Wednesday, July 1, 2009

There are fields of green grass and ponds and flowers all over the place here in NC

July is the deep of the heat of summer. The past summers that we've been here, there had been a drought. The drought affected the landscape and made the world here look like a red desert. The ground was compacted and solid and nothing seemed to grow. Now, there are blooms and green grass adorning the place; since we had a full season of torrential downpours. Last night Ben and I enjoyed watching the cows grazing in the evening and the cool of the day. He mentioned that we never see that many cows out in the middle of the day. That is true they are usually hiding from the sun, so if you have to go out in the daytime around here you would think that these farmers have only a few cows and alot of land. This time, we were wondering if he had enough grass for them to graze on, there were so many.
I am, by no means a farmgirl, but I do love seeing the farms and the cows and the other animals that are our neighbors.
Elyse is planning a mission trip and her ambition is to start a farm somewhere and grow things. Right now, she is saving her money and collecting her information so that she can accomplish this goal. .Elyse's favorite dream, Mary Jane's Farm She is a doll maker and a crafty woman who contributes so well to our family. She works, caring for a little fellow as a mother's helper.
The children tease her that she wants to be a slave master and have a slave plantation, because she wants to incorporate her ministry with her farm. We know that is not what she means, but it makes for family humor. The church blessed 3 of the children with scholarships to the summer camp away somewhere. They are preparing and excited. This will be Emily's last hurrah as a child. Enoch and Evvy and she will be enjoying the fun at the church, for a week or so. What a blessing!
At the moment, we are enjoying the fact that we are blessed to have central A/c, in all this heat and a pool in the community. Of course the working hours of the pool are my working hours, so I am unable to enjoy the fun, but the children are very happy to stay inside and play WII and gameboy and all of the other pleasures that relax them and rejuvenate them for summer.
I'm bored! is always the complaint, even in all of this luxury. Imagine that. I always say that if we had wii and game boy and all of these other things we never would have been so close as we are. We had Michael Jackson and the reel to reel tape recorder. I guess we were equivolent to them.
Last night Evvy and I played "plus 11" where we took my chart and called out numbers to eachother and had to keep time and add eleven to the numbers randomly. This is a drill to speed up our mental math ability. I can't get the others to play it yet, but we will. Today is "plus 12" day.Mary Jane's Farm Organic gardening?
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Joanne Bodden said...

Hi Jayne
The Organic link was just delightful. I think it is a tremendous effort but Elyse has the determination and faith to make her dream come true. Oh what a beautiful land. I want to mail order some of her food Yummy! Thanks for sharing that. Any way great to hear the summer is on a roll now
Love to you
Jo

July 2, 2009 at 7:59 AM

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Title- The Studious One!

Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse

Of biscuits and syrup

Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.

Widdle Emmie in outer space school

Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.

Midnight at the OASIS

Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville

My little Emmie

ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!

My Father and I 1989

My Father and I 1989

to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A VISIT TO PAPA











Are you going to Mary Immaculate?

Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Remember me to the one who lived there,



He once was a true love of mine,



Tell him to buy me an acre of land,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,

Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,

Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,



Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.



Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



After your done 50 pushups



and jog down the West Side Highway,



Then he’ll be a true love of mine…

(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)





He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.