Clothes + Choir, Wagons + Weather, Girls + Geese

I really have no time to write, but I'll make some.

James got all dressed up like a smart looking dude this morning. He's starting to take notice of the difference between clean and dirty clothes.  I bought him some new jeans since fall has arrived and shorts are now out of vogue. Please don't tell him about cowboy boots.

Speaking of fall. Summer went out with a bang. Saturday was a gorgeous day perfect for hiking. That night we went to bed and the air was still very warm. A couple hours later a tremendous clap of thunder literally rocked our bed. There were a few flashes of lightning and that was it. That was our second thunderstorm of the season and it was fall. The next morning was cold and rainy.

There once was a little girl, with a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good, she was very, very good. Can't say enough about how hard Missy is trying! She's pleasant and enjoyable, speaking the truth, playing nicely and very affectionate. She talks a lot about going to school and going to choir and playing with the neighbor kids.  All these things have been out of her reach with that attitude she was sporting before. James joined choir. He likes it alot.

Choir is going well. I lost a half dozen kids this year because they are no longer homeschooling and find their schedule too busy. These were kids we had all trained... But the Lord is good. He replaced them with a very exuberant happy bunch, very eager to learn. It's tough going right now because there is so much to teach them, but we'll get there. Yesterday, we brought our neighbor girl. She loves it. Another of our neighbors brought 4 of her children, so looking at 5 new possible singers which could bring our numbers up to almost 35, give or take a couple. I've always been excited to include children not from our church or faith. I'm praying this works out for our neighbor kids.

I found a little red wagon at Goodwill. The twins were with me and were completely smitten so I bought it, and my oh my, it was worth every penny.

Had to make a change on the rabbit chores. With the sun rising later and later it's not dark before James has to leave for school, but the sun isn't quite shining in the middle of the heavens, yet and it freaks him out to have to do chores then. He had a good streak of well done days and so I announced that Missy could do the rabbits on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other days would be his. You should have seen the grins - on both of them.

Christina had to do a reverse garden project for her biology class and the geese kept pulling up all her labels as she was working. She finally got the job done when they weren't looking, but soon as she turned her back they went and pulled up every one.