Christmas 2016 part ( 2 of 2 and much more! )

It is finally here at long last.......

Or rather I should be saying that with today being the start of the year twenty seventeen the whole of the offspring of Michael Joe Byrd and Nancy Carol Powers  ( whom now goes by the name of Watson) and their own offspring  having a grand overdue celebration known as Christmas

morn from one week ago.

My sister Kylie and her son Bryce left from the Tacoma Washington area on Friday after school and work to meet up with us here over in Richland for celebrating as I mentioned before Christmas and New Years  Eve/Day. We started to party hearty at a little after ten am, when Kylie came over from her friend's over in West Richland that she was staying at during last night.

It was this very year that I finally got to feel it was time to add Bryce and Kylie to one very important family tradition that I uncle Matt had started some many years ago with the gift seen here from back in

twenty thirteen  with what I have claimed as the ultimate nerdy gift ever "A STAR WARS tee shirt with Darth Vader on it and not always needed but it helps a funny quote of sorts. And the image above her two older brothers is Kylie opening her introductive shirt, which has Vader pointing at you and the shirt says "JOIN THE EMPRIE". Oh and speaking of the real newest shirt for Cannon, Heidi, Kathie, Myself and my brother Michael latest one here he is

holding it up!  It happens to be Darth Vader holding above his shoulders  "THE DEATH STAR ", I had actually gone and during the early part of last month already knew what I wanted as my general idea for twenty sixteen's funny Vader shirt and on my tablet which I had gotten during my trip to going and seeing the famous craved mountain faces of presidents in South Dakota back in twenty fourteen. Anyway I went and typed in my Web browser "Funny Darth Vader images" and the one that spoke volumes to me was what you see Michael holding up and it still said that I have yet to see "ROUGE ONE A STAR WARS STORY" movie.  Anyhoo back to the tale of the Vader twenty sixteen shirts find, was that I had found an online Tee shirt screening place called Spreadshirt.com where I could for the most part make what I wanted. On it's back each shirt in white text it reads "Vader uses the force to protect his small moon that had one tiny flaw? His son blew it to pieces by targeting wamp rats on Tatooine, say what? " 

Here are a few of my other gifts that I got as well 

as handing out as well. I had also gave away some awesome stuff for my niece Heidi I gave her two other nifty Tee shirts,a fox bank, and some very special pair of unicorn dice. For my nephew Bryce I gave him a BIG collected Star Wars set of three main characters from newly released comics of Lando Calrissian numbers  (1-5), Princess Leia numbers  (1-5), and Bryce's favorite character of Chewbacca numbers  (1-5) in a colleceted trade called STAR WARS :Heroes For A New Hope ". Also I got him a Batman bank, a baseball hat that has the caped crusader which is one of Batman's many well known monikers, and a little metal model of the millennium falcon. For my brother Michael besides the Vader shirts that I gave him and his family a set of Star Trek Next Generation twenty fifth anniversary shirts, and I gave him a Klingon miniseries comic trade that features the "Kelvin Timeline" of Star Trek's alter history basically the newest movies to date, called "STAR TREK MANIFAST DESTINY" and a Next Gen Enterprise model made of metal. Then for Kathie his wife I got her those two shirts , a movie called "GREEN ROOM" which has Patrick  Stewart  (better known as currently in marvel movies as Charles Xavier and to any Trekker he is the most popular Starfleet captain of the Next Generation ( Jean Luc Picard)  it also stars the belated new actor who has played the Alterative Pavel Chekov into the third new movies STAR TREK  BEYOND his name was Anton Yelchin, I also got a metal model of the Doctor Who T.R.A.I.D.S. phone booth. For Michael and Kathie's boy Cannon, I gave him shirts, a Doctor Who comic trade called "The Four Doctors" which is of course based on Doctor Who the series, then I gave him a bank of BB8 from STAR WARS VII THE FORCE AWAKENS, and a metal model of an AT-AT Walker from the Empire Strikes back episode. Now I didn't give my sister Kylie just one gift I also gave her these Detective Comics female superhero pajama pants

, to go with her Darth Vader shirt, then I also got her a really neat kind of Alien space monster bobble head  from the same place I got those mini Metal Models and Heidi's unicorn dice which was Octopus Gardens in uptown Richland's shopping center. Also when this time of year comes around it is miss Heidi's birthday a few days before the whole year ends I got her the Captain Amreica  Civil War film on Blu-ray and I also got her this very awesome pair of 

Unicorn princess pajamas not the foot wear though she had those already. After opening up all of our gifts to one another both Kylie and Michael and of course the kids  suggested we should get something for everyone like lunch some place. I had went and said "Well why not RED ROBIN, that way anyone taking me home wouldn't have far to go and every one could have what they wanted, everyone was fine with that. So we were heading out to RED ROBIN when a jerk in a Black SUV was going way, way,way, to fast over on the bypass from horn rapids to west Richland,  all that can be known for sure was both cars and their occupants were nervous and praying that whoever that Black SUV driver was not going to have any kind of a accident of any kind, but we don't know what happened next for them? All that we know for sure is that it is covering the ground yet again that good ol white ice stuff called snow!
           Now let's get into the game of chance, that is called the CHESS MATCH game that I started almost a year and half, more or less..... and throughout the year of last I had it be transporter locked into Star Trek characters and their mostly movie counterparts when it was center on a main crew person of the Federation and Starfleet which were/is the outreaching of planet earth in the whole series. Till last month when I thought it would be ultra nifty to compare the long standing  adversaries within Trek lore, I went and truly thought of how to go about making these very much worth reading besides my choices and reasons of why I feel that I seem to truly understand the dark side of  storytelling more than just the grand bit of the good guys win and the foes lose, for I know in watching almost everything even comedies right for the moment for me right now. The first fight was between the original first shared race of Star Trek cannon with that of Spock and his Vulcan brothers and sisters called the Romulans

versing the much harsher foes of the Dominion seen here            
                     

 

in much later next Generation they do cross paths in DS-9's main last arc called : "THE DOMINION WAR" . Still to me Matt even though the Dominion  are very dark in a lot of ways many true Trek fans may not know this but before the Klingons came to be the ones to hate in a real world sense like we did at the time with Russia in the nineteen sixties...... I know we don't now see a need for distrust with them. The Romlans had first appeared in the first season of the original series in the episode called "BALANCE OF TERROR" in which we learn of some human traits of bigotry on Kirk's bridge, we see a foe who is just as determined as Starfleet in their core stance on the values of life, yet have a means of hiding at anytime while in battle..... and back to the race connections between  themselves and Vulcans is shown like a roman coin with the end results showing us the viewers that other players of in controlling powers  in the real world do at times know how to understand tension of war just as anyone else does. So which warring fractions are set for February to debate on well I think that thought is why I took so long to write this one really...... and here is my clue for you Peter David wrote a novel of these two  seen here

Trelane  from the original series from the episode known as "THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS" VERSUS Q,

from the first episode of what is known by many TREKKERS as the best TREK of them all. The Next Generation! Finally now onto the greatest reveal of all the plate here at the site is one that my niece Heidi will love no matter what and just because it has a unicorn in it no less? I think that it should be known as "Santa's sparing universal rainbow ride across the universe, while trying to be a

Bronco  Roy Rogers, well maybe or maybe not?"
Then with last month being that all important time of the year on the twenty fifth of the month with giving of ourselves, and knowing as much of a science fiction lover that I am always.....I had happen to of found this really ultra cool

Santa not only flying over the whole wide world if you will but the entire universe, with one image that says Santa Claus maybe just maybe he is an alien as much as he is a gift giver of presents to all humans no matter if we believe in him or not. So I'm calling this one "Santa's space sleight is really outta sight any questions, anymore questions at all answers lead to his being in need of a true GPS to find out where the north pole is after a long night of work" In truth again with all of my soul I want to wish everyone or anybody who has made it this far in reading my humbled New Years day going ons, without giving in to throwing the towel I applauded you. Here is my New Years resolution for us all, I wish you a very HAPPY 2017, may our lives be full of great kindness and may you all be generous in who you help throughout this coming year.....you may make a life long friend and not even know YOUR AWARENESS OF DOING SO and what can be happier than a new friendship in the NEW YEAR?

   

       

1701 and what no Trekking off? say what?

So as my vacation for this year comes to a close what is it about these 
 

two yet different, yet the same forms of "TREK" that keeps me hoping for a chance at change for the next few years......

An now, for the end of my vacation for this year....., pt . I of II

Hey, hey, hey, hey, all,

Well it has finally found me, the ending of yet again another great time spent with my folks Chuck Watson my step father and my mother Nancy Watson,  whom took me on just again another one of my grand vacations. I am sitting here in the very same hotel we came to first stay at over two weeks ago....it is in Maple Grove Minnesota, just outside of the twin cities and very close to the airport, the hotel's name is Cambria suites. Today they picked me up 

 Chuck's daughter Merri's home, for I again last night or even earlier on this trip decided to stay one more night with her and her nine kids living at home with her and her husband Ken, in a very remote part of the state of Minnesota in a small farming area, called Morrill. While spending the night there I helped with some of the kids, chores even though I was a guest, I helped Bethany Pagie with loading their water heater with water salt pellets that Ken brought home on his way home from work. With the third to last bag of filling the water heater, I'll admit it right here and now I caused a the problem of some the pellets to be under the dryer, "So sorry about that Merri,  but I did try my best to get as much of it as I could from under the dryer. I hope that I haven't X-pelled myself from ever visiting with the Mickelson bunch again?" Still I did enjoy that movie we saw on your computer called "RISE OF THE GUARDIANS" last night, and also from two weeks ago the one by Disney called "FROZEN". Later on tonight after mostly repackaging our suitcases and carry on's we will end this grand vacation of the Mid west with a nifty play at a Best Western hotel that has a play theater just behind the hotel's restaurant, more that on Sunday in real posting time and after some swimming time with my brother Michael and his family at where my folks will be till late this upcoming Tuesday when they will be heading two different directions my mother will be heading to the Virgin Islands to see her younger sister's oldest son, my cousin Daniel Simmons get married, and Chuck will head back to his daughter Merri's home and spend two weeks time with his two grandsons, Joshua and Nathaniel.........
To be continued........ 
       

......Off to a place known as Mount Rushmore, EVENTUally......pt. VI of X

Whoa well are we tracking to now, my good friend?,
Yes I do have to admit I still have quite a huge brunch to share picture wise and talking about while on my trip to going and at the same time seeing my family whilst in the state of Minnesota, which I had told you all that I can of the first part on my way to seeing the landmark known as Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Still as I said earlier today we are in the capital city of North Dakota and earlier today I shared about being in a famous movie town, no I'm not talking Hollywood California that's so much closer to where I live in Washington state to be honest, but the famous town that I'm talking of had 
 

this very colorful Buffalo at the town's little sightseeing museum. That town is known as Fargo, North Dakota. We as I said stayed there for only a short time then we, my folks and I were on the mighty trail of cool adventures as we were listening to a audio book on compact disc the name of it was "Against Medical Advice" it dealt with a young man named Cory that grew up suffering from turret syndrome and was given by many doctor different drugs to control it but all it ever did of any drug at all was make things just that much worse off. He grew out of it on his own when he was in his late teens. Anyway just so you know that little song lyric that I started the last entry with from earlier today was and is most notably is how I always will feel about my parents even when I can get to spend time with them on my vacation times of any given year, it just never seems like it's enough ever! Still don't get me wrong  loving them for being my mom and step father are more important than how long of time I do get to visit with them no matter what! After leaving Fargo we were on way to Bismark and we stop for lunch at a 

of course, I did happen to try as hard as I could  to stay on my low sodium diet from a few years ago and I will tell you I do always start out well, and at least I'm happy with who I AM in the end of every meal I do consume much like I am about those I love so much it all matters to my inner being as to why I respect you the reader of this even through we may never meet(?)  As for one stop before even reaching Bismark here we stopped in a small town named Jamestown.......we had happen to stop here because of one or more BIGGEST reasons in the whole wide world.....that being of course to see the world's largest  or rather BIGGEST BUFFALO 
 










 
 please correct me if I am wrong but I could of sworn I had promise everyone a photo of me Matt picking the BIG GUY'S well I know what I said as much as you do, but first I do have to say at this at this museum

 dedicated to this great animal seen here I very heavy considered getting a buffalo key chain for a problem I've had since coming out here to the Midwest to begin with....?  finally after chatting with the shop keep person we went outside to catch a glimpse of the most important baby buffalo that was born in two thousand and two. Here I am standing by the sign after trying to find it behind me 

and it ended up I just and my folks as well couldn't find it anywhere! Yeah I know I can't forget I tried to pick the nose of the world's BIGGEST BUFFALO and here was my best attempt...... 

Yet as the world can see I failed BIG TIME! 
        
To Be Continued........ 

.....Off to a place known as Mount Rushmore, EVENTually.....pt. V of X

Hey there from...... 
 Now before I can even think of where my folks and I are now in North Dakota, which is in the state capital city of Bismarck, I just can't seem to get a little ditty that goes......"Five hundred miles and something about loving highways I think of finding my way back to you" was by who originally I can't think of the group's name right off of my hand, but it doesn't matter really. It does seem that one very important part of North Dakota is a town known by one name, that very name is also a very old film nowadays I think?, it's know as "FARGO" by the same guys who made the "Raising Arizona" flick that has Nicholas Cage as a ex con who steals a baby with his wife played by Holly Hunter. On our way from Little Falls, Minnesota we drove to a museum gift shop in the heart of Fargo. We had also used this as a quick rest break as well beside it being a vital stop on our tour of the mid west states of Minnesota, North Dakota and finally a place known  for it's richness of something called GOLD, from back in the days of  after the civil war. The Midwestern state I'm of course talking of has the place I wanna see in the title of this set of links, Mount Rushmore..... here in Fargo for just a brief as I said break from  the car ride and here was where we stopped      

or more importantly this was very close to the little museum  is from the highway. What was truly neat about this place is that they actually have a really neat well I can't seem to be able to find the very words I'm looking for to properly describe it so without a bit of shame I took this photo 

,seen here. Still for those of you wanting to really know if I got some parts of the famous sidewalk well here are just a few pieces

 

 

what I have to prove it, but hey you don't notice anyone famous right well here is one that I did get that is most definitively famous   

 

for sure. I without a doubt can not forgo that across from the sidewalk is this very Colorful 

state animal known as the Bison Buffalo.Remind me  if you all will to show you me Matt trying to pick the nose of the world's largest Bison Buffalo if I don't include it here next time.... before I go however here are just a few pieces from that FARGO film that I must not 

leave out of my stopping in Fargo is all about. And yes my folks and I found out that the television series soon to be released of Fargo also wasn't film here at all it will be filmed in parts of Canada imagine that? 

To Be Continued..........

.....Off to a place known as Mount Rushmore, EVENtually pt. IV of X

Hello All,
As if I had to let you all in on a little secret right at the moment I'm not in my home town of Richland Washington and also surprise, surprise, I'm away from a place known as work, and will be till the end of time, nah I'm just joshing about that end of time stuff as well or am I? I have in truth through taken leave of my senses and have been planning this adventure that I'm on since the time I was in Canada with my mom Nancy Watson and step dad Chuck Watson, whom I'm glad to say these two people and I have been on some great yet unfinished publication wise Treks of a lifetime. (More views of this year 2014 adventure will lend way to 2013 and 2012 which have some pieces already out......), Still after a grand send off  by my brother Micheal and his family on Friday the tenth of May with some really cool Karaoke bits to make my mother a star in our eyes even more so when she sang with Micheal and his wife Kathie at his old workplace named "WING-STOP" was a hoot, then came the day of these three young ladies  
 









  
BIG PARTIES. Then even after that fun array of "Done It Right, Justice" we all headed over to the town of Maple Grove's 

community pool. So you'd  think that I and those kids Merri that includes you and Ken in my book as well should have been dog gone wiped out........ Still as I was saying yesterday I had spent a night with all of those kids and love it for everything it was worth......? for in a sense I felt like a kid again myself  just chatting with Nathaniel about his type of books he likes to reads in fact here he is from yesterday trying to find out 

about Wolverine's history with the incredible hulk.That was from  my graphic novel of X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST that I had mentioned that I took as reading material in my carry on, which also included his older sister Petra taking a peek as well. Also here are just a couple more extra ones from yesterday that I thought I'd just share of before we are where I start in on today's bit of the ongoing adventure. The first one is most important because it actually has a neat back story to it:  

 Here is Merri's oldest child Portia, with her youngest sister Autumn Rose which means even though I may not ever be able recite everyone of my many nieces  and nephews by exact date of birth and age (for I will admit I too, am capable of mistakes at times), I happen to have one of the most exciting images of young youth teaching, yet learning that I could ever behold. Merri by the way has all of her children in Minnesota's 4-H club and each kids learns something that they can and do apply to their everyday lives, Portia's main talent that she learn well is singing and I wish I could put up a wonderful five minute video of her singing a song of a French girl her age finding love, she sang it in French as well, but I can't upload it here on Blogger because videos can't be longer than two minutes in length according to the site's rules! This second image I want to share with you all is this: 

Remember yesterday last photo I shared, with Poppi and almost all but one of his eight grand daughters being able to pose with him in the very photo? here they all are just about ready before the big moment. Now after leaving Merri's home Mom and Chuck and I drove through the rain boy is it ever nice here in this part of the mid west I'd say from what little I've seen so far 

it's more like Seattle area type of weather for sure! We are at a hotel in Little Falls Minnesota called the Country Inn and here is what there check-in area looks like 

and for the first time in a long while I got to experience cable TV for short while I found a series on the SYFY called "WARE HOUSE 13" and even though I saw my only episode of it, I can say I do like a lot of the characters in it. Also knowing it ended maybe from watching that one episode I will watch it on Netflicks or something for it did seem really neat. After a good night of resting we went to go and see in that town the mighty Mississippi river 

and how it was that miners back a century ago built the damn 


to keep their corner of it for mining gold and bringing goods of other trades to Minnesota. Yet before leaving Minnesota all together we had to stop and get some gas for the car and on the way to  finding a gas station I had seen a road sign talking of a cool metal sculpture park so before getting some fuel for the car we went through it and here are the things we viewed 

 











 











 











 

 
Pretty neat huh? , so what in tar nation or should that be steel nation is this place known as well here is it's name at the gas station 

,where we got the gas that I was saying the car needed. There at the gas station I had gotten some snacks that till I even got all the way back home to Richland did I even think of consuming them. Tomorrow I'll tell you what they were!

To Be Continued......