But we'll take what we can get for now:
26 August 2009
It's DONE!!!
Ah! Done! Beautiful new paint job, beautiful new carpet. If only we could afford beautiful new furniture and, even better, a beautiful new house!!
But we'll take what we can get for now:
But we'll take what we can get for now:
24 August 2009
Vacation in the Uintas
We just returned from a fabulous vacation in the Uinta mountains. We camped on the Yellowstone river above Duchesne. We found a great campground called Riverside. The site we love is right on the river and someone has built up a big wall in the river and made a nice swimming hole. The best thing about this campsite is that we were the only ones there for 3 of the 5 days we were there and on the other two days there was only one other family on the other side of the campground.
13 August 2009
It Hasn't Been THAT Long!
Ten days. That's not the end of the world long. At least we're doing better than the WHOLE Vincent family on the Vincent Family Blog. Until today, THEY hadn't posted anything since July 25th!!
So, I finished Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell. It was really amazingly good, even though I wanted just a LITTLE bit more at the end--and this after 782 pages. In a way that's good. It meant I was SO involved in the story and the characters that I didn't want the story to end. Here, Hannah. Your turn.
I'm going to bed--as soon as I find something new to read.
So, I finished Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell. It was really amazingly good, even though I wanted just a LITTLE bit more at the end--and this after 782 pages. In a way that's good. It meant I was SO involved in the story and the characters that I didn't want the story to end. Here, Hannah. Your turn.
I'm going to bed--as soon as I find something new to read.
Ha-Ha to the rescue!!!
Due to the rather erratic nature of the updating on this blog Hannah has decided that maybe she should start covering the vassalage posting for awhile so that you don't all think we were murdered in our sleep, or that we sold everything and bought a hippie van before leaving town to live a free life as gypsies. So here Hannah is! Hannah will stop referring to herself in the third person now, only weird people like Miss Manners and those psycho Facebookers do that.
Anyway, so this is Hannah posting, not Suzanne
I'll pause now so you can all tear out your hair and scream "Noooooo! We want Suzanne!!!!!"
Anyway now for the update.
UPDATE!
Ian is still marching everywhere he goes. He just joined facebook. literally just joined like 20 minutes ago. Umm what else have you been doing Ian? "Nothing" he says. So I'm on my own. Well he was playing some computer game today, Age of something, Mythology? hmmm. The Marching Band is doing a fundraiser tomorrow, putting fliers on door with an envelope attached and a desperate plea for cash. And then Ian and the clarinets and maybe the flutes will be getting together for a sectional practice, right Ian? he says yeah. Ian and I have been borrowing our friends nintendo 64 for a couple months and have decided we should get a gamecube so we can play Zelda to our hearts content. now we just need a spontaneous 50$
Maren is currently down the street running a candy/bottled water stand with her friend Andrew. No she's not ever home, or if she is than Andrew's here. ah well, their cute. She wants to get a goldfish, they're like 13 cents at petco so they should have made enough money by now.
Dad's been working a lot to get everything done so we can go camping this weekend. Isn't he great? he also had Young men's last night, they went and did a service project for an old lady in the ward. They were clearing away her decades old woodpile and underneath the wood they found a heap of old coal. anyone need coal? Coal stove? Furnace? Naughty Kids?
Mom's been Facebooking. Hence the lack of vassalage updates ; )
She's been reading "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel" and she needs to freakin hurry up so I can read it! She's been getting ready for school this year and trying to convince us to start at the same time as public school, what-ever. Anyway, I dunno, most of the day she just deals with us!
She's working on roadshow, she got all the music ready to go and we ran through the script at ym/yw last week. It should be lots of fun. Oh and the youth did not take the death of the rabid squirrel well, I think they may hold a funeral.
Me, well I found the fiddle school I want to go to. Actually it's more like a week-long fiddle camp. It's called "Valley of the Moon" in Northern California and its run by my second favourite overall fiddler and my favourite living fiddler (Doherty's dead) Alisdair Fraser (I'm listening to him right now). I can go next summer if I can swing the 820$ tuition plus airfare.
I went to talk to my school councilor today about taking concurrent enrolment classes and it looks like I may be going to public full-time at least for one tri. She just filled up my schedule with as many courses as she could. If I take them all I'll be competing around 24 college credits, but I have to find out if they're all compatible with USU and decide whether or not I can stay on top of all that for sure as well as the music and, hopefully, a job.
That's all
Be Happy World!!
Anyway, so this is Hannah posting, not Suzanne
I'll pause now so you can all tear out your hair and scream "Noooooo! We want Suzanne!!!!!"
Anyway now for the update.
UPDATE!
Ian is still marching everywhere he goes. He just joined facebook. literally just joined like 20 minutes ago. Umm what else have you been doing Ian? "Nothing" he says. So I'm on my own. Well he was playing some computer game today, Age of something, Mythology? hmmm. The Marching Band is doing a fundraiser tomorrow, putting fliers on door with an envelope attached and a desperate plea for cash. And then Ian and the clarinets and maybe the flutes will be getting together for a sectional practice, right Ian? he says yeah. Ian and I have been borrowing our friends nintendo 64 for a couple months and have decided we should get a gamecube so we can play Zelda to our hearts content. now we just need a spontaneous 50$
Maren is currently down the street running a candy/bottled water stand with her friend Andrew. No she's not ever home, or if she is than Andrew's here. ah well, their cute. She wants to get a goldfish, they're like 13 cents at petco so they should have made enough money by now.
Dad's been working a lot to get everything done so we can go camping this weekend. Isn't he great? he also had Young men's last night, they went and did a service project for an old lady in the ward. They were clearing away her decades old woodpile and underneath the wood they found a heap of old coal. anyone need coal? Coal stove? Furnace? Naughty Kids?
Mom's been Facebooking. Hence the lack of vassalage updates ; )
She's been reading "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel" and she needs to freakin hurry up so I can read it! She's been getting ready for school this year and trying to convince us to start at the same time as public school, what-ever. Anyway, I dunno, most of the day she just deals with us!
She's working on roadshow, she got all the music ready to go and we ran through the script at ym/yw last week. It should be lots of fun. Oh and the youth did not take the death of the rabid squirrel well, I think they may hold a funeral.
Me, well I found the fiddle school I want to go to. Actually it's more like a week-long fiddle camp. It's called "Valley of the Moon" in Northern California and its run by my second favourite overall fiddler and my favourite living fiddler (Doherty's dead) Alisdair Fraser (I'm listening to him right now). I can go next summer if I can swing the 820$ tuition plus airfare.
I went to talk to my school councilor today about taking concurrent enrolment classes and it looks like I may be going to public full-time at least for one tri. She just filled up my schedule with as many courses as she could. If I take them all I'll be competing around 24 college credits, but I have to find out if they're all compatible with USU and decide whether or not I can stay on top of all that for sure as well as the music and, hopefully, a job.
That's all
Be Happy World!!
03 August 2009
Catching Up
I haven't been doing very well at my goal to keep this blog current. But it's not like I've been totally uncommunicative web-wise. I have three blogs plus facebook plus email.
Lately I've been turning political on my writing blog. Why? I think it's time--probably past time--to use any venue available to say what needs to be said. So I wrote about racism (a conservative view) and received a disappointingly closed-minded response from a liberal friend (probably former friend now) of mine. I also posted pictures that express my view of the Crowley-Gates Beer Summit. Check it out:
http://nightingalescage.blogspot.com/
This week we've been drying apricots (a bucketful every two or three days, wash 'em, put 'em on the dryer) and freezing beans. And I ate my first ripe tomato! YUM!! We've also been tearing the house apart, getting rid of stuff we don't need and boxing up stuff we don't need right now. We just need to find someplace to shove the boxes. Storage units are pricier than I had anticipated, and if we don't move we're really won't want to live in perpetuity (at least partially) out of a storage unit. We're still not absolutely convinced moving is the right thing right now, but we're moving forward with the process of preparing to sell our house. If all else fails our current house will have new paint, some new carpet, some long-delayed repairs completed, and the yard looking nice.
The real-estate agent would like us to get the house on the market ASAP, but I absolutely do not want to be pressured in any way to hurry and find a new house.
Let's see...
Maren spends as much of her time as possible playing with friends, and it is the end of the world if she has no one to play with. She also really got excited about cleaning out her room and boxed up an astonishingly huge bunch of stuff. PLUS she's doing a SUPER job keeping her side of the room picked up. She got a haircut this week, too. It's cute, cute, cute!
Ian went on High Adventure with the scouts. They hiked more than 60 miles during the week all totalled, and hiked to the top of King's Peak. The next week he started band camp, in which the band does most of their work getting their field show ready. They went from 7 AM to 9 PM for five days, with breaks for lunch and dinner. Ian had a great time and spent time with his bandy friends. He's excited for the band season to start on the 21st at Ogden High's first foot ball game.
Hannah has kept the Ogden High fiddle group active and practicing all summer. They'll be playing at a ward adult activity the end of August. The music teacher--who plays bass in the fiddle group--suggested to her that he might do a celtic marching band program next year and include the fiddle group in that. That would be cool. She's been a great help around the house--painting and cleaning and organizing. She's also been reading. How's THIS for light summer reading--The Canterbury Tales. Yep. The whole thing. She finished The Aeneid today, has read part of The Fairy Queen, Dante's Inferno, Plato's Republic, Marlow's Dr. Faustus, and various other works of poetry and prose. And she has a stack of books--mostly epic poetry and Shakespeare plays--that she wants to read.
Darin got to work from home this morning. That was nice--just to have him there even though we couldn't bother him. He also got to play pitbull last night. We were woken up at 2:30 in the morning when the alarm on our pickup truck went off. We heard a car driving away. He threw on some shorts--very light tan shorts; it looked like he'd gone out in his underwear--and ran out to check things out. No damage to the truck, nothing missing. The window had been left down enough for someone to reach in and unlock it. But when you unlock the truck manually the alarm goes off unless the key is in the ignition. It was enough to scare them off before they could get anything. Not that we keep much of any value in the truck. They might have gotten away with a pair or two of Hannah's shoes. She has so many she has to keep them SOMEWHERE! We called the police and Darin talked to the officer. It took us both an hour to get back to sleep. Maybe it's another sign that we need to move.
Suzanne is working on Roadshow. Thanks to Hannah for all her help on script and lyrics. Unfortunately we had to put the cement galoshes on the rabid squirrel that's actually a parrot, and the parrot that's actually a rabid squirrel. Don't ask. The youth are primarily in charge of writing the show. 'Nuf said? We'll read through the script and hear the music for the first time Wednesday.
We're also gearing up for school. We've been buying books and deciding on curriculum, as well as clothes shopping to make sure everyone has at least three pairs of long pants without holes in the knees.
But right now I need to go pay bills. I hope the bank's online account services is up and running again. That's the reason I'm blogging right now. So I guess that's OK.
Lately I've been turning political on my writing blog. Why? I think it's time--probably past time--to use any venue available to say what needs to be said. So I wrote about racism (a conservative view) and received a disappointingly closed-minded response from a liberal friend (probably former friend now) of mine. I also posted pictures that express my view of the Crowley-Gates Beer Summit. Check it out:
http://nightingalescage.blogspot.com/
This week we've been drying apricots (a bucketful every two or three days, wash 'em, put 'em on the dryer) and freezing beans. And I ate my first ripe tomato! YUM!! We've also been tearing the house apart, getting rid of stuff we don't need and boxing up stuff we don't need right now. We just need to find someplace to shove the boxes. Storage units are pricier than I had anticipated, and if we don't move we're really won't want to live in perpetuity (at least partially) out of a storage unit. We're still not absolutely convinced moving is the right thing right now, but we're moving forward with the process of preparing to sell our house. If all else fails our current house will have new paint, some new carpet, some long-delayed repairs completed, and the yard looking nice.
The real-estate agent would like us to get the house on the market ASAP, but I absolutely do not want to be pressured in any way to hurry and find a new house.
Let's see...
Maren spends as much of her time as possible playing with friends, and it is the end of the world if she has no one to play with. She also really got excited about cleaning out her room and boxed up an astonishingly huge bunch of stuff. PLUS she's doing a SUPER job keeping her side of the room picked up. She got a haircut this week, too. It's cute, cute, cute!
Ian went on High Adventure with the scouts. They hiked more than 60 miles during the week all totalled, and hiked to the top of King's Peak. The next week he started band camp, in which the band does most of their work getting their field show ready. They went from 7 AM to 9 PM for five days, with breaks for lunch and dinner. Ian had a great time and spent time with his bandy friends. He's excited for the band season to start on the 21st at Ogden High's first foot ball game.
Hannah has kept the Ogden High fiddle group active and practicing all summer. They'll be playing at a ward adult activity the end of August. The music teacher--who plays bass in the fiddle group--suggested to her that he might do a celtic marching band program next year and include the fiddle group in that. That would be cool. She's been a great help around the house--painting and cleaning and organizing. She's also been reading. How's THIS for light summer reading--The Canterbury Tales. Yep. The whole thing. She finished The Aeneid today, has read part of The Fairy Queen, Dante's Inferno, Plato's Republic, Marlow's Dr. Faustus, and various other works of poetry and prose. And she has a stack of books--mostly epic poetry and Shakespeare plays--that she wants to read.
Darin got to work from home this morning. That was nice--just to have him there even though we couldn't bother him. He also got to play pitbull last night. We were woken up at 2:30 in the morning when the alarm on our pickup truck went off. We heard a car driving away. He threw on some shorts--very light tan shorts; it looked like he'd gone out in his underwear--and ran out to check things out. No damage to the truck, nothing missing. The window had been left down enough for someone to reach in and unlock it. But when you unlock the truck manually the alarm goes off unless the key is in the ignition. It was enough to scare them off before they could get anything. Not that we keep much of any value in the truck. They might have gotten away with a pair or two of Hannah's shoes. She has so many she has to keep them SOMEWHERE! We called the police and Darin talked to the officer. It took us both an hour to get back to sleep. Maybe it's another sign that we need to move.
Suzanne is working on Roadshow. Thanks to Hannah for all her help on script and lyrics. Unfortunately we had to put the cement galoshes on the rabid squirrel that's actually a parrot, and the parrot that's actually a rabid squirrel. Don't ask. The youth are primarily in charge of writing the show. 'Nuf said? We'll read through the script and hear the music for the first time Wednesday.
We're also gearing up for school. We've been buying books and deciding on curriculum, as well as clothes shopping to make sure everyone has at least three pairs of long pants without holes in the knees.
But right now I need to go pay bills. I hope the bank's online account services is up and running again. That's the reason I'm blogging right now. So I guess that's OK.
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