You know, I've been feeling badly because I'd really like to comment on current events. I'd like to develop and share some really cogent opinions. For a while, I've been thinking it's my lack of thinking skills. I really can't figure out what the problem is. Maybe if I share the events of a typical day, one of you can help me pinpoint where I'm misusing my time and help me figure out a way to organize my life so I can organize my thoughts. Should we give it a try?
Yesterday morning, I woke up at 7 when JP4ling#3 came by for his Thursday visit. Great-Grandma needed help with a shower, JP4ling needed books read and breakfast and movies, Grandma, and chocolate milk and can I watch another movie? and Great-Grandma still needed a shower and MSP wanted more help with her den and John had to go order chicken feed and where do I keep the number of the feed store and then we went to one bank to close accounts and picked up JP4ling#2 along the way who was very bouncy and needed attention but didn't get any until the lady at the second bank turned the cartoons on while John and I opened bank accounts (for our almost-nonexistent money) and then we went home for lunch, which MSP had sweetly prepared. We slammed it down and by now I canceled my 1pm physical therapy appointment because there was just no way and then we noticed that EP wasn't home, although he was supposed to be back at 1 but didn't get home till almost 2 and he and I had to go to the bank and open his new checking account and John called while we were there to tell us that JP4ling#1 needed to be picked up from school (which I thought HE was doing) so we headed over there and then EP told me we had to pick up his lunch pizza, which had been ordered and had been cooling for, oh, about an hour now while we were at the bank . John called to say the homeschool moms who come by once a week for tea and CHOCOLATE had begun to arrive and by time we got back the party was underway. Kids played and moms talked until almost 6, and then we had a quick supper and JP4 went off to class, leaving the JP4lings with us. I was PMSing and felt terrible and just wanted to go to bed but we had to watch more movies and first there was Shrek and why can't we have snacks and I need some popcorn and I want some chocolate milk and can we watch Mary Poppins now and Daddy's here!! and then it was (thankfully) bedtime and too soon it was morning and JP4 came back with JP4ling #2 and......
Any advice you can give on how I can better organize my life, just let me know!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
"We Love Death"
This is a really neat lady with a really great blog. Yet another military mom with a lot to say! If you haven't followed the link yet, it's to an article by her discussing an article in the Wall Street Journal titled "Worshippers of Death." In it, Nasrallah, leader of the terrorist group Hezbollah, brings up some topics and points that could lead to quite the discussion. If we could stand to be in the same room as him...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Since You Asked
Bessie the cow is NOT with calf. She and Bill are not going to be parents. Dr. Bill, who came out to double-check, told us that there's no reason she shouldn't be. After looking at Bill's...equipment, he said it's possible that HE'S the problem. At this point, Bess will not become hamburger. Bill will go home, and his owners can decide what to do with him. Dr. Bill (I know, it's confusing to US, too) knows of another bull, but EP may sell her....Stay tuned....
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
I was born in a small town...
Quick...whose song?
I was not born in a small town, nor was my husband. He grew up in a tiny one, of around 400 people. I did not; I grew up in a suburban -opolis, incorporated the year I was born, (1959) and is way past 50,000 by now.
But we MOVED to a small town; this little place has more than 6500 people and actually makes a page in Wikipedia; yee-haw! And, aside from being the place my kids call home, I learned yesterday that it has some neat claims to fame.
Without this company, your money would be pale. Yep. They make the green dye used in U S of A legal tender.
This company makes one-hole punches. They're the only ones who do. They're also the only ones who make those little change-dispensing machines that hang on the belts of beer vendors at the ball game. How would you get your change without them? Oh, and they make the Can't Miss Rat Trap, too!
It's been called "home" by pitcher Carl Lundgren, (who pitched for the Cubs from 1902-1909;remember him?) songwriter Egbert van Alstyne, (who wrote In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree in 1905) and attorney David Boies (who represented the US in US vs. Microsoft,and also represented Al Gore during Bush vs. Gore.)
Oh, and the international headquarters of this company's forklift division, where my husband would like to be hired, is in this little town, too.
Gotta love your small town!
I was not born in a small town, nor was my husband. He grew up in a tiny one, of around 400 people. I did not; I grew up in a suburban -opolis, incorporated the year I was born, (1959) and is way past 50,000 by now.
But we MOVED to a small town; this little place has more than 6500 people and actually makes a page in Wikipedia; yee-haw! And, aside from being the place my kids call home, I learned yesterday that it has some neat claims to fame.
Without this company, your money would be pale. Yep. They make the green dye used in U S of A legal tender.
This company makes one-hole punches. They're the only ones who do. They're also the only ones who make those little change-dispensing machines that hang on the belts of beer vendors at the ball game. How would you get your change without them? Oh, and they make the Can't Miss Rat Trap, too!
It's been called "home" by pitcher Carl Lundgren, (who pitched for the Cubs from 1902-1909;remember him?) songwriter Egbert van Alstyne, (who wrote In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree in 1905) and attorney David Boies (who represented the US in US vs. Microsoft,and also represented Al Gore during Bush vs. Gore.)
Oh, and the international headquarters of this company's forklift division, where my husband would like to be hired, is in this little town, too.
Gotta love your small town!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Pine Ridge Prattle
My mom once said that she didn't like winter coming on, because "everything is dying." I look at it more as sleeping. The earth goes to sleep, to gain strength for the coming year. Sorta like spring is the morning, summer the afternoon, fall the evening, and winter the long night of an earthly day. (Gotta go hug a tree now!)
So, as morning dawns...
Broccoli and parsley are doing well. Only one lonely rosemary germinated. Lettuces REALLY need to get in the ground, but the ground is still a foot under the snow. Not sure what I'll do about that... We'll have a good bunch of cilantro, too. Pretty soon I'll be starting tomatoes and peppers. And dill. That's probably tomorrow.
Today is cleaning out a space for MSP. As much as she likes having Grandma here, she and Grandma do have their differences. She likes to be "creative," which means messy, and Grandma does not. So, today, we'll take our office/storage/furnace room and turn it into a den for Mary. She's very excited; she's even calling it the Wolf's Den. (As long as it isn't the Eagle's Lair...)
Pine Ridge is getting a brand-new reverse osmosis system today. Our original one, which was here when we moved in 10 years ago, gave up the ghost about 3 years ago. We continued limping along with it until about a year ago. We drank bottled water for a long time, but finally bit the bullet. John is installing that as I type. Fresh, non-polluted water is on the way.
Yes, out in the country, air might be purer, but water is not. We have no filtering, no chlorinating, no fluoridating, which has it's good points. But we have runoff from fields getting into our well, which is not a good thing. Although we grow organic crops here, our farm neighbors do not, and there are some nasty chemicals involved in getting corn and soybeans grown. We'd rather not drink them, thank you very much.
This week we also need to order chicks. The first batch of chicks will start growing on Pine Ridge at the end of March. They will probably be meat birds, which will have a happy life here for about 10 weeks. We have pens for our birds, allowing them to get out, scratch for seeds and bugs, and lie in the sun, all of which they really enjoy. We feed them a grain ration with no animal products or antibiotics, ground for us by a local feed supplier. He can't believe our birds do well without the antibiotics, but they thrive.
Later in the spring, maybe April, we'll have egg-laying chicks. Then, in May, turkeys will make their homes here. All will be gone (not the egg-layers!) in November; I'll let you imagine where they go. The circle of farm life begins...
So, as morning dawns...
Broccoli and parsley are doing well. Only one lonely rosemary germinated. Lettuces REALLY need to get in the ground, but the ground is still a foot under the snow. Not sure what I'll do about that... We'll have a good bunch of cilantro, too. Pretty soon I'll be starting tomatoes and peppers. And dill. That's probably tomorrow.
Today is cleaning out a space for MSP. As much as she likes having Grandma here, she and Grandma do have their differences. She likes to be "creative," which means messy, and Grandma does not. So, today, we'll take our office/storage/furnace room and turn it into a den for Mary. She's very excited; she's even calling it the Wolf's Den. (As long as it isn't the Eagle's Lair...)
Pine Ridge is getting a brand-new reverse osmosis system today. Our original one, which was here when we moved in 10 years ago, gave up the ghost about 3 years ago. We continued limping along with it until about a year ago. We drank bottled water for a long time, but finally bit the bullet. John is installing that as I type. Fresh, non-polluted water is on the way.
Yes, out in the country, air might be purer, but water is not. We have no filtering, no chlorinating, no fluoridating, which has it's good points. But we have runoff from fields getting into our well, which is not a good thing. Although we grow organic crops here, our farm neighbors do not, and there are some nasty chemicals involved in getting corn and soybeans grown. We'd rather not drink them, thank you very much.
This week we also need to order chicks. The first batch of chicks will start growing on Pine Ridge at the end of March. They will probably be meat birds, which will have a happy life here for about 10 weeks. We have pens for our birds, allowing them to get out, scratch for seeds and bugs, and lie in the sun, all of which they really enjoy. We feed them a grain ration with no animal products or antibiotics, ground for us by a local feed supplier. He can't believe our birds do well without the antibiotics, but they thrive.
Later in the spring, maybe April, we'll have egg-laying chicks. Then, in May, turkeys will make their homes here. All will be gone (not the egg-layers!) in November; I'll let you imagine where they go. The circle of farm life begins...
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