I am thankful for my entire family.
I am thankful for our house and property.
I am thankful for the changing seasons.
I am thankful for like-minded friends.
I am thankful for the opportunity to learn at home.
I am thankful for TOS Magazine.
I am thankful for working vehicles.
I am thankful for persecution.
I am thankful for missionaries.
I am thankful for [...]
Last Thursday I got the first 2 of cavities filled. It was dreadful. And because of my dental appointment, I
missed out on seeing the ROY’S new
baby, and hanging out with AUNT SPIFFY
and her kids. Fortunately, Aunt Spiffy
called my cell phone right when the nurse was calling for me. This distraction caused me to follow the
nurse [...]
I’ve got a whole pile of templates that aren’t being put to use, that are HSB and HSB2 compatible. Click on the thumbnails below to see bigger versions, and if you would like to use any of them just shoot me an email and I’ll send you the code. [coie @ igarashi.us] (take out spaces)
GlowFlower
Purple [...]
It's been so chilly and perfectly lovely outside. Here are some pictures of our exploding trees that I see outside of my windows when I wake up.
[click on thumbnails for larger versions]
It was so freezing cold this morning that I'm convinced that had my feet been wet, they would have stuck to our patio when I walked outside this morning.
Then we did Karate in our living room and got our body temperatures up. I'm sure mom would have joined us, but she was practicing her break [...]
FedEx came yesterday. I dread seeing their truck. This time they had 229 boxes for us of the new Fall issue of TOS. Each one ways about 40 pounds, and because they were wrapped and on pallets, they could not bring them up to our house. They unloaded these pallets (a total of 7700 pounds) [...]
I keep having these half good, half bad days. It’s pretty weird. So let me just outline this all for you.
Some Background
We were scheduled to have the previous homeowners of our
property (Hereafter “Bartletts”) and their
visiting relatives from Sweden
(Hereafter “Jarvis”) on Tuesday, October the 3rd. We planned a barbecue with steak, hamburgers,
hot dogs, and a [...]