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Another Home Depot project, actually done in the same Saturday as the previous one. This one is quite fun to play, actually, and I believe the image is self explanatory. The rules follow the American Football* rules to a certain extent and the “ball” you just flick, instead of kicking. The end zone is “negotiable” in size and the point is not to flick the ball too hard to actually pass the end zone. Whenever the player gets a touchdown, you get to flick for a field goal. Play it on a table and make sure the ball doesn’t fall off the table. No helmets, no hike, no fumbles. Fun game.

Strobist info: 580 EX CL via PW at 70mm 128th. Small tweaks in Lr.
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* I have to call it American football because I am still not convinced that European football is soccer and American football just football. I understand that soccer may mean only soccer and that football may mean both football and soccer, but which game uses the foot in contact with the ball more often?

Today we went to Home Depot again, after a long time, to take part in the workshops for kids. We could have made a (rather useless) flag holder of some sort, that would have been thrown away in a few days, or could have made the rain gauge, which we decided to build, and which we will probably throw away in a few weeks after it gets all distorted from begin soaked in rain water.

A fun and useful project considering the weather here. The kids had to play with glue and pound on a few nails. They had a hard time with the nails and this reminded me of my first time I had to hit a nail. I must have been five or six. There was this shoe repair workshop on the corner of an intersection, back in Romania. I still remember it now, it was on my way home from school. We used to walk a lot. My mom took me to this shoe repair guy. She had to pick up some shoes from there and the man must have asked me if I have ever hit a nail. I don’t recall the whole visit, but I do remember he made me hit a nail and try to drive it in a piece of wood. It kept on bending. With a few hits, he did it easily. I kind of know what’s in my kids’ minds (especially my boy) when we have to hit the nails at the Home Depot workshops.

There are so many things that I see now with different eyes and I remember similar situations from when I was a kid. I’m sure this happens to everybody who has children, although I hardly hear people talk about it. I feel the transition from one generation to the other almost daily. It’s such an interesting feeling.