Rain, F Troop, School work and one great book

Hello everyone.

It’s really wet over here right now- it’s drizzling as I speak. So far we’ve had about 17 inches this month- that tends to be our wettest month anyway. So big puddles everywhere! We live in the northern tropics of Australia, and right now it’s the wet season and it is… wet.

I’m going full-bore into schoolwork now- I am doing math (Math-U-See), Science (Exploring Creation With Physical Science by Jay Wile), Latin as well as doing a bit of Character First.

 I am also doing Apologetics by watching Francis Schaeffer’s How Shall We Then Live DVD, taking live lecture notes, then writing a short summary. Once I’ve done that I look at Schaeffer’s notes that come in the study guide, select one of his questions in the Study Guide, and then write a 3-5-paragraph essay about the period Schaeffer talked about on the DVD. It’s really good, and my understanding of all the different events in history is coming together as I see the connections between different events and the results of different worldviews etc. It’s great.

I’m reading Moving Men and Mountains by R.G. Letourneau. I’m hooked on it! It’s an autobiography of a Christian man who became a very wealthy businessman. His business was inventing and building earth-moving machinery- and eventually, as the business grew and technology got better, his machines got bigger and bigger, up to the monster trucks you see working in mines and tunnels today. He built BIG machines. However, he was also a Christian businessman. And he didn’t really start off as a businessman/inventor/engineer building monster trucks- in fact he was a mechanic and a contractor using tractors when they first came out, during the 1920s. But he applied his mind to making better machines that allowed him to do his contracts in record time- machines that he made out of bits and ends. But you guys really should read the book and find out for yourself. I highly recommend it!

Something else the family’s been really enjoying is an old comedy series from the 1960s- F Troop. Jessica and Naomi (my sisters, who have blogs too) can recite the entire theme song if you like- give your parents a shot of nostalgia! It’s about an accident-prone captain in the Wild West, and his shoddy soldiers- the legally blind look out, the bugler who can only play Yankee Doodle and Dixie and the corrupt NCOs (lower ranked officers) who are secretly trading with the capitalistic Indian tribe nearby, who are always trying to make money. It’s hilarious. You can find it on Amazon. O

One joke they made I didn't quite understand. The bugler can only play 2 tunes, Yankee Doodle and Dixie, and when the Captain asks him how he learnt Dixie, the bugler replies "Well, I think my teacher's a Georgian!" Can an American please explain the connection? It went right over my head.

I’m trying to be more consistent blogging on here- but you know how many times I’ve said that! Or, at least, you would… if I posted regularly and told you!

1:50 PM - Feb. 13, 2009 - post comment

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Well, Dixie originated in the south...and Georgia is in the south...so that's probably what he was talking about.

Now for the Stimulus bill...
The first thing you need to know is that very few people actually know everything that's in the bill.
The bill is now 1000 pages long...just to give you an idea.
One of the biggest conservatives in the country, Rush Limbaugh, says that the bill is basically a Democrat power grab, because most of the spending won't begin until 2010, which just happens to be an election year. I honestly don't know what the bill is about, other than that.
There is a massive amount of pork spending in the bill...like one state gets(in exchange for their congressmen voting yes) 2.5 million for atv trails! There's loads of stuff like that.
Obama also wants to create a massive government works program like FDR did in the 30s. Didn't work then, and it won't work now...and Obama doesn't have a war to get himself out of it. A big majority of the American people are opposed to the bill, and Congress is getting flooded with calls from people demanding that their congressmen vote no. So far though, Congress doesn't seem to be doing anything different.
The bill will drasticaly increase government control, and it even begin to nationalize our healthcare(yippee).
We spent 700 billion last year, and accomplished nothing...these people have got to know this.
The only country that seems to have a clue is China, because all they're doing is cutting taxes, which is what you're supposed to do! Someone should let Obama know about this...
God bless

SPL9 - 8:48 AM - Feb. 14, 2009

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I'm an American, and I don't get the joke.

*feels like an uneducated American*

Hey, thanks for your comment on the Darwin post! I just wanted to come and beg your forgiveness, because I had the audacity to copy your comment and re-post it at my WordPress site (I meant to disable the comments on the HSB post, but I forgot. *blush*). So...it's the same comment, and it's under your name and links to your blog... *feels rather criminal-ish*

And, I responded to it there, too. http://bethmaisano.com. Sorry for the confusion...switching blogs is a rather complex matter. :-)

~Beth

writer4him - 12:27 PM - Feb. 14, 2009

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Oh kewl, I'm doing the How Should We Then Live? DVD thingygummy with my bulk schoolwork. :-) How are you liking it?
*had just realized that she's never actually tried coming to your blog and coughs*
.......gee whiz, I'm an American and I don't even get the joke. >:-? Let it slide, I suppose. *snickers*
God bless,
~PIP~

Pip - 12:46 PM - Mar. 1, 2009

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Hey!
I like your blog! Cool!
I was wondering how on EARTH you got that scroll box in your sidebar under the WWJS thingy, and I was wondering whether you could give me the code to it in a pm or something.
I have been looking everywhere for one to put in my template blog so people could have the code to take for a template.

Thanks,
Sincerly
Artprincess (Faith)

artprincess - 3:24 AM - Mar. 2, 2009

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Hmmm...

Dixie and Yankee Doodle refer to the South - although more Alabama than Georgia - so if the teacher was southern - a redneck I mean - then he would only know those two songs.

I have no idea about the snow! It was a freezing windchill so that's probably what did it. It didn't stick at all, but we went to a city about 45 mins away and there was like two inches!!
Pretty stuff...wouldn't want it for a whole winter.

SEND THE WET STUFF MY WAY. We ALWAYS need rain where I live.

♥♥

forestcrazy - 8:41 AM - Mar. 2, 2009

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LOL ok Thanks!
HAHA

artprincess - 9:01 AM - Mar. 2, 2009

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