Monthly Archives: August 2005

While homeschool is progressing quite well, it seems like our little family is running in place to a certain extent. There are a couple of decisions that we will have to make about where we are going to live, what … Continue reading →

Our new writing program Igniting Your Writing, has proven to be a big hit with the kids. I kind of figured our sixth grade daughter would enjoy the program as she is an avid writer. She faithfully keeps a daily … Continue reading →

I did not work on Friday because I had to go up to Portland to meet some people. I had a nice meeting and I got home early. On Saturday, we went to a wedding reception at the neighbor’s house … Continue reading →

Uncle Lauro just sent us some new photographs from some old events. One of them was an abstract painting of the sea that I believe is his best effort yet. He also sent us a great picture of his daughter … Continue reading →

We are continuing forward on refining the way we are doing homeschool this year. Both Kelly and Christian finished at a pretty good time yesterday, but there were five pages of a book they needed to read that they did … Continue reading →

We really had a pretty good first day of school. I think I might have loaded up Kelly a little bit too much, because she worked straight through until three (not including lunch) and still did not get everything done. … Continue reading →

We got back from our church convention at Saginaw last night at around 6:30. Christian stood up to profess his love for Christ in the meeting on Saturday evening, so we were all quite happy. Everyone was pretty tired last … Continue reading →

We are going to run down to Saginaw after I get off work today to go to a church convention. I will be out of the loop until Monday. We are all very much looking forward to being inspired and … Continue reading →

Jay and Karen Nelson invited us to go see their daughter Lenore play in the Corvallis Junior Symphony. We had an absolutely great time. We are going to have to do more of that. There is a very famous band … Continue reading →

I installed Fedora Core 4 this weekend and it only took me a couple of ours to get it networked and working properly with the printer. I really struggled with that previously. I think I am getting better at this … Continue reading →

Last night we all went outside and sat on the lawn between about 9:30 and 10:30 to watch the meteor shower. We all saw several magnificent falling stars. We want to make this an annual event. Maybe next year we … Continue reading →

Last night I sat down at the computer and punched in a weeks worth of lesson plans for Kelly. I do not know why I did not think of doing this before. One of the biggest chunks of work I … Continue reading →

We had a really nice night last night. Lorena made us a wonderful dinner of fresh corn on the cob, a seafood salad, and some quesadillas for the kids. After dinner, Kelly, Christian, and I worked on our drawing while … Continue reading →

Louise and Malia Doolittle dropped by yesterday evening for a visit. We talked for a couple of hours. I am working on getting a motel for us for going to convention at Saginaw. We are getting ready to start homeschool … Continue reading →

We had a pretty uneventful weekend this weekend. I worked with my friend, Roger Morgan, from ATS to make up some rosettes with apple, star, and jalapeno shapes on them on Saturday. They came out great. On Sunday, we tried … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Ron was supposed to have a CNC laser vendor give him a demo of their equipment at our Quality Corners facility in Idaho. The guy showed up, but could not get the demo to work because of some driver … Continue reading →

I installed Fedora Core 4 Linux on one of the computers at home last night. I set it up with the KDE desktop and KDevelop C/C++ programming development environment. It keeps getting better and better. In addition, I posted a … Continue reading →

Yesterday was Grandpa Milo’s 76th birthday. In the morning, I called him up and aske he and Grandma Sarah to come over to our house for dinner. They came over and we had a very nice time. We got a … Continue reading →

We had a fun night drawing last night. All we really drew was flying saucers with people and stuff in them. Today, though we are scheduled to draw some new stuff. I think the key word for the next lesson … Continue reading →

I mowed the lawn this weekend, but did very little else other than go to work for a couple of hours both on Saturday and Sunday. The kids played. Lorena worked in the yard. We went to the fellowship meeting … Continue reading →