Strawberries Anyone?

Back again! I just had to upload a few from the Strawberry Social;)

Here is the church:

When we got there we had to wait about 20 minutes before they could seat all 8 of us
(Grandparents & My family)



But it was pretty much worth it:

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

My daddy turns (##) today!! Hard to believe he's over 40 now, just seems like days ago we made him a pineapple upside-down cake and put the number candles 4 and 0 in it. Thank God for my dad's good health, friends, family, and faith!!


Happy birthday Daddy!! I love you!:)

Strawberries!!!

Guess who got up at 6am to start picking strawberries with the sun?

My family!!!:)

Grammy and Grandpa's church is having its annual Strawberry Social this Wednesday, but they needed help picking the strawberries. So, my family of 6 plus Grandpa loaded into the car before 7 this morning and went to pick strawberries. It was a lot of fun, even when rain started to shower down on us.

Note the irrigation system, though due to the insane amt of rain we've had for the past WEEK, we don't think it's been used in a while.

Strawberries here we come!!

Tim and Grandpa were on a roll with their berry picking.

YUM! Phil and I collected 2 baskets weighing about 13 lbs each:)

Hard at work despite the rain that started coming down.

My misletoe strawberry. Very berry beautiful!

All in all we collected over 484 lbs of strawberries! YUM, I cannot wait for Wednesday night's Strawberry Social - Unlimited (?) Strawberry Shortcake, my FAVE!!

Long Day...

and I forgot to make Cherry Cheesecake:( *Sigh*

Church was nice, Pastor Jeff is still on his (paid?) leave, so a pastor from another place came and spoke. He talked about Romans 12 and how we are supposed to be like Christ in everything. Such a convicting day for me....I will tell you, no immediate change yet, but I pray that I will be more like Him for every step of the rest of my life.

We have just discovered that 35+ MPH winds, hail, and a nasty storm is expected to FLY in here any minute. Time to go back to camp! Ciao!

Fun Times on the Farm....land

I love making memories. Especially with my Grammy. While making meatloaf. Well, homemade bread crumbs for the meatloaf. And laughing about how my mother will never accept HER mother's ideas.....to think this runs in the family! (hurrah!)

I really do enjoy this relaxing in Vermont, but I'm starting to get bored. I guess this means I should start evaluating things to do while I have this time on my hands...BEFORE my BIBL 105 class starts (the horrors of it all....):

- knitting (bought yarn at Walmart the other night in addition to some cute shoes, gum, and other randomness I happened to see)
- read for BIBL (3 books, 2 of which are here, go along with the DVDs that my friend is sending me for my DLP class)
- read "For Women Only" (real good book, but I can't seem to settle down and just READ it!)
- read "Ethan Frome" or "The Scarlet Letter" or another classic (goal for this summer: read a TON of classics to prep me for the fall)
- jog! (no joke, I have at least 1 brother and 1 beautiful Foxy waiting to go with me jogging if I only had the urge to do so! fast metabolisms ruin a lot of things!!)

Maybe I should just get myself off this computer and go eat and go do some reading....

Though I must interject that I DID see the whole movie of Pollyanna tonight. I cried at the end. So I apparently missed the part of her being paralyzed and needing surgery in Baltimore. What else have I missed in my 21 years?!

*PS - Foxy = our dog, mutt of many breeds including possible german shepherd and beagle? she's a 2(?) year old loveable pooch

Vacation Time!

I read yesterday that for a blog to be really read, the blog owner must post every 3-5 days. Yikes! Sorry guys!! (*cricket, cricket*) =)
I am on vacation in BEAUTIFUL Vermont right now with my family. Every day we’ve had rain/thunder/major storms, but always an opportunity to fish as well! Our grandparents have a small camp on a pond adjacent to their property, so my family of 6 stays there during the warmer months.
I’ve applied for 2 jobs so far, one at Target and one at Krogers, both near school. Since I now am living down near Lynchburg before student teaching this fall, I hope to get some kind of job to support my…indulgences (namely: food…eating more than Sean has its downsides!). I’ll apply for more once I’m back and can bring applications in personally, but for now, I’m stuck doing online work from the middle of VT.
I’ve been shoving myself into the corner to work on my grandparents’ elderly laptop, praying that something will work as I expect it to. Cleaned it up a bit, found a bit of spyware junk on it, but none too bad. Sadly, come to find out that a few things were not installed properly during formatting last time; I am sending away for an XP disc from Amazon – goodie!
I got a gadget for dad for Father’s Day/Birthday, but so far I can’t get it to work. I bought a dongle (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833242001) for his cell phone; this device is supposed to help me download all his pictures from his phone onto the computer. Unfortunately, the dongle does not recognize Dad’s phone, and Dad’s phone doesn’t recognize anything. So…I’m internet searching furiously for something that will help. Any clue? He has a Samsung phone, and I tried downloading what I found under his phone type, but the connection problem lies between Bluetooth of the dongle and Bluetooth of the cell phone. Ahh!
I miss crafts a lot. Reading blogs about knitting, crocheting, needlepoint, and other things really makes me want to drive to Walmart (beautiful 20 minute drive…minimum) and pick up some skeins of yarn, some fabric, and some needles. Unfortunately, it’s pouring rain and I’m still trying to figure out this silly dongle thing!
One thing I have been able to do this summer is start a massive summer reading list. Thanks to Sean’s shove, I’m reading a ton of classics that I was never required to read in school. I finished “Lord of the Flies” last week – scary but pretty good! I am working on “Ethan Frome” right now as well as “The Scarlet Letter” and a few others I brought with me on the trip. Hopefully from this I can offer more reading experience to my future students!!
Tonight feels like Hamburger/Veg Soup Casserole (Barbie’s Casserole for all the Towne Family ) and maybe some strawberries from Grandma’s garden? Yum!