tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28505755532729162972024-03-20T06:04:48.789-05:00OBSERVATIONS OF AN EVERYDAY MOMUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850575553272916297.post-63727558316087584852013-09-03T08:56:00.004-05:002013-09-03T08:56:54.003-05:00BURGERS & BULLETS! We had our first-ever BURGERS & BULLETS on Labor Day! I have wanted to hold a Burgers & Bullets ever since John's mission companion posted about theirs a few years ago. Luckily we now live in the perfect place to hold a Burgers & Bullets. There are only three houses on our section (that's a square mile for you city folk, haha) and there are no other houses for at least three miles to the east for us so we used that as our shooting range.<br />
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We had three other families and two of JJ's friends so I think our grand total was 24. I think everyone had fun... I sure did!<br />
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Some of the littler kids picked up the used bullets and saved them in a box. </div>
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The men! I think they had fun comparing guns and talking about gun stuff.</div>
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Yes, I shot a pistol. John said this needs to be "my" gun when I finally get my concealed carry permit. It was fun to shoot but gave a little kick. I'm still a bit of a wimp around guns - okay, a big wimp!</div>
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A couple of the girls had pink headphone things. Leslie borrowed one and wore it them the whole time. We might have to invest in a pair. (Earlier I had tried to get her to wear some of our red ones and she was not having it!)</div>
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Topper is pulling the clay pigeon thrower _______, JJ is sitting on the tailgate, ready to shoot and Ammon is shooting.</div>
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Shooting her new pink .22.</div>
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Even the little kids shot the cricket .22 gun.</div>
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This is one of my favorite shots. Jiggs is pulling, and from left to right, the shooters are Topper, JJ, Debbie and Ammon.</div>
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Another little guy with the cricket.</div>
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Loading up for the next round.</div>
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Debbie and I trying the shotguns. I really think I hit one, but it was probably luck.</div>
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Kelly pulling, JJ & Topper shooting. (They are both decent shots, but I think there are a ton of WHOLE clay pigeons out in the field.)</div>
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Debbie (behind me) and I getting the shotgun "class" from our husbands.</div>
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Debbie & I shooting the pigeons.</div>
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The aftermath.</div>
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After all the shooting, we had a great BBQ. Thanks for all the good food, Ladies!</div>
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We had to have one of these pictures... all the moms with the guns. (By the way, the gun I'm holding is the ONLY gun that John owned when we got married.)</div>
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I think everyone had a chance to shoot a gun. I wish I had gotten a picture of everyone shooting, but some of the time I was being the hostess and some of the time I was just visiting (lotsa visiting). We had a great time and are looking forward to the next one! </div>
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It's that time of year again... Mother's Day! All my mess makers head back to school. Unfortunately, they take my good helpers with them and leave me alone to clean the house and take care of Leslie's every need.
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John is a freshman in high school. He made the decision to wear his work boots to school. Silly kid.</div>
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Kelly is a sixth grader in middle school. She wanted pictures taken of her outfit with and without the shrug.</div>
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Christopher is a 2nd grader. He didn't start school until Wednesday (today) but had an interview/test with his teacher on Monday so we took pictures. (Below is Chris posing like a zombie.)</div>
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Christopher in front of his classroom door and pointing to the robot with his name on it - that's where he'll keep his coat and backpack.</div>
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With his new teacher after his interview. She's an intern - first year teacher and very excited. Unfortunately for her, she just found out she got the position last week so she's been scrambling.</div>
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Christopher, ready to head to school on the first day, today!</div>
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Getting on the bus in front of our house. It's nice to have door to door service.</div>
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Leslie and I celebrated this great occasion by going to the donut shop for a little treat with some friends!</div>
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We went to the salon to have Leslie's hair fixed. She sat soooooo still.</div>
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The hairdresser just evened it up as best she could.</div>
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But, in all honesty, she looks just like her older brothers did at that age.</div>
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So Leslie will be wearing headbands and big flowers for the next few years!</div>
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All I can say is that I am thankful that her hair will grow back. It's not like she did any permanent damage. We can laugh at it and tease her about it. (Leslie HATES that we have called her a cute little boy. She always corrects us and tells us she has boy hair.)</div>
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(As I was writing this, Christopher came up and pointed to the picture on the screen and asked, "Is that me?" When I said, "no", he said, "Is that John?" Yep, the laughs keep coming!)</div>
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"Mama said there'd be days like this, there'd be days like this my mama said."</div>
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Do not come to my house. I will not answer the door. For the foreseeable future I will not be cleaning, cooking, laundering, sweeping, folding or otherwise picking up in any way, shape or form. And don't call, either. I will be sitting in a chair, staring at my little destruct-o girl to make sure she doesn't get into any mischief. If I could find a horse weight, I would tether her to it and plop it in the middle of an empty room so I could get things done. Alas, I haven't found a horse weight in our little town - and yes, I have looked!</div>
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It was bad but I was able to trim it up a bit and she only kind-of looked like a scarecrow. She still kind of looked like a girl so that was a plus.</div>
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Then, today, I was sitting in the living room when I heard Christopher scream, "No, Leslie, don't cut with the scissors. (I had just barely gotten off a two minute phone call and before that I was washing dishes. It's not like I was neglecting her or anything.) I ran into the family room and found this...</div>
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Unfortunately my hairdresser is out of town so I called one of the other salons in town. After the hairdresser said hello I said, "Um... my three year old got a hold of the scissors." That statement was met with a huge burst of laughter. It's quite possible that my little future hairdresser will end up with a buzz cut at the salon tomorrow afternoon. It took us three years to get the little bit of hair she had. It'll take forever for her to look like a little girl again.</div>
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Oh, and just in case you were wondering, Leslie's other hobbies today include, but are not limited to...</div>
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1. dumping a bottle of beads on the kitchen floor</div>
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2. pulling out the drawers of her dresser and dumping all the clothes on the floor.</div>
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3. poking herself in the eye with an OPEN glow stick</div>
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5. playing in the toilet because she wanted to "clean her hands"</div>
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It's probably a good thing I don't drink because I would have gone on a bender today, for sure. I did, however, eat my weight in fruit snacks, m&ms, sweet pickles and big marshmallows... and I don't even like marshmallows.</div>
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(And please, be kind and don't tell me to put the scissors away. She is very handy with a stool and can climb.)</div>
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Christopher and Kelly had their last concert of the year. They both performed in the same concert because 5th grade is technically still in elementary school even though this year they were part of the middle school.</div>
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The concert started with the 5th Grade Band playing a few songs. They did really well and I have a feeling we'll be investing a lot of money in black pants and white shirts - concert clothes.</div>
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Then the 5th graders sang a fun song.</div>
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Then the Kindergarten through fourth grades filed on and sang their songs all about animals. I think Christopher's grade sang a song about peanuts.</div>
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It rained. It finally rained and we got 1 1/2 inches on the farm. That will really help when John plants corn this weekend.</div>
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RAIN + PARTIALLY FINISHED DRIVEWAY = AN ADVENTURE!</div>
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At 7:00 a.m., the bus pulled into the drive as usual. The bus got stuck before it even made it to our brand-new sidewalk.</div>
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John got out the "big guns"... the 9320 John Deere Tractor (pulling a sweep, used for tillage - it would have taken too long to unhook the sweep so he just brought both).</div>
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I'm just glad John stayed home a little later than usual this morning. Can you imagine what would have happened if he hadn't? Can you picture me doing this? I think not. </div>
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John and Joe, the bus driver, hooked the bus to the back of the sweep with a chain and John started to pull the bus out of the muck.</div>
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The bus, moving along nicely. Look at the dirt it's pushing in front of the wheel.</div>
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Rounding the corner of what will be the circular drive (you can see the big pile of dirt to the left of the bus - it was excavated from the drive so they could lay gravel or some other road-creating material).</div>
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Going over the mountain of dirt again, and again my heart was in my throat, afraid the bus would tip over.</div>
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Kelly tried out for an made 1st Clarinet for the Eastern Colorado Elementary Honor Band. It's a big deal. They had a guest conductor and spent an entire day in rehearsals and then had a performance at night. Kelly practiced and practiced and did a great job.</div>
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She had to wear black pants and shoes and a fancier top. We had to buy a fancier top because she is a t-shirt kind of girl. I love the top she chose. I have a feeling that between band and choir we'll be spending a lot of money on performance clothes. (Usually they will be black pants and white shirt so easy to plan for.)</div>
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Kelly is in the front row, fourth from left. I am glad she was wearing the orange shirt - made it easier to find her in the crowd!</div>
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With Grandma and Grandpa Layton (and Leslie) after the concert. We are glad they could stay for her concert.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850575553272916297.post-17749912494396076152013-05-04T11:29:00.000-05:002013-06-18T13:39:24.638-05:00Making DonutsA few weeks ago, when Little John was home from school with pink eye, he begged, BEGGED for me to run to town and get him donuts. Instead, I taught him how to make them, the easy way. Kelly was jealous so we made them again when Grandma and Grandpa Layton were here.<br />
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Step 1: Buy the cheap, Wal-mart brand biscuits that come four to a pack. (I'm sure you could use any kind of biscuits, but I'm cheap.)</div>
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Step 4: Make a powdered sugar glaze (powdered sugar and water) or frost them with chocolate frosting from the can (lazy!!!) and ENJOY!!!</div>
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When I was in middle school we called it the 8th Grade Grad Dance. Here they call it Cotillion and it's A BIG DEAL! Many of the girls get their hair and nails done and lots of kids have dates. Some of the boys rent tuxedos and it's just a big deal. JJ didn't have a date and we didn't rent him a tux but he still had a fun time. They invite the parents for the first 30 minutes when they take pictures of all the classes (middle school was 5-8th grade this year). After the class pictures they have a mother/son and father/daughter dance and then they politely request that the parents leave so the kids can have fun.</div>
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All of the 8th graders. In case you are wondering, there are only 27 kids in his 8th grade class.</div>
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All the girls.</div>
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All the boys.</div>
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All the boys doing a conga line. They were not all excited about that.</div>
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The only picture we have of the mother/son dance (which lasted for less than 30 seconds for us before JJ decided he wasn't dancing with his mom anymore. Stinker!)</div>
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John and his friend, Topper.... they are ready for the parents to leave.</div>
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Don't you love the snow shovel? </div>
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It also works as a dirt shovel.</div>
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With the sunset in the background.... Isn't it romantic?</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850575553272916297.post-11979834061047879472013-03-10T13:17:00.001-05:002013-03-10T13:17:59.866-05:00I'll Huff and I'll Puff....We had a blizzard yesterday. By blizzard I mean horizontal winds blowing snow all around us. Eastern Colorado blizzards are not at all like the Idaho blizzards we've experienced. In Idaho the snow falls vertically and when it's over you end up with lots of snow on the ground. In Eastern Colorado, though, the snow "falls" horizontally and except for the drifts, there is usually little accumulated snow on the ground. That's the kind of blizzard we had yesterday. The wind was blowing at least 45-50 mph yesterday and all night long. This morning the news reported that the wind was blowing 41 mph. Church was cancelled because the Branch President and his family couldn't make it to Church. That means the rest of us who live out of town probably couldn't make it in, either. Since about half the families in our congregation live at least 10 miles outside of town, he cancelled Church. Since we had a free morning, after we watched a Church video with the kids, John and I went for a ride to take pictures of the drifts. <br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The garage door hasn't been installed yet so we have a tarp over the opening. It was in jeopardy of ripping off the nails so we barricaded it with plywood and heavy totes and boxes. It helped so the wind didn't rip through the tarp.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The front of the house. You can see the tarp in the garage. The pickup has been parked in front of the suburban so the wind would go around the garage and not blow the tarp off. You can also see the snow blowing around the house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the road next to the house... we can ALWAYS see the pine tree and the shop from the kitchen window. For most of yesterday, the pine tree was either a faint shadow or we couldn't see it at all. The shop is only 1/4 mile away from the house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shop is the silver building on the right. The big drift is just behind the supply room. That is the pine tree that we can always see from the house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A big snow drift. You can see a horse trailer on the left and the semi on the right (above the mirror). There is a pickup in between the trailer and the semi.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A different view of the picture above. From the right you can see the jeep and the semi and a tiny corner of the pickup. The horse trailer is to the left of the pickup and then a shed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You've all seen the pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog... where you only see the tops of the bridge? That's what it reminded me of when I saw the electric towers in the blowing snow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The snow is only blowing close to the ground. It probably only blew for about eight feet above the ground and then you can see the blue, blue sky.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tree line at our neighbor's house. Those little trees are 4-5 feet tall. You can see how deep the drifts are there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just another picture of the neighbor's front drive. They won't be going to church today either, haha!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The neighbor's house from about 1/4 mile away. You can see the blue sky above and the swirling, blowing snow down by their house.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just another picture that shows the blowing snow near the ground.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A picture of our house from 1/4 mile away.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another picture of the blowing snow. You can barely see the electrical poles in the middle of the snow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above and below - I tried to get a picture of the snow swirling around just north of the house. You can't see it very well, though.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The drift outside the man door to the garage. You can see the footprint from where we stepped out. You can also see a couple of icicles at the top of the door.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a window in the master bedroom. I have no idea how that happened, but it is the only window that has a clear circle and snow all around it. You can see the icicles in the shadows.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The window well on the east side of the house. It's full of snow. This is just under the master bedroom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The south side of the house, looking west. You can see the two holes where the window wells are. (The shop and pine tree are in the background.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A picture from a basement window (same window as above - the back of the two). This one caved in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same window as above, looking up to the sky. You can see where the snow caved in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The other window of the two on the south side of the house. There is less snow in this one because it didn't cave in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking up from the window well - I stuck y head out the window so I could get a better picture of the snow.</td></tr>
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Within about 15 minutes of taking all these pictures, the wind stopped and it is perfectly calm outside. The snow is beautiful against the blue sky. It is supposed to be above 40 degrees today and warm up to mid 60s by Thursday so it will probably all melt soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850575553272916297.post-34099996927985393572012-12-18T23:35:00.003-06:002012-12-18T23:38:38.104-06:00Just call me the drug pusher...<div style="text-align: center;">
I think I'm ready to go home ... wherever that is ... I think we are all allergic to Limon. I have seriously spent more time at the doctor's office here than any other place we have ever lived. Today I was there with two of the kids. Leslie ended up being diagnosed with a UTI and is on an antibiotic for that. She seems to be following in Kelly's footsteps, but that is another post entirely. </div>
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Christopher has been complaining for the last three weeks, off and on, about a pain in his left thigh. This morning, JJ came down the stairs to tell me that Christopher couldn't get out of bed, his leg hurt too much. After helping Chris get dressed, I carried him down the bed and deposited him on the couch. Moving his left leg even a little bit hurt so much that it was hard for him to lift his left leg off the ground even a couple of inches so I could slip his pants on. I called the doctor and got him an appointment at 10 a.m.</div>
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How Leslie entertained herself while we were waiting for the xrays.</div>
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The diagnosis: transient synovitis. I've read a lot about this today and still don't completely understand it. The bottom line is that it is unexplained pain in the hip. Some websites say it is a type of childhood arthritis. All agree that it is painful and mostly harmless. There should be no long term effects and it should go away in a month or so. Ibuprofen for the pain and crutches for the walking (at least for the next few days). They also took two large vials of blood to run tests to rule out anything more serious.</div>
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Between all the doctor visits, illnesses, and some other things that are going on, it might be time to move back to a less "toxic" environment!</div>
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The first few pictures are of some of the cracks that happened when the house was transported. (When I talked to the finisher today, January 6th, he said that there are actually fewer cracks in this house than he usually sees in houses that are set over a basement. I was surprised since there are a TON of cracks.)</div>
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The next set of pictures are of the septic system. I won't bore you with the details (mostly because I don't remember all of them), but it needs to be said that this septic system was designed with a six year old master toilet clogger in mind, and his two year old accomplice. There are lots of clean-out places to make it easy to service. Nothing says "I love you" like a working toilet!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pile of dirt they removed to put in the septic tank. It is in the ground over 10 feet deep.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the roof. You can almost see the septic tank in the big hole just below those pipes on the left.</td></tr>
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The trench from the electrical pole to the side of the garage. The trencher is parked in the middle of the road to keep people from driving over the ditch.</div>
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250 feet of electrical wire to go in the trench.</div>
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This next set of pictures are the plumbers installing the plumbing in the basement.</div>
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The floor drain in the storage room.</div>
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Pipes ready to connect to the upstairs sinks. From left to right: Kitchen, laundry room and master bath (and lots of trash).</div>
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The next two are the plumber getting things plumbed for the garage. There will be a partial (almost complete) kitchen in the garage. It will be so great for canning parties!</div>
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Where the water pipes enter the house (kitchen window is above and dining room doors are on the right.)</div>
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The trench for the septic system.</div>
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Where the septic tank will sit. (Greenish-blue pipes mean septic system/sewer pipes.)</div>
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The beautiful, like-new couch we found on craigslist for $50! It's kind of red and I LOVE IT!</div>
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Christopher helping Dad move the trencher.</div>
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John, A.K.A. Dozer 1, filling in a hole while Kelly plays in the dirt pile.</div>
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John measuring the pipes.</div>
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Gluing the pipes together.</div>
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Topper helping John install the hydrant. The bucket is used to keep the weep hole from filling up with dirt.</div>
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John, Jiggs and Topper backfilling the hole while Big John supervises.</div>
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The finished product! There is a hydrant like this at each corner of the house.</div>
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Inside the house there are a lot of green dots. We haven't figured out what they are for, but we think they have something to do with the electrical being checked - maybe.</div>
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Just a picture of the kitchen to show how the drawers had all been tied shut and the refrigerator taped shut for transport.</div>
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Leslie running along the water lines behind the house.</div>
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The kids playing in the "garage".</div>
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"Farming" in the "garage".</div>
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The connectors for the water hydrants and the house.</div>
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This is taken in the basement, looking up at the bottom of the house. You can see the two sets of plugs - one on each half of the house. They will be plugged together to connect the electricity from one half to the other. There is another set just like this on the other end of the house.</div>
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Just a picture of the tarp from the bottom of the house.</div>
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John used the trencher to dig the trench for the water line from the well (near the shop in the background - about 1/4 mile from the house) to the house. It was put in about 5 feet deep and 1,030 long (John knows the exact length because he had to buy the pipe). Water comes out of the well at 60psi and at a crisp 50* degrees. It took about six hours to trench that 1/4 mile.</div>
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Just a picture of the red flag from when they had the house on the trailers.</div>
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The house was "planted" yesterday. (Thank you, Tanya, for that phrase. It's pretty appropriate.) I need to sort through the hundreds (thanks Brianne) of still shots, but until then, here's some video I took. The first one is them swinging the first half (back portion) in place. The second two are tours of the inside. I'll get the stills up as soon as I can.</div>
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After several (SEVERAL - haha) different delivery dates, we finally got the call that it left at 7:00 a.m. yesterday morning. We waited all day, almost giddy, and even planned a pizza party in the new kitchen for that afternoon when the house arrived. About 3:30 or so, Bob called to tell me that there was some bad news... After many delays (blown tires) it was going to be too dark for the trucks to continue. The Department of Transportation laws say that oversized loads cannot be transported after dark unless they are accompanied by a police officer. </div>
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This morning, Bob, Operations Officer of Parker Ag and designer of the house, called to tell me it would be passing by our apartment about 9:45 or so. We were planning to be out on the street to take pictures of the house passing by and then drive the back route to the house site. Unfortunately for my pictures and fortunately for us, they made better time that we thought they would and arrived at the house site before 10:00 a.m. Bob took the above picture of the house, turning onto our road.</div>
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Both sides of the house in front of "the hole". Next Thursday the house will be swung into place using a crane. The crane will be positioned in between the two halves. The half in the forefront of the picture is actually the back half of the house and will be placed first. Then the crane will swing the front half, the part that's in the background, in place. The crew will be there to affix the house to the basement walls and bolt it together.</div>
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The front half of the house... The windows on the left are Leslie's room. The center is the living room (the NO-NO room - no toys, no playing) and the windows on the right are the master bedroom. There will be a front porch coming out from the peak above the door and living room windows. </div>
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The back of the house... From the left... The laundry room and master bath; the kitchen (little window); the dining room (french doors) and the family room (big window on the right). The house is shrink-wrapped because it will be covered in two colors of brown stucco. We are hoping the weather is good and unseasonably warm during the week they want to stucco.</div>
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We got to go inside!!! We walked through the above door (which will actually lead to the garage) and into the laundry room. The door on the right leads to the master bath. I am SOOOOOO excited that John can come straight into the house through the garage, drop his greasy clothes and go straight into the master bath to clean up.</div>
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The master bath - above and below. The door on the right (above) goes into the master bedroom.</div>
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The kitchen. It is HUGE and has a TON of cupboards.You can see the garage door in the background (behind Topper in the gray coat). The open door to the right goes to the pantry.</div>
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The dining room with the back doors. From this view, the kitchen is to the right and family room is to the left.</div>
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From the dining room looking into the family room. It is filled with stuff to finish the house. The bar across the top is what they call a plant shelf. There are also half walls dividing the two spaces. I like the half walls much more than the full walls I thought they were going to be.</div>
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After we walked through the back half of the house, we went over and saw the front half. This is the master bedroom.</div>
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The master closet </div>
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***I forgot to take a picture of the living room. I'll take a picture the next time I run out there and will insert it here. Just be warned, four white walls and ugly curtains that no one ordered.***</div>
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What will be the stairs down to the basement.</div>
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The other upstairs bathroom.</div>
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Leslie's bedroom, above, and her closet, below.</div>
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<span id="goog_820893341">Bob is optimistic that </span>we will be able to move into the house in three weeks from Monday (December 3rd), but John and I think that it will be closer to five weeks (December 17th or so). There is a lot that still needs to be done (plumbing, septic, heating/air conditioning, electricity, basement floor, stairs, front porch, garage stuff, etc.). I'm really hoping we can celebrate Christmas in the house!</div>
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I hadn't been out to "the hole" for a while so John and I ran out there to take a look. There were lots of changes.</div>
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The hole had been backfilled (the dirt was filled in around the basement walls).</div>
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The garage had been dug out so the footers can be poured. It's a HUGE garage... big enough to fit the suburban, a full-sized pickup and probably a small apartment complex. It's seriously HUGE.</div>
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They electricians had been there, too. They put in a new electric pole and a meter.</div>
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Our activity on Sunday afternoon was carving pumpkins. JJ wanted to just stick a couple of knives in it (preferably an axe, he said, but he'd settle for kitchen knives) but we told him he had to at least carve something for the face. (He is sooooo 14.) A funny tidbit- for the past couple of days the pumpkins have lived on the little ledge where JJ is sitting. Every time Leslie and I would walk out the door or come back home from being away, she would touch each pumpkin and say the name of the sibling who carved it. I was surprised she got them right every time!</div>
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Our cute little "bumbee". She loved being dressed up in her costume.</div>
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Christopher waving to Leslie at the elementary school parade.</div>
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Our trick-or-treaters. Don't you love their candy buckets? I thought the orange duct tape would be more reflective than it was.</div>
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JJ elected to stay home and pass out candy for us (he only had one group come by so he was bored). He got a bag of his favorite candy out of the deal so it wasn't all bad. When we got home he put on Leslie's costume and asked if he could go trick-or-treating. On him the tutu is a little reminiscent of that scene at the mental hospital in Ace Ventura. (And no, we didn't let him go trick-or-treating. He had tons of candy between his own bag of treats and "donations" from Leslie's bucket.)</div>
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The french drain was laid on October 29th. I don't really know what makes a french drain French, but I do know that it is supposed to keep any ground water from flooding our house.</div>
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Above and below... the french drain pipe along the base of the basement.</div>
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Originally the concrete guy was supposed to put all the tar on the cement basement walls. Apparently he is too busy or something (read... no one knows why he didn't/hasn't put the tar on the walls or at least they aren't telling me- haha), so... John and Rhett, under the direction of Bill Christie, one of the subcontractors in this adventure, are painting the tar on the walls so the basement can be backfilled in the next couple of days.</div>
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(Side note: I love Bill Christie... He is a hero in this adventure, plus I just like him. He's a stereo-typical crusty old man... two days worth of grizzly gray beard, hair all over the place, plaid flannel shirt open to just above the navel, cigarette-smokers raspy voice and just as nice and friendly as can be. He reminds me a little of Mr. Edwards from the Little House series. Plus, he's helping more on this project than he had originally been contracted to do and I am very grateful for his expertise and help.)</div>
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The concrete guys started putting up the forms on October 18th.</div>
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The concrete guy finally poured the footings on October 18th. Happy to see the progress. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850575553272916297.post-17529294047745588142012-09-13T10:52:00.002-05:002012-09-13T12:08:54.397-05:00The story of the accident...On Wednesday, September 5, about 6 p.m., I got a call from John, asking me to come pick up JJ. He had been riding 4 wheelers with his friend, Topper (who is also John's boss's son). There is a little "track" area near our new house site (and close to the shop where John was working). Instead of going slowly around the track the first time, JJ took off like a crazy kid and flew off a jump. He went about 20 feet high and 20 feet long before going over the front of the handle bars. He landed, we think, on the backs of his hands (think how an ape walks on his knuckles) and on his right side because his right knee really hurt and both wrists hurt. I called our local doctor and they recommended I take him to the emergency room in Colorado Springs. We drove an hour to the hospital. I let JJ off at the ER door and parked the suburban. When I got to the door I was met by a nurse who told me they had watched JJ on the monitors for a few minutes. He was weaving like he was drunk but they knew he wasn't drunk so two of the nurses rushed out, put him in a wheel chair and rushed him in as a trauma case. (Now we know the trick for getting into the ER quickly... pretend you are drunk and say it was an ATV accident. They'll rush you in as a trauma case.)<br />
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They took him back to xray and took xrays of just his right knee and right wrist because those were the only two that were hurting a lot at that point. At one point I asked the xray tech if she could tell if there was anything broken. She said she could but couldn't tell us. Then after she took xrays of the wrist she said, "I bet your arm hurts a lot worse than your knee does." Wink, wink. I asked her if he was going to be able to have piano lessons for six weeks. She said probably not. (The next day the orthopedist told us he could still play the piano, just needed to take a week off so the pain could go away.)</div>
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They took John back to the ER room to get a splint on his right wrist (yes, it was broken, but not the knee) and JJ told them that his left wrist hurt really bad when he tried to move his arm so his palm was up. They sent us back to xray. After the first picture the tech told us a story about a little girl who had broken both her wrists and how surprised her mother was to realize that she'd have to wipe her daughter's bottom. I asked the tech if she was suggesting that we buy a bidet. She said we might want to invest in one. (He can wipe himself, by the way. Thank goodness for small blessings!)</div>
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But not tired enough or in enough pain to stop texting!</div>
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JJ had a rough night on the couch that involved lots of ibuprofen and re-wrapping one of the splints. I called the orthopedist first thing and they gave us an appointment for 1:15. They took off the splints and confirmed that both wrists were broken. From the look of the xrays and how he held his hands they determined it was "funny break" meaning that he didn't fall palms first, but landed on the backs of his hands.</div>
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All of the possible cast colors. JJ decided to have a pink cast on his left arm and a blue cast on his right. Originally he thought he'd have all the girls sign the pink one and the boys sign the blue one. It has turned out, though, that everyone wants to sign both casts.</div>
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Putting on the pink one.</div>
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Once the casts were on the pain went down considerably. It was a happy time. The orthopedist also checked his knee and decided it was just a bad sprain.</div>
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His helmet just has some new scratches on it but wasn't cracked in any way. We are very glad he was wearing it. The doctors and nurses at the hospital and the orthopedists office kept telling us how lucky he was and how much worse it could have been, especially if he hadn't been wearing a helmet.</div>
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The jump he went off. He should have driven through the track slowly so he'd know what was on the other side of the jump but he decided to hot-rod it around first. It doesn't look that far, but the jump is about 20 feet from the ground and the four wheeler is about 20 feet out.</div>
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John is standing where we think JJ landed and Leslie is standing where we think the four wheeler landed.</div>
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Introducing... "Mr. Will-work-for-free" ... at least until the four wheeler is paid off.</div>
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Throughout this whole ordeal I have had moments where reality has set in and I've thought that we could have been planning a funeral or picking out wheelchairs instead of cast colors. We feel incredibly blessed that it wasn't so much worse. All of the doctors and nurses we've seen have told us how lucky he is to have only two broken wrists and a sprained knee. JJ knows how blessed he is, too. He keeps saying that he feels it could have been so much worse. It definitely could have been.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4