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Feb 10-15, 2014
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| Dd's card to Dh |
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| Dd's card to me--- I love it! |
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| Dd made this for her buddy-- |
Another really cold week in Indiana (and more snow heading our way as I type!). Dd went out on Monday for basketball practice, Thursday we went to LHE Co-op classes, and Saturday we went to our 7th out of 8 basketball game--and that is the extent of our outings. This is our third year doing Upwards Basketball; and in all the previous years we would practice on our basketball goal in our driveway on shooting---but NOT this year! This year our driveway has been covered in snow! It is just so weird to compare this season to the other seasons; and know how different they are.
Warm-up before game went well. Our Seminoles won 24-4 or something like that. Dd did really well on defense this game; which has been something they have been working on. B/c the other team wasn't scoring they had the older kids pass to the younger kids on our team to score more; which was really great to see some of our 'unsung' heroes get to shine.
As of last night this is the SNOWIEST winter ON RECORD for Indiana! We have already broken the record, and it is only Feb. 16th! We still get snow up to April; and occasionally in April! This is definitely going to be a hard winter to break for the future. We have had 51.5 inches already. The funny thing is that although we think we have had such a record breaking year, places in New England that normally get 70-80 inches have received over 100 inches of snow; something like 120 or more most likely; so that makes our 51.5 inches look like a joke! It is all what you are use to (isn't that right, Christie! You are tired of all the snow you've had and you've had less than 20 inches, I think.) I must be getting old....going on and on about the weather! I must say, it has made the birds like me a lot though! But, they always like us in the winter when our bird feeders are full!
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| This is one of my favorite moments in the game--Dd really got down on the floor and went after the ball. Sometimes she STANDS more than bending and going after the lower spectrum of the balls ventures; but she does a great job always on rebounding off the boards. |
As of last night this is the SNOWIEST winter ON RECORD for Indiana! We have already broken the record, and it is only Feb. 16th! We still get snow up to April; and occasionally in April! This is definitely going to be a hard winter to break for the future. We have had 51.5 inches already. The funny thing is that although we think we have had such a record breaking year, places in New England that normally get 70-80 inches have received over 100 inches of snow; something like 120 or more most likely; so that makes our 51.5 inches look like a joke! It is all what you are use to (isn't that right, Christie! You are tired of all the snow you've had and you've had less than 20 inches, I think.) I must be getting old....going on and on about the weather! I must say, it has made the birds like me a lot though! But, they always like us in the winter when our bird feeders are full!
This week has been a very, very busy one for Dd. This has been the week of making swords and daggers! I think she has made 4 different ones. They are all roughly based from different Percy Jackson character's swords. She has seriously had a BLAST making these. She has done some more coloring of Star Wars pictures; but that was second place to this project. She also knitted one arm glove, now to make the second glove for it to be a complete pair of arm warmers. That project started on Monday, but got dropped once she found the sword project so fun...
Each of the swords and daggers have a sheath and belt so they can be worn either across Dd's shoulders diagonally or like a belt; but she prefers across the chest style best.
The long sword is made out of two yard sticks put together, and the short daggers are made out of cardboard, then duct tape. The sheaths are made out of duct tape alone. ETA: she did get a new duct tape that is silver and covered the green part silver, to make it look like a real sword. The purple thing is her sheath with sling.
Our Core stuff---we are in India now! It is very interesting, and luckily I had bought quite a few books on India at various book sales; so I am good on that country.
The long sword is made out of two yard sticks put together, and the short daggers are made out of cardboard, then duct tape. The sheaths are made out of duct tape alone. ETA: she did get a new duct tape that is silver and covered the green part silver, to make it look like a real sword. The purple thing is her sheath with sling.
Our Core stuff---we are in India now! It is very interesting, and luckily I had bought quite a few books on India at various book sales; so I am good on that country.
This male robin---okay, so I am NOT getting my hopes up...especially since he wasn't here today; but he has been hanging out in our tree off and on for days!!!! Irony of all ironies, is that all our neighbors will get birds NESTS in their trees, in their yards...but we DON'T!!! I don't know WHY! None of our neighbors feed or care about animals at all, and they get the babies! But, the babies do come to our feeders once they can fly.
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