Oct. 15, 2008

Wordless Wednesday

I was going to show this picture of Drew teaching Baylee how to play the guitar, and it was going to be a nice Wordless Wednesday post, but then I felt chatty.  So now it's a Wordless Wednesday post with words.  What can I say?  I'm a rule breaker.  (Not really.  Actually, I'm one of those people that gets very nervous when anyone even thinks of breaking rules.) Drew is really loving guitar class.  He and Zach both go every Monday, but Drew seems to be the one who's constantly messing around with it and practicing.  He's getting callouses on his fingers from playing the one song he knows so far, Louie Louie, so many times every day.  To give him credit, he told me he also knows several "power  chords, man!" Even though Drew's the one who has taken off, both boys really enjoy the class.  The guy who teaches it has several kids sitting at desks in a regular classroom, and he stands in the front by the chalkboard lecturing and demonstrating.  All the kids have to listen and do what he says.  It's a good experience for my homeschooled kids, and just a well run operation all the way around.  In other news, today's a busy day.  We all got up earlier than usual and started school an hour and a half ahead of schedule.  Around here that means we started at 8:00 instead of 9:30.  (Does that sound decadent or organized?  I have no frame of reference.)  The reason we did that was to be completely done with school before we started a new activity we're trying, which is a "kid exchange."  I drove over to my friend Marcie's house, dropped off Baylee, and picked up her son Nicholas.  Baylee is playing over there with Marcie's 3rd grade daughter, Grace,  for a few hours this afternoon, while Nicholas, who's in 5th grade, is playing with Zach and Drew over here.  So far, so good!  The boys have been ripstiking outside and I haven't had to do a thing except hand them a sleeve of Ritz crackers.  Next week it'll be the girls over here and the boys over there. A man came and fixed the washing machine again this morning.  That makes the 5th time they've sent someone over here to repair it in order to honor the one year warranty.  Now, mind you, this is a brand new machine, just purchased in January.  It's a dud.  Anyone in the world would have to admit that by now you'd think, but no.  This place would rather spend literally thousands of dollars in parts and labor rather than bite the bullet and give us a new washer.  Mike has been complaining up and down, but they told him they'd have their "committee take it under advisement."  Something tells me they don't even have a committee.  Their committee is probably one balding guy wearing a wife beater t-shirt who chomps on a cigar and says things like, "I'll tell you what you can do with your so-called dud."  Anyway, today the machine broke again after one load.  It's times like this I'm glad we rent. Okay, I think that about does it for my Wordless Wednesday. Sue

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