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Saturday, 28 June 2008

Team Baja

Hello Anne

Marcel was a pleasure to have stay with us. He is a nice young man and was great with my almost 3 year old son who loves people and boys to wrestle with.

Here is a basic itinerary:

Friday - Mon (6/27-6/30) They will all be staying with the missionary family (Dave and Jane Crum).

Monday - Friday (6/30-7/4) They will divide into teams of 3-4 and stay with Mexican host famlies and meet up with the whole 34 member team each day for their work projects.

Saturday (7/5) This will be a beach day where many of the Mexican host families, church families and families from the US will gather for a day of fun in the sun at the beach in Rosarito.

Sunday (7/6) After church the group will head down to Ensanada for work, evangelism and some touristy stuff.

Tuesday (7/8-7/11) They will be back up to Tiajuana on Tuesday through the rest of the week staying with the Crums again.

They cross the border Friday morning (7/11) around 10:30am or so. Marcel will fly home Friday evening.

Hope that gives you some idea. He will have a great time!!

Blessings,
Emily

Saturday, 02 February 2008

Rabbit people

We're not really rabbit people... yet. You probably didn't know that there were rabbit people.
I took my girls to a rabbit show in Stockton today. That's where the rabbit people go. They load up their pedigreed bunnies and take them to be judged according to the Standards of Perfection. There are people there selling rabbits, buying rabbits, selling cages, water bottles and digestive aids for rabbits. There's a book on how to massage your rabbit. There are women with rabbit tatoos on their necks. In the parking lot, there's a big white van (not mine) with carrots painted along the sides and the names of favorite breeds stenciled on the windows.
We also brought our pedigreed rabbits to the show, placing 4th and 7th. George's hindquaters drop off too precipitously, and Una's head is just not broad enough. Don't think you can compete with the big dogs, honey. We bought a new buck and doe, hoping to breed the desired traits into our herd (yes, that's what rabbit people call your bunnies). We also bought a 2-hole travel cage, but we skipped the book on rabbit masssage.
See, we're not rabbit people, yet.

Saturday, 27 October 2007

A favorite Fall poem

October's Bright Blue Weather

by Helen Hunt Jackson

O sun and skies and clouds of June
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather;

When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And goldenrod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;

When gentians roll their fringes tight,
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burs
Without a sound of warning;

When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;

When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields, still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;

When springs run low, and on the brooks
In idle, golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting;

When comrades seek sweet country haunt
By twos and twos together,
And count like misers hour by hour
October's bright blue weather.

O sun and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October's bright blue weather.

Wednesday, 10 October 2007

update from xanga

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and, you're right, having ads like that would be completely inappropriate.
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SOOOO, looks like I need better anti spyware something.

Tuesday, 09 October 2007

BEWARE: Xanga getting trashy

Why does everything have to be rated X?
I sent this to xanga today, but I'm not expecting much help from them.
Why am I seeing pornographic images on xanga's home page? My kids and I have xanga sites and none of us want to see this trashy stuff. If you don't remove it, we're done with xanga and we'll tell all our friends exactly why.

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