We are back online...

But life is busy and blogging is the first to go. I will post closer to the weekend. I went to rotate the chicken eggs last night and I heard them peeping & one was cracked. They break through an air pocket up to three days before hatching and the little guys call out to their mamma. So cute.

Jacob has Softball Clinic this week at our pastors house. He is having so much fun. Yesterday, his first day, I went to pick him up and asked how he did. He needed better shoes, cleats, maybe? All he has are Romeos, I can't afford cleats! As we left I asked the Lord to please help us find a pair of cleats, or even tennis shoes, just so he could play better. I went to the consignment store from there and found 1 pair of cleats, good shape, a little on the big side and a good price. Score! He was happy. Then we came home and I told a neighbor how the Lord provided so quickly and she hauls out a pair of even better cleats, fit like a glove. Wow! Even better!

Then we get home and my sister calls and said her husband had dug through his old stuff and found a pair that would fit Jacob, too. In a matter of 5 hours the Lord provided three fold. We stuck with my neighbors pair and praise the Lord we have a personal God who cares for our little needs and hears our every prayer.

No posting...

Our modem fried Tuesday night and I am sitting at my favorite neighbors home just typing a note to say I won't be here for a few days! Clearwire is mailing us a new modem, but it may take a while. Bye!

That's my boy...

Jacob is all man and has the best mentor for becoming a great one...his daddy! After spying an old canoe for sale on the way home from Grandma's house, Jacob went to the door and asked the nice lady if she would hold it for him until he could ask his daddy if it would be a wise investment. She agreed and an hour later Daddy and Jacob picked it up. Jacob is going to wash it up, learn how to do fiberglass repair, make seats and turn around and sell it for profit! He paid $50 and a canoe in good shape goes for $200 so we'll see.

Then there is Emma. Showing off her yellow jacket sting. In her blue swimming suit, her blue boots, with her blue bandage(holding an apple cider soaked cottonball) with her electric blue eyes.

Honey, dearest...

About that drill to install the child safety locks? Ummm...will a sharp knife work just ask well? It won't hurt the cabinet THAT bad will it?

Also, don't tell me an 11month old does not have a conscience!

Notice she has that "Oh no, I've been caught!" look on her face? Lol She quickly fired the mascara from her mouth and took off crawling.

This is not the same picture as 6/19.

Scrapbooking

IS NOT FOR ME. I honor those of you who scrapbook. I envy you. I want to be like you. BUT I have NO creative juices. My husband picks out the paint for our walls, the furniture, the decor. I tried scrapbooking but I was terrible at it. It looked like a 10 year old girl was given a glue stick and lots of sparklies and stickers. I know there are how-to books with all kinds of hootenanny tools, but that doesn't help me.

I also have never developed a single digital picture from my cameras over the years...catch that? Never. I love my trusty 35mm camera. However, I still have hundreds of pictures that were taken from 1999 and on and I sigh with disgust that these pictures sit on a DVD!

Remember a while back I mentioned I discovered Snapfish? This morning I finally ordered every digital picture I have ever wanted to print. It took me weeks to upload and sort through over a thousand pic's but I DID IT!!

I clicked the order button this morning for over 600 pictures. They will all be going into albums(at least I buy the kind where I can journal for each picture)....plain old albums and I will be happy!

Never a dull day...

Western Washington has this problem. American Bullfrogs. They are not supposed to be here, but they are and they are killing off native animals. They eat everything from other bullfrogs to rats, birds and ducklings. They are never full. Even the Dept of Wildlife tells us to kill as many as we find! Now that says something!

Guess what was visiting our pond?

This is gross...Emma, Emma, Emma.

All 15 oz of frog.

BTW the Dept of Wildlife encouraged the killing of these frogs by saying they have *choice* froglegs. Ewe. Hmmm...really? We ARE a homeschooling family after all.

Puppies!

Buttercup had her puppies last night and throughout the night. She had 5 of the tiniest, most delicate things we have ever had born here. Our puppies are usually between 6.5 and 8 oz at birth, but these guys were 2.5 - 3.5 oz! Teeny! All very healthy.

I got some GREAT pictures of the little ones!

Finally!

Blogspot will not import the pictures properly and for some reason the occasional picture comes in sideways. This is such a cute picture but you need to turn your head!


I LOVE this one!! Paul said they look like mice, lol.

Here you can see them next to a teaspoon...they ave 3oz ea.

They may only be 2.5 - 3.5 oz, but they are still chunky

Always listen to your Mamma...

We have this teeny tiny pond out back. The kids have a boat and nets and all the fun stuff that comes with owning a pond. All 12x30 feet of it. It is full of life! Tadpoles, salamander larvae, water striders, water beetles, frogs AND Ugly Bugs.

Yes, Ugly Bugs. We have observed many a tadpole missing a tail or injured due to the Ugly Bugs. Our Ugly Bugs are 2" long, quick, and have large mandibles that are like a pair of sharp grapple hooks and they kill everything from the goldfish we put in there to the tadpoles. They inject poison that turns the insides of their prey to *mush* then they um...drain them dry...kinda like a spider does. Everyone is scared of the Ugly Bugs and we kill them as often as we catch them.

I have always told the children they mustn't swim in the pond, it is disgusting, muddy and full of Ugly Bugs. Does that stop them? No. They come to the house dripping with pond goo and smiling from ear to ear. Why? Well, that won't happen anymore. Pond swimming days are over. Jacob met an Ugly Bug while walking in the pond Monday. He stepped just right on an Ugly Bug and it must have arched back and bit his foot. He came in the house limping from the pain with two little bite marks and redness on his foot.

Today we ended up in the doctors office because of that Ugly Bug. Thanks again to Google I found out we are dealing with a Predaceous Diving Beetle larvae. Predaceous...just that word! Everything I stated in paragraph 2 is what I learned today and we have a healthy respect for these critters now. No one wants to swim in the pond! yeah!! Makes me happy. Jacobs foot does have an infection, thanks to the Ugly Bug(I hope it died) BUT we have a $133 bill for a 15 min appointment, a bottle of antibiotics (yes, Dawn, I put a child on antibiotics!) and have to soak his foot in hot water 4x a day. The site now 3.5"x 1", swollen, hard and red. We hope it looks better in the morning!