Today we went to take care of Josiah. It was practically a white out and we couldn't see the road. Thankfully TP gave us use of a 4-wheel truck otherwise we would have been in the ditch. So we went to pick up Josiah. She did well in the truck. BUT when she came into our house she was E-X-C-I-T-E-D!!! And I am not exaggerating. She ran inside the house jumping on the furniture like very little hyper dog. The cat eyes were huge like two moons. He was not happy!! The cat went into a bedroom then Josiah left a little "present" on the rug. UGH!! This was not going to work out at all.
Finally we put the dog's pet carrier in our laundry room, put the dog in the cage and closed the door. Since then we have talked to Josiah and walked her around our place. Daisy got her sniffs in as well and didn't mind if we had this new little animal with us. Josiah seemed "okay" with Daisy, I guess she wasn't going to tangle with the larger dog. This might have worked out a little better if we had a bigger laundry room area and/or if we didn't have a cat. Josiah calmed down and the snow has since quit. She will be going back home tonight. Guess we are not ready to take on 3 animals!!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
No School, no bee, no work, 3rd animal
The phone woke me out of bed at 6:00 AM and naturally I can't get back to sleep. It was the school district with news that I half way suspected would happen yesterday. School is cancelled. So I ran out of bed and saw the thick, heavy sideway snow that had already came down. I immediately thought no spelling bee and no work. Then I thought, wait a minute we had our chance to bring Josiah home with us last night. She is stuck in her house with no one coming out to feed her or let her out of the house!
L cleared off our driveway the best we could and has to cancel an appointment as well. Then we have to see about getting Josiah. That is IF we can get her. Even with 4-wheel drive do we chance it? We need to call Josiah's parents and check with them on what to do. She is welcomed here but, we have a dog and a cat. The cat thinks he's king of the house. Thankfully the dog has a carrier. I just feel obligated on making sure the dog is okay. After all, she is the boss' dog. She is a nice, hyper little indoor dog. So I could imagine Sasha and Josiah mixing up with us being the referees.
But meanwhile I am up reading the AP news sports (I don't WANT to read it because of the loss), I hear a distant rumble of the freight train from the outdoors and hear the winds pick up. It'll be an interesting day. S on the computer (getting one more help for her homework), J playing his video games and studying (ha, dream on), and me finishing up a couple of books. We have plenty of milk so we will do fine.
Pray for the snow to end!
L cleared off our driveway the best we could and has to cancel an appointment as well. Then we have to see about getting Josiah. That is IF we can get her. Even with 4-wheel drive do we chance it? We need to call Josiah's parents and check with them on what to do. She is welcomed here but, we have a dog and a cat. The cat thinks he's king of the house. Thankfully the dog has a carrier. I just feel obligated on making sure the dog is okay. After all, she is the boss' dog. She is a nice, hyper little indoor dog. So I could imagine Sasha and Josiah mixing up with us being the referees.
But meanwhile I am up reading the AP news sports (I don't WANT to read it because of the loss), I hear a distant rumble of the freight train from the outdoors and hear the winds pick up. It'll be an interesting day. S on the computer (getting one more help for her homework), J playing his video games and studying (ha, dream on), and me finishing up a couple of books. We have plenty of milk so we will do fine.
Pray for the snow to end!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Darrell Arthur is mad at the officials after getting his fourth foul of the night. This is how J and S felt. Actually J felt way worse about the loss than S. The 24 year streak ended tonight. KU still has 20 wins but now one loss. :( KU loss to KSU 84-75. KU field goal percentage was better than KSU, but KState made a record number of 3 pointers. Another problem, was the poor calls by the refs. Mario Chalmers had 18 in the game, followed by Rush with 15, Darrell Arthur and Sherron Collins had 12 each, Darnell Jackson had 7, Russell Robinson, 6, and Sasha and Rod each at 2 points. 24 years ago, when the streak began, Dave Armstrong the ESPN announcer for Big 12 games, was a sportscaster at KSNW. I remember that!! 24 years ago, I was living in the same town as Armstrong. KU will be starting a new streak next year in Manhattan
KU will need to get past this loss. They need to go on and prepare for their next opponent on Saturday against Colorado. At least this wasn't the National Championship, the season will go on.
We, as KU fans, need to get over the loss too. We don't like it when we see KState storm the floor. We don't like it when KSU fans rub our noses in it. It's tough, but life does go on. I still love the 'Hawks and think Bill Self is doing a great job with the team. It's just one loss. Get over it.
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J is studying the spelling bee with his spelling bee coach S. She did really well making it fun for him. If he doesn't get nervous and get some good words then he will do alright. I will have to see him (weather permitting) tomorrow and most likely the county bee.
The Tradition Continues
The Spelling Bee at Harper Elementary is tomorrow (weather permitting). S was in it from 5th to 8th grade. Now she has passed the torch to her brother J. When I heard that the kids were qualifying for the bee I encouraged J. But J was dreading it. He is just so unmotivated. I told him that he would do his best or he would have to some other activity that he really didn't like. So he tried his hardest and I'm not sure if he was 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in the class of 5th graders. It really doesn't matter. Because it just matters how you finish overall. S was never first in her class but yet in 6th grade she was 3rd in the county and 2nd in the county in 8th grade. That's where it really matters. We will need to "coach" J on how to spell during the bee because he just can't blurt out the spelling, he has to think it through. S had a trick she used. She would write on her hand and picture the spelling in her mind. We are just blessed J qualified. Then next week he will be at the County Bee at CHS since he wasn't an alternate. I just hope he does his best, that's all I ask of him and nothing more. I just need to get in there and motivate him tonight, after we watch the other tradition....The KU/KSU basketball game. Hopefully that tradition will continue for KU.
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Please pray for S as she has had a horrible toothache. She takes antibiotics and motrin for it and nothing seems to work. She went to the dentist and they couldn't see anything on the x-ray. I know this isn't some phatom pain, it is very real. So real that she was whinning in pain last night. It almost drove ME to take a Motrin too.
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S gets to take care of Josiah and Penny for a couple of days. I will "help" her out when she is at school. I always like going out there and admiring the "nature" out there.
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Let's pray for next to no snow tomorrow. I heard we could get 2--4 inches. Hopefully that prediction is for Hu town and NOT Har town. Hopefully it will melt off quickly too.
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We need to pray for the folks up at Whitewater, KS, as their Mennonite Church was burned to the ground on Monday night. I am sure that they will rebuild but in the meantime they will be holding church at Berean Academy. I watched video on TV seeing their church burn. All their tradtions, memories, and history were lost in that fire.
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Please pray for S as she has had a horrible toothache. She takes antibiotics and motrin for it and nothing seems to work. She went to the dentist and they couldn't see anything on the x-ray. I know this isn't some phatom pain, it is very real. So real that she was whinning in pain last night. It almost drove ME to take a Motrin too.
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S gets to take care of Josiah and Penny for a couple of days. I will "help" her out when she is at school. I always like going out there and admiring the "nature" out there.
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Let's pray for next to no snow tomorrow. I heard we could get 2--4 inches. Hopefully that prediction is for Hu town and NOT Har town. Hopefully it will melt off quickly too.
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We need to pray for the folks up at Whitewater, KS, as their Mennonite Church was burned to the ground on Monday night. I am sure that they will rebuild but in the meantime they will be holding church at Berean Academy. I watched video on TV seeing their church burn. All their tradtions, memories, and history were lost in that fire.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Happy 147th Birthday Kansas!
Today is Kansas Day. I always seem to remember this day. Not because it was drained into my head many, many school days ago being a native Kansan. But because I still remember when I was 5 going on 6 being in Topeka for the Centennial Birthday party. My uncle, who worked for a Topeka governmental agency, got us to come out to Topeka on a Sunday. All I remember is a birthday cake and a bunch of people's legs. I was little and couldn't see very much. My uncle, who had the same name as one of the Democratic candidates running for President and for one of the reasons why we named J the way we did, always was pretty active in government. When my brother was in junior high he got to be a page for the House of Representatives. He got to stay a whole week with our uncle and our aunt. (They didn't have any children). So I was hoping by the time I got into junior high I could do the same thing as my brother. But it didn't happen. My uncle died when I was 12. He was only 52 when he died of a massive heart attack. So whenever I think of Kansas Day and of seeing the Capitol dome in Topeka I think of him. He was my favorite uncle and I really liked his sense of humor.
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I don't like to talk politics much, however, if you check back on my profile about my favorite books, my favorite "author"/ politician, is going to be in Eldorado this afternoon. In Kansas, we do not get very many visits by the candidates. I can remember back in the 60's when Hubert Humphrey (the VP with Lyndon Johnson) stopped briefly in Kansas, and I think it was in my hometown, H town. True, more likely, he would have stopped in W town, but I have it in my mind it was H town. Other than that, politicians stop in Topeka/KC/and W town. Well, they MAY stop into a town (Greensburg) when the tornado completely destroyed that town. But not very often do they. Welcome Barack! :)
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Boy! What a difference a day makes! I was talking with my mom and she said it was snowing up north. I said, "Oh it's pretty light." We had heavy flurries and now thankfully it has stopped!! I am so not a fan of winter. I am ready for spring. That groundhog better not see his shadow! Like I actually buy into that, NOT!
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KU is playing K-State tomorrow. 25 years of winning over in Manhattan. I hope the streak continues. K-State's boastful rookie, Michael Beasley (or as I call him Beastly) says that his team can beat KU in Africa, Manhattan, and Lawrence. This must be like their big final 4 dream to beat KU. I liken it to how we would feel about playing Roy Williams' UNC team. Although, I really don't think the KU guys would boast about beating UNC like Beasley does about a victory over KU. This is just another game for the kids at KU. They just need to "keep their head in the game." ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS!
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I don't like to talk politics much, however, if you check back on my profile about my favorite books, my favorite "author"/ politician, is going to be in Eldorado this afternoon. In Kansas, we do not get very many visits by the candidates. I can remember back in the 60's when Hubert Humphrey (the VP with Lyndon Johnson) stopped briefly in Kansas, and I think it was in my hometown, H town. True, more likely, he would have stopped in W town, but I have it in my mind it was H town. Other than that, politicians stop in Topeka/KC/and W town. Well, they MAY stop into a town (Greensburg) when the tornado completely destroyed that town. But not very often do they. Welcome Barack! :)
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Boy! What a difference a day makes! I was talking with my mom and she said it was snowing up north. I said, "Oh it's pretty light." We had heavy flurries and now thankfully it has stopped!! I am so not a fan of winter. I am ready for spring. That groundhog better not see his shadow! Like I actually buy into that, NOT!
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KU is playing K-State tomorrow. 25 years of winning over in Manhattan. I hope the streak continues. K-State's boastful rookie, Michael Beasley (or as I call him Beastly) says that his team can beat KU in Africa, Manhattan, and Lawrence. This must be like their big final 4 dream to beat KU. I liken it to how we would feel about playing Roy Williams' UNC team. Although, I really don't think the KU guys would boast about beating UNC like Beasley does about a victory over KU. This is just another game for the kids at KU. They just need to "keep their head in the game." ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS!
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Rambling down on Maize Road
After church today we went to Towne W to go shop. Well, actually S and her friend did most of the shopping. I was playing banker and body guard. We spent a great deal of time there and I found my calendar...at last! They were selling calendars at $4 a piece!! So I got a Welsh Corgi wall one and a basketball trivia one for J. So I was pretty pleased about that.
Then we traveled to Maize Road and went to the "Bulls eye" store picking up various products, mainly food. So we decided to go to that Italian restaurant nearby (OG). J was offered the kid menu and he rejected it. He wanted to see what to order on the regular menu. Well, he didn't find anything and we ended up getting the kid's menu, to which the waitress said, "Here you go sweetie," and handed him some colors to boot. He was embarrassed. We passed him off as 10 and under and he's nearing 12. So while we were sitting there I swear that the waitress asked us if we needed anything (this is before they served our food) at least 5 times. Then after we got our food served she was a "pest" too! I was eating my spaghetti and nearly chocked when she asked that for the 11th time. After she left I said, "Well, she could just look at our drinks and automatically get us some more." A minute passed, and there she was with MORE drinks!! We were finished eating and she wanted to know if we needed any bags, etc. So we said, "Sure." Then she brings the bags to us and she fills the bags and the food in the carry out stuff. WEIRD!!
THEN, I asked could we have some to go cups. (because of the extra drinks, I thought we should take that home). She comes back with the to-go cups and it has pop in the cups! We thought we were going to get empty cups to take the table drinks home with us. Whatever!! So L checks to make sure that she didn't add the extra drinks on to the total. I am guessing that refills are most definitely FREE! It was crazy!! I was nearly kidding when I asked for a to go cup!
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My friend, Flute, recommended that I read the author Karen Kingsbury. So I know Wally world carries these books, so I feel like I am on a mission to seek this author out. I know she said to read the redemption series first, but I couldn't find it. I flip through a couple of books and found this interesting one "Between Sundays." I've just started reading it and I am hooked. Thanks Flute for the suggestion! I have been looking for a good series to read. I really like the Nicholas Sparks books. And I have read some of John Grisham's novels, they are different. But what I like about Kingsbury is that she is a Christian writer. I have a book that I'm trying to put together and it's always nice to read within the same genre. This way I can improve my book/writing.
Thanks again Flute! :)
Then we traveled to Maize Road and went to the "Bulls eye" store picking up various products, mainly food. So we decided to go to that Italian restaurant nearby (OG). J was offered the kid menu and he rejected it. He wanted to see what to order on the regular menu. Well, he didn't find anything and we ended up getting the kid's menu, to which the waitress said, "Here you go sweetie," and handed him some colors to boot. He was embarrassed. We passed him off as 10 and under and he's nearing 12. So while we were sitting there I swear that the waitress asked us if we needed anything (this is before they served our food) at least 5 times. Then after we got our food served she was a "pest" too! I was eating my spaghetti and nearly chocked when she asked that for the 11th time. After she left I said, "Well, she could just look at our drinks and automatically get us some more." A minute passed, and there she was with MORE drinks!! We were finished eating and she wanted to know if we needed any bags, etc. So we said, "Sure." Then she brings the bags to us and she fills the bags and the food in the carry out stuff. WEIRD!!
THEN, I asked could we have some to go cups. (because of the extra drinks, I thought we should take that home). She comes back with the to-go cups and it has pop in the cups! We thought we were going to get empty cups to take the table drinks home with us. Whatever!! So L checks to make sure that she didn't add the extra drinks on to the total. I am guessing that refills are most definitely FREE! It was crazy!! I was nearly kidding when I asked for a to go cup!
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My friend, Flute, recommended that I read the author Karen Kingsbury. So I know Wally world carries these books, so I feel like I am on a mission to seek this author out. I know she said to read the redemption series first, but I couldn't find it. I flip through a couple of books and found this interesting one "Between Sundays." I've just started reading it and I am hooked. Thanks Flute for the suggestion! I have been looking for a good series to read. I really like the Nicholas Sparks books. And I have read some of John Grisham's novels, they are different. But what I like about Kingsbury is that she is a Christian writer. I have a book that I'm trying to put together and it's always nice to read within the same genre. This way I can improve my book/writing.
Thanks again Flute! :)
Saturday, January 26, 2008
KU 20--0!!
KU won again over Nebraska by a score of 84--49!! Once again KU's passing looked great and they scored a bunch of 3 pointers. KU is still needing to practice free throw shooting. In the first half Nebraska was shooting a dismal 21% in Field Goals compared to KU's 58%! The half time score was 44--15. Darrell Arthur combined with Brandon Rush's first half scoring outscored Nebraska. Towards the end of the game Rodrick Stewart fell hard to the floor. A couple of Nebraska players went to check on him. I thought that was a nice gesture on their part after they fouled him. It's great to see good sportsmanship from the opposing players. Leading scorer was Darrell Arthur with 18, followed by Brandon Rush with 17, Darnell Jackson had 13, Sherron Collins, had 10, Russell Robinson, had 9, Sasha Kaun, scored 6. It seemed as though Mario Chalmers had an off game only scoring 3. Rodrick Stewart hit 2 free throws and coming off the bench was Matt Kleinmann who scored 2. Next up for KU is in-state rival the KSU Wildcats on Wednesday. We will have to hear the name Michael Beasley over and over. Hopefully KU will continue its winning streak.--------
I've been found out! I came into the bleaches with my notebook and the coach's wife said, "So you're the one writing up the articles for the team." I smiled and said, "Yep. That's me." I am guessing they don't mind and rather like it as it is good press for the kids on the team. We had a double header today. The team played the A Heat team and the M.L. Indians. They won both games. Some kids still take wild shots and missing the basket completely, they truly know how to shoot an air ball. The shot will go completely up and not even get close to the rim. J took a shot and it looked good, but rimmed out so he didn't score. One parent told us that when he has been at practice he has seen J shoot and he knows he can shoot well. But when it comes to the game, the other boys play selfish ball. J gave it up to one of his teammates to shoot but he missed. He could have shot it in but he didn't. Then of course we have one kid who plays scrappy basketball and he hardly ever passes. When the team practices he goes off by himself and shoots...whatever. The air ball kid often throws the ball wildly out of the hands of his teammates. We all cringe when he gets the ball. Then there are the ones who have it together. Those are the teammates who don't have the big heads, who are going to be even better when they play middle school ball. The coach's son got yelled at today, basically because he fouled and the way he passed the ball back to the ref when he didn't agree with the call. Kids this age are very competitive. Well we will see next week how they play out of town! Look for an article in the Advo on Tuesday!
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