It hasn't even been a week since I last posted but what a week it has been. We thought Stephen had gotten a bug bite on the back of his neck but by Sunday night when it was spreading down his neck we decided we'd better take him to the doctor. He has shingles and has had a long week of dealing with phantom stabbings in his neck and shoulder and a nasty rash that itches and burns.
Rachel and I spent Saturday at the pool. It was Shiverland, the annual junior high swim meet. Nine schools, about 150 girls spent six hours swimming. Rachel did very well in her first and last races. The middle two races were not her best. We continue trying to figure out how to keep her energy levels up for an entire day. I helped sell programs and concessions and cheer Rachel on.
She has another meet tonight and will get home about 10 and have to be at school tomorrow, so the dual meets on school nights are always hard to adjust to, but when you live two hours from everywhere that is what we do.
Hope everyone is enjoying fall and staying healthy. Let us know how you are doing and what you are doing.
Diane
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
September 14th - Winter, right?!
Well, we may be in for a snowy winter. But it may also be too early to tell. But what it isn't too early to tell is that we had snow flakes in the air this morning. We had a frost and killed a few plants earlier in the week. I have harvested all my tomatoes (green as well) and beans. The growing season is over here this year.
This has been a very busy week for the Adams family, but find me one that hasn't been recently and I'll be amazed. Rachel has had two swim meets and another one tomorrow. Jeff is working and volunteering and doing sound jobs and more. Stephen is keeping up with school work and not much work at this time. I am working and baking and dealing with preparing the yard for winter.
Enjoy your fall wherever you are.
Diane
This has been a very busy week for the Adams family, but find me one that hasn't been recently and I'll be amazed. Rachel has had two swim meets and another one tomorrow. Jeff is working and volunteering and doing sound jobs and more. Stephen is keeping up with school work and not much work at this time. I am working and baking and dealing with preparing the yard for winter.
Enjoy your fall wherever you are.
Diane
Friday, September 7, 2007
Madeline L'Engle
I know this is our family blog but Stephen let me know this afternoon when he stopped by to fax in his calculus assignment that my favorite author died yesterday at 88. Madeline L'Engle died of natural causes in her home in Connecticut.
I have read almost everything she has written and own about 75% of her works. She is the inspiration of one of my Advent readers' theaters. A great author with a very wide range of stories and non-fiction. She will be missed.
Diane
I have read almost everything she has written and own about 75% of her works. She is the inspiration of one of my Advent readers' theaters. A great author with a very wide range of stories and non-fiction. She will be missed.
Diane
Monday, September 3, 2007
Swimming
Hello, I am doing alright except for some first term worries. my note books won't get here till tomorrow and I highly doubt that They will get her before 8:00Am when I leave for school so if we do anything at all I have to write it all down in one notebook so when I do get my real notebook I can copy it all down again. I am a little nervous that they will check supplies the first day of school. But it most likely won't happen.
Swimming is going okay we just had our first real meet a couple of days ago I won the 200 meters and the 300 meters races. My team didn't win the meet but it was one of the nicer pools and we had fun. I have another meet the first day of school, but thankfully it isn't an away meet and I have to miss some of my classes.
That's all for now
Love Rachel
Swimming is going okay we just had our first real meet a couple of days ago I won the 200 meters and the 300 meters races. My team didn't win the meet but it was one of the nicer pools and we had fun. I have another meet the first day of school, but thankfully it isn't an away meet and I have to miss some of my classes.
That's all for now
Love Rachel
Thursday, August 30, 2007
School Year
The new school year officially begins on Tuesday, September 5th yet Rachel has had swim practice for the last two weeks and a meet again today so she is in the school mode and getting back on a schedule. She has found all her classes and lamented the fact that she seems to need to go from one end of the building to the other and back again between classes.
Stephen is taking one online class and began that on Monday, August 20th so he has been back in the school mode for over a week now and is still working each day at the beach life guarding. But summer is definitely winding down. We are beginning to see trees change color (part of that might be the drought conditions more than the seasons) and the mornings have definitely been cooler this past week.
We received our school calendar for the year and wanted to let everyone know that graduation is Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 p.m. and anyone who is interested is welcome to join us. We will be having a graduation party as well. When is still be figured out. If you would like to come, please let us know and we will work on making room for you. We will be renting the neighbor's second floor for some people to sleep and she is a dear retired music teacher who goes to our church and loves having people stay with her. We have three floors of space and as long as you don't mind being somewhat squished we can probably accommodate three sets of adults and various children tucked in at our house and one set of adults at the neighbors.
Stephen is taking one online class and began that on Monday, August 20th so he has been back in the school mode for over a week now and is still working each day at the beach life guarding. But summer is definitely winding down. We are beginning to see trees change color (part of that might be the drought conditions more than the seasons) and the mornings have definitely been cooler this past week.
We received our school calendar for the year and wanted to let everyone know that graduation is Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 p.m. and anyone who is interested is welcome to join us. We will be having a graduation party as well. When is still be figured out. If you would like to come, please let us know and we will work on making room for you. We will be renting the neighbor's second floor for some people to sleep and she is a dear retired music teacher who goes to our church and loves having people stay with her. We have three floors of space and as long as you don't mind being somewhat squished we can probably accommodate three sets of adults and various children tucked in at our house and one set of adults at the neighbors.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Swimming
Swimming has started!
we have a new coach this year ( Mr. Reed retired) the new coach is Kylie Mr.'s daughter she is doing okay so far but we ( me and my friends) and swimming Varsity for the first time and so we are really far behind everyone so we finish after everyone else has had a long break then Kylie immediately jumps up to tell up how many laps to swim next so we don't get any rest! We are very tired after swimming as you could imagine.
Other than that I ma waiting for school to start in a couple of weeks, and to get my schedule. they come out on Monday and after swimming that morning I am going to go and get it with one of my friends on the swim team.
That's all
Rachel
we have a new coach this year ( Mr. Reed retired) the new coach is Kylie Mr.'s daughter she is doing okay so far but we ( me and my friends) and swimming Varsity for the first time and so we are really far behind everyone so we finish after everyone else has had a long break then Kylie immediately jumps up to tell up how many laps to swim next so we don't get any rest! We are very tired after swimming as you could imagine.
Other than that I ma waiting for school to start in a couple of weeks, and to get my schedule. they come out on Monday and after swimming that morning I am going to go and get it with one of my friends on the swim team.
That's all
Rachel
Friday, August 17, 2007
Wow! Time really does fly!
Time is passing by so quickly, yet I think Rachel would also say sometimes it seems to not move at all. I guess it is just all relative.
I thought August was going to be a slower month. Hasn't happened so far and we are half way through it. Rachel started swim practice two weeks ago. She had a week of captain's practice and on Monday the coach began running practice. It is a new coach, the old coach (the only one the team had ever had) retired after 33 years of coaching. The new coach is the old coaches daughter but things are different. Rachel and her group of half a dozen or so 8th graders have all been asked to do the varsity practice and she is coming home exhausted every day. She is amazed at how hard she is being asked to work. They are the slowest lane and that means that the faster girls get longer rest periods because as soon as Rachel's lane finishes the coach starts the next set of laps.
Stephen is working, working working. He works 4 1/2 hours shifts each day. I believe that in August he is getting 3 days off. He had most of July off while he went to visit family out west, but it is making for a very swift moving month. He is ready for school to start. Monday he will start his college class for the fall. He will be taking Calculus II via the Univ. of Colo. at Colorado Springs. It is an online class with full lectures, white boards, discussion, Q&A sessions and all assignments submitted online. On one of his rare days off this month (next Monday) he will have senior pictures taken.
Icebox Radio Theater had their end of Summer live show bash on Wed. August 15th in Smokey Bear Park. Close to 200 people came out and listened to songs, skits, ads and a first, a feature length script by someone other than Jeff. Kenna Clayton, a local writer who attended one of the writer's workshops, completed a script and with Jeff's help got it edited and finished in time to produce it for the live show. It was called "Icebox Property" and was a fun story of local interests and intrigue. The show went very well and was well received. The first weekend in August IBRT recorded another new show, the pilot episode of "The Scoop Sisters" a hopeful serial series about a woman who owns a small town newspaper and her daughter and granddaughter who come to help out.
Diane works, helps out, and gardens. I have been harvesting beans, cucumbers and should be about ready to harvest zucchini. The tomatoes are very slow this year, but the first cherry tomatoes are beginning to turn red so we will be able to get a few tomatoes before the snow flies.
A group has started a local farmers' market so we have been able to enjoy local tomatoes already and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We have spent several evenings or afternoons playing games as a family. On the return trip from picking up the kids, from visiting family out west, we stopped at a Twin cities game and comics store. We all had a wonderful time browsing and making a number of new game purchases. That has motivated us to get the games back out and enjoy as many moments as we can together. Time is definitely running down on the family nights together. We will have to make the most of the time this coming year.
Let us know what you are up to and know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.
Diane
I thought August was going to be a slower month. Hasn't happened so far and we are half way through it. Rachel started swim practice two weeks ago. She had a week of captain's practice and on Monday the coach began running practice. It is a new coach, the old coach (the only one the team had ever had) retired after 33 years of coaching. The new coach is the old coaches daughter but things are different. Rachel and her group of half a dozen or so 8th graders have all been asked to do the varsity practice and she is coming home exhausted every day. She is amazed at how hard she is being asked to work. They are the slowest lane and that means that the faster girls get longer rest periods because as soon as Rachel's lane finishes the coach starts the next set of laps.
Stephen is working, working working. He works 4 1/2 hours shifts each day. I believe that in August he is getting 3 days off. He had most of July off while he went to visit family out west, but it is making for a very swift moving month. He is ready for school to start. Monday he will start his college class for the fall. He will be taking Calculus II via the Univ. of Colo. at Colorado Springs. It is an online class with full lectures, white boards, discussion, Q&A sessions and all assignments submitted online. On one of his rare days off this month (next Monday) he will have senior pictures taken.
Icebox Radio Theater had their end of Summer live show bash on Wed. August 15th in Smokey Bear Park. Close to 200 people came out and listened to songs, skits, ads and a first, a feature length script by someone other than Jeff. Kenna Clayton, a local writer who attended one of the writer's workshops, completed a script and with Jeff's help got it edited and finished in time to produce it for the live show. It was called "Icebox Property" and was a fun story of local interests and intrigue. The show went very well and was well received. The first weekend in August IBRT recorded another new show, the pilot episode of "The Scoop Sisters" a hopeful serial series about a woman who owns a small town newspaper and her daughter and granddaughter who come to help out.
Diane works, helps out, and gardens. I have been harvesting beans, cucumbers and should be about ready to harvest zucchini. The tomatoes are very slow this year, but the first cherry tomatoes are beginning to turn red so we will be able to get a few tomatoes before the snow flies.
A group has started a local farmers' market so we have been able to enjoy local tomatoes already and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We have spent several evenings or afternoons playing games as a family. On the return trip from picking up the kids, from visiting family out west, we stopped at a Twin cities game and comics store. We all had a wonderful time browsing and making a number of new game purchases. That has motivated us to get the games back out and enjoy as many moments as we can together. Time is definitely running down on the family nights together. We will have to make the most of the time this coming year.
Let us know what you are up to and know that you are in our thoughts and prayers.
Diane
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