We are having a Canadian air blast.  Our tempurature was 5 degrees with a wind chill of minus 25.  A very cold morning to fire up the school bus!  Our school were on a two hour delay so I got absolutely nothing done in my house today as when I got home at 10:50am I had to drop Bun off at my nieces and run to the doctor for my annual physical for the school bus company.  Then when I got home I had half an hour before I had to run to the high school and start all over again.

These are the days that I dream of sandy beaches and 85 degrees! 

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Yesterday we had a snow storm that dropped 8 inches and then sleet which packed down the snow and then some freezin rain.  Today we have had a fine light snow falling.  The flakes are very tiny it seems more like a frozen mist than snow.  It's beautiful but I think I would really rather white sand and a blue ocean outside me window.  I ahve been longing, longing, longing for the sea.

The kitten that my dh brought home has developed a 'habit' of sucking on the tip ofhis tail.  Purring ecstatically while he does this.  I think he misses him mom!!   It must be a way to self comfort himself, although why I don;t know as he is a thoughouly spoiled feline.  His milk is even warmed up for him.  He is very loving and always looking for a lap or chest to curl up on.  Anyway,I feel sorry for him when he sucks his tail, I tried giving him food and milk when he does this but most of the time he doesn't eat anything, just goes back to sucking his tail and purring.  My dh says he will grow out of it.  He just looks so pathetic when he does this!!

Bun named him Rascal because he is into EVERYTHING.   His favorite pastime is swatting marbles on the hardwood floor and chasing them.   That and leaping from Bun's desk to my back when I am typing on the computer.  OUCH!   I think I ahve permanent claw marks down the left side of my shoulder.  We put up an artificial Christmas tree (yuck!) and no breakable ornaments on it this year as I am unsure how Rascal would react to it and if he was going to climb it or not.   So far all he has done is swat at a few low ornaments underneath.

We must look into the refrigerator, dryer, and dishwasher before closing the doors as he has climbed into everyone of these. 

Anyway, back to the snow.  Another storm is forcasted for tomorow (Sunday) with four to eight inches coming.   The long range forcast for Christmas Eve is 40 degrees and rain.   So everything can get a nice wet smoothslippery glaze when the tempurature goes back down to freezing.  

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I need to get a subscription for a Christian magazine for my 14 year old neice, does anyone have any suggestions?  She is going thru some really rough times and I thought that would be a great Christmas gift.  Her mom agrees with me so I am searching for one.

A few months ago she went to her mom and said she didn't believe in Jesus anymore.  This was a direct result from prolonged contact with other distant famiymembers who do not believe.   Her mom now sees what a mistake it was to allow this contact.  My neice is now returning to church but she still has some friends who are bisexual and gay (at 14 years old!).  And she has been suspended from school for disrespect to the principle and teachers and for skipping class.   I can't beleive this is happening with her as she was never a rebellious child.

Her mom is trying to enroll her in one of the online cyber schools to spend more time with her and get her away from the friends' influences.  They have also changed churches to one that is larger and has a dynamic youth group.  The youth group is involved in lots of stuff, weekly they have a Wednesday evening meeting, Sunday meeting, and on Friday evening or Saturday there is always something happening with the  group.  Hopefully htis will help.  If you would add her to your prayers I would greatly appreciate it.  Her first name is Farrell.

Our coal furnace in the basement is still going--Thank You God!  I'm praying tht it continues so I don't need to buy oil or use the small coal stove upstairs.  With the coal furnace, the tile floor in my bathroom is actually warm!!!  It hasn't been warm after August  since my dad had to switch over to oil due to his Black Lung/Emphysema condition about 20 years ago.  When I moved back home the oil furnace was going but we can't afford the oil.  Two years ago we bought the little cast iron stove upstairs and did the majority of heating the house with that after my dad passed away.  However thebathroom and bedroom never really warmed up, so with the coal furnace going it is nice to crack the windows for fresh cold air whileI sleep.

We have a lovely light snow falling outside.  It is very beautiful, the pond is covered with ice and now the snow the slnow is laying on the tree brances and is falling so softly that my dh has gone out for a walk.  She has been waiting for snow and as soon as a flurry starts she has her plasticl sled out trying to go down the hill.  Last week she came in with mud all over and I asked what had happened she said she tried to sledride and hit the puddle and went thru the ice on top of it.

I wish I could be as excited about the wint as she is.  I think I have to employ a positive thinking mode about it to get thru the next few months.  I'm already dreaming on a sandy beach and sunshine!

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Winter has definately arrived in the northeast part of PA.    I know I had grown up when I realized you wouldn't die if you didn;'t sled and iceskate everyday in the winter gettting frozen and then thaw out infront of the kitchen coal stove while your flesh tingled and burned.

I love my little coal stove but I really coudl live without winter tempuratures and weather in general.  Snow is beautiful but I don't like to drive in it mainily because of the other drivers. 

And yet I think Alaska would be great to live in for a year or two.  I would really like to live in the tropics or the mountains of Tennessee, they are so mystical.

Wht I really need todo is win the multi milion dollar lottery and buy several homes around the world so I could move throughout the year!!

I have my fingers crossed as I turned off the oil furnace and hopefully started a good fire in the coal furnace in the basement.  It burns rice coal and hasn't been used for about 14 years.  I had it cleaned and serviced and we tried it out in September.  It worked great until you turned the thermostat down below 72 degrees, then the fire would go out, no hot water etc.   I phoned for the service man actually 4 times but he hasn't arrived or even called to make an appointment.  I beleive this is becuase he is with the oil company and when I phone I tell them what the problem is and I really think they are putting me off as they will loose money if I go to coal. So as it is now below 30 degrees for a week, I am trying to see if I keep the thermostat at 74 degrees  if I can keep the frunace goinguntil I can find a new serviceman who is knowledgable about coaal furnaces.  I'm sure there is just a tiny adjustment that needs to be made with the thermostat and then all will work perfectly.

My dh is going hunting after Thanksgiving out to his cabin about 6 hours way.  He will be gone for a few days so I am determined to get the house in orderfor Christmas while he is gone.  This is thefirst year that I hope he actually bringshome some venison.  I didn't order a quarter of grassfed beefthis fall so the freezer is empty.

I'll post my dd's Christmsas list later as it is very cute and very diverse.

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I've several emails asking where I've been as I haven't posted in quite awhile.  In a nutshell here is what's been going on...

I had a heart catherization in early September.  Right before my birthday.  It was nerve racking, however evrything was ok and I didn't have to have the stents put in after all.  My cholesterol is elevated so I am on a diet that is heart healthy.  OK I'm SUPPOSED to be on the diet, I am trying...

I am also going thru the house again and really tosing stuff out.  I have made so many trips to the Salvation Army with dh's truck filled with perfectly good stuff from clothes to a lovely kitchen table, an artificialChristmas tree, and the list goes on.   I ahve another pile of the front veranda to get put in the truck too.  And I am no where near done.   However it is comeing along.  My nephew helps me with lifting the heavy stuff and he has been really great about it.  However, he is usually only available for one day out of the week.  If I am realy lucky I get him two days/evenings.

I have a lovely little stool that my sister gave me YEARS ago..about 34 years.  I had it on the truck and then couldn't give it up so I brought it home.  Then I told myself how silly I was and put it back on the porch to go next trip.  Now I am back to keeping it and recovering it for Bun.  After all this we will see how I feel when we load the truck up again.  I thought about embroidering a nice cover for the seat.

Then my dh brought home a lovely mischevious kitten for Bun.   Who already has a cat.  And a dog and a tank full of tropical fish.  The lizard is dead and we are NOT buying a horse.  She has been askingf or a horse since horse camp this summer but no horse util she is 16 and responsible tot ake care of it. 

I didn't even mention the chickens.  We have lost only one of the 12 chicks that hatched several weeks ago.  Winter is coming and thier coop and run is taken up by Francis and his two girls Lucky and Candy Corn.  My friend has these three chickens and couldn't keep them so they came to live here.  Only Francis and Methusala the two roosters don't get along so all of our chickens are free rangeing it around.  They are sleeping in the oak and cherry tree in the back yard.  My next project is a coop for the winter for them.  We are actually going to use the playhouse from the wooden swing set that we took apart I just have to wire it up and get straw for them.

Then there is Bun's school work which we area little behindschedule but nothing to panic over.  And me driving the big orange school bus.  I was supposed to have another woman to job share with me but she is never available in the afternoons as was our agreement.  So I have been driving morning and afternoon.

Last week dh and I took Bun and one of her cousins to Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos.  We all had a great time.  It was nice to see dh just relaxing instead of going from one job and then to the part time job with no time for himself.   This lodge is an indoor waterpark that we love.  It is clean, clean, clean!!   And I felt safe letting them go on thier own to the different pools and activities without beening right on top of them.  We checked in on a Monday for one night.  We were upgraded to a Kid Camp suite.  Which was great as the kids then had bunkbeds in their own section with thier own tv.  They were in the waterpark from 1:00pm to 4"30 pm.  Then after a pizzathey were back in the water until 9:00pm on Monday. They slept the sleep of the dead.  Tuesday they were in the water until we left at 2"00pm.   This trip was a surprise for them as we told them we were going to a doily convention where I ahd signed them up for crocheting classes.   They were REALLY happy when it was the waterpark. 

Now I am making plans for a dude ranch with Bun problaby in February.  I was thinking before Christmas but February would break up the winter better.  I have almost decided on Rocking Horse Ranch in New York--I think it is in the Catskill mountains.  I looked at so many the last two days I really have no idea where it is exactly.  That will be fun.

That is what we have been doing lately.  Now it is timeto get cracking on schoolwork.

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Bun and I have been away for most of the summer and then when we were home we were computer less.

We are back and I have a very important prayer request for a seven year old boy.   His name is Luke and he is a ray of sunshine from God Himself.  He has an inoperable tumor on his brain stem.  You can access his whole story here   www.caringbridge.org     click on visit and type in   lukecharton

I ask that you take a few minutes and visit the site so you know what a treasure this little boy is and how we are asking a miracle from God to heal him.   Yes, I want a miracle.  Rather demanding of me I know, but when Jack was sick I never persistantly prayed for a miracle--which was wrong of me.  But I am asking, begging, praying, beseaching, imploring----in short I Want a miracle.     I know His Will will be done in the end and it will be for the best, part of His plan.  But still, I know God can heal him.

So please pray along with me not only for Luke but his parents and two smaller sisters also. Thank you.

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Bun and I are home from our Canada trip.  We went to Canada last Tuesday to this Monday.  We went to our friends Megen and Alan's as thier twins were being baptised and also to our friends, Paul and Nancy as thier daughter was married on Saturday.

It was a beautiful wedding with the bride looking like a celebrity.  She was so beautiful!!  What happened to the awkward teenager of a few years ago?  She really was breathtaking to see.  I pray that her marrainge is blessed.

The twins we precious.  Bun had a great time holding them and watching them sleep on her lap.  I had forgotten how small and precious babies are as I haven't held a month old baby in a long time.   Bun really was great with them.

Inbetween the wedding and the baptism we went to Toronto's Chinatown.  We ate pho and drank bubble tea.  I loved it and Bun didn't.  Bubble tea is cold and has tapioca pearls in it.  You can get a variety of flavors such as watermelon, green apple, mango etc.  You suck the tapioca pearls up through a large straw.  It was different and really neat.  I wonder if I can find a recipe to make it at home for picnics.  I will have to research the net and see.  We also bought a bonsai tree.  I have always wanted one since I was Bun's age as I was fascinated and still am with the Japanese and Chinese cultures.  So we now have one and it will have a home in the school room.  We also bought the hats that are conical shaped that you see the workers wearing in the rice fields.  I thought it would make a good garden hat.  I really wanted paper lanterns for the front veranda but I couldn't decide on what ones to get.  When confronted with alot of choices I wallow and can never make a decision.  We had alot of fun there.  Bun said she liked it better than Philadelphia's Chinatown.

Driving home we went over the Rainbow Bridge at the border in Niagara Falls.  It was just about 9:00pm and after crossing into the US we parked and walked back over the bridge to see the light show on the Falls.  I have never seen the Falls in the dark and it was beautiful.  Then as an added bonus there was fireworks over the falls!  Since I ahd missed any fireworks over the Fourth of July due to being in bed with the gout I enjoyed them immensely.  We went into the Coca-Cola shop and I tried to buy Bun an icecream soda or a shake but she said "No thanks, mom".   !!!!!!!!!!    She was getting tired at that point.  So I ordered an icecream cone and we nibbled on it on the walk back over the Falls.  At the border she very proudly handed over her passport to the agent.  When she was asked how long she had been in Canada she replied "About 50 hours."  Yes, we have to work on the concept of time.................

We stayed overnight then started driving down through New York the next morning.  We stoppped in Corning at the Corning Museum of Glass and covered EVERY INCH of the museum.  Bun loves museums so this was right up her alley.  They also have a "make your own glass" sessions where you pay to make your own piece of glass.  These range from picture frames to glass flowers to glass ornaments and several things inbetween.  If you google the Corning Museum of Glass New York you can see all of the options.  Anyway,  Bun chose to make a Christmas tree ornament.   She actually got to blow the molten galss while a worker rolled the tube.  So in reallity she didn't do a whole lot besides picking out the colors she wanted in her ornament, choosing a teardrop shape over the round ball, and blowing a little air into the glass but she loved it.   It was the most expensive ornament I have ever purchased at $22.00 but she will never have such an oportunity to do this again.

When we were leaving the museum we saw the "you design it we make it" tables.  Here you design something for the gaffers to make.  If they choose your design they make it and you can have it for free.  Bronwe  wanted to draw so we sat down.  While I drew a very simple pink flamingo she drew an "America Horse".  You had to write what inspired you in your design.  She wrote---and I'm paraprasing here--   'I like horses.  I love America and the flag.  My cousin Jim was in Iraq.  I love him too.  This summer I go to Horse Camp at Freedom Farms.'

I think she had some other line in there but I don't remember.  Anyway I had a phone call today that her design was picked and the gaffers had made her design into a glass scupture!!    I am so proud of her!!  We have the option of driving up and picking it up or having it shipped to us where we pay for the shipping costs.  I told Tina to hold it and I would phone her back in a day or two as I wanted to check with dh to see if he wanted to drive up or not.  We are very proud of our little girl who is growing up so fast!

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Today is Bun's 8th birthday--where has the time gone?    We were very quiet today as my gout is clearin up I can almost stand flat on my foot!!  However I have the side affects of the colchicine--extreme diahhrea.  Extreme.   I'll leave it at that.

Tomorow we go to Hershey Park where Bun's Godmother is going to treat her to the park.  She usually takes her to Dutch Wonderland, however this year she has Hershey Park season passes so there we will be.  As long as I can stay out of the bathroom by morning that is.

She was thrilled with the riding clothes we got her.  Riding britches, a shirt, socks to match.  Also a riding jacket and a lovely fleecey pullover with a horse on it.  Oh, I don't think that I blogged about Bun attending Horse Camp.  It is every Wednesday from 10 to 3 and she is loving it.  And it is right around the corner from our home.    That makes me happy not having to drive for an hour to get to where we are going.  The best thing about the riding clothes is I picked them up at Horseloverz.com's outlet in Hazleton.  We also got her a helmet there but we gave that to her a few weeks ago. The riding britches were originally $67.00.  Yes that's right $67.00.  I paid $17.00.  I can't imagine anyone paying $67 for a pair of chilodren's pants that they are going to grow out of.  I don't pay $67 for my clothes.

The colchicine works really well on the swelling with the gout however it wreaks havoc on your stomach.  I'm trying to decide which is worse the excrutiating pain of the gout or the painfull burning from the diahhrea.  If anyone knows any home remdies please let me know.  I have been gently patting with witch hazel but that is even unpleasant.  My dh suggested sprinkling with talcum powder but the powder I used was MEDICATED so I yowled for 20 minutes.  THEN he tells me not THAT one, but the baby powder one.

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I am up at one a.m. because I am haveing a gout attack!!   I have never experienced such pain, not even labour during childbirth was this bad (or was it?).

I was at my new doctor's earlier this week for  acheckup.  My toe was stiff and would crack when I bent it.  Mildly uncomfortable.  She checked it and said I think you have gout.   My response even though I haven't had eight years of medical school was "Oh no, it can't be gout, ny husband has gout and it is excrutiating, he can't even have the covers on his foot when he has an attack".    

I will never doubt her again.

Within hours---from around nine p.m. to midnight the pain went from being moderate to excrutiating.

EXCRUTIATING.

I'm so glad my dh recently refilled his colchicine perscription.  So far I have taken two tablets and two tylenol #3 with codeine.   Monday morning I will be phoning my dr. to apologize for being so arrogant to dismiss her diagnosis and beg for medication to help with the pain.  I am now going to get in bed and try to sleep, most likely I will stare up at the ceiling while tears run out of my eyes.

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Has anyone ever roasted a pig on a spit over a charcoal fire?   We would like to do this for the Fourth of July.  Years and years and years ago my parents did this for a large family picnic.  My nephew and I would like to try this so any advice is appreciated.

Friday night Bun and I and her 9 year old cousin 'camped out' on the island in my sisterinlaws camper.  It was very last minute planning at 8:30pm so we had the bare neccesitys.  Mainly sheets and matches for the fire, water, bacon and eggs for breakfast.  And bug spray.  Which I don't like to use but we did use it.

They had a great time catching fireflies and looking at the stars.  I would have prefered my own bed but time goes fast and I reallay want to make Bun's summer special.  And as this was at home it was free!  We have made a list of things we need to procure for our next campout which I think will be on Monday night. 

The highlight of Friday's campout was Saturday morning at 5:00 with the rooster crowing on the other side of the pond was a flock of wild turkeys strolling past the camper when I took Noah our little toy poodle outside.   Bun is going to make a list of the different wildlife we see on these camping 'trips' this summer.

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I am switching the schoolroom and Bun's room so I ahve ALL of the bedroom furniture in the living room and am busy painting the new schoolroom.  We ahve the magnamagic paint on the walls and now if the magnets stick well to it, I will go ahead with the color paint over top.  It is slow going to get this down and I am all discombobulated as I dislike having a disorderly house to this extent!

I ahve a doctor appt. today along with Bun's piano lesson and a chiropractor appt later this afternoon.  I will fit painting in there inbetween and also packing up the car for a visit to Maryland tomorrow to see Mary and Catie. 

The garage phoned this morning already.  DH's car needs new braked AND new tires.     So I guess we don't get the air condtioning in the car fixed......  Oh well, that's what windows are for to wind down!!

Bun had a great time with her two cousins yesterday.  They came to visit (a rare occoruance), and they spent time collecting freshwater clams and frogs and minnows. 

I can't wait for the school room to be done so I better get at it so it is done!

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I haven't blogged since May 6th!  I don't know what happened to May, it seems like it just began and now it is gone.  And I really accomplished very little.  Today I started to catch up on everyone's blog.  This is the last week of school coming up and then I can take the big orange bus to the garage and leave it there for the summer.     Yeah!!

Once I get my scattered thoughts collected I will do a nice long newsy blog.  Until then God Bless!

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I want to paint the ceiling on my porch--both of them.  Alot of the southern porches in the US  9and of course I am not in the south), use a color called haint blue.  It is a blueygreeny color.  My question is do you think it goes with a reddish brown house?  We have a wooden home (i don't knwo what to call it other than that it a 'sided' wtih wood.).   And it is all the smae color, the sides, the porch floors, the porch ceilings, the lattice on the small back porch.

ALL reddish brown.  I want to add some brightness to the porches.  Especially the large one out front that looks over the pond and island.  It is elevated and you can only access it from inside the house.  The house wall on the porch is not wood, it is field stone so I thought maybe I can use the haint blue on that ceiling.   I got a second hand wicker love seat and two chairs for out there too.  I love sitting out there at night and in the afternoon.   I saw in a magazine solar powered chinese lanterns, the round rice paper ones, except these are nylon not rice paper.  They were also about $20 a piece.     But I really like them.  It would add to the atmosphere---I'm really reaching here to talk myself into buying them!

So, if anyone has any suggetions for the ceiling colors, let me know.  I absolutely love the southern porches in the pastel shades with flowers on them but I have to work with this dark reddish brown.  I thought I could incorporate the haint blue into the cushions or the table cloth to tie it in.  What do you think?

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We had a delightful time on our cruise to the Bahamas out of New York.  We went on Norwegian Cruise Line's Spirit.  It was lovely and Buna dn my dh had a great time.  Bun loved the Kid's Crew, where she spent about six hours a day.    I spent about three hours a day on deck 7 lounging on a wooden lounger reminiscent of the 30's ships that crossed the Atlantic and you were assigned deck chairs.  I loved it, I would look up from my book (ok books, I had a bag of them with me), and gaze out over the water.  And the water once we got past Florida was such a royal blue!  Not the greenishgray muck we have up the east coast.

Our disappointment was Cocoa Beach.  The weather wasn't great that morning and the waves were rough and threw Bun face first into the sand so that ended our beach that day. 

Cable Beach in Nassau was wonderful!  Tranquil with little waves and soft sand and Bun flew a kite for the first time.  I had my disposable underwater camera with me that day so I am waiting for the photos.  I hope I snapped a good one to post.  She was very pround of herself.  I had bought a little swallow kite from a store that jsut opened in Hazleton before we left.  It is made out of nylon and is in the shape of a blue and white swallow.  Very sturdy and flew great.

On Grand Bahama Island, Freeport, we went on the Seaworld Explorer semi-sub to view a reef.  This was not associated with the Seaworld we are familiar with.  I think they jsut 'borrowed' the name.  It was a small, rickety boat run by two local guys and was not anything like the brochure described.   It was also very rocky and half the people we seasick up on the top deck.   However, we did see some neat fish up close.  And seeing the coral was great too.

I swam in the salt water pool most afternoons and enjoyed the hot tubs at night under the stars until it was time to get Bun from Kid's Crew.  She went from 9 to 12, 2 to 4, and 6 to 10 at night.   When we were in port, she skipped the afternoon session.

The meals were out of this world.  Even the buffets were great.  Now we are back to my cooking.

I was goign to blog but it quite quite pricey on the ship.   I was on line for a about 15 minutes and with the connection fees I was charged $21.00!!!!   That ended the interent on holiday.

I will try to get a few photos up in the next few days.  RIght now we are catching school up.

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I am packed and too excited to sleep or eat!  Tomorrow is the day!!  We leave home at 6:30 to get the bus to NYC at 7:20.  Arrive in NYC around 10:15, taxi to the pier and board at 12:00.  The ship sails at 4:00pm.  

I can't believe that I am actually going to see my dh for hours on end!  And he won't be sleeping!  What will we talk about?!  It will be so nice to reconnect.  His hectic work schedule is murder on a marraige.

Bun is excited that she will be doing things with her dad too.  They have a bunch of stuff planned.  I am hoping for good weather and will try to blog onboard the ship, however it's 75 cents a minute and I have been told that it is real slow connections so I may just take photos and blog when I get home.

God Bless everyone!

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Well, my guinea gals are all over the neighborhood.  I can't beleive that they walk thru 40 acres of woods to visit the neighbors.  And not jsut the next door ones, they were way down the road when I took the bus out this morning.  Sooner or later someone is going to complain.  I hope I can win them over on the merits of the tick menu for the hens.  When we came home from the bus this morning, the hens were back but now I see them heading off to the woods again.  They flew up into our big oak tree by the pond to sleep in last night.  They were so cute.   By the way this tree is next to their coop with the door opened invitingly and millet spread on the floor for a bedtime snack. 

I have one suitcase re-packed.  Bun will have to decide what she is taking in her suitcase for playthings and books.  She has emptied it several times and refilled it.  I can't beleive that we are leaving in two days!

I have to go over the lessons and take the language arts ones with us and some math review sheets.  I think that is enough with any local history we may pick up in the Bahamas and onboard the ship.

I dropped Max off at the kennel this mroning so I wouldn't have to do that tomorrow.  I have to clean for my priest this evening.  Finish packing, gon to the bank, buy Noah some canned food, get his bed already and block off the entry way so he isn't all over the house when Jacky comes to feed him.  A bunch of last minute timeconsuming things to do so I better get started before I work myself up into an anxiety attack!

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I went to the auction yesterday with my niece, Marion.  She bought  a beautiful quilt and I bought 8 guinea hens and a bantan chicken couple. 

The guinea hens are escape artists as four of them are wnadering the woods and my neighbors yards.  I did meet a neighbor whose yard borders my property up along the old railroad bed and she was very nice.  She loves the hens and says they can 'visit' anytime.  Also my other neighbor, Charlie said the hens are welcome as he likes to watch them in his backyard.  I'm very thankfull that they are so welcoming to the hens.   As athe four ladies that are free are making their way all over.  My chickens never went so far away out of the yard and into the woods and beyond.  I watched the four 'free ones' fly over the creek behind our pond and go up the hill so I may be meeting the neighbors from that end also.

It's funny, I lived here my whole life for the most part and I only know three neighbors.  I guess that is what happens when you are divided by acres of trees.

I didn't take any photos at the auction because every time I went to snap one an Amish person would turn around and be looking my way.  The Amish don't like having thier photo taken so out of respect I would lower my camera.  Oh wait--I did  take a few photos of some really neat lawn furniture that was there for my nephew, Marion and I are going to give him a project to make us furniture like it.

We had alt of fun.  I was acheing last night from walking so much, so I had a nice warm Lush bubble bath.

I ahve to seriously pack the suitcases this week, I want them done by Thursday so I don't ahv elast minute running around to do.

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I went to post my entry that I just wrote and it was lost!!

To sum it up-I am going to the Beaver Run Amish Parochial School Auction this Saturday.  Last year I went to the Gratz one.  They have everything from Amish quilts to horses to plants and shrubbery to clothing to furniture to tools.  And everything inbetween what I listed.  If I remember my camera I will take photos and post them.  It goes on all day and is very interesting and fun.  They even had wringer washers--I want one!  My dh thinks I have rocks in my head!  My niece,  Marion, is going with me and we will have a great time.  She is only four years younger than me.  That is what happens when you come from a large family and your oldest siblings are twenty some years older than you!

Now, let's see if this will post, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

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I have yet another sinus infection.  That means ANOTHER antibiotic.  I took one today and already my stomach is a mess.  I dislike taking them but I am at the end of my rope with these sinuses this winter. 

If anyone has any suggetions please help.

I use the neti pot and we are a smoke free home with no new pets/bedding/furniture/etc.  My new docto feels that the two antibiotics I had in November and March never really kicked the infection out all the way and it just multiplied again.  She also thinks I may have a cold with this one as I am feverish, chilled, achey, and downright miserable.

Bun didn't even do any school today as my head was throbbing that much.  She could have read and practiced her handwriting etc, but I really coudln't move off of the bed after I got home from the doctor this morning.  She was a little trooper though, she made her own lunch of a sandwhich and made herself chocolate milk.

I just want to feel better before vacation.

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