Ahhhhh! A REAL vacation day.
Nobody threw up. No friends over. No driving anyone to friend's houses. And it even snowed to make it really feel like vacation!
Let's see, we really didn't do much all day: a few loads of laundry, shoveled the walkways, took care of the animals, cleaned the playroom, registered the children for Goat Day, sanded the mudroom walls, and did some schoolwork with the girls.
My friend Donna has started her own blog. The link is on the side bar under Soeltl Farm. Yet another vortex that has sucked her in...
I was able to check my bees, sort of. It was a quiet day with all the snow so I went out and "banged" on the hive. One hive buzzed. One did not. The quiet one was the weaker one and since I didn't expect either hive to make it, I am thrilled!
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Day Four
Day four of February Vacation was actually very laid back.
Hannah had slept over at her friend's house, so I was down to just four kids.
We did some school, some laundry, some firewood, and really just hung around.
Rachel's friend Grace (Grace's sister Dianna came too. She is Samantha's friend) came over and her mom and I had a nice visit while Abby and Nathalie took turns chasing her son Will.
Nathalie had a friend come over in the afternoon.
Hannah came home around 5PM.
Abby started throwing up around then.
I left for Bee School (final night!) at 5:30PM. Tim Grilley, one of the judges from the Public Speaking competition, came up and told me that he had an incredible time being judge and he was really impressed with the variety and quality of the speeches.
Donna only tried to kill me on the way home: yellow means slow down, not slam on the breaks and cause all kinds of havoc; and the fire engine did not have it's lights going! Me with a cold and she is making me laugh so hard I can hardly breathe! I don't know how Kelly can follow our conversations. We jump from topic to topic with absolutely no transitions.
So Bee School is over. I won't know for another 2 weeks (unless we get a very warm day) if my bees wintered over. I bought two new packs of bees just in case they didn't.
The chicks are surviving and growing.
All the children have had the "Barf Bug" now. Maybe we are done with the sickness for this winter??
One more day of vacation and snow is predicted!
Hannah had slept over at her friend's house, so I was down to just four kids.
We did some school, some laundry, some firewood, and really just hung around.
Rachel's friend Grace (Grace's sister Dianna came too. She is Samantha's friend) came over and her mom and I had a nice visit while Abby and Nathalie took turns chasing her son Will.
Nathalie had a friend come over in the afternoon.
Hannah came home around 5PM.
Abby started throwing up around then.
I left for Bee School (final night!) at 5:30PM. Tim Grilley, one of the judges from the Public Speaking competition, came up and told me that he had an incredible time being judge and he was really impressed with the variety and quality of the speeches.
Donna only tried to kill me on the way home: yellow means slow down, not slam on the breaks and cause all kinds of havoc; and the fire engine did not have it's lights going! Me with a cold and she is making me laugh so hard I can hardly breathe! I don't know how Kelly can follow our conversations. We jump from topic to topic with absolutely no transitions.
So Bee School is over. I won't know for another 2 weeks (unless we get a very warm day) if my bees wintered over. I bought two new packs of bees just in case they didn't.
The chicks are surviving and growing.
All the children have had the "Barf Bug" now. Maybe we are done with the sickness for this winter??
One more day of vacation and snow is predicted!
Friday, February 1, 2008
School
Last night I went to school: Bee School. My friends, Donna and Kelly, went too. We were there to learn about how to raise bees for honey. I have been raising bees for going on 5 years, Kelly just finished her first year and Donna is being sucked into the vortex. I tend to have that effect on Donna: the 4H vortex, the fair vortex, and this summer she was finally sucked into the homeschool vortex. Well last night she paid me back: she tried to kill me. Twice.
The first incident involved an ambulance which was trying to pull out from a side street. We had to stop suddenly to allow him to enter the main road. I didn't think it was an attempt on my life until I saw her accomplice in the rearview mirror coming in too fast. He/She did manage to stop before causing Kelly (in the seat behind me) to become intimately knowledgable with my head.
Donna and are a fun loving group. I think Sam's words when he was told that she and I would be carpooling were: "You and Donna, in a car, together, for an hour? Oh boy!" Kelly is a bit more quiet and reserved. We'll pull her in to our vortex soon enough. It is a 4 week course. We have time.
I digress. We arrived at UCONN for our class. Donna and I joke, tease and have a good time introducing ourselves to the people around us. The woman behind us, we discover, is also a homeschoooler. The guy next to her has 3 Kiko goats in Florida. (??? that is another story in itself!) The guy in front of us has 4 and 6 year old children and is looking into homeschooling. Kelly actually has the homeschool group business cards to hand out! The woman is scary with how organized she is.
During the mid lesson break, they have coffee and cookies for us. I am happily drinking my coffee when Donna made her second attempt on my life. She waited until I had just taken a sip and then she said something funny. I was trying so hard to NOT spray the guy in front of me and yet remain breathing. So Donna suggests to guy he might want a raincoat. He doesn't even crack a smile. This causes me to laugh harder, still with coffee in my mouth! I finally manage to swallow but in the process also inhaled enough coffee into my lungs to cause me to choke, gasp sputter, cough, and yes, even drool. All the meanwhile long, DONNA is laughing at me! But her planned failed, I didn't die laughing!
Of course there are 3 more Thursdays of class... maybe next week, I'll drive...
The first incident involved an ambulance which was trying to pull out from a side street. We had to stop suddenly to allow him to enter the main road. I didn't think it was an attempt on my life until I saw her accomplice in the rearview mirror coming in too fast. He/She did manage to stop before causing Kelly (in the seat behind me) to become intimately knowledgable with my head.
Donna and are a fun loving group. I think Sam's words when he was told that she and I would be carpooling were: "You and Donna, in a car, together, for an hour? Oh boy!" Kelly is a bit more quiet and reserved. We'll pull her in to our vortex soon enough. It is a 4 week course. We have time.
I digress. We arrived at UCONN for our class. Donna and I joke, tease and have a good time introducing ourselves to the people around us. The woman behind us, we discover, is also a homeschoooler. The guy next to her has 3 Kiko goats in Florida. (??? that is another story in itself!) The guy in front of us has 4 and 6 year old children and is looking into homeschooling. Kelly actually has the homeschool group business cards to hand out! The woman is scary with how organized she is.
During the mid lesson break, they have coffee and cookies for us. I am happily drinking my coffee when Donna made her second attempt on my life. She waited until I had just taken a sip and then she said something funny. I was trying so hard to NOT spray the guy in front of me and yet remain breathing. So Donna suggests to guy he might want a raincoat. He doesn't even crack a smile. This causes me to laugh harder, still with coffee in my mouth! I finally manage to swallow but in the process also inhaled enough coffee into my lungs to cause me to choke, gasp sputter, cough, and yes, even drool. All the meanwhile long, DONNA is laughing at me! But her planned failed, I didn't die laughing!
Of course there are 3 more Thursdays of class... maybe next week, I'll drive...
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