I’m wondering what people were thinking when they read my post on Amish in the City. Because I think they read it with their eyes closed and their brains turned off when they left comments. I have added an addendum to the original post to help clarify what the blind seem to miss.
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Picking Your Nose
This morning Abby picked her nose while in bed with us (getting nothing substantially thank goodness) and I pulled her finger out and said, “We don’t pick our noses.” She quickly re-instered her finger and said, “I smell funny.”
The Pool. The Zoo. The Girl.
Tomorrow we’re going to the zoo – hopefully I’ll get some good pictures. I need to get more pictures of Abby up. Jessica has started braiding her hair into little pig-tails, so I’ll try to get some pictures of that. She’s a cute little girl but she’s got (insert one of her parents’) constitution 😉 She’s a strong willed little girl and I think she’s going to make being a dad a challenge but also a blessing.
Today she ran right to the edge of the swimming pool and almost jumped in Jessica and I were both sitting at the tables and Jessica got up to try to stop her while Krystal ran after Abby (Krystal was closer). Abby stopped right at the edge, which was better than jumping in – but she didn’t get that she could have been injured. I love this little girl but my goodness she needs to have some fear.
Fellow Ship
This evening we went over the the Doyle’s house for dinner. I’ve written about Mike a few times on this blog, he and his wife, Donna have a son John. John plays guitar and will be accompanying me Sunday the fifteenth when we’ll be leading the music at church. Anyway, we had a grand time and really enjoyed the fellowship with them. Abby adores Donna and really enjoyed the time over all.
What Abby did that was most funny was go swimming in the dog Trixter’s water. Trixter’s water bowl is a large kid’s pool. So seeing the oportunity to ‘swim’ she climbed right in – clothes and all – to go swimming. Fortunately the water was fresh and Donna offered to throw Abby’s clothes in the dryer. Abby ate dinner, which was fabulous, in her diapers and then went to play in the water some more.
John and I practices for 45 minutes or so and figured out where each of us needed to practice further so that next week we can practice again and prepare ourselves for the 15th.
After that we had a delightful dessert and then commensed talking about New England. Jessica and I have wanted to go there since our Honeymoon (we wanted to go there on our honeymoon) and Mike and Donna have been several times.
Good times were had and we didn’t end up leaving until around 9:30 – Abby was absolutely cute, I told her to say, “Bye-bye, thanks for the hospitality.” And she almost got it out clearly 😉
Worth the Sacrifice
Jessica made a tray of Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars a couple days ago. I really didn’t want her to because I knew that she’d ask me to eat them so that she wouldn’t. Being a gal concerned about her weight she doesn’t want to eat too many sweets. Well, as the batch of treats got older (by minutes and hours) she continued to ask me to make the sacrifice and finish them off so that she would not have them there to tempt her. This morning I took the plunge and ate the last cookie bar and am glad to have helped my wife in her battle to stay young, fit and trim.
I think this is the call that many men are not strong enough to accept – eating chocolate chip cookie things. When your partner asks you to buck-up lay your gut on the line and consume more sugar than any person should have in a month to help them out, you need to do it. Part of manliness is about serving your partner and protecting her watching out for evil men who have bad intentions, even if those men are the Keebler Elves [shown with WMD].
Tough Jeopardy Question
A scene from Jeopardy I could only imagine:
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Alex Trebeck: “A thing you always associate with www.RandyPeterman.com.”
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Ken Jennings: “What is ‘fort worth security guard needs?'”
Alex Trebeck: “That is correct, please select the next category.”
Ken Jennings: “I’ll take extremely bizarre Mormon rituals for $1,000.”
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For some reason someone searched for “fort worth security guard needs” and it linked to my site. Yeah, I really have passionate posts about that!
Climbing Jacob’s Bladder
I hope not to prove myself foolish but I’ve been told this climb is an ‘easy one’. Here are some photos that other people have taken from Mt. Bierstadt.
Proper Customer Service
When Mr. Greenfield wrote a blog entry about how Technorati had not taken care of him it circulated like wildfire in the blog community. Their prompt dealing with the situation was vital. Hopefully people will read more carefully as this post: Praise as public as the complaint explains that people twisted things out of hand.
A Poem
I determined this morning
When I awoke
I’d write a poem for this blog
No joke
I don’t know why
I think it’s funny
but I like to write
and be quite punny
The Abigator
is playing aloud
in the front room
with an animal crowd
She’s making them laugh
and jump through hoops
And flinging them through
the air with scoops**
I’ve read her books
and books today
I enjoy the one about a moose,
to say
She likes to hear me
read and speak
And climb her to
a mountain peak
**a plastic toy shovel
Hiking
Yesterday afternoon while Jessica was at the baby shower for Annemarie Matthews (who had already had her baby a few days earlier, and yet still managed to show up to the shower) Abby and I went for a hike with my dad and Brian White. We hiked for only four miles, but that was about all my little legs could handle. I carried Abby on my back in a back pack for 1.3 miles and my dad (who’s in better shape than me) carried her the rest of the way. I am super sore today 🙂
However, below are some pictures from the hike.
A flower at the parking lot
A view of a cool fallen tree – part I
The same tree part II
Can you tell I like the tree?
A view from (near) the top