Just a Quick note.

Yes, I'm still here. It's after midnite and hubby is asleep on the couch. He got Gracie to sleep watching HI HO [Disney sing a long]. She's on the big bed and Timmy is upstairs in his bed.
I've been busy putting up applesauce, some with redhots in it for Timmy. I'll post my canning list when I get all done with everything this fall, still have pears coming up then maybe I can breath easier. Last week I had maybe 3 bushel or more sitting on the livingroom floor, all in boxes and bags. I'd put them outside at night to keep them cool then haul them back in in the morning and cover them up with blankets to retain the cold. That was a job, they were heavy. It made me weary just to look at them. The big wind storm we had blew them off of the neighbor's trees and there were so many on the ground I couldn't walk without stepping on them. It was a loss for them but a God send for me. They said I could pick up all I wanted, so I did, nice big beautiful, worm free apples, BEAUTIFUL. There were maybe 6 or 7 different kinds so I mixed them all up for applesauce. He grafts his own trees, has 3 different kinds growing on one tree. They also gave me a good amount of red plums and 2 flats of good purple plums. Made some jam and canned some after sharing with mom.
Had a break today from cutting apples. Cleaned house, Jenny made supper and brought it over for Kenny's birthday, big 57. Made two fresh apple cakes this week, one for Kenny and one for the freezor. Gotta get off this chair, my back is screamingggggggggggg! Nitie nite.

Had a nice visit tonight with Rachel. Parked her truck at the truck stop and Tim and I took her home for supper. We then walked up the hill to check out our new blacktop, visited some then took her back to the truck for a treck on home to E-Town. Sent her home with some frozen corn, blueberries and ripe plums.

Been Busy.

Hope I can get through this before I fall of the chair. Canned Mom 20 quarts of tomatoes last night till 3:15 AM then slept till 7:15. Got up and fixed breakfast for hubby and wanting so much to go back to bed, even told Hubby not to get Tim up yet 'cause I's goin back to bed for a bit. He left and I started looking through cookbooks for a recipe to put in the crock pot 'cause I didn't want to spend 3 hours cooking supper. Remembered I had a half bushel of fresh green beans in the frig that needed worked up, also a half bushel of apples and 2 pecks of plums. Also Tim's lesson takes all day of hard pushing, so I told myself to just suck it up and wake up, didn't have time for the bed. Fixed oats with maple syrup, brown sugar and cinnamon for breakfast then started in on lesson #19's paper work. Worked awhile and mom called, said the apples were screaming for attention, the deer, bees and birds were helping themselves and we needed to get some worked up. Loaded up Tim and his lesson and headed for Shady Creek Farm, East of English. Saw daddy in the barn, digging? Walked in the house expecting Mom to be busy, busy. She's sitting at the table, relaxed, with a book? I ask what was up? She says they had a disaster just after she talked to me. Said daddy was backing the tractor in the barn with a load of water in the trailer and clipped the water hydrant with the bucket. Busted the pipe off under ground and had a major water leak. Had to shut off the water at the pump house, had no water in the house to do apples so Mom was taking it easy. I took over the digging in the heavy sticky mud till we found the problem. It was broke in a good spot, thank the Lord. Daddy went to the hardware and got a piece to fix it, so I did. A person don't know how blessed they are with running water, till they don't have it anymore. Screwed the new end cap on the pipe and WOW! We had water again! Just capped it off and left the hole open for now, can fix it back later. Covered it over with plywood and set an old wash tub on it for decoration, how's that for 'Getten'er Done?' We tied in to the apples and cut like crazy. Washed and peeled them and the applesauce was white and pretty. We finally left around dark and headed home. Dear ol Hubby had a Blizzard from Dairy Queen waiting for us. Yum, Yum good.
Also froze 6 1/2 five gal. buckets of corn, which translates to 70 bags for the freezer.
Gotta get up and fix orange juice for breakfast. So Long.

Good Time, Girls?

Well, did anyone of you ladies have a good time on Mom's birthday? Glad you put it all together girls, it was a wonderful idea, and we actually pulled it off without a hitch. For cousin Jeanie, this is what we did. Had someone fill in for mom at Bea's, girls met at Mom and Dads then drove on over to my house. We all piled in our chiriot [Dad and Tim also] and we drove to Jeffersonville to Derby Dinner Playhouse for Moms birthday surprise. Rachel met us there also. We had a nice buffet, all we cared to eat, and all the coffee we could drink. Desert was extra, way extra. The Hummingbird cake looked devine, [looks are deceiving though] so we ordered two generous slices to share amoung us. We were stuffed so didn't want a whole piece. It wasen't what it looked like. I'm a sweet eater and I didn't like it either. Daddy had mounds of strawberry shortcake, or more like mounds of whipped topping, and Sharon ordered a Brownie Supreme, a moist chocolate brownie, piled high with creamy vanilla icecream, pour on gobs of ooey-gooey hot fudge and a mountain of whipped cream and there you have it. Anyway, tables were cleared and a cast of seven very good actors performed the play "Smoke On The Mountain Homecoming." It was very nice and we all enjoyed it emencly. It was nice that we could all manage to get together again, especially for moms birthday. Here's a little something I wrote afterwards to send to Rachel on her birthday the following week.

SO GLAD YOU CAME TO VISIT,
TO GRACE OUR FAMILY TIES.
HOW NICE TO SAY HELLO,
HOW HARD TO SAY GOODBYES.

WE'LL HAVE TO MEET AGAIN,
SOMEHOW, REAL SOON
TO SHARE AND LAUGH AND TALK AND EAT,
BEFORE THE NEXT 'BLUE MOON'

TILL THEN WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP IN TOUCH,
BY PHONE, OR NOTE OR LETTER,
BUT MEETING FACE TO FACE AGAIN,
WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.

That goes out to all of you who drove the distance to 'Keep in Touch.' LOVE TO ALL

Yes, believe it or not, I'm still here. Think I've messed my page up, somehow, I have to go through a setup that I've not had to go through before today. I installed 'Realplayer' to go to a kids program, didn't like what I saw so I've sat here a couple hours trying to get it out. Finally uninstalled it and also lost my direct way to the bloggs. Just hope I didn't mess up hubby's page. He don't like me installing things and messin up the computer. Any way, took Little Britches to the last day of CARES program at the school, stopped at 2 yardsales, visited a neighbor, made orange goatmilk icecream [with orange Koolaid and orange Jello] and waisted the rest of my day trying to outsmart this computer. I had plans for 'My Day' but they didn't pan out.
Little Britches has completed 5 lessons in his second grade program. We started a little early on purpose. Would have been three weeks ahead but had a couple little boys staying the last two weeks to go to Bible school with him. It was their first time inside a church and they really likes it. They are 7 and 8 years old and Tim had a blast with them here. I was ready to run away.
I thank God for the rain we had, a tad less then 1 inch, but still a much needed rain. Hubby planted soybeans over at the farm, about 15 acers, and the rain was a Godsend. He planted 'no till' on a hilly old cow pasture so now we are waiting for a guy to go spray to kill all the pasture grass. I ask the Lord to send rain, bless the crop abundently and make it prosper. So, that rain was just what I ask for and I'm believing for a good harvest. PTL!
Oh how I need to get up and dust, sweep, gussy up my hair, fix supper, go pick up Tim, prepare the papers for the rest of his lesson tonight, stir the icecream in the making, .............. there's no end to it...............................So Long.

Well school is out, finally. I had high hopes for him to read every day and do a little writing, like thank-you notes for birthday cards and gifts, but that isn't panning out very fast. Started one two weeks ago but it still lays, waiting for attention. He's spent a week back and forth between Granny's and Ruths and loved it, I did too.

Canning season has begun. I've frozen 10 jugs of tea, 10 qts. of strawberries and 10 qts. of sour pie cherries. Talk about a job. Yesterday, in the heat and humidity, I picked, and picked and picked, cherries. After about 3 gal. I had to give it up and head home, had company waiting at the door when I got there. Ended up with 6, and three to spend the night, so need I say it was a long night. Had to work up all the cherries, it was too much work to let them sit and spoil, finished about 3:00 am then crashed. Had to get up and get kids bathed and ready for church, hubby helped. He was a walking zombie himsalf, out disking till 4:00 am then up and out again, all day in a closed tractor with a broken airconditioner and 95 degrees in the cab, or more. Said he couldn't leave the door open on account of all the dust boilong in. He was beat! Finally, tonight, all is quiet and back to normal, whatever that is. I need to get up at the crack of dawn and go pick cherries in the morning, brfore it gets hot or the birds get them. Last year a late hard frost got them, the year before, a hoard of birds swooped down and devowered them all in one day. One day they were there and the next day they were gone.

Little Britches and I went down in the woods Friday to gather ditney tea. I guess it likes to be harvested because this year I found more then the 2 previous

Sneak Peak

Took a quick sneak peak at the family page but it was Greek to me on how to get on it. Right now I'm pushing Lil Britches to WRITE. He's spent over an hour on five very short lines, like 25 short words. He's sitting at the table, it's 10:00 am and his latest excuse is, 'I fell asleep.' Until this school work is done....................................

Field Trip

Went to the zoo today, field trip for Lil Bit and Sissy. Surprise of all surprises, Hubby took off work and went with us, took us actually. We all spent the day together. It was cold this morning, 22 degrees when we got up. My poor bleeding hearts were all droopy. Anyway, the group all met at 10:00 at the zoo and we went from there. It did warm up some and the sun felt wonderful. Left from there and ate at the Golden Coral, stopped at Lowes, Sams and a couple parts stores. Kids slept on the way home, I wanted to, it was a long day. Hubby changed cloths real quick and left again to help Son rescue the bull dozer, he had it hung up. It's now 10:00 and he's not home yet. Kids are watching Narnia and eating popcorn. I need to get things picked up and put away and get the younguns to bed, I have to work tomorrow, one goes to school and one to piano lesson.

Spelling Paper

How's this for a first grader? I told Tim if he'd write a good spelling paper, that I'd post it for all to see. His eyes lit up and he got busy and wrote nice. Sooo......., here it is. How about a little encouragement, a little feedback, something he can read for himself and get inspired to get his work done. We are on lesson #146, with 24 more to go, Glory Be! I'm pushing to get it done before warm weather. Already he's giving me grief over having to get lessons instead of out playing "because it's WARM outside" he laments. Thank you Ruth for all the work and time you put into his chart. It has helped some, hopefully it will continue to inspire through the remainder. I have offered stars a couple of times and he said "I don't want a star, I want a marble"

TEA PARTY

I had a little tea party, this afternoon at three
T'was very small, three guests in all
Just I, Myself and Me.
Myself ate all the sandwiches
While I drank all the tea
T'was also I who ate the pie

And passed the cake to me.

Oh! Hi there, you caught me dreaming............ T'was a fun dream anyway. Join me won't you?

Now, down to earth, the very stuff of life. My 'real' day was full of, "Change 'Y' to 'I' and add 'ed', drop the silent 'e' and add 'ing', double the final consonant, circle the special sounds and mark the vowels, underline the root words and circle the suffixes, 'when a root word ends with a silent 'e', drop the 'e' before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel, put the spelling words in ABC order, write 9-99 by 10's, horizonally, write two words for each sound on PHONICS CHART #9, Use these spelling words in sentences: CHURCH, CHIN, CHOOSE, PATCH, DITCH, BENCH, copy spelling list #28, consisting of 16 words, four times each, copy the following 16 spelling words and underline the prefixes, circle the root words, copy, THE LAZY MAN AIMS AT NOTHING AND USUALLY HITS IT, THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO DO ABOUT ANYTHING, AND THAT IS THE RIGHT THING. And on and on it goes, hour by hour, day by day. So.............. that's how my days go, just incase you wondered. And now it's midnight, Good Night,ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Sisters Forever!

This was taken on Jan's birthday in
Aug. 2004

WOW, how about that snow? It just kept coming and coming. It reminded me of the poem by John Greenleaf W.[I think] Who's woods are these?
I think I know,
His house is in the village though,
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Got up this morning to a thick blanket of pristine whiteness.
We measured 11 inches on the table on the back deck. Hubby was called to go in to work at 2: 30 am but he told dispatch that we had 10 inches of the stuff and the roads were not plowed. They called back and
told him to wait till noon to come in. That was just fine with him. His truck was parked at the top of the hill, that would have been a long cold walk, trudging up hill in 10 inches of snow at 2:30 am. After he left for work I started shoveling and kept it up for a couple hours till he came home and took over. It's now dusk and it's all cleaned off, ready for the cold night to settle in. Had our leftover birthday pizza and apple cake for supper, hatches battened down, cat fed and hopefully we're settled in.....till dispatch calls again.
Farmgirl....don't know if this is still good, found it in a 2004 magazine. Check out www.kbhilltopstables.com it would interest you. It's a video monitoring system for animal lovers to share in the wonder of birth. I intended to check it out before I got on here but didn't get it done.
Don't forget to change your clocks back tonight.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes for us both.

High Speed Here We Go!

WOW! I'm cruising now baby. This high speed Internet is NICE! Now I don't have to go wash dishes or do laundry while I wait for something to come up. I highly recommend it. It would be easy now to spend too much time on the puter, to sail from one thing to another.
Hubby has worked for weeks to get it for us and a handful of neighbors. We are right on the border line to get it, our neighbor to the North is out of the boundary line, we barely made it. He made phone calls after calls, pulled some strings, tweaked some noses, twisted a few arms, made some 'inside' phone calls, went over heads to work around some 'stallers' and WAALA, it's here. If our house set just a few more feet down the road, we couldn't get it. Eventually, who knows when, next year maybe, it might have come our way. It's nice to have a hubby who works for the phone company. He was pulling hard for our neighbor to get it ,her husband left for Iraq and she needed high speed to communicate with him. Mom, you know her, she and her family lived in your travel trailer twenty some years ago.
Home schoolers went to the IMAX yesterday. Took Tim, Lucina and Miss Beth, had a nice time. It was cold, windy and rainy, snow blowing, yes both, but we found a nice parking place under I64, overlooking the Ohio river. We just sat there awhile, since we were early, and watched the wind whip up white caps and [sea?] gulls bobbing up and down on the waves. The film was interesting, about 'Our Wonderful Ocean' not the exact title, I've slept since then. Of course, we hit the Goodwill stores on the way back, it was nice to spend some time together. Came home in time to warm up leftover good, creamy rich potato soup for supper. It warmed the tummy and hit the spot.

Hi Y'all, Not much to say. There's an ominous, threatening black cloud hanging over us, hope it moves on. The wind is gusting something fierce. I suppose it's the same in your area too.
Hubby just brought me a piece of icecream cake, trying to plump me up some more.
Wow, the sun just popped through the dark clouds, nice. I'm sitting here soaking up the gardenia perfume, hanging heavyly around me. I recomend a gardenia plant to anyone who likes flowers. I told myself, "Myself, I'm not going to bother bringing it in this fall, just let it freeze." I then thought of how long I've had it, maybe six or more years, and how good the one lone flower smelled last year, so I repotted it in a bigger pot and brought it in. Glad now that I did. It took off with a new lease on life and rewarded me, covered in blooms. I have so enjoyed it this winter. They bloom on new growth so don't trim them back at the wrong time.
I'm watching a bird in the feeder just inches from the window. He's trying to pick up two sunflower seeds at the same time and can't, guess he's afraid another will get it.
I'd best get to my icecream before I have to drink it. So long.

Hi'ya all, I know, I know, I'm in hot water for not writing. Thanks Jeanie for the photo, that's a 'new' one I've not seen before. I too love to look at old photos, post some more when you have time, please. Thanks Lucena for your update too. I check in about once a week but usually don't have the time to write, and it won't let me comment, but I do check in. Little Britches is calling, wanting to know what to do on his math paper. Gotta jump off of here.

Hi there Miss Beth, WELCOME aboard. We needed some new young blood in our midst, just what the Dr. ordered. You go girl, keep us on our toes, keep us rocking, keep us guessing. Tried to comment elsewhere but it just would no except anything from me.
Son is better, still coughing, thanks for your prayers.Hubby spent the day just trying to breath, said to just shoot him and get it over with.Said if getting older is this bad at 55, he don't want to be around at 80. He's always had a breathing problem since he broke his nose years ago, or rather, a horse broke his nose. Nights are really bad , trying to breath. Any suggestions anyone?
It's midnight and I'm waiting for a load of laundry to finish.
Got the window finished except for 4 decorative brackets that need holed drilled in them. Got the shelf up across the top with pretties on it and the mantel clock. I'm waiting for the calender clock to get finished at the Clock Shop. Don't have a place to put it but I'm still waiting. BY BY.

Surprise

Just checking to see if this thing still works, or if I can still work it. Hubby left for work again at 10:30 tonight and I've been sitting here catching up on blogs for 2 1/2 hours. Antique Mommy's story about "The Box" was a tear jerker , have a Kleenex handy if you haven't already read it. Number One Son got sick , could hardly breath, sore throat, tummy hurt. Took him to After Hours Care on Sunday noon when they opened. Said he had strep throat and the Croup. Got med for both. Throat got relief fast from the 4 little pills. He felt some better on Monday but worse on Tuesday. I checked his temp. about 50 times, it was hovering at 102 as best I could tell. He had a red rash that itched. His tummy was REALLY hurting so I called Doc and they said bring him on in. They checked his temp to be 104, cooking as she put it. She gave him some fever reducer, looked at his raw throat, ask questions, looked at rash and said he has Scarlet Fever, brought on from high temp and strep throat. Very contagious. He itched like crazy at the doc's office and scratched till he drew blood. I hate to give med. but doc said this was very dangerous if not treated properly and promptly. Gave him his two different meds awhile ago and put him in his bed. He'd been on the couch all day sleeping. He don't want anything to drink which is not good. His tummy hurts so, I'm wondering what's going on there, that's why he don't want to drink. Doc said if he's not better by Friday morning to call early in morning and I guess they'd run IV's. My back side say's it's time to get off this hard chair and the clock says so too, it's 1:30. Hubby's not home yet. Need to go check on my baby. So Long.

Need I throw in my hat first?

On second thought, think I'll keep it on my head, it's a might nippy on the ears out there. Where do I start, it's been so long time comming.Really, there's not no much news since last year. Went to Cocoa Beach Fl. in Dec., took Sarah Beth along, finally, after how many years of asking her to go with us, maybe 3 or 4 ? She and Timmy pretty well kept each other intertained, one way or the other.There's 6 years between them so the age factor played a roll in it too. Timmy wanted to do 6yr. old things and she is into the 12 [or 16] year old range so the gap has been widening over the last couple years. A little pink gameboy went along for the ride too. It was great intertainment at times but notttttttttttt so great at other times. One game and two kids wanting it all the time, at the same time, was a challenge, betimes. Fun was had by all, memories made, I'm sure. We got to see the space shuttle take off on it's mission. We were staying about 10 miles away, on the beach. We walked outside at takeoff time and down to the beach, it was after dark, and EVERYONE was out there too. The beach, the boardwalks, the roof tops, balconies, you name it and there were people there, all waiting breathlessly, for the big event. We had went to WAL-Mart earlier in the daylight, hours before liftoff time, and folks were camped out all along the roads, everywhere there was a good spot within seeing range, still miles away from Kennidy Space Center. Meanwhile, back at our beach, folks were waiting, talking in hushed tones, cameras ready, watching for the BIG event. Countdown time came, 7,6,5,4,3,2,1, BOOOOOOM. The whole sky lit up like a megga ton bomb had gone off. Being ten miles away, it was still a sight to see, the whole area was a bright orange. The crowd erupted into victory cheers, some whistleing, somecrying some clapping. Heard someone within earshot, sending a prayer up with them. Someone was shouting, GO, GO, GO! Someone else was saying, "Look at her go, my isn't that something, this is history in the making." Everyone was watching for the solid rocket boosters to drop off after it lifted up into space. This, I suppose, was a crucial point. When the big bright, white light fell away from the main body, the happy crowd erupted again, cheering, whistleing, shouting it's support, a rising crescendo lifted up with the shuttle as it soared heavenword, it's light becomming dimmer and dimmer as it ascended into outerspace on a mission. It carried a lady [among others] to the International Space Station, who is still up there today, doing expierments and such, she holds the record for the longest stay at the station. Another mission will go up before long. I'm not a fan of outer space but Kenny would go up there in a heart beat. Our week in Florida was cool, the water was cold but that didn't detur the hail and hardy. Timmy's teeth chattered so that it seemed they would break from clicking together. Sarah Beth and Kenny also braved the cold water. The waves were so strong [or the kids were so lightweight] that they got knocked down and washed back upon the beach, brushburning their backs as they rolled. OUCH! I did take my shoes off and get my feet wet, it was chilly though. We walked the beach for hours. We'd maybe walk one direction for 1 1/2 hours, then have to walk back. That's a long walk and it seems like you'll never get there. We ate good when we did get back. I took along a nice kite that I'd bought there in English at the Sun Oak Trading Post, Paid $20.00 for it, best one we'd ever had, even as kids growing up. Sarah Beth was flying it on the beach and the wind was too strong for her to hold onto it. A big gust of wind tore it out of her hands and it took off, undwinding the string as it went, just out of reach as she and I both chased franticly after it, trying in vain to run real fast in the soft sand. It eluded our grasp then lifted and sailed back toward the condos, road and streets. Kenny hollered for us to let it go but I didn't want to loose it. Sarah Beth and I took off as fast as we could, she was barefoot, I had camera in hand, in the direction it went, around the condo, parking garage,and across the side street till we could see it again. The kite was visable,way up high, so we had to look real hard for the string, and finally found it. Had to walk over into the next condo property, look up to spot the thin little string again, then follow it to where it had hooked it's self onto the very top wire of a 10 foot chainlink fence, caught by a little piece of cardboard that the string was wound on. One inch higher and it would have been gone, over the 4 lane highway and into the electric lines. Wow, that was close. Sarah Beth managed to climb up the high fence and retrieve it, it was murder on her bare feet. Kenny couldn't believe that we got it back. He was still back on the beach with Timmy when we returned from our chase. His concern was the electric lines, I had never given them a thought. I guess the Good Lord was looking out for us. --------------I've forgotten how to move down for another paragraph, so in order NOT to loose what I've written, I'll just have to run it all together. I've lost too much in the past to push the wrong key now.---------------Well let's see, what's next? Sarah Beth was glad to get home, but maybe her mamma and dadda were even more glad. I think we got home in the wee morning hours, so she spent the next day before I took her home..........We didn't have our last Christmas supper with the kids till the end of January so didn't get the tree down till into Feb. I was glad to see it go. I still have to go downstairs and put it all away.....................I had been helping Kenny put up the metel building, there's just he and I to do it. We finally got the roof on before we went to Florida, a couple of the kide did help some with that part. He and I started putting up the sides . The sheets are 20 ft. long and about 3 feet wide. I had been the one to hold it's weight and walk forward with it while Kenny guided it up into position and hold it till he could get a couple screws in to hold it. That was o.k. at the time, till one day I went to Bea's to work. I was getting my overnight bag out of the car, bent over to pick up a piece of paper and WHAAAAAAAAAAAAM! It hit me big time. I could hardly walk up the sidewalk and Ruth had to help me up the steps. I stayed all day and Ruth called a couple times to check on me. I called Mom at home and told her I was hurting. I hung up the phone and did manage to get Bea to the bathroom but couldn't get her back up. I went back to the phone to call mom for help but it just rang and rang. I thought, "Oh dear, now what.?" By then she was saying, "I can't sit like this all day." Actually ,she was only sitting maybe 5 minutes. Next thing I knew, there come mom, flying in the driveway. I was so relieved I could have cried. Mom stayed a couple hours then had to go get Daddy's supper, said she'd be back. In a little bit Bea's daughter came and sent me home, said she'd sit till mom got back. It was a good thing 'cause by morning I couldn't get up out of bed. Kenny had to get me into a sitting position and when he did, the pain was almost unbareable, my arms went numb and tingly, I started shakeing uncontrolable, got dizzy and on the verg of passing out. This was 7:00 am. time for him to go to work. He managed to get me dressed and into the vehicle and off we went to the chiropracter in Corydon. It would be two hours she said before they could see me since I was a walk in. I didn't know how I'd make it for two more hours. But I did. We went driving around till time, and sat in the Wal-Mart parking lot awhile. I couldn't manage to set down low in the chairs in the waiting room. I just couldn't manage, that's all there was to it.He took x-rays and a heat scan and I had to go back the next day for treatment. I've been going 3 days a week and just now am down to 2 days and feeling much better................. We also had waffles, Sharon, for breakfast. Hadn't had them in ages. Got up late to snow, we are snowed in, so that called for something different. I chopped up pecans, poured the batter in then sprinkled the nuts on and closed it. They were good. Had your maple syrup on them, I was saving it for a special accasion. Thank you Lord for the snow. It saved my day. Hubby was all set to go over and put sideing on the building and I was dreading it. I see no great hurry, especially when it's so cold, to have to work over there ALL DAY TILL DARK, like I had to the last two Saturdays and Half day on Sunday. Timmy is soooo board, being ther all day, he's cold and nothing much to do but play in the mud, from head to toe. He gets so dirty that I can't take him home with me in the car. He either has to go with dad or strip down to a cleaner layer. Kenny don't quit till he can't see to put another screw in, then he has to put everything away, so he doesn't get home till well after dark. He's been watching the days get a litter longer. He'll go over to the window in the evenings when he gets home from work and say something like, "See, look, it's 6:00 and not quite dark yet, it won't be long." In other words, he can hardly wait for enough daylight in the evenings to make it worth while to go to the building and work on it. NOTTTTTTT me. That means I have to go to and work till after dark, every evening. Then there's fence to build, grass to mow, road to work on, and on and on, chiggers, chiggers, chiggers! Help! I say sell it!....................Well I've sat here about 4 hours till I've gotten a headache. Timmy is asking for something to eat and hubby is on the couch down stairs in front of the T.V. He just don't know what to do with himself when he can't get out of the house. I like to get snowed in, he's dissapointed that we didn't get to work on the building today. I'll be ever so glad to get it done though, but not when it's 25 degrees outside.

This will be quick. The sun is popping over the hill in all of it's brightness, like liquid gold, spreading it's warmth over the frosty ground. Our thermometer read 15 degrees, ooooooeeeeeeeeee! Had ice on top of the pool all day yesterday. Thank God for a nice warm house. Lastnight Hubby said if he wasn't so foolish as to buy that barn, we'd have a wood furnace this winter. Oh well, he's still discouraged over not being able to finish it. The frame and 2 sheets of roofing are up. Other than that, it's been too wet and MUDDY, and no time to work on it. Days are to short now when he gets home from work to go over there. We've had so much rain too, that he can't get much done on weekends. It will be nice when it's finished, he'll feel better about it then. [except for the payments]
He's done all the work himself, except for some help from family, when they have a little time off from work. I'd like to surprise him and hire the roof put on, he don't need to be up there.
I'm about to dance a gig sitting right here. I'm listening to Daniel O'Donnell and he sets the feet to dancing.
Made myself a cup of hot 'chocolate creme' coffee and made Timmy hot peppermint tea. Sent him to his room to get dressed and bed made but I also hear him watching 'Backyard Habitat' on Animal Planet. He has chocolate chip cookies to bake today, we , or I should say he, mixed them up last night. He's been begging for awhile to make some. He helped Sarah make 'friendship bread' over at moms house on her day off. She has more patience then I do. Last night I had a time just trying to keep him from eating the butter while mixing it, also he had to taste test the sugar, flour, maple syrup and chocolate chips and then the dough. Oh well, I remember eating my share and then some, and some and some....
He's reading 3 and 4 letter words now. The best way to get him to do it is to tell him he don't know how to read or that he's forgotten the words. Then he's willing to prove us wrong and read them.
Sharon, brought in your Norfolk Pine tree yesterday. Sarah called from work and said they wanted it. I hated to let it freeze but I just didn't want to bother with it this winter. It did sit out two nights ago at 20 degrees but it didn't seem to hurt it that I can tell , yet. Just measured it at 7 feet tall. Did leave my banana tree out to freeze, it was about 10 feet tall and had no room for it. Could have cut it off and saved it but 10 years of dragging it in and out was enough.
Oh my, how the son reveals the dust on my desk, yikes! My maid quit, hence all the dirt and dust. HA HA.
Timmy lost his third tooth in the front on top, big toothless grin now. Wish I had a digital camera to show ya.
Guess I'd better wrap this up, He's been been back three times to see if I'm done blogging. He said, "You said it would only be a quick minute." I guess I failed to tell him it would be a 'mamma minute.' It's off to cookie baking then schoolwork. Come have cookies and coffee with us.

Rain, rain, rain.

How did I spend my day? Sarah came over because the water was coming up and Mom and Dad weren't home either. She had planned on taking Timmy's fall picture like she does every year but the rain hasn't stopped yet and it's 11: 30, past bedtime. Instead, she did laundry, helped Timmy with his school work, cut up apples for my apple cake, dearly enjoyed her ham and egg sandwich with a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup then topped it all off with a cup of hot herb tea and a piece of fresh apple cake. She enjoyed her day. She then went on to Bonnie's to attend her graduation from nursing[?] school, in Louisville. Hope they made it home OK in the rain. I made Kenny a apple cake last night and 3 more today. One for the freezer, one for Sarah and one for church dinner on Sunday. Had old apples that needed used up. We are moving right along with school work, we're on lesson # 78, closing in on Christmas, that far ahead but don't tell Timmy. Got the metal building frame up, most of it. I didn't help this week, Jenny, her husband Chris, Scott, and Jerod helped him some, some he did alone, a laborious task, trying to put cross beams up for the roof, alone. Gotta get Timmy to bed, he's watching Animal Planet and hubby is snoozing on the couch. I tried getting to bed early, only could manage it about 2 nights and that was it. It's now 11:45, I'll try for midnight but it's iffy, by the time I read to Timmy and get him settled down.