“Six *bushes* of habaneros, not six bushels! We’ll be able to pick one next week, probably. I can make enchiladas with Really Hot Sauce and take them to church next Sunday. The Spanish congregation has a dinner after Mass.”
Ok..six bushes makes more sense!
LOL!
But wow, I looked up “bushels” again to refresh my memory..
That would be a LOAD of peppers..
Anoreth will, I’m sure, do well!
Which ROTC is she looking into?
My sister took sign language for part of her foreign language requirement.
It was a nice change of pace.
Is Vlad excited to join the other boys?
I would imagine!
Bill might be running for the tent~
Unless, of course, Pat (the tornado) hits the backyard. Then all bets are off.
(well..aside from the dizzy factor)
I think I would like the History of Ancient Egypt..
Matthew plays a computer game packed with random Ancient Egypt facts...
He enlightens me all the time.
He also has a few titles from Joy Masoff.
Her book “Oh Yikes” has even more (mostly gross) facts about the peoples of old.
Hmmm...perhaps I shouldn’t be getting MOST of my ongoing education from an 8 year old perspective????
LOL!
We’ve had a quiet weekend.
Yesterday was a “Zero Electronics Day”.
(we did watch “The Waltons” after dinner though)
The kids think we’re tyrants for making them play outside or with THEIR TOYS all of the time!
We’re so mean!
I hope your Independence Day was lovely!
Fireworks are banned by our local government. (the sissies)...
So, we went up to some friends to celebrate.
We purchased a small amount of explosives from the local firework’s stand.
(as do our friends)
Then, we sit in their cul-de-sac and watch their neighbors reenact the Revolutionary War using the HUGE and ILLEGAL (but so entertaining) fireworks they purchase from the Indian Reservation.
They must spend hundreds of dollars!
We had a peaceful 4th here - cooked steaks on the grill and watched the little boys splash in the baby pool. One daughter went to a friend’s house to cook out, and another went to our town parade with a neighbor. I had to be at church at noon and couldn’t take them. When I got home, the family had apparently cut up a watermelon using a chainsaw, so I spent a couple of hours cleaning the kitchen. (Sigh)
Anoreth wants Air Force ROTC. She’s going to take the placement test for the community college tomorrow, I hope. We have to take the purple car to the mechanic, because it keeps shutting off, but I can drop her at the campus in the van in the afternoon, and her dad can pick her up on the way home from week. She’ll enjoy hanging about the student center if she has free time.
One of our gerbils died yesterday, apparently from old age. I went to Anoreth’s room for another “Cycles of American Political Thought” CD, and found Jimmie, the gerbil, sitting in the cage doing nothing. Gerbils don’t do this! She sat around quietly all day, occasionally nibbling at a seed, and then just stopped breathing. Anoreth buried her out in the woods with two previous gerbils and the old cat. I like having gerbils, but they just don’t live very long; we’d had Jimmie and Becky (the survivor) about two years.
Bill said mumble mumble mumble about sleeping in a tent. Maybe Tom would like to move out, instead.
We need to have a Zero Electronics day! Some day when it’s cooler, so we can live without air conditioning!