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From September 2008

They could have just driven the kids around in the bus and they all would have been super happy. Riding the bus was half the fun. 🙂 Colm reported to me that it was very bouncy.

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Learning about different types of bees and how they help the apples grow.

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Checking out the beehive.

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Loving on one of the orchard’s kittens.

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Why are there no pictures of Colm actually picking apples? That is because they picked the apples right when they got there and I got so incredibly lost on the way to the orchard that I missed that part. 🙁 His teacher said she might have a picture of him for me. I still got there in time to ride on the hayride, feed the goats and eat lunch though.

I have had a hard time in the literary department lately. The last book I read was okay, but nothing to write home about. I didn’t even finish it. For the past week or so I have been trying to get into this book, but I just couldn’t. I never abandon a book after I have read over 100 pages of it. I figure if I have invested this much time, I might as well finish it out. I couldn’t with this one though. It just wasn’t about anything. The story was going absolutely NOWHERE!!! So, if anyone has any suggestions, they would be GREATLY appreciated.

I was running the garbage disposal today and it sounded kind of funny. I peeked in and found a bouncy ball. No wonder they couldn’t find it.

Okay, it’s not exactly cold yet, but this recipe was good tonight and would also be good on a cold night. The only thing I did differently is I added a can of italian diced tomatoes to the onions and the green peppers. Also, I served it with some yummy Farm to Market Italian bread, but we didn’t butter it. We used the bread to sop up the juices. Mmmmmm…

I had an interview on Monday for the BEST job in the best location doing something that I love to do. It was a consultant job in a library working with children’s literacy issues. Any job in a library is the perfect job for me. On Tuesday I found out I didn’t get the job. Oh well. I am glad I even got an interview. Based on the large stack of applications that my interviewers had I can assume I had a lot of competition and they were already two months behind on the project I was interviewing for. They said they felt like I had the right qualifications, but they were looking for someone who had more experience organizing and recruiting volunteers on a larger scale. I can’t argue with them on that point.

You know it’s a bad day when you have to break out a form of discipline you’ve never used before. We had to break out the soap. Yep. Someone got a little soap in their mouth this afternoon. I am sure you can guess who it was. It wasn’t a horrible word, but it was not a word we tolerate and certainly not one we tolerate when directed at another person, especially when that person is me. Yes, he was mad at me because he had been sent to his room for a number of reasons. He is still in his room right now. When I left him he was licking his pillow trying to get the soap taste off of his tongue and I would bet some serious dollars that he is asleep right now. To say he needed a nap would be a serious understatement.

This is a very cute story. Poor Jeb’s pumpkin patch is going to get ambushed by a bunch of crows right before Halloween. He comes up with a very clever plan to save his pumpkin patch and there is a little twist at the end, too.

Soccer season started for Liam this weekend. He had two games plus they got their “official” soccer pictures taken. Colm starts next weekend.

From September 2008