I've been offline for about a week. Maybe longer. I think this is a record for
me. We ran out of megabytes on our plan again. We get five gigs a month on this
plan, and it's actually the biggest plan they had. When we move, we're going to
switch to DSL. I'm tired of running out of megabytes early. It'll also be a lot
cheaper, even adding in the cancellation fee for our broadband service.
We close on our house next Monday, and we'll be moving a week from
tomorrow. I'm so excited!
Oh, btw, I hear that some of my old friends at
Shiloh are following my blog. Welcome! I hope you enjoy reading it! :)
In the past week while I've been away from the computer we've stayed
busy with 4-H projects. Joy and Sarah are taking Home Environment. I never got
to take that as a kid, so I hope they're doing this right. We talked to one of
the 4-H ladies who goes to our church about it, and she gave us a lot of hints
so hopefully they'll do a good job. They can make a hanging item or a storage
item for their room using color. They share a room, so they're making their
projects match. We went to some yard sales and Joy found a hanging wooden
lantern and Sarah found a spice rack, the kind that turns around and has the
spice bottles in holes in the sides, four to a side. They are painting them
yellow and they are going to stencil pink flowers on the sides. Joy is going to
put a fake ivy plant in the lantern (she removed the glass and the electric
candle in the middle). Sarah dumped out all the spices from the bottles and
glued pink fabric and ribbon trim on the lids, and she's going to label the
bottles with things like bobby pins and lip gloss and safety pins and other
little items.
Jay went frog gigging with some of the boys and men from
church last Friday. I'd never heard of frog gigging before, but I guess it's a
big deal. You shine a flashlight in the frogs' eyes and then stab them with this
pointy spear-like fork. Sounds gross to me, but he was the best frog gigger of
the bunch. Jay caught 15 frogs--more than any other of the men and boys who
went. He even skinned them himself, something some of the other boys didn't want
to do, and then he came home and fried them himself. I did try a little. I think
it tasted okay, but it was difficult to get past the fact that it was a frog.
In other news, one of Erick's sisters and her husband and two kids came
down to visit Saturday and also one of his brothers, and we took them to Merom
Bluff and went down the cliff. We had a lot of fun with them. We also grilled
hamburgers over an open fire and had s'mores and set off fireworks. My niece is
such a pretty baby. I had so much fun holding her and rocking her. She has the
prettiest blue eyes.
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