Thursday, August 31, 2006
More Interesting Pictures
That is all I will do for now. I can't seem to get some of our older pictures to load!
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Interesting Pictures
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
News
This morning, Kyle reported a murder that happened in the chicken yard sometime in the night. Our rooster gave his life, our mother hen gave her life, and, as far as we can tell, our little chick gave its life, too. Others may have suffered as well, but the chicken yard is well sheltered in some areas and it is difficult to see in places. With this information, we are forced to come to the conclusion that our new chicken door is malfunctioning. I have also come to the following conclusion: It is difficult to keep empty-headed birds alive!
Well, a bit of boring news now. We happened to be cleaning our inside refrigerator and freezer when, low-and-behold, we found something that looked suspiciously like root beer! Wonder how that got there?! I thought you might be interested in that news, Kaliste! ;)
We are, I think, going to pick some apples Friday. I have a suspicion that the following week will be full of apple stuff, a.k.a. canned apples, dried apples, apple cider, apple juice, apple sauce, apple butter, and we can't forget APPLE SKINS AND CORES! The kitchen shall be a sticky mess, I fear!
Well, a bit of boring news now. We happened to be cleaning our inside refrigerator and freezer when, low-and-behold, we found something that looked suspiciously like root beer! Wonder how that got there?! I thought you might be interested in that news, Kaliste! ;)
We are, I think, going to pick some apples Friday. I have a suspicion that the following week will be full of apple stuff, a.k.a. canned apples, dried apples, apple cider, apple juice, apple sauce, apple butter, and we can't forget APPLE SKINS AND CORES! The kitchen shall be a sticky mess, I fear!
Friday, August 25, 2006
Um...more stuff
I've learned to kind of crochet! I thought it was impossible last time I tried (several years ago).
Mama sewed on her four buttons! She says she is going to wait on the hem until she has a hoop skirt though.
Kyle has been trying to revive an old banjo we have had sitting around for years. I think it was given to us, but we may have paid something for it, I don't remember. It has a hard time keeping a tune.
Daddy found a song that he has started calling his theme song. It is "My Cubicle", but he is trying to figure out how to change the last verse. I think he should change the guy singing it too!
Life is truly going along at a normal pace, quite relaxing. I am afraid that will change come Monday. I have to start school then, but I don't have a very heavy schedual this year!
Mama sewed on her four buttons! She says she is going to wait on the hem until she has a hoop skirt though.
Kyle has been trying to revive an old banjo we have had sitting around for years. I think it was given to us, but we may have paid something for it, I don't remember. It has a hard time keeping a tune.
Daddy found a song that he has started calling his theme song. It is "My Cubicle", but he is trying to figure out how to change the last verse. I think he should change the guy singing it too!
Life is truly going along at a normal pace, quite relaxing. I am afraid that will change come Monday. I have to start school then, but I don't have a very heavy schedual this year!
Thursday, August 24, 2006
>Addition onto last post!<
We re-watched "Much Ado About Nothing" last night with Daddy. We have now decided, as a family, not to watch it again until it has been edited. Those two scenes are just not good, and not at all necessary to the movie. I still believe it would be a good and enjoyable movie without them!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Stuff...(What do you do when you don't have a "title"?)
The answer to the last question is either to let him come back in his own time or let your kind neighbor put him back in. We don't know which happened the other day.
I finished my "summer school" yesterday just in time to start the other, regular school. We watched "Much Ado About Nothing" yesterday as part of our Shakespeare course that we have just started. I really enjoyed it, but there were a couple of places we had to fast forward through. We have noticed that movies made in England seem to have many of the same actors in them. Emma Thompson is in a lot that we enjoy.
I finished my part of Mama's Civil War dress! I did all her requested changes, and they really made the dress easier than mine. Mama still has to do the hem and sew on four buttons and about 13 hooks and eyes. I may end up doing the hem if she doesn't get around to it soon. I will have to describe the dress because she won't allow me to put pictures on here.
Let's see, her material is a dark blue with white, floral print on it; it truly is beautiful, but you have to see it to appreciate it.
She has view a, but her bodice is not gathered or lined. We attached the skirt to the bodice with a casing for elastic. Her skirt is not cartridge pleated like mine; instead it is gathered (which the cartridge pleats really are that too, just more evenly spaced).
I finished my "summer school" yesterday just in time to start the other, regular school. We watched "Much Ado About Nothing" yesterday as part of our Shakespeare course that we have just started. I really enjoyed it, but there were a couple of places we had to fast forward through. We have noticed that movies made in England seem to have many of the same actors in them. Emma Thompson is in a lot that we enjoy.
I finished my part of Mama's Civil War dress! I did all her requested changes, and they really made the dress easier than mine. Mama still has to do the hem and sew on four buttons and about 13 hooks and eyes. I may end up doing the hem if she doesn't get around to it soon. I will have to describe the dress because she won't allow me to put pictures on here.
Let's see, her material is a dark blue with white, floral print on it; it truly is beautiful, but you have to see it to appreciate it.
She has view a, but her bodice is not gathered or lined. We attached the skirt to the bodice with a casing for elastic. Her skirt is not cartridge pleated like mine; instead it is gathered (which the cartridge pleats really are that too, just more evenly spaced).
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
New chick update
Mama and little chickie are doing very well!
I'll try not to be like those proud first-baby mothers you hear so much about, but I wanted to put proof up on here for my own sake! We are rather proud, this being our first. =]
Question: How do you re-catch a mad, run-away bull about 10 times your size?
I'll try not to be like those proud first-baby mothers you hear so much about, but I wanted to put proof up on here for my own sake! We are rather proud, this being our first. =]Question: How do you re-catch a mad, run-away bull about 10 times your size?
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Here are the pictures
I'm afraid they are not very good, but they will have to do.
Looking out across the Mississippi River.
Across from the Alamo the first day in San Antonio eating crushed ice with too much syrup. Very sweet, but at least it was cold!
Waiting for our tables at Landry's.
We have proof! Luke does let others carry him!
Visiting the Alamo.
Luke with his new San Antonio hat and pop-gun.
Dinner in the hotel lobby.
The last few hours in San Antonio.
The journey home from Dickson!
The Trip
Well, the "not probable" happened! We left at 10:30pm Monday night! Mama and Daddy took turns driving through the night, and we made it to Mississippi by 7:30am. We then visited our grandfather for about an hour. From there we made it to Arlington, Texas where we bedded down at our uncle's house. We left early the next morning, and found a Cabela's. We are, unfortunately, deprived of a Cabela's in Tennessee, which makes us all the more ready to step into one for an hour or three. I got a multi-tool key chain there! Guess what! There was a Cracker Barrel right next to it! Great lunch stop! Anyway, we finally made it to San Antonio, and maneuvered our way through the traffic. We actually found the Gardenia Inn on our first try! The Lingo's were there before us, and they kindly helped us haul our stuff up to the beautiful room on the third floor. Once we freshened up, we all went River Walking! We all had a good time of it, and Daddy's wonderful Spanish "abilities" were discovered. We dined at a delicious seafood restaurant called Landry's. After a wonderful dinner, we got to go on a river cruise. It was a lovely as I remembered it being at night, but I think we had a better guide before. We made it back to the B&B, and fell into our beds quite exhausted.
The next morning, we had a delicious (I am afraid I am going to be using that word a lot, but we did have an enormous amount of good food!) breakfast. There were three courses: a fruit bowl, a main dish, and, the best part, a dessert! After the first day, our accommodating hosts learned that Luke ate only the kiwi; that's what they gave him the rest of the time! After the breakfast we headed out to Market Square. We decided to ride the trolley, but we got an extremely rude driver. We got to El Mercado an hour before it opened! So, we decided to walk all the way across town to the Alamo. It was sometime in the course of this walk that Navidad was re-defined. It now means: a navigating father, particularly to the ignorant-"Spanish-speaking" Americans. We got to the Alamo, and spent 1 to 2 hours there. I found a different key chain (than the one I got four years ago), and I got it. Still, the Alamo gift shop is way over-priced! From here, we headed to the information center. There I got yet another key chain; this one described the river walk. I like those that describe things. Then we went to the "trolley office" (those are my words, I'm not sure what it was called officially) where we got a couple of all day passes! Now all we had to do was get the trolley color system down, and get to a trolley stop. We had much better experiences with all the rest of our trolley drivers. Now, we made it to Market Square, and started shopping, window shopping mainly. Finally, most of us got exhausted, and quite hungry. We had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, and a couple of Mexicans came in with guitars. They played us one song, and then demanded (a little strong, I admit) their six dollars. We didn't do that again. After lunch Mama, Luke, and I went back into the shops, and I got a shawl and a skirt. Mama got a skirt, too, but it was for the shawl that we went back in. After this, the adults needed a siesta, so we went back to our rooms. After a little while (we had to let Luke get to sleep), we kids played a couple of games. We finally settled on Scrabble, and played that until we needed to get ready for the Conference. We went to the appropriate place to wait for the doors to be opened. When we got to our seats, we saw our first of Mr. Stouffer and Mr. Lovett. They sat with us for the remainder of the night. After the keynote speaker, Doug Phillips, was done, we all, including the men mentioned above, went to dinner. I learned that the fastest way to another block is through a large hotel! We went through 2 before we settled on Denny's for dinner. We only had to wait a very few minutes for them to seat our crowd of 12 people! The service was great, and the food wasn't bad either. A long day thus comes to an end.
Day three in San Antonio was not quite as exhausting as the previous days. We only had to sit and listen to our chosen speakers. This day we had lunch at, guess, a Mexican restaurant! Apparently one well known and highly acclaimed among the Vision Forum people. We got to see many of them passing through! After lunch was more sitting, but we met more people. We had dinner (pizza this time, not Mexican!) with three other families and Mr. and Mrs. Smith from Smith Family blog in a hotel lobby. This provided very good conversation and an extraordinary view of the river walk. Since the pizza arrived very late, we were late for the last speaker, but we didn't miss too much.
Our last full day in San Antonio was a whirl of activity. We organized ourselves better, and had someone in listening to almost every speaker. For lunch, our guys went out and provided rice, and steak, and a variety of other things to us. For dinner, we ate at another Mexican restaurant with Mr. Fish and his son. That was a laughter-filled meal!
The next morning, we Bradshaw's made a sad departure from our nice little vacation. We enjoyed every minute of our time in San Antonio with such wonderful friends. Unfortunately, the tale does not end here. We got away early enough to be home that night, but the suburban started acting up around Dickson. Fortunately for us, our aunt lives in Dickson, so we barged into her peaceful home at 11:50pm or so. We deprived her of some sleep, I fear. Yesterday morning, Daddy took the car to a transmission shop, but the people there couldn't find anything wrong with the transmission. Daddy also said that the problem is not a little thing, but we still don't know what it is. The next few hours were a maze of cars, rides, and movies, so I will spare any readers that stuff and give you the end result (the movies was all that we kids could safely do alone and keep Luke occupied at the same time). The end result was that Daddy brought the suburban back on the trailer to Aunt Carol's house, and we spent another night at her place.
This morning, we had a nice little cramped ride in the truck back home. We went through Centerville, for all those who it holds any significance.
I should also say that our hen is being a very good mother, and that the chick is still alive! There is your long post, Kaliste. Pictures later...maybe.
The next morning, we had a delicious (I am afraid I am going to be using that word a lot, but we did have an enormous amount of good food!) breakfast. There were three courses: a fruit bowl, a main dish, and, the best part, a dessert! After the first day, our accommodating hosts learned that Luke ate only the kiwi; that's what they gave him the rest of the time! After the breakfast we headed out to Market Square. We decided to ride the trolley, but we got an extremely rude driver. We got to El Mercado an hour before it opened! So, we decided to walk all the way across town to the Alamo. It was sometime in the course of this walk that Navidad was re-defined. It now means: a navigating father, particularly to the ignorant-"Spanish-speaking" Americans. We got to the Alamo, and spent 1 to 2 hours there. I found a different key chain (than the one I got four years ago), and I got it. Still, the Alamo gift shop is way over-priced! From here, we headed to the information center. There I got yet another key chain; this one described the river walk. I like those that describe things. Then we went to the "trolley office" (those are my words, I'm not sure what it was called officially) where we got a couple of all day passes! Now all we had to do was get the trolley color system down, and get to a trolley stop. We had much better experiences with all the rest of our trolley drivers. Now, we made it to Market Square, and started shopping, window shopping mainly. Finally, most of us got exhausted, and quite hungry. We had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, and a couple of Mexicans came in with guitars. They played us one song, and then demanded (a little strong, I admit) their six dollars. We didn't do that again. After lunch Mama, Luke, and I went back into the shops, and I got a shawl and a skirt. Mama got a skirt, too, but it was for the shawl that we went back in. After this, the adults needed a siesta, so we went back to our rooms. After a little while (we had to let Luke get to sleep), we kids played a couple of games. We finally settled on Scrabble, and played that until we needed to get ready for the Conference. We went to the appropriate place to wait for the doors to be opened. When we got to our seats, we saw our first of Mr. Stouffer and Mr. Lovett. They sat with us for the remainder of the night. After the keynote speaker, Doug Phillips, was done, we all, including the men mentioned above, went to dinner. I learned that the fastest way to another block is through a large hotel! We went through 2 before we settled on Denny's for dinner. We only had to wait a very few minutes for them to seat our crowd of 12 people! The service was great, and the food wasn't bad either. A long day thus comes to an end.
Day three in San Antonio was not quite as exhausting as the previous days. We only had to sit and listen to our chosen speakers. This day we had lunch at, guess, a Mexican restaurant! Apparently one well known and highly acclaimed among the Vision Forum people. We got to see many of them passing through! After lunch was more sitting, but we met more people. We had dinner (pizza this time, not Mexican!) with three other families and Mr. and Mrs. Smith from Smith Family blog in a hotel lobby. This provided very good conversation and an extraordinary view of the river walk. Since the pizza arrived very late, we were late for the last speaker, but we didn't miss too much.
Our last full day in San Antonio was a whirl of activity. We organized ourselves better, and had someone in listening to almost every speaker. For lunch, our guys went out and provided rice, and steak, and a variety of other things to us. For dinner, we ate at another Mexican restaurant with Mr. Fish and his son. That was a laughter-filled meal!
The next morning, we Bradshaw's made a sad departure from our nice little vacation. We enjoyed every minute of our time in San Antonio with such wonderful friends. Unfortunately, the tale does not end here. We got away early enough to be home that night, but the suburban started acting up around Dickson. Fortunately for us, our aunt lives in Dickson, so we barged into her peaceful home at 11:50pm or so. We deprived her of some sleep, I fear. Yesterday morning, Daddy took the car to a transmission shop, but the people there couldn't find anything wrong with the transmission. Daddy also said that the problem is not a little thing, but we still don't know what it is. The next few hours were a maze of cars, rides, and movies, so I will spare any readers that stuff and give you the end result (the movies was all that we kids could safely do alone and keep Luke occupied at the same time). The end result was that Daddy brought the suburban back on the trailer to Aunt Carol's house, and we spent another night at her place.
This morning, we had a nice little cramped ride in the truck back home. We went through Centerville, for all those who it holds any significance.
I should also say that our hen is being a very good mother, and that the chick is still alive! There is your long post, Kaliste. Pictures later...maybe.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Hurray!!!
One of our Black Sex-link broody hens hatched an egg! We have been trying to do this for about a month, so we are very excited! I do not think that we have sex-link chicks unfortunately, but the little guy is cute nonetheless! You may thank the father for that brown face; our hens didn't get brown until they were about a year old!The mother still has another egg under her, so we are hoping that she will keep on setting until she hatches that one too! The little feller could be anywhere from one to three days old, but I am leaning a little more on the older side of that estimate. The reason being: there was no prominent egg tooth (from what my limited experience tells me, at least). Now we get to see how our hybrid, hatchery hen is at mothering her "home-grown" hatchling!
Tomorrow morning we are off to Texas by way of... the road. There is a possibility that we will be going by way of Mississippi; another that we will be stopping near Fort Worth, and yet another that we will just go straight there! It is even possible that we will be leaving today! I said possible, not probable.I forgot to mention the other day that we had canned ten quarts of peaches and several (not many) half pints of tomato sauce.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Quick little thing
I thought I had better post while I have a few minutes. I won't be able to for about two weeks. Come Tuesday morning, we'll be going to the Entrepreneurial Boot Camp put on by Vision Forum in San Antonio. We went to San Antonio about four years ago, and I remember really enjoying the River Walk. We did it at night, and it was absolutely beautiful!
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