Monthly Archives: March 2005

The day before Kelly’s birthday, Christian started on a project to build a piñata for her. The piñata did not dry in time for the party, but it has turned into quite a good little art project. I am completely amazed on … Continue reading →

We had our last neighborhood bible study last night. The topic was problem resolution. We particularly enjoyed having our neighbor Hank Whitsit there. We are very sad that he and his wife are moving across town. After the study, everyone stayed for chips, salsa, … Continue reading →

Kelly and Christian started back into homeschool again yesterday. We are up to speed and running fine. Kelly called her friend, Skyler from last year at government school and it turns out that she is now doing homeschool, too. It is too bad … Continue reading →

Kelly had two great parties. The first one, we had at our house in Albany with four girls from Kelly’s homeschool play group. They are absolutely super kids. It is truly amazing how sweet were these girls. Kelly says it is the best birthday … Continue reading →

Today is Kelly’s big birthday party. Four of the girls from her homeschool play group are coming over to our house for several hours of fun, frolic, and food. They are going to paint and hide Easter eggs, draw, eat, and, if … Continue reading →

For a couple more days, our baby girl is still just ten years old. I took a couple of pictures of her and put them in the album here. Life is very good. The kids are having a good spring break even … Continue reading →

We had a super meeting last night. Andrew and Rhonda came over with Joe and Lyle. Andrew is studying at pharmacy school, but will only be here for three or four more months. Nice folks. Heather and Clinton Eblen came over along with Clinton’s … Continue reading →

I have booted my system to Knoppix 3.8, a Linux live boot disk and am accessing the internet and writing this post using just that (not Windows). It is pretty amazing. Lately my work has been changing a lot. I am really not … Continue reading →

I am feeling like an old man. Toward the end of work on Friday, I was walking between buildings when I sprained my ankle. It hurt like only a sprained ankle can hurt. I had a pretty bad attitude all weekend long, slept … Continue reading →

Last night when I got home, the kids told me that they had not yet finished their homeschool work. This has been happening a little too frequently over the last several weeks. The work the kids do is fine, but they have … Continue reading →

Our little company, Quality Corners is doing well right now. We are getting more business little by little, we should have neither short nor long term debt other than month to month operating costs in a little over a year, and … Continue reading →

Only Joe Layman, Lyle Waldo, and our family showed up at our bible study last night. It was pretty sad. We were hoping more people from the neighborhood would show, but all we got was us. It was still a super study on … Continue reading →

The kids did great in homeschool yesterday. Christian broke the two minute barrier yesterday for the first time on his flash cards. He did 1:08 seconds on the hard side and 0:48 seconds on the easier one. We were very excited about that. Kelly … Continue reading →

We had another super weekend. We went to lunch on Saturday morning, bought and flew some kites on Saturday afternoon, and saw a beautiful meteor fall to the earth a little before 8:00 on Saturday evening. We went to Baja Fresh, the … Continue reading →

For the last two days, Christian has been doing extra pages in his math. So far, I think he has done an extra week. Day before yesterday, he also did about four extra pages in Easy Grammar. He is going to finish those … Continue reading →

Christian did an amazing job yesterday on his homeschool. He did about three extra days each of both Easy Grammar and Singapore Math. He got a little frustrated because he had to make more correction than usual commensurate with the extra amount … Continue reading →

Kelly’s letter to the editor got published!

Our bible study was great last night. Not very many people showed up, but there were more than I expected. Our neighbors Hank and Sue were there. We are very sorry that they are going to move away from here in the next … Continue reading →

Last night, Lorena went around the neighborhood and invited everyone to our house for a bible study tonight. Our workers, Joe Layman and Lyle Waldo are coming over to lead the meeting. I hope some people show up. Later this week, we will … Continue reading →

We had a marvelous skiing trip with the Rizos family at Mt. Bachelor last week. I will post some pictures to the gallery later this week if I have time, but probably on the weekend. Everyone skied including the Dads and Moms. We … Continue reading →