Friday and Saturday: more Michigan

Oh, lots of things happened these past few days. I have a few pictures, but the cord is upstairs and the camera is ...somewhere...and I'm too lazy to get it.

Friday we slept in. We saw a happy Scarlet for lunch. Then for dinner it was the whole family and Grandma Hilldore which was a lot of fun. Afterwards we played some Wii and teased the kids. It's amazing how two little burp cloths can keep a kid super happy and entertained for hours.

Saturday morning we saw my parents and got caught up with them. Then off to Jacob's football game...I didn't really watch very much. Aunt C did stop by so I got to see her for a bit and get caught up with that side of the family. Then it started raining so we all crowded under some big umbrellas. Travis ran to the car to get another umbrella and when he popped it open everyone laughed because it was so small.

Then off to see Abby and get caught up with her a bit. Thanks to facebook mainly I at least knew some of the major points in her life, so it was nice to see her again and get some of the other things that are going on.

Phew..this is turning into a long post. So the rest of the day was spent with family.

Thursday: Michigan

Today we went to Michigan! Yay! The flights went well. I love looking at the houses when going into Detroit and wondering what is going on down there...there are so many houses that there are probably happy people and sad people, nice people and mean people, babies and adults, people in love and people struggling with a breakup.

Then I tried figuring out what happened at all the industrial looking places. One place looked like all it was was a truck hub...a bunch of littlish buildings with trucks backed up to them on all sides. There also didn't seem like there were a lot of huge parking lots which surprised me a bit.

Also going into Detroit there were two women in the seats behind us...

"Is that Lake Michigan that I see?"

"Umm, I think so. Well, Superior is by Chicago so that must be Michigan"

sigh

We then got in and since we had managed to not check any bags got picked up right away. We talked with Larry and Cheryl until it was time for bed.

Wednesday: raking

Today was busy at work, which was very nice.

After work I raked. It turns out that our pine tree is loosing it's needles. It's worse that normal leaves, but I also find them more satisfying than normal leaves. They completely coat the grass, changing it from green to yellow. So every time I do one rake I get a lot of pine needles, but since they are so thin about half of them just pass right through the rake. But the grass looks so different every time you do a rake it. And even when you can't tell there are a lot of needles you still get a lot of needles.

Since it is Wednesday I worked on the quilt, although not as much as most Wednesdays. I did manage to get all the pieces cut out though! Yay!

Tuesday: Small group

Today was a rather good day. I got a bunch of work today, which was exciting. Then we were having a potluck at our house, so Ben and I cleaned the house. I love having a clean house. Then people came over and brought really good food. And we played Taboo. And now I'm finally checking my e-mail and such and have cold toes. My blanket is really close but I'm also feeling tired and therefore too lazy to get it.

Monday: blanket

Today I decided to get my computer blanket out because I was a little cool. Well, Flurry was showing interest in being on it so I took it off my shoulders and lowered it so she could have some. She ended up going on the wrong side and being under the blanket.

After a bit she realized that wasn't the most comfortable side of the blanket and went on the top. Awesome, the cat is by me! However, my fingers are getting cold because I don't have the whole blanket now. :( Guess I love the Flurr-ball.
Yeah, it was a rather slow day. I worked on my program most of the day so that I could get a trial version out to a few people.

Sunday

Today was a pretty normal Sunday. Ben played drums in church, so I had time to do lots of errands. Oh joy. But they're done, so that's good. We came home, I took a nap, worked on the quilt, did some chores, etc.

I've been taking pictures of Flurry laying around for about a month.

Saturday: applesauce

Today I made applesause. I've never made it before, but the apples we had were a little soft for our liking...they seemed perfect for applesauce.

It turned out really well and was fairly easy. The hardest part was prepping the apples because they were all rather small and therefore the apple to work ratio was rather low.

We also did our first raking of the season.