Packing June 22-28, 2014

June 22-28, 2014

Hello Friends,  Dh went back to Michigan, and Dd and I stayed here in Indiana to pack, pack, pack!  We had Sophie (our dog) and Pappa had Smedley (our cat).  This week we had no formal lessons, I was hoping to finish up packing our house--but, we still have plenty left to do!  It just amazes me how long each step takes.  And working alone makes it do even slower.  Dd turns out not to be very helpful, unless Giz is working with her.  She was not helpful or happy to be here this week without Pappa, and packing "her home".  I had a hard week trying to keep working while dealing with her difficulties.  She had gone swimming with the "L" family last Saturday and got so sunburnt that Monday she was still miserable--and stayed miserable until Friday.  This was her second sun burn, both when I was not with her---sun burns are one of my particular issues and I always make sure she has on LOTS of sunblock and a shirt.  She had to take a nap on Monday and was "tired" all week from her sunburn.  She was absolutely miserable from Sunday to Friday...not any fun to spend the day with a unhappy kid! 

Monday-packing all day.  I started taking down my paintings from all the walls, vaccuming them, spackling the holes, and touching up the spackle with paint.  In hindsight, I wish I would have just left the small holes on the walls that had been painted.  I could easily match up the "Egg Shell" white walls, but the other walls with bold colors were very hard to match.

Tuesday, packing with Giz and Grampy here--then they returned after dinner. G&G were kind enough to take Pappa Kitty to the farm.  Pappa Kitty use to "belong" (he is partly ferral, so he just showed up) to the family 3 houses down from our house.  Well, the father killed his wife, then killed himself.  So, the poor kitty was wandering around getting skinner and skinner until I started feeding him.  He likes to wander around the houses in our little section, but I know for a fact that none of the other houses would feed him.  I can't take him, I've tried before, and he sprayed in our house (repeatedly).  So, he will be feed each day at the farm and petted by Grampy and Jeff often.  Once we get a home again, I will take him there.  I can't take him to the tiny apartment, they would call the pound on a wandering cat.  So far he has stuck around and seems to be enjoying living in the "smoke house".  The other critter G&G took for us is our Sucker fish.  It is almost 12'' long.  We have had it 8 to 10 years...somewhere in there... it is definitely the biggest, longest Sucker fish I have ever seen.  They thought they were agreeing to take a normal sucker fish, not a monster-sized one.
**G&G and Dd got Dd's room completed!!!

Wednesday-"HUMP DAY"-boy, was I out of fuel and didn't get a lot done.  I can't say this happens to me often, very rare, but I just could not motivate myself to do much.

Thursday-Good packing day, then we were invited over to the "L" families house for dinner with them.  Then Dd went swimming with them for an hour.

Friday- I had a migraine building throughout the day.  I would work awhile, rest a while, and as the day progressed my work decreased and my resting increased.  Some progress was made, but not as much as I had hoped.  Pappa came home around 10pm.  I did get all the paintings organzied and put out in the garage, by height, in rows--with cardboard between each one.

 

Saturday- Giz and Grampy came back up and helped us pack some more.  They worked on the first floor so they (especially Grampy) didn't have to go up and down.  On Tuesday, poor Grampy took load after load from Dd's bedroom to the garage; and was plain tuckered out!
**I got the Purple Room completed--the closet still has a few things, but that shouldn't take me long to box up.

 Read Aloud's:

A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by W. Phillip Keller

 Dd's Readers:

The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, Book 2) by Rick Riordan

(re-read--in process)

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

(re-read--in process)

Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean and Scott M. Fischer

(re-read--in process)

Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian by Kathryn Lasky

 Completed!

The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds

 Completed!

These Happy Golden Years (Little House) (Edition Reprint) by Wilder, Laura Ingalls [Paperback(2004£©]

 In Progress--

 Core F stuff:

Music:

We bought a three-disc music collection on music from Africa at Sam's a few years back--we've been listening to it this week.

The Tree Where Man Was Born and The African Experience by Peter and Porter, Eliot Matthiessen

Jacques Cousteau's Amazon Journey by Jacques Yves Cousteau and Mose Richards 

 

African Art: Its Background and Traditions by R.S. Wassing (1968)

 

(Add-in Reader):

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton

(in process)

Audio's:

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter

By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder

(completed)

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe CD (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis and Michael York (Nov 19, 2013) - Audiobook

(completed)

The Last Battle CD (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis and Patrick Stewart (Nov 19, 2013) - Audiobook

(completed)



audio on iPod:

The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, Book 4) by Rick Riordan

Cooking:
Helped Giz make dinner on Saturday--she worked hard and did a great job!

Tuna Melt

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