Expansion

Why is water the only thing that expands when it is cold?

Kids

Rachel was taking some pictures Sunday morning. Don't they look studious?

 

Frigid

Today's temperature was the kind that would make some men scoff. I realize we do not live anywhere close to the north pole. In fact we don't live near Canada. We live where the normal high is around 40-45 degrees. Today we got no where close to those warm temperatures. At 2:00 this afternoon it was 25 degrees according to weatherbug. Currently weatherbug is reporting a sharp 28 degrees. The wind was blowing also which made it feel colder. I find cold weather rather invigorating and I rather enjoyed the blustery day. How do you react to cold weather?

Disjointed

I was informed yesterday evening that yesterdays post was, and I quote, Extremely disjointed. To which I responded, Oh well, it is what it is. Have you ever been told your post's are disjointed and do you care if they are? If you don't post anywhere I hope you don't mind my disjointed thoughts.

More Paint

We decided to use a Property Manager for renting our other house. She suggested a few things and one of them was painting. So we painted the basement floor and walls today. They were concrete and they look much nicer now. She said our house is worth $950 a month rent. Who knows whether or not she will be able to get it but we were happy. She is responsible for taking care of everything. Her fee for this is 8% of the rent and she only gets this if someone is living in the house. We will also be doing a little work upstairs but not much.

Kitchen

Here are the cabinets I put together. I helped on the upper ones. I am very pleased with how well they turned out.

Snaggle Tooth

Don't you want to yank that loose tooth right out of her mouth?

 

Big Mess

The girls found a toy yesterday afternoon while the parents were busy with other things. The little white things are those packaging peanuts. They discovered they are fun to jump in, like leaves. The only difference was they had to clean them up...

 

NFL Coaches

I was amazed this morning when I discovered the age of coaches in the NFL. As always coaches are being hired, fired, and quiting. The ones that are being hired, are you ready for this?, are younger than I am!!! I always thought these coaches were in their 50s but this is changing. The Oakland Raiders hired a young lad who is 31. The Pittsburg Steelers new coach is 34, I believe. These guys are my age and younger. How can they possibly be ready to coach in the NFL? Time will tell I am sure. I would not knowhow to handle these athletes that is for sure. I think I am just startled at the age of these fellows and the money they will be making...

Winter Storm?

Yesterday they were predicting a winter storm. 90% chance of some sort of accumalation, mostly ice. This morning we had rain.This afternoon we had rain/freezing rain. This evening it has finally turned to sleet. I still have not seen any snow. I must admit that whent they go to all the trouble to warn me of a storm I would like to see it actually do something. Maybe by morning we will have lots of snow....
but I doubt it...

Today's Activities

Let's see, what have I done today... I am sure your dying to know...
First I laid in bed until 7:30-8:00. This is unheard of for me...
Second I fed all the kids.
Third I went to check on the cows.
Fourth I started draining our old waterbed at the old house.
Fifth I went and cut a little wood for our fireplace.
Sixth I finished the waterbed and went to the dump with it. It was a complete joke.
Seventh I moved our spare bedroom bed over and set it up.
Eighth I checked email.
Ninth I ate some fresh homemade bread.
Tenth I typed this.
To do yet I have
One Eat more bread.
Two Read my book.
Three Milk this evening.
Four Do as little as possible.
Five Go to bed early...
What did you do today?

An evening Feast

This is the simple fare of a man who doesn't know what he wants to eat. The man in question takes three pieces of homemade bread. He then spreads crunchy peanut butter over them, thickly. He then places them in the oven and broils them until the peanut butter begans to turn to a liquid. He will then place them on a plate before giving them a soak in Maple Syrup. He will wash this down with long swigs of ice cold milk.
Author's Note
The author has never tried this with any form of bread except for homemade. Any other style of bread may be a complete failure.

The Pianist

I mentioned some time ago I had finished a book entitled The Pianist. The author of this book was a Jew and survived Hitler's invasion of Poland. He wrote this book immediately following the war and you can tell the man is a state of shock. The author is kept alive by a German soldier who is at odds or doesn't agree with Hitler's regime. The book also has some excerpts from this German soldiers diary. Among these excerpts is this thought. If people live like they don't won't anything to do with God at some God will decide they will have to live without Him. When this happens they turn into animals. The soldier's point was, I believe, that the Germans had begun to treat the Jews like an animal would treat another animal. Worse actually because they were killing innocent people. Soldiers would fire the pistols into crowds of people for absolutely no reason. They had an unexplainable joy in killing. Without God we are nothing we live like heartless creatures...

Author

Out of the following list of authors who is your favorite?
George McDonald
James herriot
Janette Oak
C. S. Lewis
None of th above...

Saul/Paul

I was reading the account in Acts concerning Paul and his desire to go into Asia but the Spirit didn't allow him to go. Maybe I have a strange thought process but here is the process of my thoughts. What would the world be like if Paul would have ignored the Spirit and went anyway? Why didn't God want him to preach in Asia? Would my life be different if he had done what he wanted to do? If so, how would it be different? Paul probably had no idea whether this was a major decision or not. Of course, maybe all of Paul's decisions were major. How do my small or insignificant decisions affect my future and those around me, my family.

Zehr Drive

This is the only draw back in this house. We don't care for the long hall but we did need a way to travel from room to room. This is why we have our own private drive.

 

Dining Room

A shot of the dining room. The view from the window is beautiful, some times. Right across the drive is the baby calves in their hutches. Then comes the pre-fresh group. Cows close to calving. The view of the sunset from this window is astounding. I will post a picture of it sometime. You would have really good view of the horizon, at least a 150 degrees, if that makes sense....

 

Living Room

We have discovered that this room is very cozy. I like it...

 

Alive

They connected our phone line about an hour ago so our line is no longer dead. It is amazing how much we use the phone. It is a pain to try talking to people on the cell phone when you don't have good service.
We are now looking for someone to rent our other house. You interested?

Still Dead

We still have a dead phone line. Hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow evening. We are settled. I have been working hard on upper cabinets this week. I really have enjoyed it. I did not do any cutting. I have put all of them together. i will finish sanding them in the morning and we will stain them on Friday. Maybe I will take some pictures for your enjoyment. I am thinking I should be able to post from my own computer tomorrow night.

Dead line

Our phone is dead STOP
I am updating from a remote location STOP
We are moved & settling STOP
More details when phone line comes to life STOP

Today

We are hoping to move tonight. At this point it is pending on our electrician showing up this morning and getting finished. It is also pending on the inspector telling us we can move even if everything isn't perfect...

Glad

How many of you have ever listened to or heard Glad's Acapella Projects? What was your opinion of them? Like them or not? I love the first one. The second one doesn't do as much for me but I still like it.

To Town

At the last minute we decided to run into town. I told Sierra we were going to Lowes and this is how she responded. "Lowes...??? We go to Lowes almost every evening!!!" We don't go every evening but we have gone more than I would like. I think we have been there three times in the last month. I know that isn't alot but it is for us...

2007

Wow, who'd a thunk it....
I do wonder how much longer our Lord will allow this world to keep spinning...
Have any of you read the book entitled The Pianist? It is an excellent book and I plan to do a post on it in the near future.