Reminising & Ruminating

Shall we go for a walk today?

here we are walking from our house down to grandma's on park st in Eagle.

Chrisy is not big enough to walk by herself so mommy and daddy are holding her hands.

Can you believe it has been 30 years?

and i still like holding her hand, even though she can walk by herself...

come into my parlor...

i was headed into the house from the garage,there is no interior door. as i got onto the porch i noticed a HUGE-mongous spider web abound the porch light. there was a moth trying to escape the sticky web and the spider was chasing the moth around the web. i stood there shocked as i witnessed the "nature" program unfolding before me. of course in true predator fashion, the spider caught the the moth and then i went into the house with a renewed sense of awe for the "wild life" that is around me every day...



...said the spider to the fly


good thing halloween decorations are already out in walmart, because i still have "my" spider web up on the porch

Last night around 11:30 I went out side. It was so peaceful and quite. I live in town, a mile from the freeway, across from a school, and if you go one mile into town is the hospital. I can hear the traffic and the big trucks pulling out of the gas station, and when the ambulance goes by boy you know I hear that. But tonight it was peaceful. as I looked up in the sky I can see the big dipper, and other stars too, the moon is almost full, so there is a lot of night light. When looking at the big dipper I see a flashing light, red-white-red, it is a aircraft of some sort. Where are they going? and can they see the big dipper too? Soon it is gone. just the trees swaying in the wind.

I've got WORMS!

"I've got worms!! save that for me!" and all the kitchen staff turn and look with alarmed faces, "that's right, you heard me I've got worms."

Now before you tell what to use to get rid of them let me explain. A teacher at school had worms first. I wanted to have worms too, so he gave me some of his. well the first time I had worms I think they froze or died from no water and they were in the garage, that could have had something to do with it??? any way the teacher had more worms, and gave me another "start". This time I was NOT going to let them die!

I got a wooden box from a tractor dealer. I asked my son-in-law to pick it up for me, he said he would and that was that. time passed and my son-in-law some how never got around to picking up the box. So on my way to work one day, I looked, the box still there,so I would pick it up my self and put it in the trunk of my car and bring it home. Just so happens my son-in-law came by that very day to my work. "Hey," I said "will you pick up the box today?" "oh yea, I ready did" he said. My daughter said "it was a good thing I was with him because it took all we had to pick it up". My turn to laugh, I told them how I was going to pick it on my way home that very day. We all had a good laugh. We walked out to the truck and the box hung out from the tailgate by 2 feet! "and I was going to pick this up! and put it in my car" I said laughing, oh my. We got home with the box and it was all I could do to "help" with the end that I was carrying. We put it down by the shed and said we will move it later. Later hasn't come yet.

Oh yeah back to the worms. I got my next set of "starter" worms and in the box they go. Now I need to feed them. So the best thing is, you guessed it, left over food from the salad bar and other kitchen waste of course. Carrot peelings, cucumber ends, onion skins, you know things like that. and when I mow the lawn the grass clippings will go in there too. The other thing that is good to use is shredded newspaper. so I found good use for the adds that I get in the driveway every Thursday.

I have been feeding(composting) my worms all summer now. After mowing the yard this week I put the grass clippings in the box and give it a mix. By this time I am using a "small" garden fork not to be confused with a "pitch fork". After turning and moving the feed around, I look desperately for my worms!, Slowly moving the feed again, no..., move the feed around again. There!, there is one! right there! Yes I have worm... one worm.

The other day when I added some feed for my "worms", I saw a small crack in the side of the box. Thinking If I was a worm, would I worm out that hole? No say I, because of all this feed in here I would stay in this lovely box!

Now, I don't know if I should ask the teacher for any more worms or not. oh and the teacher? he has them in his class to teach the students about composting.

Someday, I will transplant the strawberry plants to this box and have the biggest and fattest and juiciest strawberries around. That's the plan. In the mean time, save that kitchen waste, because I Got WORMS!

sewing

sewing with my mom on Sundays for the past a 2 years. this last week, 7/4/10, we are working on a scrappy- using up all the small pieces form all the other quilts that we have made. this one is using up the longest pieces, 2in wide, or smaller. you need the longest ones for the middle of the block. you sew them from corner to corner diagonally, using dark colors on one side and lighter colors on the other side of the square, the name "sun shine shadow" you can put it together with the dark colors together to the light ones, ether way it look nice and fun to make because there is no real pattern to follow and or to mess up.
Mom said that her mom use to sew all the center pieces 1st before the children could cut them in to small pieces, so then mom and her brother, and other children of the family would sew the rest of the pieces on. so making this is fun in two ways, mom and i working together and hearing what mom did as a kid, the more things change the more they stay the same...

make sure it's good for you

one thing I use to do... pick up donuts for breakfast on sabbath morning. I would let Chrisy pick out hers and I always got a "jelly=filled" :) I can almost taste it now. Chrisy would get a maple-bar.
Chrisy always sat on one side of the table, me on the other. This one sabbath morning, I come into the kitchen to find a bite out of my donut, so I ask, are we trading donuts today?, oh no Chrisy said I just wanted to make sure it was going to be good for you.

From time to time we would get drinks from the Micky D's drive-in, this one day Chrisy said "my drink doesn't taste good", I tasted it. It was only carbonation, no flavoring. I had to go back and get a "new drink" for her. From that day on I always tasted her drink to... "make sure it's good for you".

dreams, what if, I want to do...

I want to go to black Hills Health & Education Center for 2 weeks, just to be pampered, I know this sound totally selfish...also 20 day Lifestyle program, and the school of message therapy and personal training. my dream is to be a massage therapist, not that i plan to quit my job right now, but... someday

I would love to go to ,Hawaii, tried talking my daughter into going when she graduated 8th grade, she wanted to go to Wisconsin with a youth group. Ok going with 2000 youth, or going with your mom :{ so this is still on my list.

time

I just spent an hour typing, and didn't save :(

~chrisy in~ i came home and mom is so upset that her work is gone, i know that it auto saves, looked in the drafts and sure enough! i saved the day, again...

7 brides for 7 brothers

Tonight is the opening night of the play 7 brides for 7 brothers at TVCC. My daughter is the "set maker"- I know she has a "title" but i don't know right now what it is. I am here baby-sitting Bi, he is very sleepy, but it is only 6:30, so I will let him stay up longer. so as he is staying up, I help clean up the babies room pick up toys, help put away some clean clothes, run the dishwasher, run another load of laundry, boy time goes by fast, it now 5 to 8p. good, time to put Bi down, now he is sleepy and he wants to go to sleep, but he doesn't want to go to bed, but down he goes with crying for a few minutes and then, sleep comes.
oh yes back to the opening night... Chrisy took the Ai & Ei. Ei told me that she "had" to go with mom to the college and they would go in the red car. Ei is happy to be "going" I hope she can set still for the play, can't wait to hear how it went. Oh, Big papa,oma, Lisa and her boyfriend will meet them there.
I have seen this play at TVCC once before, long ago... anyway.
This story is very dear to Chrisy and I. when Chrisy was around 7 years old, I rented this move, took it back rented something different, the next weekend we had to rent 7 brides for 7 brothers again. Now this went on for quite a few weeks, got me to thinking, I could have bought this move by now! So to the store we go and buy the move, we watch it to this day. Lisa when she was younger, around seven too, she always wanted to watch the "dancing move" all the time. We have gotten our moneys worth I should say!
One year after being at a family reunion in Laural MT. oma, Chrisy, around 12yrs old, and I coming home, oma could not stay awake driving, but we did not want to stay at a motel, so we started reciting lines from the move, we started at the beginning and went all the way to the end singing and all, that was some fun times! oh ya we made it home safe and sound too.
Now 20+ years later Chrisy is putting this play set together. who would have thought?

I thought Jesus was going to come today

David and the kids came over the othe night,Ai was in the tv room I ask her about her day...she said I thought Jesus was coming today. oh, and what made you think that? I ask... oh today as I was looking in the sky I saw a big white fluffy cloud and I thought Jesus could come in that cloud. My teacher said Jesus was comig in a cloud riding a white horse, I dont know if I belive that, but I know he is coming in a cloud. we both agreed that it would have been nice. and that was that