- Yar har! It's Thursday!
- My sign for today on my day by day calender is funny
- Oh dear, it's almost Friday.
- Guess what? I get to ride Quest tomorrow!!!
- YAY!
- I love the Wingfeather Saga
- Oh dear, it's also almost Saturday.
- I have to do a REK concert, and a music festival thingy
- OH YAY!!! It's only like, a week until I see Mustang again!
- If you want to look into The Lord of the Rings trilogy, I sincerely advise you to read the books instead of watching the movies. For the simple reason that, while they are decently good movies, they do not follow the books, so if you want to get the actual story, read the books.
- Aha! I drew a picture of Janner that actually looks good!
- It was cold yesterday.
- I'm getting back into HI (Horse Isle) again!
- Beware the Bumpy Digtoad
- I got a sword book when we went into the big city for Creator's son's-OH YEAH! Creator's Son had a card game tournament! And he got like, second place! Anywho, I got a sword book wile we were in the big city for that.
- I MISS MUSTANG!!!!!
- Wow, I have a lot of random thoughts today.
- Oooh I'm hungry. Be right back.
- Ahhhh. I got some chocolate, and I'm all better now.
- Toothy cows are ferocious.
- We have a homeschool presentation night coming up sometime soon.
- AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Why must we wait for the fourth book????
- Did you know that when CS drives a car, it's scary.
- My dog can bark really loud.
- CS is reading over my shoulder!!!!
- My life is rather random. How sad.
- I wonder if CS will read North! Or Be Eaten....... to us while we drive into town today.
- I hope so!!
- I can't believe it's already almost the end of February!!!
- Why must it be cold? WHY?
Showing posts with label the ranch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the ranch. Show all posts
Thursday, February 21, 2013
My Life in Random, Scattered Thoughts for Today
Thursday, January 17, 2013
What's New With You?
Around here, things this week aren't the same as they usually are. It has been colder than average, but we've been in town and not out at the Ranch. In fact, I've only been out at the Ranch maybe twice so far this week: Half of Sunday and half of Monday, and once yesterday morning to get some things we needed (mainly school).
You see, we came in for orchestra on Monday and our Tuesday stuff. That's normal for us. Then, Creator's Son was going to have this teen thing on Thursday night (which is now tonight). No problem, we'd come back into town. Not so normal for us, but no problem. However, our car has this thing. Mom was getting the oil changed last week and the people at the oil change place did something to it that didn't go so well. Bah humbug. Oh well.
Nana had offered us staying at her house until Thursday for Creator's Son, but Mom was thinking she might decline the offer so we could get school done. Early afternoon on Tuesday, Mom decided to call our friendly repair dude to ask him about our car. Then he asks her a question along the lines of "What size is the engine?" and Mom didn't know, so lo and behold we have to drive over there and show him. Turns out that was a bigger deal than we thought, and he tells us we'll need to bring it in on Thursday, now today, as early as possible.
That pretty much decided things for Mom, so we headed out to the Ranch yesterday morning to grab what we needed for Wednesday and Thursday. Then late last night, about 9:45-ish, we get an email that Creator's Son's teen night was off. Bah humbug. Oh well.
About 7:15-ish this morning, Mom and Nana headed off to our friendly car repair dude's place to let him have the car for the day so he can play with it and fix it. I read 'The Fellowship of the Ring' and got dressed while they were gone, then I got on CP and played at their newest party, the dinosaur party. They got back, I ate some food, played on CP, and now I'm sitting typing the very words you see here. Amazing how these things work, isn't it?
So everything going on this week got me to wondering, what's new with you? What kind of new thing or adventure have you had this week? If you want, comment to tell me what's been going on in your world.
PS: I love typing on my Mom's laptop! [(Which is what I am presently doing!) Hee hee hedgehog! In the words of Count Olaf]
You see, we came in for orchestra on Monday and our Tuesday stuff. That's normal for us. Then, Creator's Son was going to have this teen thing on Thursday night (which is now tonight). No problem, we'd come back into town. Not so normal for us, but no problem. However, our car has this thing. Mom was getting the oil changed last week and the people at the oil change place did something to it that didn't go so well. Bah humbug. Oh well.
Nana had offered us staying at her house until Thursday for Creator's Son, but Mom was thinking she might decline the offer so we could get school done. Early afternoon on Tuesday, Mom decided to call our friendly repair dude to ask him about our car. Then he asks her a question along the lines of "What size is the engine?" and Mom didn't know, so lo and behold we have to drive over there and show him. Turns out that was a bigger deal than we thought, and he tells us we'll need to bring it in on Thursday, now today, as early as possible.
That pretty much decided things for Mom, so we headed out to the Ranch yesterday morning to grab what we needed for Wednesday and Thursday. Then late last night, about 9:45-ish, we get an email that Creator's Son's teen night was off. Bah humbug. Oh well.
About 7:15-ish this morning, Mom and Nana headed off to our friendly car repair dude's place to let him have the car for the day so he can play with it and fix it. I read 'The Fellowship of the Ring' and got dressed while they were gone, then I got on CP and played at their newest party, the dinosaur party. They got back, I ate some food, played on CP, and now I'm sitting typing the very words you see here. Amazing how these things work, isn't it?
So everything going on this week got me to wondering, what's new with you? What kind of new thing or adventure have you had this week? If you want, comment to tell me what's been going on in your world.
PS: I love typing on my Mom's laptop! [(Which is what I am presently doing!) Hee hee hedgehog! In the words of Count Olaf]
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The Backstory of the Ranch
My parents bought this piece of property in c.1990, while they still lived down on the coast. They dreamed of moving out here, but Dad couldn't completely convince Mom to actually do it until 1999, when Creator's Son was a year and a half old. They set up shop until 2009, when we made the decision to move to town.
It was great being raised in the middle of nowhere, with dangerous creatures everywhere and spiny cacti everywhere else. I'm really not being sarcastic here, it was. It was great being able to step out my front door and a startled deer look up and run off, or go for a walk and see a snake sunning itself in the middle of the path. Then Dad quit his job, and things started getting pretty tight. He was out of work for at least 8 weeks, and things were really not looking good, when lo and behold: he got hired for HCTC as an I-Fix worker (aka a computer repair dude).
The real reason we moved though, was because Dad got that job. It was in town which didn't sound too bad by itself, but gas prices sky-rocketed and Mom and Dad realized it would be cheaper to rent a house in town then to stay out here. So we had to up and move to town.
It was super hard to leave the house I'd grown up in, plus all my trees, AND two cats. They had to drag me kicking and fighting into town, but both houses we rented in town were absolutely amazing to live in. Nothing, however, can beat out here. We moved back after (drum roll) Dad quit his job! Now we're back to stay, and I'm glad.
All three of these are from before we moved, just so you know.. I'm much older now.
It was great being raised in the middle of nowhere, with dangerous creatures everywhere and spiny cacti everywhere else. I'm really not being sarcastic here, it was. It was great being able to step out my front door and a startled deer look up and run off, or go for a walk and see a snake sunning itself in the middle of the path. Then Dad quit his job, and things started getting pretty tight. He was out of work for at least 8 weeks, and things were really not looking good, when lo and behold: he got hired for HCTC as an I-Fix worker (aka a computer repair dude).
The real reason we moved though, was because Dad got that job. It was in town which didn't sound too bad by itself, but gas prices sky-rocketed and Mom and Dad realized it would be cheaper to rent a house in town then to stay out here. So we had to up and move to town.
It was super hard to leave the house I'd grown up in, plus all my trees, AND two cats. They had to drag me kicking and fighting into town, but both houses we rented in town were absolutely amazing to live in. Nothing, however, can beat out here. We moved back after (drum roll) Dad quit his job! Now we're back to stay, and I'm glad.
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| Me playing with a stick that my brother convinced me to call a bo staff |
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| This is me in front of our gate |
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| My brother and me outside on our swing set after a long day of saving the universe. |
Monday, November 5, 2012
An Update on Me
Well, by now you probably think that I disappeared off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again, or the earth swallowed me up whole or something like that. But, unfortunately for those who don't like listening to me gush about puffles and the like, that is not so. I'm still here!
Ok, so if you think aaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to my first post, back in August of 2010, you'll remember that I said I have lived in three different homes. That hasn't changed. I still have lived in only three different homes. We moved back to my first house, out in the middle of the Texas Hill Country (Maybe I'll tell you the story behind that next post). It is just as awesome, if not more awesome, than I remember. Lots of trees, the Hollow, and lots of good rocks. So that move took us a while, and that's mostly what I've been doing to not blog in so long.
I would've posted on Saturday (maybe), except for one very, very good reason: I was busy. I was busy auditioning for REGION Orchestra. Later on, as we were about to leave a Target, Mom got a text from my private lesson teacher, who also happened to be one of the judges. I made 6th chair first violin out of over 200 people trying out. To make this even more astounding, there are 36 first violin chairs. And I was up against high schoolers.
Something else that happened since the last time I blogged: Mustang came down for the last time before the big move. We had a ton of fun goofing off, playing our strange games and whatnot. One special thing that is worth noting and is almost too hilarious (but didn't seem like it at the time, at least not to Mustang and I): Mustang, her dad, and I were out eating at Culver's. After we left, we convinced him to go to one of the nearby Redboxes to see if they had The Avengers. That Redbox was out of stock of it. He decided to take us to another very close Redbox. They were out of stock too. We had just given up, when I remembered there was a Redbox at a gas place... So we turned the other direction from home and went to the place. We scrambled frantically out half laughing like lunatics and half sincerely hoping that it was there. We were in luck: they had ONE left. Mustang slid the card. And then slid it again. And again. And again, until we called her dad over. HE slid the card about four times, then Mustang busts out laughing. Once she finally got ahold of herself, she said between laughter spasms, "I forgot to press pay!" Then she continued laughing, and I joined her while her dad pretended to glare at her. Finally, we got the movie home, laughing all the way, and watched it. As we bounded up the front steps, grinning and laughing, I called to my brother "We got it! The Avengers!"
One last thing that is coming up in the next couple weeks is my birthday. I turn 11 exactly 2 weeks from today.
Well, I guess that's all the exciting stuff for now. I'll be trying to get back in my blogging spirit now, so... wish me luck, I guess!
Ok, so if you think aaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to my first post, back in August of 2010, you'll remember that I said I have lived in three different homes. That hasn't changed. I still have lived in only three different homes. We moved back to my first house, out in the middle of the Texas Hill Country (Maybe I'll tell you the story behind that next post). It is just as awesome, if not more awesome, than I remember. Lots of trees, the Hollow, and lots of good rocks. So that move took us a while, and that's mostly what I've been doing to not blog in so long.
I would've posted on Saturday (maybe), except for one very, very good reason: I was busy. I was busy auditioning for REGION Orchestra. Later on, as we were about to leave a Target, Mom got a text from my private lesson teacher, who also happened to be one of the judges. I made 6th chair first violin out of over 200 people trying out. To make this even more astounding, there are 36 first violin chairs. And I was up against high schoolers.
Something else that happened since the last time I blogged: Mustang came down for the last time before the big move. We had a ton of fun goofing off, playing our strange games and whatnot. One special thing that is worth noting and is almost too hilarious (but didn't seem like it at the time, at least not to Mustang and I): Mustang, her dad, and I were out eating at Culver's. After we left, we convinced him to go to one of the nearby Redboxes to see if they had The Avengers. That Redbox was out of stock of it. He decided to take us to another very close Redbox. They were out of stock too. We had just given up, when I remembered there was a Redbox at a gas place... So we turned the other direction from home and went to the place. We scrambled frantically out half laughing like lunatics and half sincerely hoping that it was there. We were in luck: they had ONE left. Mustang slid the card. And then slid it again. And again. And again, until we called her dad over. HE slid the card about four times, then Mustang busts out laughing. Once she finally got ahold of herself, she said between laughter spasms, "I forgot to press pay!" Then she continued laughing, and I joined her while her dad pretended to glare at her. Finally, we got the movie home, laughing all the way, and watched it. As we bounded up the front steps, grinning and laughing, I called to my brother "We got it! The Avengers!"
One last thing that is coming up in the next couple weeks is my birthday. I turn 11 exactly 2 weeks from today.
Well, I guess that's all the exciting stuff for now. I'll be trying to get back in my blogging spirit now, so... wish me luck, I guess!
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