I submitted to be in the Gack Ink Network about a month ago. Today in my comments I was notified that I was going to be accepted. This makes me pretty excited. I love most of the sites in there network.
So there is my new banner that I chose. It doesn’t really match my blog colors, but oh well. I am putting it on the sidebar somewhere there now. LOL….
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This is my look back in time. I didn’t believe people when they told me that they grow up fast. I don’t remember growing up fast myself. I now believe them that from this perspective….time goes by quickly.
Here look where we started from. That is my Kyra, July 21, 2005, so less than 2 weeks old. This is the photo that I used on my baby announcements that were sent out, but the feet weren’t on the photo. I still love it.
This is her at 4 months old. I started blogging here when she was 6 months old so the pictures of her at this age aren’t published much. You can sort of watch her growth with the archives after that. Doesn’t she look peaceful here though. I love this one too.
Here is her in January 2006. She was pretty big for her age then. She had mastered rolling both directions sometime close to this time. She had one direction pretty early, but getting that other direction was hard for her.
Finally there is her birthday party last year. She tore into that cake. It was so fun.
We aren’t having her much of a party this year. I am having my rock club picnic at my house this year and that is on the Sunday, so she will get lots of “Happy Birthday’s”, but no official party now beyond just with us. I expect like 20-30 people to be here for that.
Well, that is enough posting for one night. I am getting off here. Good Night…
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I have no idea what a coke furnace is, but it was used during the early 1800’s. Stan and I agree that this was a neat thing, he said he hasn’t seen anything like it ever.
Here to show you a better size comparison. Stan is 5 foot 8. That ceiling has to be 12 feet. The whole thing has to be greater than 50 feet.
We found it interesting that there was one of these like escape hatches on each side. I not sure if that is the official name of course.
Another cool thing about this giant fire pit. They had a very nice playground in front of it. I got Kyra tired….for the ride home.
We had a very peaceful ride home. She was hugging her tiger the whole way. She woke up about 2 miles from the door.
We fed the goats, went and visited Robin a bit, cooked dinner, watched some TV, and took bathes so we are ready for tomorrow. I don’t think our bathtub has ever been this full before…I think she could actually swim in it. LOL…
That was the day and now….I am going to read from my reader. My counter thing says that I am down to only 145 feeds left to go.
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Woo Hoo! Nia has been a little down lately. She e-mailed me a sort of sorry story this morning. I looked and looked for a cheer me up in her own town. I didn’t find one…but I got a lot of rude responses. I suggest Nia move to a nicer town. LOL…
Anyways, I couldn’t find the help I wanted to find, so I started searching for where Nia is at. She had given me her address once, so I could mail her something. I got looking and it was like 2 hours away. I was okay with that, not that far away. I went up asked Stan, you want to take a long ride. That was all it took and we were off.
I know Nia doesn’t go to many places, so I knew she would be home. Plus, by the message, I could tell. The surprise aspect didn’t really bother me too much.
Oh, I was pleasantly surprised. She is the cutest lady…more cute in person than her girly phone voice allows. She has the biggest prettiest smile. (See for yourself….LOL)
We went to Subway at and went to a park. It was lovely. We had to get home again for dinner time, so we only were there like an hour. It was such a pleasure to meet her though. I am honored.
It was really nice to do something outside of my normal too. I need that now and again.
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Adam works for the Post Office and he has been all tense around here because his contract that he does was up for renewal. Adam has been on edge for this whole month wondering if his company would keep the contract, we have changed companies twice before. We basically follow this contract, so whatever company has it hires Adam and away we go, but when he changes companies he looses all his vacation and stuff which sucks, and it isn’t a guaranteed move. Anyways, yesterday we got the news that his company got the contract and it is good for 5 years. Woo Hooo! (It has never been 5 years before, only 1 year contracts. That makes this doubly great news.)
This also hopefully means that Adam will just all together cheer up which all by itself is a great news.
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She was having an absolute blast. I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. It was hilarious. She was screaming and screaming and running back and forth and forth and back.
I have to go to this place more. LOL….
That leaves my day to now. Kyra is in bed and my heart is beating just as fast as last night only in sheer fun day excitement. I am not tired at all even though I should be exhausted. I am even going to write another post for my new site, Too Much Truth. I would like to get a week ahead on that site. It is so fun and so opposite of this site. I get to do all this research and be all serious. I love it.
Good Night….
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Yes, I survived the last day. I was done driving and had my bus turned in by noon. Basically I worked on my bus from 6:30 til noon with only like 20 minutes break. I cleaned it my 40 minute driving break. It wasn’t perfectly cleaned, but good enough for them to hose it out which they do.
I learned that I am probably going to get a different route with different kids next year, which sort of has me happy. It sort of has me sad though….strange though. I have had a mixed year this year with emotions toward the students. I will keep my same high school route, but possibly get a new elementary closer to my house. Who knows though…I will worry about maybe August…LOL…
Adam came and got me when I turned it in, so I came home and ate. I then went to my merchandising jobs. I did my Circuit City store and then my Sears stores. I was done about 5:30.
Stan had a sort of doctors appointment. It was like a pre-doctors appointment appointment. LOL… He is going for a sleep test, so they wanted to tell him what he had to do for that prior to actually taking the test. He now has the official appointment.
We stopped at the fence store on the way home from this and bought a solar powered electric fencer and 75 insulators for our new improved goat zapping machine pasture. We got that orange braided wire strands for the actual wire part. Oh, how I hope this works. We spent over $300 on this though….I really hope we can get away with not putting new posts in. They cost $6 each and we need about 100, if this doesn’t work.
Than…this is where my day gets fun. I stopped and took this little ponies picture, he was on my way home. I had missed a call earlier from Tom about the quarry, so I called him back and he was at the quarry. I asked if I could go in there and that is where I went. I was there about an hour.
This rock is what Tom calls “Utah” because it looks like the rock found out there. He laughs and says this is as close as he is going to get.
There is this spring in the quarry, so it makes this pretty algae grow. It sort of looks like slim until you get right up close and it is really quite pretty. I like science….can you tell?? LOL…
This picture give you the feeling of how big the place is, no that is not a match box car. The is from the bottom layer. There are 3 layers now, but I think they are working on making a forth layer. They are blasting to make each layer bigger too. This is such a wondrous place to be. You feel like you are part of nature with all these rocks around you, but really the rocks and the wildlife are the only thing nature here. Nature doesn’t make this big of holes. LOL…
It took some work, but I finally got this goose to fly away from me without getting all muddy.
Lastly, here is the look as you look down into the quarry.
I stopped and took some photos of some cows and a wheat field on the way home from there as well, but I will share them later.
I got home and read my reader empty. I got in shower, went to Robin’s to get Kyra who was there visiting with Adam. Came home…got Kyra to bed and here I am.
Woo Hoo! I don’t have to wake up in the early morning……
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I have so many pictures that I am going to make my posts more narrow for today and do several.
My brother slept here last night, so he was here, but still sleep when I got back from my morning routes. He had had a busy few days traveling, so we decided that today would be more relaxed. We went to the park and out to lunch at Pizza Hut. A very simple day….
The park that I always go to has a Mennonite farm there and there is about 6 horses in the pasture right next to the park and Kyra loves the horses. We look at them all the time. Haley liked looking at them too, so it was pretty fun. The one horse came right up to us which they usually don’t do.
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My brother came back last night, so I didn’t get a chance to post. I was to busy chatting. LOL…
It was more peaceful yesterday morning than even I imagined without the 5th grade, so this makes me have some hope for next year. I hope I get some nice new little ones with this bunch.
There is a meme going around somewhere showing off work areas. I submitted a link that showed like my whole basement, well. Here is a better on of my normal work area with cat and all.
Yesterday was very peaceful. I basically did only normal house stuff and drove. Kyra was smashing her baby in her chair though, which was pretty cute. I would cry for the baby and she would laugh. Yeah, the baby is under there in the yellow thing.
Don’t worry though she kissed the baby and made it all better. The baby is unhurt. LOL…
Here is a good picture of the girls together. We have a bit of a park day planned for today, so it should be pretty fun. We are going to take lots of pictures, so woo hoo. Well, I am going off to visit more. They are leaving tonight, so I will be back as normal.
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Well, here is my little niece, Haley. Oh my goodness is she big and cute. She is now almost as big as Kyra. She is 4 1/2 months younger than Kyra. She looks very much like her mom. She enjoys looking at me.
She is very adventurous and very outgoing. Her personality is so different from my Kyra. She talks a ton and is more go go go than Kyra even though I had thought Kyra was go go go. I now realize that Kyra is nothing in that department.
Kyra will reluctantly start jumping on the air mattresses for example and Haley runs up to the mattresses and falls face first.
Haley would go down the water slide and laugh and laugh. I had to go down with Kyra and she screamed. Kyra liked floating in the water up to her neck a lot more, so we basically relaxed while Haley was going up and down that slide laughing and laughing. Kyra was laughing and smiling too, but by basically doing nothing.
Haley would come to me happily, but Kyra is reluctant to go to my brother. She is pretty much connected with her mom and dad.
They both are equally happy about animals and our cat entertained Haley for a bit as well. They are both sort of scared of the goat making her baa’s and it surprises me of Kyra she hears it daily. Both Haley and Kyra cling to us though in the barn.
Well, that is all for now. I have more pictures later though. My brother is coming back on Tuesday too (He went to one of his friends houses in VA for a couple days.), so both these little girls are going to be on here for at least the week.
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