8-30-11 Our Tree House

By Kaitlyn and Ben

This spring we were all playing in the tree house when Jesse decided  to build a 2nd and 3rd layer to our tree fort!!! Then on Friday we all decided to play in it.Then Jesse made a 4th layer!!!! When we are in it we are level with the telephone/electric wires!!! It is pretty scary climbing in it. We have made lots of pulleys going from layer to layer and from the layers to the ground. There are 4 in all!!

Spanky our experimenting cat didn’t enjoy his job! (He didn’t have a choice!!!) He got to be the first one in all of the pulleys!!

    

View from 3rd layer.

 

The ladder going from the 2nd to the 4th layer.

 

Spanky in mid jump to the tree branch. We were going to give him a shove and send him in the bucket to the 3rd layer then we pulled him back up!! He didn’t like it!!

Josh is learning how to hold the cats nice!!! It almost looks like the cat is enjoying it too!!

Well that’s all for now!!

8-28-11 Would We Truly Long For Heaven?

Ok so I know I’ve used that title before, but it was back here when we hosted Men’s Sing at our house. Beautiful song, beautiful words. Well, today was worthy of that title again, because this is such a beautiful song with such beautiful words, and the Men’s Sing group sang it (and eleven more songs) for us after our regular church services were over. Yesterday I think they said 120 men started singing at 10:00 and practiced each song until it was ready to record, and then they recorded it. They sang and recorded and sang and recorded until 9:00 if I understood it correctly. Of course there were breaks in there, and I suppose the director worked with individual parts sometimes, but any way you look at it, that’s a lot of singing!  For those with strong voices, hurray! For those without, and us ladies who aren’t included, hurray that we can enjoy the CD!  Although our family didn’t participate in any way, due to … ummm… well, mainly a lack of interest in singing for a whole day, among other things, I’m very thankful for those who did all the work to plan meals, prepare meals, keep people overnight, pick the songs, prepare the songs, practice the songs, sing the songs etc. in order to bring this event to our congregation this year. Not only was the group’s program a wonderful blessing, but our regular congregational singing was beyond description, due in great part to the number of visitors, most of whom were here because they  love to sing. I suppose I’m a little prejudiced, because I really like to sing and I really really like our singing, but today’s singing was  - - - well, beyond description.

Head here to find today’s services which includes the singing. (I wonder if the program was recorded – don’t know.)

8-27-11 First Swim!

Precious Jewel!

Big helper.

Patient big brother :)

Put these little capsule thingys in water, and…

…out pops a tiny sponge!

Kate had lots of help making fruit cups.

Days have been very hot but beautiful.

 

FOR SALE:

Today’s project was fencing. We’re looking forward to getting the cows back to the creek soon!

 

 

Dad & his crew of five (Levi was milking) seemed to have it under control, so the three littles and I soon found ourselves at the creek. It had been awhile, and as usual, they had a mahvelous time!

Ready for lunch.

And it was a BEAUTIFUL day, praise GOD!!!!

Sharing dessert after supper – FIVE cookies for Joshua before I knew it was going on!!!! And the milk mess – that’s how Joshua dipped his first cookie…hand and all. He did better after a lesson from Levi.

After supper Dad made this measuring board and we walked to the lake to plant it.

And the crabapple treehouse continues to grow. Not sure if I’m excited about this new level. Actually I’m quite certain I’m NOT.

The board is marked to 16 feet (with 2 feet in the ground), but it’s not placed at the deepest part. So someone volunteered to check out the deepest part so we know how deep the lake really is when the board is covered. Actually several someones volunteered, but only two were chosen.

 

Levi wants a record of the deep holes so he knows where the catfish will hang out.

 

That’s it!