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Mama's Song: Joy in the Morning Light
Apr. 22, 2007
The Weekend
My husband has been busy today gathering parts from the four winds, including his office, a local store and maybe now even Ebay, attempting to put together a new computer set up for me. For all these years, of computer use, I've mostly used Apple laptop computers. They are seemingly simple, everything contained in one little box, that I can carry with me somewhere if I wanted to. This new set up has a big box to go under my desk, a separate DVD player, speakers, keyboard, mouse, a hub, wires, cords and more cords. And there is probably some other external part that I don't even know about yet. I don't know if I will have any desk space when I'm done donating it to computer parts. But hopefully, they will all work when he is all done with the process. I don't know what I would do, if I didn't have my dear husband to take care of computer issues. Hopefully somebody would have pity on me and save me from technology.
Yesterday a group of kids from five homeschool families joined together and sang at church. It was our first time to do this, and we were given only one week to practice. Somehow I ended up as director. I can sing, but I've never directed a group of kids. We sang the old song "More About Jesus I would Know." The first and second verses really fit what I think about one of the main purposes of homeschool. Ath the performance the kids smiled, focused, sang clearly and knew the words. I was really proud of them. Somehow the kids did a wonderful job, in spite of me. I guess all you need is a good group of kids. Makes me kind of excited to think about doing something else with them. I think some of them are even old enough to learn parts.
Today it was raining when I got up. I had planned to start in the garden early, but the outside work got shifted to the afternoon. When I got out there, I found the tomato starts I set out on Friday afternoon thriving, maybe looking even better then they did when I first set them out. I need to do some more work in the vegetable garden, but decided to pull weeds in the flower beds while the soil was soft. I pulled and pulled and sent Forest to dump repeated wagon loads of weeds to the appropriate pile. There is still much to finish, but I was satisfied with what we accomplished. Part of the garden path is ready for wood chips. I moved some yarrow to the end of the driveway, where hopefully it will continue to thrive as a more intentional weed, crowding out the star thistle that loves to grow there. My little herb garden is now weed free, and a few new perennials have been planted. If all goes well, tomorrow I'll be out there too. I'm looking forward to more garden fun with the kids. Emily Rose wants to help haul wood chips for me. Forest wants to haul more weeds to the pile for me. And I want to get more weeds pulled for him to haul. |
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Apr. 23, 2007 - Assorted and Various Chat
I'm glad your tomatoes are doing well. I lost half of mine during the cold nights of the last couple weeks. I covered them every night, but the cold seeped in (I must have made too high of a tent?). Anyway, today I plan on buying a few more plants and setting them in the places of those that froze. We are just about ready to start clipping greens for salads! My Cherokee beans popped out of the earth this week-end and the peas are growing well. Isn't gardening exciting?
I hope you enjoy a great week!
LaTeaDah