We have almost all of the pieces for the set, still in good condition. The only stuff I was short was one complete window setup and parts of another. But one is complete. There were also not enough of the blue cylinders used for lights... I had to substitute green for the lights next to the door. Justin was psyched. We've been playing with it for about a week now. I have some other old sets... to follow in later posts

Lego Cargo Ship

Justin and I built this cargo ship last week. His new Lego magazine came in with the brand new Maersk Container Ship in it and Justin decided we should build one out of our own stuff. So we did. He had a great time loading it up with stuff, mostly the small cars he had won at the Jugleplex food/fun day. I made the hatches detachable and later hinged. There is another shot without the yellow railings. I like it without, but once I found more of the railings we added them all the way down the deck.
This ship is now gone... a victim of the old lego set renaissance that followed. I found the instructions online for a number of my old sets and immediatly set to work rebuilding them. More on that in the next few posts.