Cameras and Clean Windows

We've had a good week. The weather has been gorgeous here. Yesterday was picture perfect. I had a great birthday. Autumn was off of school so we made bread together and then went shopping. The bread recipe makes two loaves, so we gave the other to June, who is our cat sitter. In the evening I opened my gifts. Got a new very good camera! Yea! Now I just have to learn to use it. Also got Hank Hannagraaff's "The Bible Answer Book", which was on my wish list. Then around 8pm we watched two episodes of Andy Griffith. I had ordered myself the first season, so we'd not seen these before.



Autumn crocheted these little yarn pieces for my b-day gift. At first I couldn't figure out what she was giving me. Little pieces of yarn?

Then she shaped them out on the table.






Trying out the new camera. This was our first picture, and we are trying to figure out adjustments.



Don't know if I showed our fireplace screen before. But we got this a couple months ago. Half of it's cut off, cause we were just playing with the camera, not really focusing on what we were taking a pic of.



Looking THROUGH our clean picture window!
I got my living room windows and four outside (parking lot side) windows professionally cleaned. It's amazing how much we can see now! I had to hire someone because it was a risky job. Our windows are very fragile and brittle. The inside panes had to be taken out. The man was about 70 years old, which made me even more nervous. He cracked a little corner of a bottom, but that was better than we expected. Everytime we do anything with our windows, they crack. Right now we have 4 cracked! Yes, we need new windows, but that's another loan to take out.


Making the bread.


Our teenager, almost. Sam spent the weekend at Stevan's house. He came back to church Sunday morning, quizzed Sunday afternoon (practice), went to youth group Sunday night, and still had homework to do when he got home. Sam has Algebra homework every night. He gets pretty worn out.

One more story...

Pastor has been doing teen quizzing at his house on Sunday afternoons. I take Sam and Yunmei out there every Sun. afternoon. I hate doing this because they live on a gravel road and my van gets all dirty. I've been trying to keep the outside looking decent, and this messes it all up. It's also very bumpy, and jolts everything around in the car. Well, I'm driving back from his house and am on busy Ft. Riley Blvd, a few blocks from our house, turning left, and I notice something hits my back trunk. A bird? A PERSON? There are no other vehicles around. I look in my mirrors and don't notice anything, so think maybe a branch fell on my back end or something. I got home, and saw this on my trunk. That little red covering over the back lights is gone.





I wake up JM from his nap, and he mumbles for me to go back to where I think it fell off and get it. "Those things are expensive," he says. So I go back and there it is in the middle lane of Ft. Riley Blvd. There are 5 lanes total and it is in lane #3 or #2 depending how you look at it. It's all in one piece, but I notice there is a curve in the road around there and traffic is 45 mph. I decide I'm not chancing it because there's no way traffic would see me around that curve in time. I go back and tell the snoring JM. He gets out of bed and says he'll get it. We drive back down, and it's still there in one piece. Traffic is zig-zagging around it, but it's there! He decides we should drive to an access road on the other side and get out from there because it would be slightly closer. It takes an extra minute to get to the access road. JM says, "watch, someone will hit it right before we get to it." We drive along side of it, it's still there in one piece. He starts to get out of the car...crunch, someone runs right over it. It breaks into a million pieces.

The next day I call the Dodge place. It will be $170 to replace the stupid thing!!!!