For starters, the Mortons tagged me in a posting game. You have to go to your pictures folder, 5th file, 5th picture, blog about it, and tag 5 more people. The only problem with that is that I don't really have 5 friends that actively blog... I'll do the best I can. :D
This is the small flower garden by our front porch. I took this in early April 2007. That day was something along the lines of 75 degrees. 24 hours later, the temperature was around 35. The flowers were nice until then. Oh well. :)
The five people I will tag... Nathaniel, Josh, Sean, Milkdud (who probably won't do it anytime soon :P), and *drum roll* Mortons. Backtagging isn't against the rules! :D
Well, of late, I've been doing a good bit. Schoolwork has been taking a bit of my time. I recently finished the second chapter of the second college course. So far, this course has been a little more challenging than the last one, which isn't surprising. However, thankfully, I've been able to keep up with the work. The grades are staying quite satisfactory. :)
I've started a weekly job here in town. I'm cleaning the local barber shop every Thursday. I dust, clean the bathroom, sweep, and mop. It isn't too difficult and provides a little bit of income. :)
We had a lot of snow lately. Early this week, Mom and Dad and I went out to Pennsylvania to pick up Nathaniel. We stayed at Grandpa's house overnight, and got up early the next morning to head up to Cleveland for a couple checkups for Nathaniel. Thankfully, so far, it seems as if everything is continuing to heal right along schedule. His restrictions have been removed (no bending at the waist, no lifting more than 10 lbs.) So, we got him back to Geneva, then started on our way home.
We made it about 100 miles. It was dark, the roads were starting to have snow drift on them, and the wind was picking up. So, we stopped, booked a cheap (but generally clean, except for the bathtup) motel room, ate a delicious supper at Bob Evan's, headed back to the room, watched a program on the Weather Channel called "Why I Love Winter", which we weren't right then, and then drifted off to sleep. Don't try to diagram that sentence. When we got up in the morning, the car had 4-6 inches of snow on it, and there was tons in the parking lot.
I got out and brushed most of the snow off, and scraped the small amount of ice off the windshield and windows. Mom came out and helped with a bunch of it. Just as we finished, an older couple from Ontario came out of their room and the husband asked if he could borrow our brush to get the snow off a door of their car to get out their brush. I offered to do the door for him, and he said okay. Well, he and Dad got talking, so Mom and I hurried up and did the entire car. He was pleasantly surprised when he turned around after finishing talking with Dad and found his car about ready to go. :)
We finally made it the rest of the 115 miles. We holed up in a McDonald's for breakfast. stuck around in there until nearly lunchtime, then struggled about 15 miles down the road (in about 20-25 minutes) and stopped for lunch. The place we stopped for lunch had free Wi-Fi, so, using my laptop here, we tracked the weather. Since the back end of the storm wasn't far away, Mom and Dad decided to simply wait until the snow was past us to leave. After it passed us, we got going, and had a relatively uneventful trip home.
Since there was so much snow, there were large piles. Well, large piles of snow, young neighbor kids, and me mix pretty well. :D Several youngsters from across the street came across and wanted to have some fun. So, I made a tunnel. Unfortunately, even though they loved the tunnel, they wanted it bigger. So, I tried. It collapsed. So, I built a little snow cave. Later on, I built them a bigger and better tunnel across the street at their house. I do have some pictures.
I love this look.
Everyone smiling.
A different angle.
And one is starting to move.
The tunnel was right in there... you may be able to see some of it. However, most of what you can see is the cave.
Well, of late, I've been doing a good bit. Schoolwork has been taking a bit of my time. I recently finished the second chapter of the second college course. So far, this course has been a little more challenging than the last one, which isn't surprising. However, thankfully, I've been able to keep up with the work. The grades are staying quite satisfactory. :)
I've started a weekly job here in town. I'm cleaning the local barber shop every Thursday. I dust, clean the bathroom, sweep, and mop. It isn't too difficult and provides a little bit of income. :)
We had a lot of snow lately. Early this week, Mom and Dad and I went out to Pennsylvania to pick up Nathaniel. We stayed at Grandpa's house overnight, and got up early the next morning to head up to Cleveland for a couple checkups for Nathaniel. Thankfully, so far, it seems as if everything is continuing to heal right along schedule. His restrictions have been removed (no bending at the waist, no lifting more than 10 lbs.) So, we got him back to Geneva, then started on our way home.
We made it about 100 miles. It was dark, the roads were starting to have snow drift on them, and the wind was picking up. So, we stopped, booked a cheap (but generally clean, except for the bathtup) motel room, ate a delicious supper at Bob Evan's, headed back to the room, watched a program on the Weather Channel called "Why I Love Winter", which we weren't right then, and then drifted off to sleep. Don't try to diagram that sentence. When we got up in the morning, the car had 4-6 inches of snow on it, and there was tons in the parking lot.
I got out and brushed most of the snow off, and scraped the small amount of ice off the windshield and windows. Mom came out and helped with a bunch of it. Just as we finished, an older couple from Ontario came out of their room and the husband asked if he could borrow our brush to get the snow off a door of their car to get out their brush. I offered to do the door for him, and he said okay. Well, he and Dad got talking, so Mom and I hurried up and did the entire car. He was pleasantly surprised when he turned around after finishing talking with Dad and found his car about ready to go. :)
We finally made it the rest of the 115 miles. We holed up in a McDonald's for breakfast. stuck around in there until nearly lunchtime, then struggled about 15 miles down the road (in about 20-25 minutes) and stopped for lunch. The place we stopped for lunch had free Wi-Fi, so, using my laptop here, we tracked the weather. Since the back end of the storm wasn't far away, Mom and Dad decided to simply wait until the snow was past us to leave. After it passed us, we got going, and had a relatively uneventful trip home.
Since there was so much snow, there were large piles. Well, large piles of snow, young neighbor kids, and me mix pretty well. :D Several youngsters from across the street came across and wanted to have some fun. So, I made a tunnel. Unfortunately, even though they loved the tunnel, they wanted it bigger. So, I tried. It collapsed. So, I built a little snow cave. Later on, I built them a bigger and better tunnel across the street at their house. I do have some pictures.
I love this look.
Everyone smiling.
A different angle.
And one is starting to move.
The tunnel was right in there... you may be able to see some of it. However, most of what you can see is the cave.
Another tentative grin.
I think she likes it.
Another view.
I know he likes it. :D
And she's in.
And still in.
She makes a great subject. Too bad I didn't quite have the focus right.
And yours truly.
That's it for now. I had a big day today with a scout event, but it's getting late. So, I will put that in the next post. Hope everyone has a blessed Sabbath day tomorrow!
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