Thursday: remembering

I find it funny how there are somethings, such as books and clothing, that I can remember who gave me and what the occasion was. The sweatshirt I'm wearing right now I bought at Hope. The shirt I wore today I bought on a girls trip to NYC. Yesterday the shirt and sweater were gifts from Cheryl for Christmas, but not the same Christmas.

However, I have a really hard time with Christmas ornaments. Maybe it is because they go into the box after Christmas and it takes a year before they are seen again. In some ways that part of the fun of Christmas...you get to look through the box and (hopefully) remember what comes out.

There are about two or three ornaments that I don't forget about though. The one below...I have no idea where it came from, I just know it always goes on the tree. Nathan has his friend. I'm sure they were toys from McDonald's kids meals or something, because Mom always tried to persuade us to not put them on. They always went on the very bottom of the tree. He doesn't go on the bottom any more due to Flurry, but is still a Christmas tradition.

Wednesday:

I used up one of the four blocks for my quilt tonight.

Oh! and one of the machines that I've been trying to get started on the manufacturing floor finally got started today. It was pretty exciting. Even more exciting was that after I got it started no one came in and told me it wasn't working.

Tuesday: sardines

Today's Bible Study plan was to either make more Christmas cards at the church if needed or do something almost as fun. Well, we only needed to make a few Christmas cards, so we also got to play sardines!

I got to be one of the people that hides (because I found Maria's spot last) and so I chose to hide under chairs in a darkish corner of the sanctuary. Not the darkest place, which was good because everyone looked there, but a dark enough place. It took a while for people to find me...a lot longer than I expected. It wasn't really a great group hiding place though, so after the first few people found me it went pretty quickly. It's been a while since I've played the game...it was a lot of fun.

Monday: dreams

I've been having rather stressful dreams lately...it's annoying. Better than the run of scary dreams I had several years back, but just barely.

This time I was late for an international flight. Late like it was an hour from departure and we hadn't left the house yet. My brother (not Nathan) had packed my bags for me, but I kept finding clothes that I thought he would have packed but he didn't. I grabbed them and figured I'd stuff them in the already-too-heavy bags I had. I opened up the bags in the minivan (my parents were driving), only to find out that he had packed the suitcases full of black ethernet cord.

Sunday: pictures

Flurry is still enjoying her bubble wrap.

The Christmas tree is up!

Saturday: dinner two

Today we put up the Christmas tree. The camera is downstairs and I'm feeling too lazy to get it, so I guess pictures will have to wait until tomorrow. We went to Dusty and Laura's for a delicious dinner and found out that a zobo is the offspring of a zebu and a yak. It is cool enough to get it's own wikipedia page, but it isn't cool enough to get any information about itself on the page.

Friday: cards and castles

We are making Christmas Cards this year to sell as a fund raiser. We have five patterns and so we just need to mass produce them. Below is the first round on Saturday, and we did a lot of the prep work like tracing, cutting, and writing. (Note that three people did a ton of prep work for us to do our prep work). The cards are beautiful and I expect them to fly off the shelves.

Ben and I also tore into the Legos this weekend and are making a space castle compound. Here's a preview.

Thursday: Thanksgiving

Yay Thanksgiving. We were in charge of bringing the potatoes, and since we both hate it when we run out of mashed potatoes we made a lot. Needless to say, we had plenty of leftovers.

We ate at Clay and Jess' with several friends.

We played games afterwards, including Cranium. The scuplting clay was dry, so we used some of the mashed potatoes instead. While much more fun, mashed potatoes really don't work as well as clay.

Wednesday: vacation!

Yay! We're on vacation!

Today went well. I finished the thing I had to finish and got something else ready for Monday. There is a whole bunch of other things waiting for Monday too, so luckily I won't be bored when I get back. Also lucky is that they can wait until I get back.

There is apparently a canned pumpkin shortage this year. I happened to find a can of pumpkin in the cupboard, and it hasn't even expired yet! The only problem is we don't have anything to put it in...but we'll probably bring it with us tomorrow in case someone happens to have something to put it in but no pumpkin. Hey, it could happen.

Tuesday: green peppers

I remembered what my thought was from yesterday, although it really isn't that profound. It is that I've started enjoying green peppers in food. Growing up I never really had green peppers, but a few months ago I started putting them in my breakfast burrito. And then I put them on my Subway sandwich. And then I put them on my own sandwich. I'm working my way up to eating them plain, but just haven't had the desire to do so yet.

Only one more day of work! I have something kind of big due though, so hopefully it won't be too stressful. It's actually something small, but a big step for me. I'm supposed to be helping people by doing this but I'm not convinced that they couldn't have done it faster. Sure, it is one of those things that just takes some time to learn, but the idea behind giving it to me was that several people are out this week and I was the least swamped person.

Monday: pilly

So I've noticed that some of my lighter (vs. heavier) pants seem to be getting a little pilly by where the crease is when I sit down. I've never seen this before on any pants...is there any way to get rid of it or at least stop it from getting worse?

I had something else profound to say, but I can't remember it. Maybe tomorrow.

Friday: stripes and mice

Today I wore a shirt with blue stripes to match the blue wire I was working with.

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Announcer: Let's see what the interesting conversation is today...

Ben: I use the side mouse button to cast my spell.

Amanda: I found out that my mouse was on my desk again last night.

Blank stares from everyone.

Amanda blankly stares back.

Dusty: oh, you mean a real mouse?

Ben goes into a laughter convulsion.

Amanda: yeah, it left me some presents on my mouse pad. I never thought about it like the real mouse being by the electronic mouse.

Ben: I was wondering where else your [electronic] mouse would be.

Thursday: lame?

Today I did a lot of unrolling, measuring, checking labels, and rerolling blue wire. I knew I was going to have to do this yesterday, so I wore a blue shirt so I would match the wire. Lame? Maybe.

Tuesday: a row

I have a row done!

Monday: and here we go again

Today they announced some significant company reorganization, and with that came the announcement of more layoffs. Oh joy. We don't know how many, although we do know the number will be announced early January. There could also be some relocations for people as some of the business may be moving to different locations.

It's really hard to put into words how I'm feeling. I'm frustrated because I want to feel settled. I'm annoyed that I will have to listen to people talk about it for the next 2-3 months, even though no one knows anything. I'm sad that people will have to leave. I'm happy we didn't buy a car. I'm afraid that Ben and/or I will get laid off. I'm wondering why I worry more about selling the house than leaving friends (although I think it is because selling the house would be more stressful).

And above all I'm trying to trust God that he will take care of us, like he always has.

Sunday

I tried the spice tea made with lemonade today. It tasted like hot iced tea with lemon. Not bad, but not good either. I'll be sticking with the Tang.

The computer room is really hot and seems to be sucking all the heat out of our bedroom, which is really cold.

Saturday: a busy non-busy day

This morning started out with lazing around in bed and doing some kitty fishing with our robe ties. Mine won! I caught a kitty.

I made a small amount spice tea with lemonade instead of tang just to try it. However, I haven't tried it yet.

I went to a friend's surprise party tonight. I only knew a few people, but it was still fun. The food was good. They had a party game called "party playoff" which was a pretty good party game. The rules were easy, it was easy to get people involved, there wasn't a lot of waiting. However, there was one bracket that was People. As you all may or may not know, I don't know a lot of famous people...I know who they are in movies, but their names are just not something that sticks. Everyone was debating whether mud wrestling or Kevin Bacon would be a better topic of conversation and how it was obviously Kevin Bacon because everyone knew him and he had a game after him. Jess and I were laughing in the corner at how we had no idea who he was, but how he might make a good conversation topic because the other person could tell us all about him. A little later the conversation (not part of the game anymore...mud wrestling won) they were talking about Ug boots. I looked over to Jess so we could again bond in having no idea what they were.

Here's Kevin. While he does look familar, I can't tell you anything about him off the top of my head.

Here are the boots. They look really familiar; I might have gotten a pair for Christmas. But mine are black. They're nice and warm and tall so snow doesn't get inside, but I would have to agree with the conversation...they are not appropriate for a wood shop.

Friday: lunch

Today I had lunch with Jess in the sun. It was nice.

By the time I left work today, I felt like I was on top of everything. Not caught up, but not way behind either.

Tonight Ben and I are having an exciting night of trying to find my last quests in a zone in Warcraft so I can get an achievement. Actually, it'll be two achievements. However, I seem to have missed some large quest chain and so am having a rather hard time. I still need fourteen quests and have five in my quest log. There's a chance they'll lead to enough quests, but rather unlikely.

As I was driving home I was thinking about the number of letters in things. After a certain point, it just seems like the number of letters to describe a (place/name/etc.) isn't worth the time it takes to write. It isn't something that gets taken into account when you're deciding on something, but after the fact it feels as though it should have been a factor. For example, our street name has 16 letters (including spaces, but words were abbreviated). It takes too long to write. Also, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Seriously?!? 42 characters. I tried to think of a longer college name and failed. While it can often be abbreviated, when I am job searching or wanting to make sure the reader knows exactly where I went, I need to write it out. I bet some names have the same problem, although mine isn't bad. So what other things can you think of that have too many letters?

Thursday: Thanks

Today I am thankful for being able to flex at work. I worked from home for three hours and didn't make it in until about 10:45am.

I'm also thankful for skulls. I banged mine pretty hard today. It was against something flat, so while it hurt a bit it didn't hurt too much. But as I was walking away I thought about what life would be like without skulls...what things would be different? Would we be more peaceful, or would we just wear helmets?

Wednesday

Twas again a busy day. I was trying to think of something funny that happened, but came up really with nothing. At least not really amusing. There were a few "I can't believe this is actually happening" laughs, but that's the best I've got today. I think I'm just trying to quickly get used to a "working a lot" schedule.

Yesterday a WIP kicked my butt. Today I solved a machine problem. Not a WIP, but still a machine and still solved.

Tuesday: a crazy busy day

Phew...it's been a long, but good day. Work has gotten crazy again, and was rather non-stop all day. It was 3:30 before I managed to eat my sandwich.

I went home and picked up Ben, we had some creme brulee, and then went the the Toyota lot to test drive some cars. We tried the Yaris and Corolla and weren't super happy with either. We still have a few places to look though...this was just our first stop.

We headed over to Target to pack Operation Christmas Child boxes with our Bible Study. On the way there I decided that being a car salesman would probably be the last job I would ever want to do...you have to be confrontational and call people when the don't want to be called and try to pretend to give them a good deal while making the most money for yourself and work on the weekends and drive around in circles and sit and wait for people to come in. Yuck.

Anyway, we went shopping for our shoebox and it was a lot of fun. There were three groups and they were told to spend about $30. Well, the total came out to $90.95...amazing! The boxes were all stuffed full of fun things.

Monday: deep thought #4

The deep thought: sometimes it's ok to go to bed frustrated.

This is so contrary to what I so often hear "don't go to bed angry" that I wanted to take a look at the statement. I think one of the things that started this post is that I was reading a thread on the internet where every person agreed with the above statement.

First, there is a difference between angry and frustrated. I don't think that I actually get truly angry very often. Sometimes there is something so consuming that it just can't wait...and then it shouldn't wait. My deep thought is more for times when the problem isn't going to disrupt life too much until it gets dealt with.

I have found that sleeping on something is the best way to calm myself. When I wake up I have a new perspective and less stress. Sometimes the issue is still important, and then I can think about it with a significantly clearer head, which will (hopefully) lead to calmer discussions. Often I realize that the issue wasn't a big deal and then I can be glad that I maintained the peace.

Sunday

After church we went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries to check it out. It was good, but not something that I go to unless I was in the area. Ben really enjoyed the fries, but I wasn't really in a fry mood so they were just ok.

It was nice out, so we did our (hopefully) last raking of the season.

I didn't take a nap today, which I am really regretting now. We're about to leave and go bowling, but part of me just wants to go to sleep. Once I get going I'm sure I'll be fine though...that's how it usually works.

Saturday

We found out yesterday that the local Papa John's closed. We don't get pizza from them very often, but I had been looking forward to it last night. We went with a different pizza place that has good pizza, but it just isn't quite the same.

We were going to go over to some friend's house for dinner and games, but their daughter was sick, probably with the flu. So we declined...I really don't want to get sick. We ended up watching a movie and are about to read before bed instead. A different kind of fun.

Thursday: HELP!

It's that time of the year again: Christmas list season. So far I have:

*3 quilting items

*3-in-1 apple corer/peeler/cutter

*3 books

*3 +/- 1 door car

Any other ideas for me?

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At work I answered the phone: "Good morning, this is Six" (I happened to be considering the number 6 at the time and thinking it should replace a 4).

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I realized that I don't say/hear the word "macabre" very often. I was trying to say something to Ben and found out that while the word worked in my head it didn't work once I was trying to say it. It is supposed to be ma-ca-bray and came out mac-er-bee.

Wednesday: busy

Work has gotten rather crazy busy again...which is nice...in some ways. :)

I had a donut today. It was delicious.

Monday: explosion

While taking my shower this even I must have bumped the shaving cream. I have had this can for quite a while, and I kept thinking it was almost empty. Well, a whole bunch came out during the shower. It was rather fun to play with. Then it stopped, so I figured that the pressures had equalized. Nope! A few minutes later more came out. Here's the final result.

Yeah, it might be a slow news day.

Sunday: wall

I just hung up the last photo! Yay! It wasn't too bad, although if I had to do it again I would 1) arrange the frames and then choose photos to go in them and 2) lay them out on graph paper, stick the graph paper to the wall, and put up the nails using the markings on the graph paper.

I know it isn't a great photo, but it is dark outside and it was hard to get an angle without glare. I might try to post one again later when there is natural light. Or you can come visit to see it better. :)

There are a few photos I'm still missing:

1) One of our Bible Study. There have been a few that were taken, but none that I loved.

2) Larry and Cheryl on their wedding day

3) One with Pat (maybe we'll need to get a family picture this Christmas)

Saturday: happy halloween!

Happy Halloween. Tonight we escaped to a friend's house for pizza and a movie during trick-o-treat hours. We don't mind giving out candy, and have done so in the past, but didn't feel like it this year. It was four girls and Ben, but he held his own quite well.

Here is our sidewalk. We had the other side of the garage done too, but it looks about the same. They have just a little bit to finish up.

I started hanging my pictures on the wall. Ben and I spent quite a while trying to get them in the right configuration so they would look good. But then I changed the spacing a bit which is throwing off our configuration a bit. My guess is that it will still look fine in the end. :) Below are the runners up. They almost made the wall, and some of the made it and then were taken off for various reasons. Who knows...they could end up back on it sometime.

Friday: dream

Our sidewalks are almost all done, but I took a nap from 3:30-6:30 and it was dark out by the time I woke up, so the pictures will have to wait.

I had a very involved dream during my nap. Ben woke me up in the middle. I proceeded to tell him everything that I could remember, and he wasn't very excited about that. In fact, he was rather anti-excited to hear the whole dream. But since I'm sure you care....

Ben and I were in a tent on a beach on an island resort. Flurry was sleeping with us and we had a dog there too. We woke up and decided to get breakfast. We wanted to take the lazy river to breakfast, so we only brought $6 and a hand mirror with us. We never found the lazy river but where we were going instead turned into a road/path with like exercise toys on the side...things you could balance on, box with, etc. We didn't have any shoes, and there wasn't any place for breakfast, so we kept going. We ended up on the stage of an ampitheatre that faced the ocean.

There was a radio that could be heard throughout the island. A lady welcomed everyone back after commericals and then Bob Barker came on and welcomed everyone back saying that the lady wasn't allowed to officially welcome people back because it was his island and the rules stated that only he could welcome people back. Then everyone in the ampitheatre started pointing at the ocean because a seal was coming to the stage. Then it was a shark and stood on it's back fins and gave a garbled speach. However, from this speech I learned that Bob Barker was really my father and I needed to tell him so in order to get money.

He of course was gone by this time. Ben and I kept walking, although now we were inside. We found a restaurant and a person that could take us to Bob Barker. The person said the food was terrible, but Ben was so hungry he went to eat there anyway. I went with the person to Bob Barker's house. When you opened the door you were in his personal library. It was amazing how many books he had. The shelves were blue and about two stories high. The person and I passed through the kitchen were we picked up our breakfast...It included bananas is something sweet and other food. Bob Barker was coming down the stairs and I was about to tell him I was his daughter and he had a grandson.

But Ben woke me up.

Today had ups and downs. One of the downs was that I discovered that a mouse had been in my desk over night. Gross!! It got into my gum. We had been having some mouse troubles, but for some reason I thought my office would be safe. Needless to say, I put all of my food/candy/drink mixes into a bag and put it on my tack board. Let's see them get it from there!

So after a lot of hassle we are finally getting our sidewalk redone since it was chipping away quickly.

And then I was watching Castle (which I really like), and the star of the show is Nathan from firefly. He came out in his firefly costume for the halloween episode and it was awesome. I miss firefly.

Wednesday: crimping

Today I had to crimp some splices. (Basically use a tool to form a cylinder of metal with a circular cross-section into one with a half-circle cross-section.) However, the tool handles were rather short and usually the crimp isn't that drastic. Oh, and it is important to know that the handle is a ratchet, so it clicks. Here's how it went.

Click..click......click..........................click

Amanda: maybe that was enough

Handle: no

......................................................................click maybethatwasenough

Handle: no

Amanda: but my hands really hurt!

Handle: too bad.

...................................................................................click wasthatenough?

Handle: no

Amanda: maybe the next click will be the end.

.................................................................................................click wasthatit?

Handle:no

Amanda: owwww!

.....................................................................................................................click

Amanda: I win!

I have to do that 12 times. I got one person to do the last click once and am in the middle of number 5.

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This made me remember the time I had some magic occur in one of my electronics exam questions. I had the initial problem and the answer (somehow) but couldn't make them connect. So *magic*!

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My pictures came today! I may have ordered too many :) But it is easier to take them out now than to wish I had them.

Tuesday: car

So the car had an appointment this morning. However, the noise stopped sometime on Sunday. Ben thinks it just needed to go to church and get straightened out. (We didn't hear the noise at all today either, which would have been annoying.)

Flurry cuddled with me in my blanket. It was nice because I was so cold and she helped warm me up.

How come my gum, which I don't actually eat, has less than 5 calories and mustard, which I do eat, has zero? Something seems wrong.

Monday: dinner

Tonight we had our annual ham and squash dinner. Since last year the squash was rather frustrating to make, I checked the interwebs this time. So this time it was made in the oven and was much smoother (and cleaner). Yay!

Sunday

Not much new today. Ben played drums so we went to both services. I found a couch and slept during one of them. Then the youth had a lunch fundraiser so we went to that...the food was good as was the company. I worked on my quilt (some blocks are all put together) and made some more applesauce because some of the apples were starting to go bad.

Saturday: more Flurry

Today we have proof that Flurry enjoys bubble wrap

and that she really likes dirty laundry. She usually hangs out with the towels quite a bit on laundry day.

Ben and I also went for a walk around the loop. It was nice and much warmer than we were expecting.

Thursday: a package for everyone

When we got home there were three packages by the front door. Ben got Windows 7, I got two boxes of picture frames, and Flurry got two boxes of packing material. She loves packing material. This kind came with the large-bubble bubble wrap, and she likes to pop the bubbles and lick out the air. It must taste good.

I finally decided on a good place for my picture collage...in the dinning room. I ended up going with "frameless" frames because I was having a hard time deciding what color to get that would match and wanted to get a lot of frames for not too much money.

I'm hoping that my pictures will be cuter than the bored baby.

Wednesday: winter can come

Today was a beautiful day, although I spent most of it inside. After work Ben blew out the sprinklers and I raked half the lawn.

Oh, I thought of a funny story of the day. Phew. I thought that the whole post today was going to be two sentences.

I went into the break room to heat up some water for my spice tea. It must have been break time because there were about ten people there. I cleaned out my mug and put it (and the water) in the microwave. Apparently someone had been standing in front of one of the vending machines for about ten minutes. He finally decided on a burrito and everyone cheered for him and told him it was the most entertaining thing they had seen all day. He must have been a bit flustered because he proceeded to put is burrito in the same microwave as my water. (Note: the microwave was running.) Hilarity ensued, but I don't really know how to explain it. A lot of disputing whether or not he could see the mug in the microwave.

Tuesday: annoying

Today was kind of an annoying day. The car was making a funny noise. I had a headache that would go away with medicine, but kept coming back. I didn't want to be at work.

However, Ben did a really good job leading the Bible Study tonight. People talked quite a bit there are always a bunch of insights when that happens.

Monday: Ben cracks me up

Announcer in Amanda's head: Ben and Amanda are talking about what to have for dinner when they get side tracked to talking about things they want to have for dinner but don't have the ingrediants. This includes Shepard's Pie and Baked Spaghetti. Let's see how it's going.

Ben: Shepard's pie is usually made from lambs, not from chicken.

Amanda: Oh, I guess that makes sense. Shepards tend sheep.

pause

Amanda: What do you call a cow tender?

pause.

Amanda: It isn't a joke.

Ben: Oh. I don't really know. But I do know what you call a chicken tender.

Amanda: what?

Ben: delicious.

Announcer: and that concludes today's Random Conversation.

Sunday: I crack myself up

Amanda: oh, my sock is getting a hole in it!

Ben: Sock, heal thyself.

*pause. Nothing happens*

Amanda: Darn it.

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Laura: A potato isn't a vegtable.

Dusty: it grows under the ground. It's a vegtable.

Amanda: Worms grow underground. Are they vegetables?

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All my quilt piece are in half blocks!

Friday: snow and food

Here's a picture for Nathan; it must have snowed quite a bit last night. By the time we reached the bottom of the hill on our way to work, it was back to mostly green with just a bit of snow. (On a side note, the schools had a snow day. They have snow days ALL THE TIME.)

Due to a pro-tip from Joe and Julie, we found our favorite chicken helper at Walmart. Now we don't need to get it from the Family Fare in Hudsonville, Michigan. Since we don't go very often, I stocked up on it.

Thursday2: snow

It snowed out! I just went downstairs to make so tea because my stomach was a little off, and noticed there was quite a bit on the deck. Fun fun!

Thursday: hi

Well, I'd like to thank everyone for posting on my question two days ago (and feel free to post if you haven't yet.) I'm sure everyone will be relieved to know that no one said that they might think about doing it differently in an alternate universe. I found it really interesting how so many people came to the same conclusion coming from different view points.

What else excites me is the anonymous people that posted. I can't really figure out who they are, so either they're people that I haven't talked to for a while or they're people I don't know...and in either case it is pretty exciting.

Tuesday: oh Flurry

Last night Flurry slept with us. Normally she sleeps by the leg/feet area, but in the middle of the night she was half on my arms and half on Ben's. It made me smile. Right before I fell back asleep.

Then during Glee she decided to snuggle my feet while watching Glee. However, she decided to do it during a commercial so I was facing away from the TV and towards the sewing machine. I decided to not bother her and instead turned my body in weird ways and peered through the chair. I'm a softy.

I've enjoyed reading all the responses from yesterday's post...and thanks to everyone that has taken the time to answer my questions. I just decided not to post this post for a day or so because I want to keep the other one at the top. :)

Tuesday: deep thoughts - kids

To begin with, Ben and I aren't planning on having kids any time soon, so don't get your hopes up based on the title.

The deep thought is...why have kids? Are they really worth it? People always say "oh, it's different when it's your own." But is it different enough? I was reading "Saint Maybe" who pointed out that raising kids actually included spending a lot of boring time with them.

I'm doing a poor job explaining myself, but I'd encourage you to share your thoughts. Does the love and joy really make up for all the extra work, frustrations, and money? Really really make up for it? What's the best part? What's the worst part? Would you do it again? (You can secretly message me if you don't want to world to know that you actually wouldn't do it again...and yes, I know you love your kids. This would be like an alternate universe.) Would getting another cat really be a better option?

Monday: toes

Lately I've noticed that my toes like to move. I'll suddenly realize that they're moving, and it will surprise me a bit.

Sunday: oh deer

This morning we had to get to church early, so we were up early. I was warming up some cider for the morning and saw something out of the corner of my eye...I went to look out the front window and we had three deer in our front lawn. I've noticed in the past few weeks that they've been eating more of my plants than they did during the summer. One of them came towards my plants so I knocked on the window. It looked straight at Ben and me but didn't run off like I thought it would. So I knocked again telling it to get away from my plants. It finally did. I hope it remembers the scary person in the window and doesn't come back.

Saturday: apple picking

Today we went apple picking. It was rather cool, so we didn't stay long. We also got apple cider and apple cider donuts! I'm excited. I may have picked too many apples, but was having such a good time. Ben even switched bags with me so I could fill his. I made a large batch of applesauce this afternoon and there are still a lot of apples left. :)

Here is Ben picking an apple.

Here is the perfect apple Ben found. There's some weird looking guy in the background. Maybe he's stealing apples.

Even Hugh got a Hugh-sized apple.

Saturday morning:

I can't even tell that I raked yesterday. :( :(