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Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2016
New Year In Indiana
We went to IN Wednesday morning with Brent's family behind us about an
hour. We opened up the Daleville house and then went to eat. Pauline and
Brent had stopped at Kingfish on their way to Daleville. Later that
evening Pauline and Brent went to several fast food places and rounded
up what each person wanted to eat, then brought it back to the house,
where we all ate supper.
Thursday a little before lunch we all loaded
into the truck and went to Lapel to take Kim some items for her child
care business. We stayed there around an hour and then went to
Pendleton. We ordered a pizza on the way, picked it up at Pizza King and
took it and 2 two liter bottles of Coke to Nana's house. It was
'pandeleerium' with all of us eating pizza, kids eating candy, eating
more candy and the dog begging for pizza. For a while, Reba didn't know
where to sit or what to say. After about three hours or all she could
take, we packed into the truck and headed back to Daleville. Around 6
PM, Brent took his family to Shelly & Jeff's house where we were all
going to celebrate New Year's Eve with several other people. Linda and I
showered, dressed and took Stacey with us. We arrived a little after 7
PM. I managed to sneak a small gift into Shelly's kitchen without her
noticing and I placed it on a side table. She saw it about an hour
before midnight and began wondering where it had came from, so we told
her to go ahead and open it up. It was a Chambong
for her and Jeff to use to drink their traditional champagne toast at
midnight.
Shelly
and Jeff both tried out the Chambong at midnight and seemed to have fun
with it. We stayed at their house till about 1:30 AM, playing a card
game called "Skip-Bo", then took Julie and Kyle back to Daleville with
us.
New Year's Day, I had told Kyle the night before that we would go
get donuts, so he dressed, put on his coat and I drove us to Anderson. I
let Kyle pick out a dozen donuts of whatever kind he wanted. I bought
two maple frosted coffee rolls for Linda and I to eat. We returned to
the house and the coffee I had started was ready, so was Julie. She and
Kyle began munching on their favorite donuts, then Stacey and Linda
grabbed a few. When everyone was full, there were two donuts left.
Pauline and Brent came in a little before noon and took Julie and Kyle
with them to Valerie and Bobby's house. We hung out at the Daleville
house a little longer, then Stacey, Linda and I went to visit with Lana
& Frank Dial in Chesterfield for a few hours. I returned to stay at the
Daleville house while Linda and Stacey went to take Reba to the Dollar
Store. Everyone returned to Daleville to spend the night.
Saturday
morning, Kyle and I were the first ones awake, then Julie. I told them
they could each have one of the two donuts that were left if they would
eat their breakfast when it was ready. They agreed. Linda cooked, we all
ate, Pauline did the dishes, Brent fixed the front door lock, and we
patched the ceiling in the closet. Pauline and Brent packed their kids
and things and headed back to KY about 11 AM. I picked up two tenderloin
sandwiches and a hamburger at Elbert's for us to eat around 2 PM, then
we began getting ready for the Pacer game in Indy. We left Daleville at
5:15 PM and drove to Indy, found a parking lot fairly close to Bankers'
Life Fieldhouse, then walked inside to our seats. We had about 20
minutes till tip off, so Linda and Stacey went to the Home Court gift
shop that was close to our seats.
I
guess Stacey didn't have enough Pacer shirts, because they came back
with another one. LoL The game began with the Pistons taking a slight
lead and Stacey being worried. I asked her which she would like best, a
close game or the Pacers winning by 50 points. Her answer was, "Win by
50!" I said, "Me too, that way we could leave early and beat the
traffic." She frowned on that remark.
A
couple more times I asked if she was ready to leave when the Pacers
would get 3 or 4 point leads. Stacey was having a good time. The game
was close until about half way through the 4th quarter, then Paul George
decided he wanted to win.
He
hit 5 three point shots, two free throws and two technical foul shots
when the Piston's coach was ejected from the game. PG-13 had 21 points
in the 4th quarter and 32 for the entire game.
The
Pacers won 94-82, but right after the final buzzer both teams began
pushing and chest bumping like they were going to fight. Nothing
happened though. We waited a little longer to let the crowd disperse,
then made our way out and back to the truck. I saved the location on our
Garmin GPS so I can find the same parking lot the next time. We drove
back to Anderson and finished our night off at Steak 'n' Shake before
returning to Daleville.
Sunday morning I went to McDonald's and
picked up breakfast, then took it back to the house while Linda and
Stacey were packing. We left early and made it back home by 2 PM.
Posted on Thursday, January 14, 2016
Basketball
We have started going to Julie's and Kyle's basketball games. We had to
leave the farm at 7:30 AM in order to get to Julie's 9 AM game. The
first trip was even more complicated due to both kids having their team
pictures made between games. We went to Pauline and Brent's house before
the last game and Pauline and Stacey went and brought back sandwiches
for everyone. I showed Jacob and Brent how I would use a string level to
set the PVC pipe to screed the gravel for Brent's patio while the girls
were gone. We did enough that Brent understood how to do it, then when
the girls returned, we went inside and ate. Finally, it was time to go
to Kyle's game. Julie showed us a quilt at the entrance to Edmonson
County Elementary School where she attends. It was for the Leaders In Me
group that had every students name on it and Julie was pointing to her
name on the quilt.
Kyle
showed improvement and actually was involved in the ball game. After the
game, we said good bye to everyone and headed back towards Burkesville,
stopping in Glasgow to eat at Mancino's before driving on home. Stacey
had started a puzzle at Christmas time when she had help from Pauline,
Brent and Julie, but they had went home. She had moved the puzzle to her
room and been working on it a little at a time. She finished it, so
Linda took a picture of her and the completed puzzle.
Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Cold Weather
Cold weather has finally made it to the farm in KY. The cold air rolled
into the area Monday evening with a overnight low temperature of 7
degrees. We brought Daisy into the house just before dark and let her
stay the night in the garage.
About 10 AM this morning, with the sun
shinning bright, I took her back to her stall in the barn, but she moved
outside and laid in the sun most of the day. The water in the creek
froze overnight.
We
are supposed to have cold temperatures until Wednesday, when it is
predicted to warm up into the upper thirties and snow starting at noon.
Around one to three inches of snow are being predicted for this
location. The snow should stick around a day or two as the ground is too
cold to melt the snow.
Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2016
First Snow of the Season
What a difference a day makes! The snow arrived as predicted, about 2-3
inches.
The
shelter house looked like a lonely place that no one would want to be
with the snow covering the pavers. After the snow had almost stopped
falling, we took Daisy out and let her play. She loved the fresh snow
with only new odors on the top layer for her to check out. She acted
like a frisky pup, hopping in the air and running with her nose plowing
up snow some of the time.
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2016
Deep Snow
The weather predictions were for 8 to 10 inches of snow to fall on
Cumberland County beginning around 12 AM Friday morning. Linda and I had
went to the store early to beat the rush for French Toast supplies (milk
& bread) and had headed back to the farm when I received phone call from
Brent. He mentioned that Cumberland County and Edmonson County had both
canceled school for Friday. He also brought up that all of his kids'
ballgames were canceled. He wanted to know if we cared if he, Pauline
and their kids could come over and get snowed in at our house. We joked
with him and told him we didn't have enough groceries and he would need
to bring milk with them. He agreed to pick up at least one gallon when
they came over. They arrived a little after 7 PM and Linda had supper
nearly ready when they arrived.
Early Friday morning, the rain began
which turned to sleet, then ice formed, and just before daylight it
began to snow. With some snow already on the ground what fell stuck and
didn't melt away. About 10 AM Julie and Kyle headed outside to sled down
the hill in front of the house. When they were tired we went inside and
let them warm up.
We
had lunch and went back outside, but the kids tired quickly of climbing
the hill, so I told Brent we could try something else. We loaded into
the Mule and headed across the creek with the kids in the Mule and the
sled in the back. Once we were in the hay fields, we hooked up the sled
to the hitch on the Mule and put a kid on the sled, then around the
fields we went. Oh my, the kids were loving it, the sled could steer
just enough for them to feel like they were in control, but the rope was
short enough to keep them right behind the Mule. They were hooting and
hollering about how much fun it was and kept wanting to go again. We
went back inside before they were too cold.
We
took them Mule-Sledding a total of 3 times and Kyle didn't get enough.
Each time we went the snow was deeper than before and our tracks were
being filled in. The last time the snow was nearly too deep for the Mule
to pull us through, but it did. We quit for the day and put the Mule and
Daisy in the garage. The snow kept coming down. Our neighbors posted a
picture showing over a foot of snow on level ground.
