Randomness, here we come!
I looked up the difference between the words "assume" and "presume." They can be used almost interchangably, though some of the lesser known definitions are very different. One of the definitions of presume, though, is to "assume with confidence," which is kind of what I was thinking it was. That's usually how you hear it.
In the newer Scooby-Doo movies (read: not the originals), the guy that does the voices for Scooby-Doo and Freddy (the same guy) is named Frank Welker. He also does the voice for Abu from Aladdin and George of Curious George. He does the voice of a baby clam in a few SpongeBob episodes, and is also Dr. Claw in the newest Inspector Gadgets. Who knew.
A little less random now, since it's all about our life. Still, though, pretty random.
Exploding Glass!
Exploding 8x8 Pyrex baking dishes are awesome! Funny enough, exploding glass sounds just like you'd think it might. Like an explosion sound mixed with a glass shattering sound. Though, before last night I wasn't aware that glass COULD explode. It can. Rob left a burner on. Then we all sat down to dinner and he went and put the glass baking dish on the stove. A few minutes later: bam! It was so cool! Luckily no one was in the kitchen at the time. ... We went in to see what happened and you could hear the glass sizzling. Who knew glass could sizzle? ... The only bummer about the whole thing is that that was my only square baking dish! Rob says he'll buy me another one. I told him maybe he should buy 2 and we'll do it again! ... We're still finding glass on the floor/in our feet. But I think the most of that is over, too.Poor Tree is Dead, Poor Judd Tree is Dead
The neighbor that borders our back fence no longer has a dead tree in their back yard. The storm that came through 2 nights back produced enough wind to knock over one of the bigger limbs. It smashed through the fence and gazebo of another neighbor's. Really, it only knocked off a plank off the top of the gazebo, and they're really good friends with those neighbors, so I guess it's all good. The fence is destroyed, though. They said they were going to replace it anyway. It looks to be older than most of us. ... We were glad this happened the way it did. That tree has been concerning us for a year. So today they sawed it all to the ground. Cool! They came to the front door and said it would probably smash through our fence, too, in the process. By dumb luck, it missed the fence, which is great. I told them we would take any of the wood they didn't want, so between us and the neighbor with the gazebo, we took all the wood. Now we can make a real fire!
No, we don't have a fireplace. I just want to do one of those outdoor fires. No, we don't have an outdoor pit or anything. But next summer we may just have to get one. Or, just borrow someone else's. Or take our wood to C's house and burn it there. Some how or other, we're going to have some fires! Smores, here we come!
Normalness, or at least as close as we get.
This weekend we are pleased to be hosts to 2 wonderful young ladies. L and E are 4 and 6, respectively. They are here for the weekend because their mom and dad took a weekend trip and didn't want to have the kids in the car for 18+ hours total driving time. Can't say I blame them. I offered to watch the kids cause if it were me wanting to take the trip, I'd hope I had a friend who would offer the same thing. It's been pretty fun and a good learning experience. I've learned that 3 girls can be pretty catty and stupid. And I've learned that I'm not sure how to deal with kids that are not my own, even though I think I'm pretty good with kids and I'm pretty good with my own kids. And these 2 girls are very good girls, too. So much for knowing it all.
Winter Weather is Upon Us
And it is now officially winter. After having awesome weather, the storm that rolled through brought winter to us. It was 60 one day and 30 the next, with snow flurries and everything. Yikes! I went out to get the mail with my short-sleeved shirt and found out that winter had struck. I guess that's okay, since it's now December. It was funny, though, we couldn't see out any of our windows for a whole day, they were so fogged up. I went to pick up L and R (her brother) from the bus stop. It's just at the end of the street so I thought I'd walk. Dumb. It was so cold. We were FREEZING our butts off by the time we got back home. The whole way they were telling me about how they didn't even go out to recess cause it was so cold. No, one of them did go out for one of their recesses, but they had to come back inside cause it was so cold and while they were waiting in line to come back in, some of the kids started crying cause it was so cold. And I'm walking going, "WHY didn't I take the car?" Oh, cause I forgot what winter was. :) By the end I had given R my hat, and it felt like my chin and ears were just going to fall off. Luckily, no one was injured.
We now have warped from the stone age into hi-tech land. It's very weird. Rob has a palm pilot, we have an all-in-one printer, 3 jump drives, and of course Rob's laptop. Rob's school paid for everything, but it's still just weird to be caught up a little with the rest of the world. We're enjoying our toys (Rob says they're "professional tools", but they're toys).
And yesterday I washed and put away every dirty dish in the house. All of it was clean. Today we have no clean forks or little cups or little bowls and we're almost out of clean spoons. Figures. Man, do I love housework! :)
Okay, gotta go. We love you all and hope all is going well enough (like, no one's died lately).
Tamra and family
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