A Miscellaneous Week....

We'll begin with Kyle's field trip to the Little Red School House last Thursday. They wanted the kids to experience this day as authentically as possible and thereby had to dress accordingly. Here is Kyle is his get-up.

There was the option to roll his jeans to the knees and wear long dark socks, but Kyle wouldn't go quite that far. In fact, he only put the hat on for the picture. He brought home a "lunch pail" the night before and we had to pack it with an 'olden days lunch (a jelly sandwich, an orange, a brownie and water in a jar with no ice). The boys had to enter in one door and the girls the other. They had reading, writing (which they did with pen and ink, all in cursive), and math. When I picked him up from school and asked how the day went, his reply was "It was alright, just kind of boring. I am glad that we don't have school like that anymore".

On Saturday we went over to our friends, the Bretl's. Jason and Brad were working on pouring a concrete pad for their LP tank. Well while they were doing that Jessica and I decided to take a little adventure to an old abandoned house. And an adventure it was...our first attempt was fouled by people being at the house, which we thought were hunters, but apparently were not because when we returned 10 minutes later, they were still there. I guess the third try was the charm. No one was around and we entered. The house was pretty much trashed and the walls and ceilings were crumbling, but we were able to make it through to the upstairs. Once upstairs we found some old furniture in amazing condition, jewelry, year books and a box of photos.


This is the back door and view of the outside of the house.

One of the interior doors and this wedding dress was hanging in one of the closets









Anyway, we also found a marriage certificate of the previous owners, which peeked our curiosity. Jessica got the pictures of the house she wanted and then we headed to the barn. And...while we were walking back to the car, someone pulls up behind our car! Jessica and I book it back to the car and totally out of breath, scared to death and probably looking as guilty as could be spoke with the lady that OWNED THE LAND! She was very nice and didn't seem to care that we were there, but talk about awkward. Well, we went home and did some investigating and discovered that the original owners are still living, but sold the land to the lady we encountered in the driveway who is marrying what we believe to be a son of the original owners this weekend. How bizarre, but very exciting! Oh, Jason and Brad did a fine job with the concrete pad. Jason, I and the boys went home and Brad and Jessica came over a little later for pizza and a movie, "Fracture", which I wouldn't recommend to anyone.

Sunday we had Sunday School and church then came home watched the Packers trounce the Giants, took a nap and then brought Kory to a friend's birthday party. We ate supper by the campfire and then sacked out of the couch for the remainder of the evening.

So today brought with it laundry and cleaning. But I was also able to finally complete my and Jason's bedroom, which began with repainting and ordering fabric for the window panels in July. Which, by the way took almost 8 weeks to arrive. The panels were made in August...more fabric was purchased for a valence and pillows and they were finished this weekend. Some miscellaneous decorations hung on the wall and finally, it's done!

Tomorrow's back to work with a doctor's appointment and a few meeting mixed into the remainder of the week. Have a wonderful week.