Month: November 2006

  • can people get to my site???  Please leave a comment if you can get in now

  • I bought two boxes of Mandarin oranges yesterday afternoon while in town with my parents.  We LOVE them, and their out for such a short time.  I was fortunate to get them for a good price umm $3.99 for 2 boxes.

    But ya know what?

    They are ALL gone!  Every single one.  I apparently did not buy enough. 

  • . But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."   Joshua 24:7

    Good morning.
    Its  loud in my house.

    And I have a code in my node.   (cold in my nose)   Its all rather icky.

    We had a lot of fun at my parents.  I always forget how much fun it is for just *us* to go there, and not have all of my other siblings there.  That's fun too, but its so loud you can't visit. 

    Rob and my dad actually visited almost the whole time, which was especially nice as my dad tends to fall asleep on the recliner chair and ignore us.  *snicker*

    As a extra bonus my dad gave Rob one of his half dead chain-saws which will be perfect for Rob to cut our large trees that are down.  My dad cuts with them all day so he wants them in tip-top condition, so as a result he had several mostly working ones laying around.  Rob was thrilled.  Saws are stinking expensive.

    Rob preached yesterday.  His sermon was on David and Goliath.  He's doing quite well.  He takes it very seriously, and then asks me to critique afterwards.  Its rather a scarey thing to do.  I don't want to discourage him, but I also want to give him good feedback.  So, I try to walk the fine line.
    My biggest beef with him both sermons was how fast he reads the Scriptures.  He can read fast, so thinks he should.  I keep trying to convince him to read to entertain.  *snicker*  He hasn't figured it out quite yet.  Ahhh well, its all good.

    Other then that I'm sitting here totally stuffed up, and a bit shakey from this rather obnoxious cold, hoping that it will all go away soon. 

  • This morning is brought to you by 60 mph gusts of wind, and power surges.
    The power should be out in any minute.
    If I'm lucky I'll get this submitted.  *ha*

    We are supposed to be driving to my mom's this afternoon, but the chances that the road is open are slim to nothing.
    *sigh*

    She hasn't got any celebration for her birthday and it is her 60th.  But unfortunately her life was too busy for a party.  *shakes head*

    Okay hits submit before this goes down.

  • This Rainy day is brought to you by 6 loud noisy children;



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    Big dead tree.  Now we know why Cricket ran across the yard yesterday like her tail was on fire. 


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    See how far down that is split.  Rather impressive somehow that wind did that.


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    the front of the picture is the top of the tree.  The little tiny bit of stump way down in the back of the picture is the stump.  It was a TALL tree.  Now its just firewood. 


     

  • Peers in;


    So this is what the world looks like with power.


    We were without for about 23 hours.   It went out yesterday morning at 5 am, and came back at 3:30 in the morning this morning.


    I'm very greatful for electricity.


    We had a nasty wind storm, that lasted until about 6 pm last night.  We didn't go to AWana, as I had no desire to see if it was coming back. 


    The windgusts were about 70 miles per hour or more, and we lost another HUGE tree.  It snapped up high.  I'll have to post a picture later.


    And we are now in the  6th wettest month on record in Washington state, and have received 11.43 inches of rain in the last 16 days. 


    Its sooooo much fun.  *snort*


    Edits;  AFter a bit of peering around it was 87 mile per hour gust as the highest.  *weeeeeeee*

  • Mini rant this morning.


    Zeria's stupid Awana book had a break-the-code kind of thing.  First of all she's been struggling since her beginning of reading with reading words backwards.  was=saw  no=on etc.    Its a daily battle.


    So what did they do?


    They wrote a whole bunch of words exactly backwards and wanted her to write them out.


    It only took her 3 hours.  *sigh*


    And only because she was absolutely determined to do it.


    What a stupid assignment for a 3rd grader considering how many kiddos struggle with dislexia.

  • Ya know my tongue in cheek comment about boys I did Sunday night?


    Oh man.


    Samuel loves paint.


    He's always getting into my semi-used cans of latex.  He's ruined more outfits that way.  We've put it up, but now that he's 8, that's not really a issue.  At 8 their supposed to know better.


    Anyhow.


    Samuel broke a angels back this afternoon...or blinded one as the case may be.


    He found a can of spray paint left over from one of my projects.


    The story differs here, but nearly as I can tell he was attempting to get inside it, and it exploded.


    All over his face, eyes, mouth, nose.


    I have done a fair amount of kids emergencies, but this one actually scared me to the core.  Even more then when they tried to burn the house down when they were much smaller.


    But 45 minutes of flushing water out of his eyes, a check from his nurse daddy (who I called home from work)  and a call to poison control, and he's fine.  He still has paint on his chin, his hair, his stomache.   As he stood in the shower flushing water out of his eyes he prayed outloud without being asked over and over that God would keep his eyes safe.   


    He  can see fine, and he can breathe fine.  Mommy...she's over here shaking.