He used one of his gourds and honeysuckle vine.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Elon Has Been Creative
Here are some pictures of Elon's Gourd Egg Basket.
He used one of his gourds and honeysuckle vine.
He used one of his gourds and honeysuckle vine.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Guess Whose Birthday It Is?
Boy, it wasn't that long ago that I had some characters that looked like this:
What happened?
Psalm 139:13-16
For you did knit me together
In the womb, before my birth
And I will confess and praise you
For wonderful are your works
My frame was not hidden from you
As in secret I was being formed
Like a beautiful embroidery
Woven before I was born
Your eyes saw my substance
Without form in the depths
And in your book my life was recorded
Before I ever took breath
© By M.S.Lowndes
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA
Thursday, January 29, 2009
For Monday, January 19
Hi
I thought I'd catch up on some writing.
I've been busy at work some days, but on other days I've worked on a different unit or left at home "on-call". Last weekend I worked both days, but Thursday I worked 8 hours on Med/Surg as a CNA. On Friday I was left home. I use PTO (Paid Time Off), but that is OK as I have lots of time.
I've been having troubles with the Escort for awhile, because the clamp to the positive pole of the battery was broken. It went well until the battery died. Replacing the battery was all it took to upset that clamp even further--the clamp is only a copper band.
Thursday when I went to work, I noticed that the battery light flashed all the way to work. I knew I wouldn't be able to get home because of the car lights, so I looked at work for something to keep the copper band on tight. I got about 10 miles or so and the car started to lose it's power. I have a friend that lives about 1/2 mile from there, so I pulled in. He let me borrow a visegrip to hold the clamp in place. I took off from Dwayne's only to encounter the same problem at the corner of 54 and HH. The tach died, then the speedometer died, then the car started dying...jerk, sputter, surge, jerk, sputter, surge. When I turned down our gravel road, I lost the power steering, so I figured I was down. I prayed, "O, Lord, please get me home." Jerk, sputter, surge down to the driveway...died, no surge, then died, dead, as I pulled into my parking place at home. I made it. Whew!
The visegrip was still in place but wasn't attached to anything. I took everything off, put the new cable end on, and it worked, well, it would turn over, so I knew I needed to get the other parts on too. I drilled a hole in the copper big enough for the cable bolt, broke part of it, but managed to get it all clamped together. It worked and ran.
It sat for three days, until Sunday. Off to church, Josh driving, started quickly, but about 5 minutes later, no tach, then no clock, then no speedometer, then no power, Josh pulled off onto a side road. Vicky and the girls went back for tools; we tightened everything up--no go. We went back home in the Jeep, then the guys took Josh's car to church. After church I bought a tow strap--I caint remember what I did with the other one. Later Josh and I went to hitch it up to the Escort to tow it to Mike and Joe's, but wait the car started, so I took off down H. Maybe I could make it. After about 4 miles, no tach, then no speedometer, then no power. I coasted and almost made it to the top of the hill where we used to turn down to Roy's and our former house. Josh and I hitched the tow strap, and he hauled me in to Mike and Joe's.
We all went to see "Fireproof" last night--Sunday--at the Church of God Holiness.
Vicky stays busy, but the cold weather is hard on her hands from the Raynaud's disease.
Anna is busy with school--her last semester. She and most of the others spent two weeks in Kansas City doing clinicals at Children's Mercy and Truman Medical Center.
Josh is busy in construction with Paul and Dennis. He is practicing faithfully with his bow and arrow for next year.
Ezra's studying like mad extra math needed for meteorology. Elon and LaSara are faithfully continuing with their violin lessons. They've been busy with the Nancy Drew mystery computer games that Kara sent.
Ezra and Elon know their chickens and guineas well and take care them excellently.
Choco is doing well. He likes the cold weather and food. Sparky thinks he should eat all the time. Pete got his tail amputated by Bryan after a car--so Bryan thinks--ran over his tail. Pete's tail was like a piece of wood. He hopefully will get his sutures out this Friday or Saturday. He has to wear a big, plastic hood over his head, so he will not take his sutures out.
I thought I'd catch up on some writing.
I've been busy at work some days, but on other days I've worked on a different unit or left at home "on-call". Last weekend I worked both days, but Thursday I worked 8 hours on Med/Surg as a CNA. On Friday I was left home. I use PTO (Paid Time Off), but that is OK as I have lots of time.
I've been having troubles with the Escort for awhile, because the clamp to the positive pole of the battery was broken. It went well until the battery died. Replacing the battery was all it took to upset that clamp even further--the clamp is only a copper band.
Thursday when I went to work, I noticed that the battery light flashed all the way to work. I knew I wouldn't be able to get home because of the car lights, so I looked at work for something to keep the copper band on tight. I got about 10 miles or so and the car started to lose it's power. I have a friend that lives about 1/2 mile from there, so I pulled in. He let me borrow a visegrip to hold the clamp in place. I took off from Dwayne's only to encounter the same problem at the corner of 54 and HH. The tach died, then the speedometer died, then the car started dying...jerk, sputter, surge, jerk, sputter, surge. When I turned down our gravel road, I lost the power steering, so I figured I was down. I prayed, "O, Lord, please get me home." Jerk, sputter, surge down to the driveway...died, no surge, then died, dead, as I pulled into my parking place at home. I made it. Whew!
The visegrip was still in place but wasn't attached to anything. I took everything off, put the new cable end on, and it worked, well, it would turn over, so I knew I needed to get the other parts on too. I drilled a hole in the copper big enough for the cable bolt, broke part of it, but managed to get it all clamped together. It worked and ran.
It sat for three days, until Sunday. Off to church, Josh driving, started quickly, but about 5 minutes later, no tach, then no clock, then no speedometer, then no power, Josh pulled off onto a side road. Vicky and the girls went back for tools; we tightened everything up--no go. We went back home in the Jeep, then the guys took Josh's car to church. After church I bought a tow strap--I caint remember what I did with the other one. Later Josh and I went to hitch it up to the Escort to tow it to Mike and Joe's, but wait the car started, so I took off down H. Maybe I could make it. After about 4 miles, no tach, then no speedometer, then no power. I coasted and almost made it to the top of the hill where we used to turn down to Roy's and our former house. Josh and I hitched the tow strap, and he hauled me in to Mike and Joe's.
We all went to see "Fireproof" last night--Sunday--at the Church of God Holiness.
Vicky stays busy, but the cold weather is hard on her hands from the Raynaud's disease.
Anna is busy with school--her last semester. She and most of the others spent two weeks in Kansas City doing clinicals at Children's Mercy and Truman Medical Center.
Josh is busy in construction with Paul and Dennis. He is practicing faithfully with his bow and arrow for next year.
Ezra's studying like mad extra math needed for meteorology. Elon and LaSara are faithfully continuing with their violin lessons. They've been busy with the Nancy Drew mystery computer games that Kara sent.
Ezra and Elon know their chickens and guineas well and take care them excellently.
Choco is doing well. He likes the cold weather and food. Sparky thinks he should eat all the time. Pete got his tail amputated by Bryan after a car--so Bryan thinks--ran over his tail. Pete's tail was like a piece of wood. He hopefully will get his sutures out this Friday or Saturday. He has to wear a big, plastic hood over his head, so he will not take his sutures out.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Jean
Who are we Jean?
I'm watching you Jean.
Beet yu kant no who i am.
Any guesses?
Do you know who this sophiscated being is Jean?
What do you think?
I'm watching you Jean.
Beet yu kant no who i am.
Any guesses?
Do you know who this sophiscated being is Jean?
What do you think?
Thursday, January 15, 2009
It was bright
You may have noticed the extra bright moon on our last full moon--the night of the tenth.
Felix, one of our critters on our place, writes:
Posted by Felix
did yu miss the moon?? i hope not.
this iz frum space weather .com
EXTRA MOONLIGHT: No, it wasn't your imagination. The full Moon of Jan. 11th really was extra bright. Dr. Elmar Schmidt of the SRH University of Applied Sciences in Heidelberg, Germany, used an absolutely-calibrated photometer to precisely measure the moonlight and found it more than 50% brighter than that of a typical full Moon. This made it possible, for example, to skate the frozen canals of the Netherlands long after dark:
"The bright moonlight was perfect for skating," says Jan Koeman of Oosterschenge. "I photographed the skaters using my Nikon D300--no flash required."
Three factors contributed to the Moon's extraordinary brightness:
1. The Moon was at perigee, the side of the Moon's elliptical orbit closest to Earth.
2. The Earth-Moon system was near perihelion, the side of Earth's elliptical orbit closest to the sun. Extra sunlight increased the reflected luminosity of the Moon.
3. The Sun-Earth-Moon trio were almost perfectly aligned. This triggered a strong opposition effect--an intense brightening of the lunar surface caused by the temporary elimination of normal shadows.
yu wil be mad at yorself if yu missed it. i thank it iz rair if not vairy rair. elin haz sum pics of it if yu want sum. ask elin for sum of the pics of the moon of januwairy elevinth. to bad yu are in the city :(:(:(
This image is one of the paths by our creek. You can see the individual blades of grass easily.
If you look closely, you can see a blue spot on the left center of the image. It is Josh's bales of straw for his bow and arrow practice.
This is one of our fields.
An out building.
Do you recognize anyone?
These pictures are raw pictures, no time lapse or anything. If you look on them you can see the colors.
Flying
I liked this video and thought you might like it, too. I'm trying to talk Vicky into it, then Rex. It sure looks fun.
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Chicken Life Here At The Ranch
Well, here's some chicken music for you from some of our famous chickens.
Family Letter for 2008
Howdy
I'm late as usual.
Jenny and James are still in Bradenton Beach, FL.
Jenny finally had a picture of herself. She—like a lot of us—doesn't like her picture taken.
She has a blog that she updates frequently. She's a country girl living in the city, which makes it hard, but she has the ocean only a few blocks away.
James and Jenny plan to come to Anna's graduation in May.
Kara is in Grand Canyon. Still working hard as a bell man.
Luke is in Ecuador teaching English and studying through the University of Phoenix.
Mark is in Ecuador as well for a visit. He'll return to the Grand Canyon in January or February.
Ezra and Elon worked hard on their garden and points in educational games online to earn enough to receive a camera—Canon PowerShot SD870 free.
We went to Mansfield, MO this past spring as usual to Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.
We bought a number of rare seeds.
Ezra and Elon grew a number of great gourds.
This is a Jelly Melon. The fruit inside is green; you squeeze it out for the juice which is red. I thought it was kinda bitter. The potatoes did well in my garden, but they were all small. The tomatoes didn't do well until very late in the season. Oh, well I'm ready for this spring.
The children like their chickens. This is Old Red.
This is Hazel.
We like to Ha Ha Tonka state park. It seems we go there every year. This year the yellow jackets bothered us the whole time we were eating. We like to hike the trails, go down the steps—all 276—or whatever it is, watch the spring, look over the castle, and watch the river.
Jenny says she wants to take James there when they come here in spring.
Elon.
Elon on castle picture.
Ezra in tree picture.
We can't forget this one. This is Laser.
Vicky's been busy. It seems like there is always something to do.
I've been busy at work. There is no end to the number of sick. I'm sad when people are sick, but on the other hand that means I can still work. I'm already looking forward to gardening.
Anna and LaSara
Josh is busy in construction, except when the weather is bad. He recently bought a compound bow. He is practicing, so he can go hunting next year.
The Lord Jesus has truly blessed us this year.
My other blog is Choco Says.
I'm late as usual.
Jenny and James are still in Bradenton Beach, FL.
Jenny finally had a picture of herself. She—like a lot of us—doesn't like her picture taken.
She has a blog that she updates frequently. She's a country girl living in the city, which makes it hard, but she has the ocean only a few blocks away.
James and Jenny plan to come to Anna's graduation in May.
Kara is in Grand Canyon. Still working hard as a bell man.
Luke is in Ecuador teaching English and studying through the University of Phoenix.
Mark is in Ecuador as well for a visit. He'll return to the Grand Canyon in January or February.
Ezra and Elon worked hard on their garden and points in educational games online to earn enough to receive a camera—Canon PowerShot SD870 free.
We went to Mansfield, MO this past spring as usual to Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.
We bought a number of rare seeds.
Ezra and Elon grew a number of great gourds.
This is a Jelly Melon. The fruit inside is green; you squeeze it out for the juice which is red. I thought it was kinda bitter. The potatoes did well in my garden, but they were all small. The tomatoes didn't do well until very late in the season. Oh, well I'm ready for this spring.
The children like their chickens. This is Old Red.
This is Hazel.
We like to Ha Ha Tonka state park. It seems we go there every year. This year the yellow jackets bothered us the whole time we were eating. We like to hike the trails, go down the steps—all 276—or whatever it is, watch the spring, look over the castle, and watch the river.
Jenny says she wants to take James there when they come here in spring.
Elon.
Elon on castle picture.
Ezra in tree picture.
We can't forget this one. This is Laser.
Vicky's been busy. It seems like there is always something to do.
I've been busy at work. There is no end to the number of sick. I'm sad when people are sick, but on the other hand that means I can still work. I'm already looking forward to gardening.
Anna and LaSara
Josh is busy in construction, except when the weather is bad. He recently bought a compound bow. He is practicing, so he can go hunting next year.
The Lord Jesus has truly blessed us this year.
My other blog is Choco Says.
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