Hey Guys! How is everyone this Tuesday? :) We are doing well, but have been keeping late nights for one reason or another, and so are only half alive in the mornings. ;) The weather here has been great! Only around 75 degrees! Yay! This last Sunday and the week before were such drastic differences. It was 100 degrees the last week, (with no A/C) and then 75 degrees this week! :) Needless to say, every was much happier this time! :) Anyway, I have been thinking that I want to do another question and answer post on here, because...they are fun! So here's the deal: I would like to see us get 50-100 questions to answer! You can continue to ask us questions until Friday, and then Saturday we can answer them all! (We'll continue to post in the meantime, so you'll just have to scroll down :) We have 33 followers, and so that is less than three questions a person if you all do it! :) Do as many as you want, and direct them toward me, Sarah, or both of us- whichever you want! Look forward to reading and answering all your questions! :) -Rachel
P.S. I began a writing blog as a sort of off-shoot of this blog, so that those of you who like reading about my writing and things, can read it there, and I won't take up so many of the posts Sarah could be doing on here! ;) You can get to it by clicking this:
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As My Wrists Slide Off The Desk and My Hair Sticks To My Neck...
It is hot. I thought May Day (at least according to all the poets) was supposed to usher in the coming of Spring? Around here, it ushered it out. Today is a full-fledged summer day. I am typing slowly because my wrists are sliding off the desk, and my fingers are sticking to the keyboard from the heat. Our A/C downstairs is broken, so it was an adventure hosting 85 people with only fans on. My face is beet red. And according to my built-in barometer, the the temperature is awful (mid 90's) and humid to beat the band. In case you are wondering about my barometer, it is more correctly termed "my hair". :)Right now my little curls around my face are standing in "spurks" out the sides of my head, and super crazy. You can always tell the weather by my hair, which is irritating because it has all the inconvinience of curls but is only wavy-ish. I felt this morning like there was fire through my veins it was so hot!!! I know I'm complaining. Sorry! But crumbs! The younger ones are playing in the sprinkler. I am half-tempted to join them! :) But seriously- not even the boys at church wanted to play volleyball because it was hot as blazes!
So, moving on to subjects that are less sticky and pink and sunny..... I am reading "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell and am loving it. A very sweet and simple story with a heroine that bears imitating! Molly Gibson is so humble and sweet and feminine! I love her! On another subject, we are all excited about the ball, and praying that it doesn't rain! Well, I am on duty to watch the kids so I'd better say adieu, and Abigail, has our mutual friend interrupted your cool slumber yet? ;) -Rachel
So, moving on to subjects that are less sticky and pink and sunny..... I am reading "Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Gaskell and am loving it. A very sweet and simple story with a heroine that bears imitating! Molly Gibson is so humble and sweet and feminine! I love her! On another subject, we are all excited about the ball, and praying that it doesn't rain! Well, I am on duty to watch the kids so I'd better say adieu, and Abigail, has our mutual friend interrupted your cool slumber yet? ;) -Rachel
Aaahhhhh, SNOW!!!!!!!!!
This is sweet little Gracie in her first snow (or at least that she remembers:)
Here we are enjoying the snow time.
Here are some tracks we found. I wonder what they belong to?;)
What shall I say except that hoped for and delightful word: SNOW!!!!
Yep. That's right! We have 4 inches on the ground right now and it hasn't stopped snowing. We figure it's been getting an inch deeper every hour or so!!! This morning I was awakened by delighted screams of the younger ones as they looked out the windows to see if "the bald weatherman" ;) was right!!! We had set out our snow gear last night and got all bundled up right away. Rachel and I played around as if we were children frolicking and romping in the snow. It's a very dry snow, which isn't that good for snowman and balls, but we still find ways to get each other thoroughly covered in that fluffy white stuff! We had a little trouble finding the newspaper for Grandma June at the end of the driveway. But hey! What can be better than coming into the warm house, shedding your snowy clothes after romping around for 45 minutes, and getting a steamy mug of homemade hot cocoa???!! Well, I should go now, because everybody else is having a snowball fight and I can't miss any of the fun!!! I hope everybody else is having as much fun as we are!!!
-Sarah
What we did today
Greetings all our faithful followers! I shall endeavor to regale you with a tale of derring-do, a story of mud and slop and friendship, in fact, an epic day in the life of... well, us! Now!
Our dear friends, the Wilsons are preparing for the beautiful and charming maiden, Morgan's graduation. I actually have been enslaved as a hairdresser to make more beautiful her Rapunzel-like tresses. You might say I am her graduation-maid instead of a bride's maid. (There, if that doesn't make humble Miss Morgan blush I don't know what will!) But anyway, they are in the middle of a large kitchen remodeling project, and all that sort of thing. Dad offered our services for today, and it turns out tomorrow. But anyway, our tale begins in the dust of a deep, dim, cluttered cavern. In fact, our garage. Dad had an elders' meeting this morning, so he left us a very long list of tools and supplies to gather. Most of them had rather mysterious names such as "flux", "teflon tape", "bernz torch", and others of that sort. With Daniel's help in decoding the words, Sarah, Benjamin and I gathered the tools while Daniel loaded lawn equipment, and then we left. We met Dad and Mr. Scott at Lowe's, and proceeded to spend the next hour and a half there. (It's no wonder that some have nicknamed it "Slow's"!)
After we escaped from that place, we continued on to the Wilson's farm. Sarah and I showed off our weed-whacker prowess, (just kidding) as we whacked their yard into shape. Then I used the walk-behind mower to mow the back area. We helped the Wilson girls sort out a load of pork they had just gotten back from the butcher, and did various other sorts of farm chores until near lunchtime. I was glad that I had packed my mud boots! I had forgotten how indispensable those are on a mucky day! Morgan and I went inside and set out lunch, and now Sarah wants to write about the remainder of the day....
(It's me Sarah, and just as a post-script I didn't bring my mud boots, and suffered having to stomp through muddy fields all day!:(
Anyhow, while we were weed-whacking Daniel had pruned all the front bushes in the flower beds and limbed up the crape-myrtles down the drive way and that was quite an improvement. So after lunch, I helped Maddie collect and wash/dry/put away 24 dozen eggs and then we went inside to make "fudge". I learned today the Wilson's quick and easy way to make a nice fudge and the secret is; Hershey's Chocolate Frosting layed out pretty thin and frozen til you can cut it!
(One more thing leftover from the morning: The Wilson's Jersey cow, Moon, delivered a bull calf earlier this morning, so we got to witness a calf's first day ;)
After the fudge making we cleaned up our mess; we'd been making it on the counter Dad and Mr. Scott had temporarily set-up!
The same two, had been setting out and arranging all the cabinet bases for their kitchen and had to make yet another run to Lowe's for a few things.
Maddie and I watched the younger ones inside while Morgan, Katie, Hannah, Daniel, Rachel, and the younger boys were picking up debris from the yard work and unloading feed Daniel had picked up earlier this afternoon.
Eventually I helped Maddie milk her goats and then the others did the cow milking.
Then we came home, out of the mist and mud.
And that pretty much sums up our Epic Day!:)
The End
Our dear friends, the Wilsons are preparing for the beautiful and charming maiden, Morgan's graduation. I actually have been enslaved as a hairdresser to make more beautiful her Rapunzel-like tresses. You might say I am her graduation-maid instead of a bride's maid. (There, if that doesn't make humble Miss Morgan blush I don't know what will!) But anyway, they are in the middle of a large kitchen remodeling project, and all that sort of thing. Dad offered our services for today, and it turns out tomorrow. But anyway, our tale begins in the dust of a deep, dim, cluttered cavern. In fact, our garage. Dad had an elders' meeting this morning, so he left us a very long list of tools and supplies to gather. Most of them had rather mysterious names such as "flux", "teflon tape", "bernz torch", and others of that sort. With Daniel's help in decoding the words, Sarah, Benjamin and I gathered the tools while Daniel loaded lawn equipment, and then we left. We met Dad and Mr. Scott at Lowe's, and proceeded to spend the next hour and a half there. (It's no wonder that some have nicknamed it "Slow's"!)
After we escaped from that place, we continued on to the Wilson's farm. Sarah and I showed off our weed-whacker prowess, (just kidding) as we whacked their yard into shape. Then I used the walk-behind mower to mow the back area. We helped the Wilson girls sort out a load of pork they had just gotten back from the butcher, and did various other sorts of farm chores until near lunchtime. I was glad that I had packed my mud boots! I had forgotten how indispensable those are on a mucky day! Morgan and I went inside and set out lunch, and now Sarah wants to write about the remainder of the day....
(It's me Sarah, and just as a post-script I didn't bring my mud boots, and suffered having to stomp through muddy fields all day!:(
Anyhow, while we were weed-whacking Daniel had pruned all the front bushes in the flower beds and limbed up the crape-myrtles down the drive way and that was quite an improvement. So after lunch, I helped Maddie collect and wash/dry/put away 24 dozen eggs and then we went inside to make "fudge". I learned today the Wilson's quick and easy way to make a nice fudge and the secret is; Hershey's Chocolate Frosting layed out pretty thin and frozen til you can cut it!
(One more thing leftover from the morning: The Wilson's Jersey cow, Moon, delivered a bull calf earlier this morning, so we got to witness a calf's first day ;)
After the fudge making we cleaned up our mess; we'd been making it on the counter Dad and Mr. Scott had temporarily set-up!
The same two, had been setting out and arranging all the cabinet bases for their kitchen and had to make yet another run to Lowe's for a few things.
Maddie and I watched the younger ones inside while Morgan, Katie, Hannah, Daniel, Rachel, and the younger boys were picking up debris from the yard work and unloading feed Daniel had picked up earlier this afternoon.
Eventually I helped Maddie milk her goats and then the others did the cow milking.
Then we came home, out of the mist and mud.
And that pretty much sums up our Epic Day!:)
The End
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