Some Of The Things I LOVE!!!!!

                                                                My Saviour

                                                                 Sunrises

                                                                  Fall

                                                                My Family

Spending time with my sisters 

Having those  'good times" with my sisters 

Traveling 

                                                                     America

                                                                   And the list goes on................

 Yikes!  I need to get to bed.

P.S. Picture credits for "My Savouir", "Fall", Sunrises" ,and "America", is All Posters.

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What happens when you STILL don't know what you're doing : )

  Well, I didn't mess it up as bad as I did last time, but I did manage to muddle up our template by putting our blog button code in the sidebar.  Thankfully, our dear friend, Emily Rose, came to our rescue!  Thank you Emily!

So anyhow, for those who would like the code for our button....here it is:

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What happens when you don't know what you're doing

  Yesterday I decided to play around a little bit with our blog, and put a button on it that linked to Mommy's blog.  Well, I didn't know exactly what I was doing, and in the process, I logged on to Mommy's account at the same time I was logged on to our own account. 

That's when  DISASTER struck! 

 Somehow the computer managed to transfer  our blog template, along with all our buttons, over to Mommy's blog--I was so sick when I found out what had happened.  The good thing in all this mess is that Mommy still has her posts, which I am very glad for!    Unfortunately I did not learn very well from when my sister did the same thing a few months ago, only it transferred Mommy's template to our blog. 

     Well, I eventually completed the thing that I got on the computer to do in the first place--there is a very nice button on our side bar that links to Mommy's blog, so now you can go see what a mess I've made of it.    I think I just helped her blog name--"Never a Dull Moment"---all the more true!

Oh dear!

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One of the Joys of Being a Country Girl

When I first started out with this post I lost it, and I more than felt like........

Anyways,  Saturday Daddy brought us four older girls with him to pick up some wood. We ended up getting 3 full trailer loads, and there are still about 3-4 more loads left to go! We will be getting  the rest Wednesday and next Saturday. 

On Sunday, I was itching my wrists and noticed that the itch didn't go away.  I also saw that there were some bumps. I didn't think much about it until this morning, they were itching again, and again I noticed that the itch didn't go away.  If you are guessing poison ivy, you guessed right!

 I seem to be more susceptible to poison ivy, unlike my older sister, Susannah.  We made up a saying, "Cassia can walk by it and it would jump on to her, Susannah could wade through it and not get it."

I got it from the wood that we got last Saturday.  I was piling the smaller logs into my arms continuously, and so the wood was coming in contact with my skin continuously.  Now, I have to make sure I don't let my wrists touch anything and walk around with pink calamine lotion on. It's the only thing that seems to help me the most.  This color of pink is close to the real color.  I am SO hoping  it does NOT spread and that it goes away SOON!

So there is one of the joys of being a country girl!  I'm not saying that just country people get posion ivy, people that live in the city can get it too.  It's just that people that live in the country have a better chance of getting it.

I best be going, got to set the table.

                                  Have a wonderful day!

~Cassia

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Rain rain, go away, come again another day!!!!!

   Well, I guess if it did go away and come again another day then we would have to put up with it then!!!   So might as well have it now!!! : )  Last night around 7:30, it started POURING!!!  I seems like it didn't stop until late this morning!  Maybe it did stop somewhere in there, but I sure didn't know about it!  Maybe that was because I was sleeping.....  So, lots of pouring rain turns into...A MESS!!!   We have a big puddle, or should I say, POND in our front yard and water over the roads, water in the backyard, water is everywhere and in everything!!!!

Here are a couple of pictures I took this afternoon before it started POURING again!!!   And now, it is VERY windy!!!!  doors and windows are rattling!! : )

This is our front yard: Actually, all of them are of our front yard : )

Our poor pine trees are dying off from all the water we get through out the year...and a bush, or two.

This morning was the time change.    And let me make myself clear, that I do not like the time change!!!!  Oh well, I'm not Mr. Daniels.   So now, I think that we are on Eastern, I think.

Well, Jessica is making donuts...good enough reason to get off!!!  

~Susannah

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Driving Down a Country Road...

  The other day, Leah, Cassia and I were going to town to do some errands and to take Cassia to piano lessons.   We were very much enjoying the nice spring weather, and had all the windows open in our mini van.  Well---

We had gotten down the road from our house a bit, and suddenly, the nice fresh spring air started smelling like pigs!  We all exclaimed "Pew!" and up went the windows.

  We passed those pigs, and opened the windows again, trying to get the leftover smell of "pig" out of the van, and what do you know, we passed the egg ponds.   In case you wonder what on earth egg ponds are, they are man made "ponds" where the egg plants (not eggplants mind you, but factories where they process eggs )   dump their waste egg water.  Just so you know, egg water smells just as bad, if not worse than pigs!   So up went the windows again.

  We passed those egg ponds, and opened our windows, and a little ways down the road it smelled like we had just passed a dead animal farm.  I know, there are no such things, but it sure smelled like it!     

We passed that dead animal farm, and our windows were already open, (at least mine was---I figured that shutting it was just shutting the smell in!)  and we passed somebody who was cleaning house!  At least it smelled so!   It smelled distinctly of mothballs .

 So, we passed those mothballs and the people who cleaned house, and enjoyed a nice, breezy, clean smelling ride the rest of the way to town! 

 That is until we passed the fiberglass plant.

(No, we did not take these pictures--I found them on Flikr .  On the "dead animal farm" one, I decided that plastic animals was the closest thing to "dead" animals I was going to post!  I think you'd agree it's better that way.)

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Dentist

  Yesterday I got my first tooth pulled

It was not too bad but anyways, first he numbed me and then did something that pinched and I was about to yelp!

So that was a exiting thing that happened

~Anna

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I'M GOING TO AUSTRALIA!!!! WHO'S COMING WITH ME???

Okay, not really.....but I wish I could go somewhere, where I am not in a contaminated house:) (Sorry, dear sisters/brothers). As you know from recent posts we may have the whooping cough, and that only 4 people out of the 11 in our family don't have it. Thankfully I am one of the 4. That doesn't mean I will not get it, but hopefully I will not. I am taking all my vitamins and herbs consistently, hoping that will help. Now before I go on, I must tell you so you can understand a little better, that ….

….I do NOT like germs:) If someone is coughing on

their hand and they didn't wash their hands, I am sure to tell them to please wash their hands. Or, I was making some food for us (the healthy 4) to eat on the way home from church, and a dear sibling starts coughing around the food, “AAHHH! Turn away form the food!” But this particular sibling is younger and doesn't really understand. I am often known as the germ policewoman . I am currently sleeping downstairs in the living room trying to stay away from the "germs" that are floating around in my room, because, the dear sister I share a room has the cough. At first I didn't mind (when she had bronchitis) but now that she has this, and there is not much airflow, if any, in our room, I decided to sleep elsewhere. That doesn’t mean there are not any germs floating around in the living room but there’s a whole lot more air flow in there:) The only problem with sleeping in the living room is that, I cannot leave my bed stuff out, and yesterday I was going to go and have some peace and quiet in the living room, so I walk in, and their is a dear sibling, laying on MY PILLOW !!!!

“AAAAHHHH!!!! Please get off!!!” Dear sibling admitted it did not know that it was my pillow; okay I'll let you off the hook. I told Mommy there is no room in the house that I can have my "room" temporarily, a room that is not already contaminated. I did think about asking to sleep in our (Susannah’s and my) old room (it's being remodeled), but Daddy took care of a bat that was in there recently and another one could come ( The bat came in through a hole that is in our room and it is not yet covered.) Maybe I will just be brave, but maybe I won't. I have already experienced having a bat in my room and on my bed, and I don't really want to experience it again.

 One of my siblings suggested that I get a space suitWHAT?No way! I would never wear something like that. But, it might be a good idea. I wouldn't be breathing contaminated air. So if you know of a great deal on a space suit, then please tell me!!!! HA! HA! Just kidding!

If that is not a good enough reason to go to Australia, then maybe this is.

I am practicing piano, and all of the sudden I hear a loud "PING". I immediately knew what happened, (because of a recent experience) I had broken a string. Now if that was the first string I broke on the piano, I wouldn't have been so upset, but it was NOT the first string I broke, it was the SECOND string I broke! That piano is falling apart at its seams! Okay, not really. I felt SO bad; both the strings I broke are major strings. What I mean by major is that we use those keys a lot! Mommy told me that the piano is 30 years old, so stuff like the strings breaking, is going to happen. So that made me feel lots better. Oh, and if that isn't enough, I thought "okay" I can manage finishing practicing with out that D. So I started to play a song, and an Ab key is not working. The string I just broke, had fallen halfway down and it was keeping the Ab "hammer" from hitting the string. I decided I was done practicing piano!

So there is the end of my venting:) Speaking of bad days, here is a poem that I wrote last year, all the things that happened in the poem really did happen to me.

Bad Day! 

Did you ever have a bad day? 

When nothing went your way?

Perhaps your math was not a friendly sight?

Or your throat sore 'n' tight.

Maybe you boiled a mouse to it's grave?

Or thought you knew somebody and waved?

You were playing piano when a string gave away with a BANG!

Brought to the ER with a foot in pain?

Dropped a cello and broke off it's neck?

Your bedroom quite a wreck?

Called Daddy up wanting to whine,

But Uncle answered – ah! Memorable times!

Well I better be going, have a blessed day!

Cassia

~The event is in the hand of God. ~

~George Washington~

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