My Summer Blog

Okay, I know this is really late, but I finally decided to start my blog, so I'll just go over what happened in general this summer.

Two weeks ago I was at Ranger's Apprentice camp. This is a summer day camp set up the local Austin store, BookPeople based off of John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice book series. (His site is www.rangersapprentice.com) The camp director, Topher Bradley, is really amazing and all of the actors and counselors are spot on. Sadly, I had to leave in the middle of week two, just as the plot was thickening. (My dad, being the camera geek he is, posted pics online at his flickr account - Chris Pencis) So i was shipped away to Savannah Georgia to take a photography class at the Telfair museum of art. That generally consisted of a week wandering around Goergia's wonderfully green parks and snapping pictures from black and whit to color, manual to digital. Now that it's the weekend, I think it's finally getting to me how weird my family is. The night before last, I couldn't resist chatting my friend about it:

 okay... so at dinner there was an argument on gay people that lasted forever... all the family girls were defending and the males were prosecuting, the cousin (his name is Jacob, btw) leading them... that was generally the big debate... now they've just sent Jacob outside;
Gram (my grandma): "Jake, since you're done with dinner, would you go water they plants on the deck?"

  His sister Collyn: "Sucks for you"

 Jake: "Yeah sure. Which ones."

  Gramdaddy (my grandpa): "The ones that are hanging, you know?"

 Gram: "The ones that look like they're dead."

  Jake: "Oh, so pretty much all of them then"

 and now Uncle Tim suggested that Gramdaddy get a new grill and Gramdaddy is saying that he doesn't wanna spend thousands on one...

  and more yelling...

 and out comes the butternut pecan cake... pronounced pee-can here

oh right, and i forgot to tell you that at one point out dinner conversation somehow got to farm animals... that lead to stories:
- humans being eaten by pigs (apparently it's an expression)
- a woman who was run over by her cow that was protecting it's calf

 - a girl who jumped over a five foot fence to get away from a charging bull

  - and tying a dead chicken to a dog's neck to try and get it to stop killing them...

  dessert...

  brb

  Jake: "... and Mr. Collins was like, 'What are you gonna do without me around?' and Garrett said, 'Everything'"
Collyn: "HAHAHA! wow... I would just sit around and have intelligent conversations without anyone saying, '_what_?'"
Jake: "Wait. You're intelligent?"
(typical brother sister love)
...
Gram (without context): "Yes, Jacob is the most wonderful loser in the world"
Jake: "GRAM!"
Aunt Karen: "wow that came out wrong..."
Gram: "Oh... not that kind... a loser of things. He loses everything."
...

And now they're fussing about the gov't taxing a non profit hospital

 and now they're yelling at Aunt Karen for never checking her email... i'm getting annoyed suggestive glances thrown my way

and they just had me look up how many oceans there are because it was a debate between five and seven... this was because Jake's history book was wrong

  it's five

then they had me look up flights... i'm thinking it's getting dangerous to be here with a computer

Jake: ~points to the large glasses sitting on his nose... gramdaddy's glasses~ "Gramdaddy, do you like these glasses?"

  Gramdaddy: "Those glasses had better be back where you found them when you leave."

 Jake: "They will..." ~he lifts the glasses up and down his nose really fast~ "I've always wanted to do this!"

  Me: "It's your life's dream?"

Jake: "Yes. It's my life's dream"

  ...

 and now they're talking about world crises

... and then all the sudden -
Uncle Tim: "I'm going home..."

That wasn't even all of it! And then last night was just as entertaining:

                      Just spent like the last three hours, till 12:15, playing ATTACK UNO with my Aunt, Uncle,    and cousins while they sang along obnoxiously to Georgia country music and laughed so hard they sounded insane... and now they want to go out to get "small square hamburgers"... and they aren't gonna let my Uncle drive because he was asking the dog for advice during the game...

Well, now I'd better get back so I don't miss anything. Bye readers... if you exist.