what is my dad doing

my dad fell asleep during a good episode of Anne of Green Gables (1979) for ten minutes and woke up and made me rewind it 🤭

Anne of Green Gables (1979, dir. Isao Takahata)

Anne of Green Gables (1979) anime series title card

my dad and i have finished watching Heidi, Girl of the Alps and are now moving onto our next series !!

my dad is fast asleep on the couch 😪

YouTube video by Throwback Country Corn Flakes Commercial (1963)

my dad keeps singing this ancient new country corn flakes jingle

red sharpie drawing of a caricature of me with a bald head, glasses, a beard, little ears, and a big smile

my dad drew this picture of me 😊

my dad insists my mom said "Funk is the power of voice" in her sleep last night and now they both keep saying "funk is the power of voice" randomly

Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974) DVD cover

today my dad and i will complete our watch of Isao Takahata's Heidi, Girl of the Alps

Takahata (Pom Poko, Tale of the Princess Kaguya) directed the 52-episode adaptation of the Swiss novel in 1974, over a decade before the founding of Studio Ghibli

Miyazaki called Heidi Takahata's "masterpiece"

chicken and guacamole taco on the left, bean and rice taco on the right, plus a pilsner

my dad loves tacos... he makes them for the family once a week almost and we love them :)

sonic and some other guy drawn on a piece of paper with a bunch of colored pencils around

practice card drawings by my dad

while the power is still out due to windstorm, my dad has decided to write fun messages on cards to mail to his grandsons

my dad cannot stop himself from buying my mom flowers from the grocery store

my nephews call my dad "poppa poop" because he's always making poop jokes with them...

"who is this again? cameron summer? cameron diaz? camera ready?"
—my dad asking me about the cameron winter album i keep playing

a TOMY 1993 Sonic the Hedgehog branded "Supersonic Pinball" toy pinball machine. it's blue plastic with sonic the hedgehog characters inside, four flippers (two on each side), 3 little metal "pinballs" waiting to be put into play.

my dad made us unearth my old sonic the hedgehog mini pinball machine toy to see if we could get it working for his grandsons

(the motor that moves all the little elements works, but the lights and sounds are busted, looks like... also battery acid has been eating thru the entire thing 😔)

pic my dad texted me of a full unbroken rainbow across fields and a road on a grey cloudy damp day

wow!

cloudy grey skies with a rainbow in the distance appearing down from the clouds over big dark green fields

my dad just texted me this photo of a rainbow he saw on his walk

my dad went and bought super glue so he could try to glue my glasses back together

my dad is cooking a lunch feast of jamaican cornbread stuffing, chicken cutlets, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, and brussels sprouts for my sister and her partner who are visiting from north carolina

my dad got excited because he remembered a video he took of hot dogs making a shrieking sound in the oven

and he looked at the date of the video and it was from may 17 2020 exactly 3 years ago today and now he's excited about that

he texted my little sister about it (May 17, 2023)

my dad is teaching my little sister how to use her first record player (February 9, 2023)

my dad won't stop singing "the middle" by jimmy eat world, with improvised lyrics (January 29, 2023)

my dad is singing to the dog (December 10, 2022)

image: a pancake "pancake in the key of life" image: the songs in the key of life by stevie wonder album cover he's right, the pancake looks like the cover

text from my dad just now (August 11, 2022)

my dad is repainting our deck (June 17, 2022)

my dad is making french toast for the dog (May 13, 2022)

my dad made homemade bagels (April 30, 2022)

my dad says if he had to eat only one kind of meal for the rest of his life, it'd either be fish and chips or tacos (but probably fish and chips) (April 21, 2022)

my dad says the west side story remake should have had zombies in it (March 10, 2022)

my dad did the beavis laugh and my mom laughed at it very sincerely (February 19, 2022)