Courageous Joy

THIS N THAT
The day began with Stacia and me going on a 3.5 mile hike. I’m nervous about taking her in the bike trailer since I was hit a few months ago…but Mike says to stay off the busy roads and take her. I may try that tomorrow. I’m still dealing with blisters so walked the 3.5 this a.m. in sandals…now I have shin splits. :::snort::: I was having such a pleasant day, so thankful once again that I COULD be out walking with my baby. It was all the retirees with their dogs and me with Stacia. About a mile from home Stacia began screaming and would not be pacified. I walked as fast as possible home….I briefly considered leaving the stroller at the edge of a field and walking quickly off…but I’d never really do that…just a moment of insanity. We may try the bike tomorrow. LOL

Emma, a dear lady from PWOC, invited the kids and me to attend the Concho Valley Quilters Open House. The girls, Nolan and I headed over there around noon. They have a house that is dedicated to quilting. They have some really nice quilts in there. Emma introduced us around and took the time to explain a bit about the history of quilting, patterns, how to quilt etc. They had cookies and sandwiches too.

Since we were in the neighborhood we decided to try to find Marty and Mandy’s future home. Marty is our new chaplain. I remembered the address as 506 H and we spent a good hour driving up and down H looking for the house. The problem was that the new loop (hwy) goes right over where the 500 block would be and I was quite sure they weren’t planning to live under the bridge. We eventually found it in a very nice residential area. It’s a charming home.

I spent a bit of time on our Shop Natural co-op again today. Sarilyn dropped by to pick up her order. I called SN about how to get a credit for a bad item. Cool – they sent me the link so I could do it online…easy….we collected the bad honey from Dana and refunded her money. I’m sure I’ll use the $10 credit next month. :::snort::: Sarilyn dropped by to pick up a gamma seal.

The late afternoon was spent with our treasure hunt (instructions below – and some pictures too). The evening was spent with games…and Krista and I have been working on the computer. I uploaded photos to the blog so she could copy them to her jump drive…I KNOW there is an easier way to do this. We uploaded the photos from Bre’s camera right to her lap top. Krista’s creating a slide show complete with music. We plan to burn a DVD and send it to Mike (shhhhh). I hope he can find a way to watch it. :::Snort:::: Our personal goal; now that we have an address (no phone or email yet), is to be sure he gets something every day (or we at least mail something every day).

I bought 5 lbs of organic Pleasant something or other blueberries at co-op. The lady insisted they are wonderful. I realized when I saw them that no one in my family cares for blueberries. :::snort::: I tasted a handful though and they ARE YUMMY! I made a smoothie with them…and will make some muffins soon….we’ll see what else I can do with 5 lbs of blueberries. They’re in the freezer now.

It’s really, really late or very, very early now and I need to think about going to bed….Hey, Mike, if you read this far…we LOVE you.