While Bridget was having her hair done in Phoenixville yesterday, I headed on over to Valley Forge National Park in order to snap a few pictures.  It was a beautiful day for it, and the snow on the ground made it seem just like the days when George Washington was camped there.  I also took the pictures to get a cannon shot for Hutch’s recruitment business, Valley Forge Search.

With all of the snow we got on Valentine’s Day, the birds were very hungry and knew just where to come to get something to eat… our house.  Mom has probably at least a dozen feeders out, and since the little birdys had nowhere else to go with the ground frozen, they were all here… we had 50-100 birds feeding at times.  I was able to stand just inside the downstairs sliders and got some great closeup pictures of the birds feeding on the lower deck.

You can see all of the pictures here.

Here’s a very nice center piece that my sweetheart put together… she always does a wonderful job with these for the holidays, she really has an eye of arranging flowers nicely.

You can see all of the pictures here.

Grab yourself, your spouse, your kid(s) and come on over around 7pm for a fun night of pizza, drinks, and all the games we can stand.

We have SceneIt and a few music games, but if you have something really cool you’d like to play, bring it along!

I came across this online arcade game, Spaced Penguin, and thought it was very fun!  The goal is to aim and shoot your penguin (Kevin) and get him back to his spaceship.  But as you progress through the different levels, you’ll encounter planets that will pull at Kevin with their gravity.  So you’ll have to use the planets to put Kevin into an orbit which will land him on his ship.

Each round to scored by distance times the level number (levels go from 1 to 25) divided by the number of tries it takes to get Kevin to his ship.  So having him travel further is good, but remember that the more tries it takes, the lower your score will be for that level.  Although there are a few levels near the end of the game that are very tricky and may take 20 or more tries to complete them!

My score for my first time playing was 103,383.  See what you score is and post back here when done!  Have fun!

Bridget and I both agreed that this was the best and funniest commerical of the superbowl.  And it looks like an informal poll of readers on MSNBC have choosen the same ad as their favorite as well.  You can see all of them here on iFilm or on YouTube.

There were two Super Bowl winners: The Colts, and the mouse.

Blockbuster’s first-quarter commercial featuring longtime computer-generated pitchmen Carl and Ray (the former a rabbit, the latter a guinea pig) easily ran away with the popular vote on MSNBC.com’s highly unscientific readers poll.

As of this afternoon, the spot led the field of 32 ads with 18 percent of the vote. Budweiser’s “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” was a distant second with 12 percent. More than 80,000 readers cast votes.

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This news story on MSNBC is reporting that Barbaro was euthanized this morning.  It’s a very sad day to lose a special horse like Barbaro, but he won’t have to suffer anymore.

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. – Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his breakdown at the Preakness last May.

“We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain,” co-owner Roy Jackson said. “It was the right decision, it was the right thing to do. We said all along if there was a situation where it would become more difficult for him then it would be time.”

Roy and Gretchen Jackson were with Barbaro on Monday morning, with the owners making the decision in consultation with chief surgeon Dean Richardson.

It was a series of complications, including laminitis in the left rear hoof and a recent abscess in the right rear hoof, that proved to be too much for the gallant colt, whose breakdown brought an outpouring of support across the country.

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It looks like Barbaro is at risk again… he had more surgery on Saturday on his right rear foot, and is no longer bearing weight.  I know Bridget and I were upset to hear about this latest setback in his recovery, and we hope he gets better soon.

Dean Richardson, chief surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center for Large Animals, walks Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro at the center in Kennett Square, Pa., in this Sept. 26, 2006 file photo. Barbaro had two steel pins placed in a bone in his right hind leg, a risky surgery that’s the latest setback in the Kentucky Derby winner’s fight for survival.

KENTUCKY DERBY winner Barbaro’s life was in danger from the moment his right rear leg blew apart a few hundred yards into the May 20 Preakness. Even as the months passed after the May 21 surgery to repair the fractures, more surgery to cut away 80 percent of the colt’s left rear hoof in July, good days and bad days, the basic prognosis has never changed. Barbaro’s life is in danger.

Long term, there are no guarantees because animals react differently than humans and every little thing is complicated. And the complications have complications.

After another surgery on Saturday, Barbaro’s right rear foot, which developed a “deep subsolar abscess,” is no longer weight bearing and there is a chance that a bone now bearing the weight could fracture.

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Here are some new pictures of Halley, Ben and Shay all of them looking cute and adorable!