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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Aw, geesh...that’s a rough situation. Were they able to tell for sure that she was nursing?
My lights flickered and the cable box rebooted during the worst of the wind, but it seems like it’s over now. Weird little freak storm that was.
Only that she is bagged up. They can’t tell when she actually gave birth.
I don’t know what I’d do. :-\ My guess is that she’d *probably* be OK to go if she’s not acting drunk, but...I don’t know.
Well, for good or ill, we’ve decided to release them first thing in the morning. She’s sleeping now. I hope the kittens, if there even are any, are dry with this nasty weather... (I actually hope they’re under the house) but it doesn’t seem right to turn her out tonight.
Was the storm too small? Because we can send you some of our weather, no problem...
So I got a new Ipod last night - one of the Touches. I posted from it last night just to test. This may be the coolest device I’ve ever owned. Of course I had to use a little cracking package to open it up to applications that make it useful for more than just music... all sorts of nifty little freeware from various developers.
But it’s just cool. The touch screen stuff is amazing, it works better as an internet appliance than one might think, and I’ve got some text/notes software and a couple games on there now, so it’s halfway between a PDA and a super micro computer.
Well, they’re on the loose! :~)
All the best to them. :~)
Sioux Falls, Iowa
Sioux City SD
Rapid City SD x 2 nights
Worland Wyoming
Togwatee, Wyoming
Colby Kansas
I’m missing one, but can’t remember off the top of my head.
We went to Yellowstone park and saw Old Faithful...it was all so neat. I tell ya, they worked those teenagers to death. There was no partying going on after hours, as far as I could tell...they went to bed exhausted. Matthew would come in, shower and just collapse into bed anywhere from 11pm to 2am.
They did between 2-3 one-hour concerts a day at juvy centers and hospitals and homeless shelters. Mt Rushmore was the pinnacle of the trip as you can imagine and they did a great job. They sang one song that has the soloist singing “He’s Alive!” at the end and the crowd in the amphitheater hooted and hollered...it was great!
Matthew really benefited from the whole experience. It was the most independence he’s ever had and he made a few mistakes. Like he wanted fajitas at Casa Bonita and so he ordered the Grande, but he was too small to carry the two gigantic plates of food and one of the bigger teenagers had to carry it for him! It was a massive amount of food and our official photographer actually photographed him with it. Then he proceeded to pick all the meat off and seperate it with the tortillas...he ate just that...none of the rest of the food. He said he wished he hadn’t wasted that money on all that food he didn’t want.
He calls the place “Casa Dolorosa”.
Matthew has a good reputation though...amongst kids his age and with the older kids too! One of the oldest guys...a senior...taught him how to text message! (Something I’d been trying to do, because it’s cheaper than minutes.)
Oh, and out of 54 kids on the choir trip, I think we figured 10 of them were homeschooled. Homeschooling is very common here and so the fact that Matthew is homeschooled isn’t really an divisive issue. Some kids go to Broken Arrow public schools, some go to Bixby public schools, some are homeschooled, some go to Jenks public school...like that. Matthew just doesn’t go to their district. Heh!
It’s why I’m loathe to move from Oklahoma...
It’s a church choir?
HS’ing is still getting more common in churches. The PCA church we attend, I think a majority of families with kids under 10 homeschool.
Of course, at my office of fifty people, three homeschool and two of us are HS grads. So maybe it’s more of an area thing here too.
That’s right...our church youth choir.
You know, the boys had been going to TCDTS for a couple of years before we decided to leave our other church after it turned “Saturday Night Fever”...I liked the Royal Ambassador’s program (missions studies for boys). The one at our former church was so big it was uncontrolled, imo, and boys need firm boundaries at that age. The program at TCDTS was smaller and much easier for the men to manage.
Then we officially joined a year ago last Easter and Matthew has really done well. Last year was his first year in “the youth group”. He comes home with all kinds of stuff to tell me about and the whole time he’s telling me, I’m just marveling that he’s looking me level in the eye.
Just catching up now... that sure is a beautiful stage and backdrop at Mount Rushmore! :~)
It was a big storm in a short package. ;-)
We’re still getting rain, off and on, and wind, off and on. I’m not riding again today. I could probably deal with the rain, but I don’t feel like getting blown into traffic.
It’d also be nice if we could actually start the days all the way up in the 50s or even 60s now and again, considering it’s *June*.
Indeed!
Hope they do OK. I wonder if they’ll run for the hills now. ;-)
We’ll see. I hope they stick around. I’ll be on the lookout for them. I’ve got their food out in the barn... no cage in sight. :~)
You've heard of biker bars? Well, this is a biker church in South Dakota! The kids sang in this church!
This church shared the Lord's Supper with us and it was the first time I'd taken it from a deacon in a black leather vest! Really cool place!
Here's Steve and Joshua, a mile up!
The Air Force Academy chapel in Colorado Springs...
Any kitteh news?
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