Good morning! Yesterday morning the goats were being
really vocal and they are again today. I’m not sure why other than they
probably want to get out and start eating grass and such. The only problem is,
of course, that there is no grass to eat as of yet. Most of the snow is gone
other than in sheltered areas or where there was more accumulation due to shoveling,
plowing, or falling off of a roof, but there isn’t grass yet. Hopefully soon. In
the meantime, they get to keep on eating hay, grain, and pine trees.
It seems that Amena isn’t having much fun on the 8th
grade trip. There are something like four busses and there are a bunch of
groups of three or four students. I don’t know how many chaperones there are
but they don’t really go out and about with the students from the sounds of it.
Amena is in a group of four girls and only one of them is she really friends
with. They are on bus 4. The girls Amena wanted to be with are on bus 1. The
reason she is not with them is because of the little problem I mentioned some
time earlier. Since then, things have smoothed out but groups were already
decided upon and she felt bad if she left the group she’s in to go back to the
other one (which only has three because one of them ended up not going). What
fun.
Yesterday was a fun day. It was pretty normal and
average until late afternoon. Earlier in the afternoon, Elizabeth called and
wanted to know if there was any chance I could give her a ride to MWCC for a meeting
she had been invited to for potential early childhood education students.
Because of when it was, I could and still get Cedric and Seth to scouts. I
called one parent but she didn’t answer and the other potential ride home for
them I don’t have a number for so I hoped that I could talk to one of them once
we got there because I’d have a few minutes before I had to leave.
It went like this:
Elizabeth’s meeting started at 6:00. That meant we
really needed to leave her apartment by 5:30. So I figured I needed to leave
home by 5:00. I left at 4:45 instead and got there about 5:15. That turned out
to be a good thing because it takes a few minutes to get Maria in and
everything settled. We left at 5:30 and got to the Mount right on time.
I got home and had about fifteen minutes before we had
to leave to get the boys to scouts. We left, were the third car there, and had
to wait so I could make the second and final payment for scout camp for the
boys. Dominc’s dad, Bill, is the treasurer and also one of the potential rides
home for the boys so I gave him a check and asked about a ride. He had Henry
Foley with him so he said sure, he’d already be on our road so no problem.
Whew!
Then I went outside and there was Ryan’s mom. She
mentioned that she’d seen a call from me but not until late so I told her what it
was about and she said she would have been happy to give them a ride. I knew
she would if she could. We visited for a few minutes until Joseph had had
enough waiting and then we left. Because we wouldn’t have been able to be home
for long, we didn’t go home but went straight to the Mount even though it was a
bit early to get Elizabeth.
I got to take a few pictures of the sunset which was
very pretty last night and Elizabeth actually got out of her meeting before
8:00 which was nice. We got Elizabeth and Maria home and then came home,
arriving right about 9:00. Cedric and Seth beat us home and Paul got home
probably fifteen or so minutes after.
If I hadn’t been able to get a ride for the boys, my
plan was to get Elizabeth, take her and Maria to our house with Joseph, go get
Cedric and Seth and take them home, and then take Elizabeth home. It would have
worked but would have been more driving and wouldn’t have been so good for
Maria, I think. I know I was tired of sitting by the time I was done.
Today we have a busy day planned out beginning with a
trip to the dentist for Joseph. This visit has been scheduled and rescheduled
so many times I’ve almost lost count. Twice it was due to snow, once due to
maintenance work at the office. Now it will finally happen. After that, we are
heading over Boston direction to get some boards so I can make raised beds. I’ll
probably have more to say about that but not now and probably not today. After that,
I need to pick Cedric up at school and take him to the West’s so he can do some
work. Then we have church tonight. I am not sure if Joseph has scouts; if he
does, I’m not sure how that will work out. We will certainly find out.
Have a fantastical day!
Just a couple of PSs. First, this is the second page
of my sixth ‘journal’. I write in these documents and then copy and paste them
into emails for Grandma and blog posts for the rest of everyone. Each one I end
at 100 pages. That means five hundred and two pages on this computer. Since I
started doing this on July 31st of 2012 and had a hard drive fry in
November, there are more out there that I don’t currently have saved in a
computer. That’s semi-crazy but seemed noteworthy.
Second, I believe I missed a birthday yesterday. Happy
belated birthday, Diane. I hope you had a wonderful day. Thank you for being my
friend through the years. (I need to talk to you, by the way.)
That is all.
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