Another week gone by, a mole in the garden, and some crops foiled... Ok that may be backwards.

     Well another week has passed, and what a week it was.  I finally met a new Ingress player in my area which is always cool and talked to a childhood friend who I haven't seen in 15 years thanks to Ingress.  I've met alot of cool people through that game and hope to keep in touch long after it is gone.  Which brings me to this weekends in-game activities!

     The Gulf Coast Resistance had originally planned to host an online meet-n-greet to see some of the new faces, talk strategy, and b.s. in general.  This changed at the last minute to an onsite gathering at Eglin AFB Armament Museum in hopes of building the panhandles first Resistance level 8 farm.  Well we saw some comm activity early on and when we started to arrive on site found that they were there waiting and had no intentions of letting us build our farm.  While our overall goal of a giant farm was not achieved we had a few agents level up, gain a ton of AP, and we did manage to build a few level 8 portals.  Which brings me to wonder, how in the hell did they find out about this?  Why would somebody in our community share intel with them to spoil our plans?  Why would the other team want this intel?  You would think that showing up and spoiling other folks plans wouldn't be fun (this makes the second time) but different strokes for different folks I guess.  I had a pretty good time, met some new folks, and overall had a good time... so that made up for the 2 hour drive and gas I reckon.

      Nothing exciting happened on Sunday, woke up, piddled around the house.  Took the kiddos over to the grandparents house to play while I went grocery shopping, etc.  I wish I had the energy of my kids.  They were outside at the house playing all morning.  After a short lunch and nap I took them over to visit the grandparents.  Not only did they ride their bikes all over creation but managed to con my aunt into dragging them to the park where they played as well.  Oh to be young and go all day without stopping.  The good news is at 20:00 they were in bed and knocked out and even managed to sleep in this morning which I'm sure Melissa enjoyed.  The garden is doing great, I must have some awesome dirt because the seeds I planted last weekend are already several inches tall.  The jokes on them though.  Now that they are sprouted out I select the weakest 2 of the 3 seeds planted and cut them off.  Only the strongest shall prevail!

A weekend full of excitement!

     Well this weekend found the Jernigan clan very busy!  Saturday we had tickets to the Blue Wahoos game so we decided to head downtown a few hours early so we could walk around downtown Pensacola for some exercise (and so I could hack some portals in Ingress).  It had been awhile since they had gone downtown and they had a blast.  I showed them around a few of the historic sites and they learned a little bit about their cities history.  From hanging out at the cannons surrounding the square, checking out the old location of the fire station, to the huge clock in front of the court house.  After seeing those sites we headed downtown so they could see the huge freighter that was in port and take a few more pictures.

     Once our trek (and my hacking) was complete we loaded up into the car and headed to the Wahoos game.  This was our first game of the season so we were stoked to attend.  Melissa and myself were looking forward to the heater baskets (a bacon cheese burger topped with heater sauce and onion rings) and the kids were ready to chow down on some hot dogs.  The Wahoos fought hard but they ended up falling 4-1 to the Mobile Bay Bears.  The kids had a blast though, Melanie caught a ball and the kids got their pictures taken with Kazoo and Maverick, the Wahoos mascot and announcer respectively.  After the game they enjoyed the awesome fireworks display (kudos for them putting this on every Saturday) and then headed home.

     Sunday found us up early and heading to Lowe's.  Last year we built a square foot garden (ALL NEW Square Foot Gardening - 2nd Edition) and finally got around to planting a new one this year.  I went all out this year planing (2) tomato plants, (2) cucumber plants, (4) jalapeno plants, (1) squash plant, (16) stalks of corn, (1) bell pepper plant, (1) habanero plant, & (16) green onion (chalets) plants.  The kids enjoyed helping refill all the dirt they "borrowed" during the off season and then counting the seeds as we planted.  After a good watering (both the kids and the garden) the garden is ready for the coming season.  Later in the afternoon we found ourselves over at my grandparents house for an afternoon of walking and the kids riding bikes.  We are hoping to make it back over there next weekend so we can work on removing those pesky training wheels so that should be an adventure in of itself.