September wrap-up {almost}

 

:::WEEK THREE:::

 

• A barn/shed just adds so much to a misty sunrise photo!

 

• I visited Maggie at her house to cook up a storm for supper, but we kept it calm and just made biscuits.  And then we had to convince Connor to taste and like them.  Silly boy.  {they were perfect!}
• I finished the August blog posts… yep, mid-September.

• I have new resolve to purge the basement of a few dinosaurs.  ahem.  Which are still there, and not listed for sale on line. Yet.

 

• Don’t cry over spilt…

  

 

• Fridays seem to work well as Kitchen {Baking} Day… hence the granola, garden tomatoes to can, pizzas for Denise, bread for us & for my brother.  And brownies of course {hence the cocoa on my floor}

 

• Science experiment day while we’re at it!  Testing the freezing point of various liquids.  Amorphous solids.  Weird, but fun.

 

:::WEEK FOUR:::

• Sept 21, Sunday evening:  Good New in the Park.  Complete with someone’s marvelous model of Noah’s Ark.  Sunshine, ice cream and hot dogs.  And a bzillion mosquitos.  Give or take. 
• My mom had promised Daniel a care package with his favorite oatmeal-raisin cookies… she also asked me for some other ideas for him as well as the girls.  We combined a few things together and mailed them off to some really happy college kiddos.
• I stitched up several baby blankets – I think I actually finished my ‘stash’ of flannel!  Just need some more girl babies to give most of them to…
• More tomatoes from the garden?!

• We are having a good year so far with history {my main ‘teaching’ class with the kids}  A variety of books to read aloud.  They WROTE something for their first ThinkWrite – yes!  I found a pile of 1812-ish books at the library for them to peruse {be distracted from other duties}.  And a pretty good YouTube video with Tchaikovsky’s Overture 1812.  Which I am failing to embed, but hopefully the link works!

 

• You know the saying about the best laid plans of mice and men?  Well, my recent Thursday was a particularly brainless day.  Why? I do not know.  But several miles down the highway, I remembered that I needed identification paperwork for the Cattleman to get his permit.  Ugh.  {We did remember the driver’s ed paperwork for the Cowgirl, but I was hoping for ONE stop at the DOT…}  So, while we skipped the DOT, the Cowgirl did demonstrate her capable driving skills while we went the loooong way to Target.  At least we found a pair of shoes for the Cattleman there.  And they went on to piano lessons in a timely fashion.  While I finished shopping.  And forgot to remind the carry-out guy that I’d paid for softener salt.  {sigh}  Putting it on next week’s list now.  And the receipt back in my purse.
• Tim - and crew - started combining both soybeans and corn on Friday.  His 15th harvest of this Iowa residency. 
• the Cowgirl finished a sewing project for next month’s wedding {centerpiece décor for the reception}.  And she helped the Popper package her egg rolls for our supper Saturday night.

 

 

 

… and September of 2014 is almost gone!

still in catch-up mode

 

{{warning… l…o…n…g… post}}

 

Now that it’s the END of September, and I’ve spent many blogger hours sharing our life that was August…  it must be time to talk about the current month while it’s still sorta current.

Since I have been a bit more active on facebook, I will borrow from my timeline there as well as the beloved wall calendar hanging at my desk.   And the camera of course [gotta love date/time stamps].

 

:::WEEK ONE:::

• Tim & the Cattleman spent much of Labor Day outside…

 

  

  

 

• A lovely throw-back to 1968-ish, which my SIL posted on fb ~

 

• I did get an appointment with my dentist and learned for sure that my crown was still in place.  \o/  What I lost was a major-huge filling in the next tooth.  The good news is that said dentist was amazed to learn how many years ago she’d placed that filling, while promising me I’d be back soon to crown that tooth.  I guess I like a challenge.  But I didn’t argue with her this time, just thanked her for the temp filling that has kept me over-eating for the past several weeks.  I have a 90-minute appointment in another week to prep the tooth for a crown.  [I’m seriously not looking forward to that, which anyone with a small jaw and TMJ-tendencies can understand why. Ninety minutes?!]
• I shipped a package to Abby with whatever little things the girls left behind (?)  I don’t really remember now, probably in the TMI category anyway.  I also memorized the phone number for a local computer repair guy… who still has Abby’s laptop in his possession. [I finally begged Tim to knock on his door last week since he quit answering the phone – probably has caller ID.  ha ha]  Anyhoo, I guess it should be a matter of prayer, trusting that God will work a minor techno miracle.  And hopefully we have all learned the valuable lesson and won’t need to repeat it.  Um, and hopefully we will get her laptop back before Christmas.
• We officially started the new SCHOOL year at home.  And piano lessons.  I shipped a smaller package to Daniel since I refused to mail his ceramic mug with the reasoning that he could buy a new one at the college bookstore for less than I could ship his favorite one from home.  [hard hearted?  Don’t worry, my mom will make up for it… just wait and see.]
• More garden produce.  And the Cowgirl decided to bake a cake {one layer} and make use of the fondant Kate mixed up in May… along with frosting roses from the freezer.  Maybe that was the night Tim & I went out for dinner with friends?  [Ah yes.  fyi, you can use a visa statement for a journal prompt as well]

  

• Sunrise ~ September 6

  

• Someone borrowed my camera…  moooo

 

 

  

 

:::WEEK TWO:::

• Salsa!  And a birthday gift for Kate…

  

 

• the Cattleman cooked supper ~ Farmhouse BBQ Biscuits.  With extra biscuits for breakfast!

  

 

 

 

• the Popper still loves to study science, but literature is her new favorite class.  The joys of junior high.

 

• And that was just Monday.  On Tuesday, I shipped Kate’s b-day package.  Then Tim’s niece brought her daughter up for a visit {while her hubby was on a tree-trimming job near DesMoines}

 

 

 

• The new shed = storage for hay.  And potatoes in the rafters!  {hmm, they must have baled hay during week one?  Oh yes, and the Cattleman missed the first piano lesson because he was raking… and the girls needed to shop fabric.}

 

 

• Wednesday.  Happiness is… a fresh hair cut.  Then canvassing one-fourth of Cambridge while the chilly wind blows my hair around.  It’s a wild life, folks.

 

• Remembering 9/11…

 

• Can’t quite believe we have a ‘child’ who is 21 years old!
  

 

• First frost warning for Saturday, Sept 13 [3-8am].  So I clipped the gerbera blooms before covering the plants.

 

• Endured unkind knock-knock joke from the Iowa Hawkeye fans.  But enjoyed the fact that the ISU Cyclones won the game anyway!

 

 

 

…stay tuned for the second half of September…