The little people

These pictures were taken Feb 12th of this year. We must of had a sleep over and the boys were just having loads of fun as you can tell. McKay, Zane and Noah.

And that is the long and short of it.

Thursday with Stevie

This last Thursday Stevie stayed home because she didn't feel very good. So Grandpa had her helping him. Here she is stacking the gaskets after he washed them in the washer. They had powder all over them that needed to be washed off and the washer did a great job.

After the gaskets are washed they stick together really well.

Here are grandpa's dishes!!!!! I know I took a better picture but my camera is starting to do funny things and I don't know where it went. But anyway here are the plates that were washed in the dishwasher. They came out beautiful.

Here Grandpa is showing Stevie how to put the Sid Cell together.

Stevie didn't like the big blue gloves but she did quite well. In helping Grandpa she earned 4 dollars and then she helped me put on a quilt and earned another dollar. So all in all she earned 5 dollars for staying home sick from school.

Grandpa and I love having Stevie home with us. When we ate lunch it was like old home week. She didn't get her usual chicken but we had pork roast with baked potato. Friday we were back to being alone. The week before we had Ceci and Noah home with sore throats so it does get lonely when they go back to school.

Peanuts

Remember the peanuts that Grandpa dug a month ago. He and I went out the shed today and took them down and harvested them into this bowl. I wanted to see how we did (since my failure this year with the sweet potatoes) so I went to the Internet. I found that we had raised 3 lbs or 5662.80 lbs per acre, that figures about 2 1/2 ton per acre. On today's market that figured out to be $4,190.47 per acre, taking 50% off for expenses that is $2,000 and on our farm in Abraham (200 acres) hmmmmm that is $400,000. Why didn't we raise peanuts??????
We have Stevie home today from school because she didn't feel very good. I baked some peanuts in the oven and I think she just about ate all of them. Don't worry there is plenty for Thanksgiving. I'll bake them and we all can have hot peanuts. YUMMY

These are the peanuts before I cleaned them up. I put them into a pillowcase and took them out on the deck and manhandled them until they had all the dirt off.

The moon plant

Our home teacher brought us this moon plant. I have never seen it bloom but he says the plant loves the shade and blooms from about 5 pm until morning. He brought two plants and one had one pod on it and the other had two. I am saving the seeds to plant this next spring. I think it will be interesting to see the flower.

Annette's house this halloween 2008

This is Annette's house this last Halloween. Her decorations were stolen but she went out and bought another tree plus the spiders and so forth. I think it turned out pretty well. You can see Sev sitting up on the porch behind the lights.

This is such a cute picture of Annette holding Sadie. Sadie is growing soooo fast and is such a cutie.

Annette sitting on the porch, probably keeping an eye out for thieves.

Ykes a MOUSE

yep another mouse in the house. I thought I had a mouse but couldn't trap him.
Well Friday I went into our bathroom, there the mouse was, stretched out on our bathroom mat dead. I guess we killed him with kindness. The peanut butter trap didn't look as good as a soft cotton bathroom mat. Trudy hadn't put out any poison so I guess the big fat looking mouse died of old age. HE HE ):

full service

A couple of weeks ago Dad and I were at a Joann's store looking at material. As always when we see puzzles we stop and look them over. Dad saw this "full service" puzzle and couldn't resist. It brought back memories of our era. With our coupon we got 40% off.

As you can see Dad (Grandpa) started putting it together. It was a 1000 piece puzzle and since we lent Steve our white board, we had to go to Walmart to buy another one. Every morning we put the puzzle on our bed so Stevie could practice the piano before she went to school.

Here is the finished product. Dad put 90% of the puzzle together. I helped a little bit. It gives both of our minds a workout. Love it.

Flowers in November

Flowers in November. It is alittle after 3 pm and it is 68 degrees outside. When I took Stevie out this morning to catch the bus I noticed my roses were blooming. Okay just one flower per plant but a rose is a rose is a rose. Right!!!.
Then I started noticing the flowers that Trudy and I both had blooming and I ran and got the camera.
I talked to my mother yesterday and she said there was snow in Murray. Burrr
Anyway I've never had such pretty flowers this late in the season. Just thought I would share

Trudy's Surprise Birthday Party at Tina's

Happy Birthday Trudy (40th) Nov 1st. What a wonderful day!!!!