Taken with our new camera.
J is 5 years old.
L will be 4 in April.
E is 2.5 years old.
R is 1 year old.
J is 5 years old.L will be 4 in April.
E is 2.5 years old.
R is 1 year old. Christmas 2013
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Eagles...
I went out the other day when the Eagle couple was still here and took some pictures. Now that we have HIGH SPEED I'm loading them up!! LOL. The couple vanished about 2 days after these pictures were taken and have not been back. I wonder if someone close by has had an animal die and they have gone there instead. In the above picture you can see them both. One is on the top right and the other in the middle on the left. They are on either side of the lagoon. I watched them for a bit and they were keeping the crows and ravens away. They 'talk' to each other a lot and when either sees a raven or crow that eagle warns the other and they both watch to make sure it keeps on flying. Sorry the pictures are different sizes.. I'm playing a bit :)Griggs Family Update.
We spent the last half of last week and a chunk of this week being very sick with a stomach flu that is going around!! Very nasty bug and we are thankful we are mostly done it. E was sick for a full 8 days but has her color back and is playing today!! It is the 1st time that we have ALL been sick at the same time. Good thing we have 2 bathrooms :) Papa was so sick on Saturday that he actually called in sick. That is only the 2nd time that either of us can remember him missing a day of work because he was sick!! In almost 10 years. Not a bad record!! We have a pull out bed in our couch which we've only ever used once in the last 5 years until this weekend when we were all sick. We pulled the bed out and took turns laying on it sleeping or watching movies. We pulled the whole thing in front of the computer 2 evenings in a row and watched All Creatures Great and Small for several hours each night. All of us piled on the bed sharing Papa and I's large quilt.
Monday and Tuesday were Papa's days off which was great because he still wasn't feeling well but for being sick we actually got a lot done!! Monday we had kids Doctor visits in the morning. Which, because we need to pick up a ton of flax seed, we took the Travelall and the trailer and we all headed to town. I took J and R in to the Dr. office and Papa kept still rather sick E and L in the Travelall. We found out that R has a heart murmur and because of that and her tiny-ness (she's less then 3% on their charts) they referred us to a Pedi in 'the city' which is fine with us as we love our Pedi!! His name is Dr. Earl and he's great. Also because of her heart we had to get a X-ray and a EKG done on her. So I grabbed the only 'toy like thing' in the Travelall and headed to the hospital (across the road) and Papa took the kids to go pick up the flax. The 'toy like thing' was a pair of kid sunglasses and R played with them through the EKG, when she was covered in 10 stickers with wires clipped to them until she was almost covered in wires. I really wished for my camera she was SO CUTE!! She had to lay still for 30 seconds or so to get a good reading and she did!! Twice!! What a great kid!! After the EKG we wandered around talking to people in the halls for several minutes, R making friends where ever we went. Then we headed over to X-ray where the tec was a old school mate and he spent a bit of time figuring out how to X-ray a child as small as our R. LOL. He had a chair for her to sit in and then put a black slate like plate in the back of the chair but he had to take out the bottom spacer so that he could get her whole chest. One X-ray later, momma in a heavy lead apron holding her little arms up and we were finished. The tec showed us her X-ray and explained it to me. Very cool. I was amazed at how digital everything is these days. R completely charmed everyone who worked with us and every one in the hallways. She played with those sunglasses the whole time!! Then we all headed home and NAPPED. After being sick all weekend we needed it. We'll find out about the results to the EKG and X-ray when we go see Dr. Earl.
Tuesday we got up early again and headed off the 'the city' for an appointment. The kids were all pretty much better by this point. E was the worst off and she was playing but tired out easily and rather pale. But we decided to forgo the 'swimming place' anyway. We bought 3 large bunches of banana's on Monday afternoon. By Tuesday afternoon there where 2 banana's left!! Both E and R ate 6 banana's in those 24 hours!!!
Papa's bosses often get bonuses from their suppliers and recently got one and gave it to Papa!! Papa has been drooling over a new Camera for some time. The Canon SX10. And it was his bosses wish that he get it!! So while we were in 'the city' we bought one!! The place we got it would match prices of other stores and it was the only place in 'the city' that had any in stock!! So we went in there and told them that another store had it on sale for $50.00 less then they did. They went online and verified it and we got $50.00 off!!! That was AWESOME because we could then get a case for it and a 8 G memory card!! So we did. The Canon SX10 has 20x zoom!! And the next time those Eagles come back I'm going to go get some REAL pictures of them. Haha!! So far I love the new camera. It's a bit more confusing then our old Canon but takes GREAT PICTURES!! I took this picture of Papa with it!! This picture IS Papa!!
Papa and I have a horrible habit. We wear our shoes out and then keep wearing them!! LOL. No really. It's BAD. So we went shoe shopping. Papa got a pair of work shoes that should (better) keep his feet warm and dry this spring. Mud season is coming.. I hope. I got a pair of black and purple (where do they come up with these colors?) runners that should do me for everything. I've been walking as often as possible on the yard (I have a route and if I go around it 12 times it ='s almost 2 miles) and I plan on walking more and more as I can and as spring comes.. (if it ever does) and these shoes will be great for walking and for daily life. I asked for dark colored shoes as white turns to gray and then NASTY with everything I do in my shoes. And if the shoes are dark colors at least they still look nice even if they aren't perfect. I rarely wear a winter jacket as I'm too warm most of the time but I did on Tuesday and funnily enough my shoes match my jacket perfectly!!
Papa got to go to his 'beer' store and stayed in so long I peeked my head in for a quick look!! I guess the owner of the store was there and they got to talking and blah blah blah now Papa has two different malts to try and the owner mixed them for him so they should be great. The beer store, it's a brew your own type place, is actually very nice on the inside. I was shocked as the last one I was in was a horrid little smelly place with a beer master who like his product a little too much. But this store is great. Big and clean and smells of roasted grain more then the more evil smells of beer making. They had copper vats, clean and waiting, wide open areas that were for bottling, a nice 'set up' place for malting ect. Very nice. The brew master (owner) actually found and sold it too Papa a lid for his other keg!! He had it in the back storage area and so hopefully Papa can have 2 kinds of beer on the go now. He also gave him some rubber O rings for seals! Papa was totally impressed with him and wants to 'pick his brain' a lot more another time. I guess I haven't done a blog on beer making yet. I guess I'll have to!! Maybe next time Papa makes some I'll sit down and tap one out :)
We spent Tuesday evening with friends B&B who made us a great meal of steak, baked potatoes, veggies, salad and milkshakes!! YUMMM. B makes the BEST chocolate peanut butter banana milkshakes!! Then us girls let the guys absolutely trash us in Pinochle. Like 1500 to 20. Yeah I know we sucked!!!
Spring is escaping us. It's refusing to come. We have had snow every day for the last 5 or 6 days and snow is forecast for the next week or more!! The temps are not melting temps, they are barely dripping temps and we are all getting fed up about it. Little Mr. L thinks we need to set up the sprinkler outside (we have a huge one for the back.) and 'melt some snow Momma!!' My fence posts that where sticking out after our last 'nice warm day' are now back to there previous snow covered state. Very disappointing but at least the temps are nice enough that I can send the kids outside to play.
Monday and Tuesday were Papa's days off which was great because he still wasn't feeling well but for being sick we actually got a lot done!! Monday we had kids Doctor visits in the morning. Which, because we need to pick up a ton of flax seed, we took the Travelall and the trailer and we all headed to town. I took J and R in to the Dr. office and Papa kept still rather sick E and L in the Travelall. We found out that R has a heart murmur and because of that and her tiny-ness (she's less then 3% on their charts) they referred us to a Pedi in 'the city' which is fine with us as we love our Pedi!! His name is Dr. Earl and he's great. Also because of her heart we had to get a X-ray and a EKG done on her. So I grabbed the only 'toy like thing' in the Travelall and headed to the hospital (across the road) and Papa took the kids to go pick up the flax. The 'toy like thing' was a pair of kid sunglasses and R played with them through the EKG, when she was covered in 10 stickers with wires clipped to them until she was almost covered in wires. I really wished for my camera she was SO CUTE!! She had to lay still for 30 seconds or so to get a good reading and she did!! Twice!! What a great kid!! After the EKG we wandered around talking to people in the halls for several minutes, R making friends where ever we went. Then we headed over to X-ray where the tec was a old school mate and he spent a bit of time figuring out how to X-ray a child as small as our R. LOL. He had a chair for her to sit in and then put a black slate like plate in the back of the chair but he had to take out the bottom spacer so that he could get her whole chest. One X-ray later, momma in a heavy lead apron holding her little arms up and we were finished. The tec showed us her X-ray and explained it to me. Very cool. I was amazed at how digital everything is these days. R completely charmed everyone who worked with us and every one in the hallways. She played with those sunglasses the whole time!! Then we all headed home and NAPPED. After being sick all weekend we needed it. We'll find out about the results to the EKG and X-ray when we go see Dr. Earl.
Tuesday we got up early again and headed off the 'the city' for an appointment. The kids were all pretty much better by this point. E was the worst off and she was playing but tired out easily and rather pale. But we decided to forgo the 'swimming place' anyway. We bought 3 large bunches of banana's on Monday afternoon. By Tuesday afternoon there where 2 banana's left!! Both E and R ate 6 banana's in those 24 hours!!!
Papa's bosses often get bonuses from their suppliers and recently got one and gave it to Papa!! Papa has been drooling over a new Camera for some time. The Canon SX10. And it was his bosses wish that he get it!! So while we were in 'the city' we bought one!! The place we got it would match prices of other stores and it was the only place in 'the city' that had any in stock!! So we went in there and told them that another store had it on sale for $50.00 less then they did. They went online and verified it and we got $50.00 off!!! That was AWESOME because we could then get a case for it and a 8 G memory card!! So we did. The Canon SX10 has 20x zoom!! And the next time those Eagles come back I'm going to go get some REAL pictures of them. Haha!! So far I love the new camera. It's a bit more confusing then our old Canon but takes GREAT PICTURES!! I took this picture of Papa with it!! This picture IS Papa!!
We had also heard about a high speed Internet cell service that was fairly cheap so we went and signed up. We're having to buy another cord before we can use it but it will free up my phone and be faster. So WARNING... there WILL be more pictures then ever on my blog when we do get it up and working!!! :)
Papa and I have a horrible habit. We wear our shoes out and then keep wearing them!! LOL. No really. It's BAD. So we went shoe shopping. Papa got a pair of work shoes that should (better) keep his feet warm and dry this spring. Mud season is coming.. I hope. I got a pair of black and purple (where do they come up with these colors?) runners that should do me for everything. I've been walking as often as possible on the yard (I have a route and if I go around it 12 times it ='s almost 2 miles) and I plan on walking more and more as I can and as spring comes.. (if it ever does) and these shoes will be great for walking and for daily life. I asked for dark colored shoes as white turns to gray and then NASTY with everything I do in my shoes. And if the shoes are dark colors at least they still look nice even if they aren't perfect. I rarely wear a winter jacket as I'm too warm most of the time but I did on Tuesday and funnily enough my shoes match my jacket perfectly!!
Papa got to go to his 'beer' store and stayed in so long I peeked my head in for a quick look!! I guess the owner of the store was there and they got to talking and blah blah blah now Papa has two different malts to try and the owner mixed them for him so they should be great. The beer store, it's a brew your own type place, is actually very nice on the inside. I was shocked as the last one I was in was a horrid little smelly place with a beer master who like his product a little too much. But this store is great. Big and clean and smells of roasted grain more then the more evil smells of beer making. They had copper vats, clean and waiting, wide open areas that were for bottling, a nice 'set up' place for malting ect. Very nice. The brew master (owner) actually found and sold it too Papa a lid for his other keg!! He had it in the back storage area and so hopefully Papa can have 2 kinds of beer on the go now. He also gave him some rubber O rings for seals! Papa was totally impressed with him and wants to 'pick his brain' a lot more another time. I guess I haven't done a blog on beer making yet. I guess I'll have to!! Maybe next time Papa makes some I'll sit down and tap one out :)
We spent Tuesday evening with friends B&B who made us a great meal of steak, baked potatoes, veggies, salad and milkshakes!! YUMMM. B makes the BEST chocolate peanut butter banana milkshakes!! Then us girls let the guys absolutely trash us in Pinochle. Like 1500 to 20. Yeah I know we sucked!!!
Spring is escaping us. It's refusing to come. We have had snow every day for the last 5 or 6 days and snow is forecast for the next week or more!! The temps are not melting temps, they are barely dripping temps and we are all getting fed up about it. Little Mr. L thinks we need to set up the sprinkler outside (we have a huge one for the back.) and 'melt some snow Momma!!' My fence posts that where sticking out after our last 'nice warm day' are now back to there previous snow covered state. Very disappointing but at least the temps are nice enough that I can send the kids outside to play.
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