Sept. 9-15, 2018 Mom Visit, Hunter's Training, Grace Co-Op begins

Sept. 9-15, 2018 

Mom Visit, Hunter's Training, Grace Co-Op begins

Hello Friends!

I drove to pick up my mom for a 4 1/2 day visit this week.  We hadn't seen her in years.

Van:

Can you believe the van is leaking again?  Dh said not to drive it and he will eventually find time to look under the hood to diagnose what is leaking so he can decide how to proceed.  It just seems beyond my comprehension we would STILL be fighting this.  Maybe our mechanic isn't so good?  He certainly is expensive.

Dh and excited Dd loading up to go to her first Friday of co-op

Grace Co-Op Classes: 1x week (Friday)

Friday began Dd's Grace classes--she is taking:

Geography, Introduction to Graphic Design, Introductory Logic, Algebra I, and Spanish I.  Dd wants to go on a church trip to visit Frontier Bible College in far-away Wyoming.  My only pre-requisite is that she gets all of her homework for the returning week accomplished BEFORE she goes.  This week Dd has been doing homework for this week's assignments and next weeks too.

Henry: Rescue English Shepherd

Henry had to go back to the vet to get his second Influenza shot this week; apparently, the dogs in this area are having an outbreak of flu and it is spreading like fire.  He weighed 44 pounds the last time we took him in and this time he weighed 56 pounds! They said he could still use a few more pounds gained so I'll keep doing my best to spoil him a little.  He still looks too skinny to me too!  He is still acting like a puppy and has to be on leash outdoors and watched carefully whilst inside.  He is a good dog and sticks to his specified toys, but they are falling to pieces and we need to think about buying more fairly soon; he literally tears them to shreds.

Hunter's Training Course:

Dd is keen to hunt with Dh and needed to take an official state-run course to get her license to hunt in Michigan.  Thursday and Friday night and Saturday she attended the course and made a 100% on the written test.  She really enjoyed the class and spent a good deal of time telling us ALL about it.

Volunteering:

Dd emailed the library to see about continuing on with volunteering during the school year and they accepted her to help out with the Family Story Time, with little ones on Thursday mornings.

Dickens, stirring up trouble like he always does best!

Chickens:

Zeus is still having seizures, Ms. Lemon is still brooding, besides that, all the girls are doing well.  I'm still going crazy - daily trying to get in a few buckets (5-gallon buckets) full of greens (various weeds) to them as we get closer to fall and not having access to such a healthy diet for them.  I really try hard to build up their health before the long months of winter.

Migraines:

Sunday I had a big migraine, but that was the only migraine of the week!!!!!  All in all, this was a good health week.

Garden:

The garden is doing fantastic.  Having my mom here put all my gardening chores behind more than a week.  I should have been freezing and canning all week.  I'm behind and stressing a bit about that; I wish I was more calm about it, but there really isn't a big window to get things done with gardening.

Frontier College in Wyoming:

Our new pastor and wife are graduates from Frontier and have offered to take some of the teen girls there for a visit to see college life at a bible college.  Two months ago, one of our twenty-somethings just started attending this college.  In the end, Dd and two other teen girls can make the l-o-n-g trip; which will be two long days of driving each way.  I think visiting a college and getting a chance to see what her next step is will be very beneficial to her concentrating on her academic progress.

Mom outside her apartment

Academics for the Week:

Bible:

Church, Sunday School, and YOUTH PROGRAM (on Sunday night) have restarted again for the school year.  Dd really gets along so well with the other girls in our church.  

This week I've been reading, from the bible, various writings of Paul---Corinthians and Ephesians. 

Art:

Drawing:

2 hours Sunday and a few hours here and there through the week--maybe 4 hours this week.  She has been making illustrated watercolor bookmark pieces.

Fun Reader:

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline: In Process

Dd has accepted the responsibility of letting Henry sleep with her overnight for about a month now.  We started off having him sleep in a big metal dog crate but he would bang around all night and keep waking us up; I was getting exhausted without a good rest.  The bad part is that having Henry in bed with her has lead to Dd just turning off her light and going to sleep at night instead of reading for hours.  I'm not sure that is a 'bad thing!'

Audio:

Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury: In Process

This has been a bit of an odd book for us.  One thing, there are quite a lot of using the Lord's name in vain, which is always a bit jarring for me.  Also, it just doesn't ring as true to me as most classics do.  I can't quite put my finger on it, but this book feels a little 'shallow' to me.  I liked the concept of how horrible the world would be if books were no longer allowed, they had me at that storyline, but it just didn't meet my expectations.

Dickens and Honeysuckle being cute

Grace Subjects:

Algebra I: Saxon

Spanish I

Graphic Design

Introductory Logic

Geography: BJU

Next Week:

Driver's Test is scheduled!  She has been doing such a good job driving us all around and working on her parking.

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