Antics and Advice by Arwyn

Howdy! In case you are wondering who in the world "Arwyn" is...that's me! Heh heh. Okay, okay, I know that does not help matters any, and of course it was not funny. I assure you, I ain't laughin'! 
 Well, ya know what, I really like to confuse people, so I am just not going to tell you who "Arwyn" is, I'm sure it's not hard to figure it out anyway! =P
 All right, so to start off with, I just have a few tidbits of advice for y'all. You can heed the advice, or disregard it, just do it at your own risk! That is entirely up to you! =) I am just writing it out for the fun of it. Okie dok?
 (Oh, and by the way, iffen ya would like any of the stories behind these tidbits of advice, just ask, and I shall try to oblige! =) )
 #1. When you are getting ready to drive a vehicle, it helps to turn the ignition on before you try to go anywhere! Otherwise, even if you switch the gearshift to "drive" it's not gonna go anywhere without the engine bein' on! Unless you are going downhill of course.
 #2. When it is dark outside, and you are trying to drive, it's right helpful to turn the lights of the vehicle on! They don't do you any good not being on, and you won't be able to see a thing in the dark! You don't have owl eyes, as far as I know! Heh heh. Lights were invented for a reason. And, yes, I borrowed that from somebody who has told me the same thing before! (I sometimes don't turn lights on when I go into a room...)
 #3. When climbing a tree, try (I say "try", because sometimes (most of the time!), I don't heed to my own advice, because I forget it!) to remember that sometimes it is easier to climb up in a tree then it is to get down from it. Like there are some branches that you can jump up onto, but then when you are headed down, you realize that it is quite the drop to the next branch, and you have a dilemma of getting down then! Without falling flat on your face on the ground, that is...(no, actually, surprisingly, I ain't never fallen out of a tree before! But you would think that I would have by now, with all the dangerous things I have done when climbing trees!)
 #4. When you notice that something is about to fall on you or hit you, maybe you should MOVE out of its way, rather than just cower and cover your head and close your head and hope it doesn't hit you! It probably will if it is coming straight at you! Just you'll never know what hit you with your eyes closed! 

 All right, that is all the advice I have for this time, but I might have more at a later date and time. For now I am going to move on to the "antics" part. These are just some random little things that us crazy Letrabs have done over the years, and I am just going to write excerpts from my journal to tell you about them. =)

Antic #1. "July 14, 2007-- After a little bit more of doing this last night, then I (Arwyn) decided to practice my clarinet. When I was done practicing my stuff, I got a song book (not our hymn book, a different song book) and got Olga to come and I played a couple of songs while she sang along. It was quite funny! Especially when we were playing a song where the word was supposed to be manger (as in Jesus laid in a manger), but it was stretched out, and so Olga sang it like this, "Man---ger" (like man as in a grown boy)! Haha! She was wondering, "Now, why is that 'ger' in there?" and then I told her, "Olga! It's supposed to be Mane--ger! (like a horse's mane)" That was hilarious and we couldn't quit laughing, and then we both got up (because we had fallen on the floor with laughter) at the same time and out glasses "injured" out faces some, because we hit heads."

Antic #2. "July 28, 2007-- Well, a couple of weeks ago, Mum, Gretal, Olga, and I had been at the grocery store, and we were leaving the parking lot when we saw that a Fed-Ex truck had been stopped by a state trooper (oooh!) and a few minutes later (or in our case, seconds) another Fed-Ex truck drove by, looked at the stopped Fed-Ex truck, and then when he went past us we could see that he was visibly laughing! That was pretty humorous we thought!"

Antic #3. "July 28, 2007-- When we were at the County Fair today we saw these two pigs that were quite mad at each other  and they were fighting quite violently. And then all of a sudden one of them broke lose from his "pen"...and a pig chase was on! No one but us was out there, and so we were trying to slam gates fast enough to keep the pig contained in the arena part of the grounds. That pig was going all over the place though, and rather fast too! But then finally somebody else came and they helped us get the two pigs back in (them pigs were squealing like none other too!). Those pigs were really mad though! They were growling, squealing, and all sorts of stuff! That was exciting though!"

Antic #4. "June 28, 2008-- Before long, Pa and Berwyn got home, and so Olga and I started to make supper. And here began out "Kitchen Catastrophe"! No joke! Well, first off, we did not know WHAT to make for supper, so we had to figure that out. We decided on making spam and beans. Well, Olga obviously did not remember how to make pork 'n beans, because she got a sauce pan out, and put it on the burner. When I saw that, the pan was already HOT, but I did not know that. I was like, "Olga, you don't make pork 'n beans in a pan!" And so I took the pan off the burner, and attempted to put it away, and that is when I got burnt! I said, "Ouch! You didn't tell me that was hot!" And then I put the pan back on the stove to cool off, and turned the burner off. Then I ran cold water over my aching fingers. Soon, Olga had the spam and beans in the oven, and it was time to make a salad. We were first going to make a lettuce salad, but a quick look in the refrigerator "told" us that we had no lettuce! Okay, so on to plan B. We decided to make apple salad, found out that we had only two apples, but I didn't think that was enough, but Berwyn said that it was, so we made an apple salad. Once we got the apples cut to the right size, Olga cut the cheese, and I chopped the nuts. Then it was time to make the sauce...and can you guess? We didn't have any milk! So, we had to wait for Ma and Oone (ooo-neigh) to get back. When they did we made the sauce and soon we ate supper."

Okay, and that is all that I am going to do for today anyways. Sometime I will tell you some cow jokes and also some Mozart Effects that are quite interesting! =) 
 Have a good day in the Lord!

Twice upon a time...

...nobody ever cared to write on this blog. So, it was rejected and neglected and almost was annihilated! But, thankfully, Junior Josephine Joanna Jalopy, came to the rescue, and wrote on here once again, so that the blog did not actually get erased from existence!
 And then wonder of wonders, I (Patty) decided to post on here again too! Wow! (you can faint from shock now) But don't get used to it. This probably is a once in a long time thing again. Just for fair warning. And do you know what a warning is? It means that it has been spotted, and is is probably going to happen! Unlike a watch, where the conditions are just favorable for it! Haha! Well, ya know, it is tornado season after all, so I figured to add a little bit of some weather advice in here as well, just in disguise as something else! =D
 Okay, well, iffen ya have been wondering what I have been doing lately, maybe it would be better to just read my journal, because I assure you that you DO NOT want me to write it all out on here. It would take entirely too long, and you would be so fast asleep you would be snoring so loud that I could hear you! Heh heh.
 So, just a short version would be this: working! Okay, that is really short. I will go into just a little bit more detail. Well, mainly I have been out working in the fields with Pa, at least 3 days of the week. We have been checking lots of irrigated and dryland wheat fields, and now we are starting to also check the corn and soybean fields that have been planted (a good number of them have been now!). So that keeps us pretty busy. And then on the days that I am at home, I try to help out with the household things that I can (chores, cooking, cleaning, etc.), and also the outdoor things. Gardening, mowing, watering, weeding, those sorts of things. In addition to practicing, and sometimes reading books and writing letters! I enjoy doing those things. Not the practicing so much though. Sometimes I have to force myself to practice. But oh well! At least I have a good teacher, my sister, Dandi! =0) And no, she does not have a big nose like that smiley face does.
 All righty, so with that, I think you are pretty well caught up. Eh?
 And now I am going to do a few different posts with some things from my past journals in them. So hope that you will enjoy them!
 That will be all for this post. Sorry no pictures! I am going to be boring today. =[ Get mad at me, see if I care! Hahaha!

Today is April 26...

Howdy folks!
I'm going to post some random (heh heh, random again) pictures from the past month!  They are all scenery pictures.  People pictures go on the other blog!  (So if you read this blog and know us, but haven't been invited to our other blog, ask us and we might invite you. =P)

One of the lilac bushes when it was blooming!

Lilac bush.  Sorry if you're seeing repeats; I know I posted a lot of these on the other blog, but I felt like posting them here, too! =)

Tulips (I was elated that I found a background for taking pictures! A white wall!)

Stripe rust

 A little note on this stripe rust picture.  You almost can't see the stripe rust here, but it's those orange pustules in the middle of the leaf.  Most of the fields have been sprayed by now, but yesterday one of the fields we check hadn't been sprayed, and the stripe rust had just exploded there!  It was literally all over the place.  It was so bad that it turned my shoes orange!  I should've taken a picture of them!

Rainbow!! =D

Some yellow wildflowers.  I wish there were purple wildflowers, but I don't think I've seen any 'round here.  (Other than henbit, but that doesn't count! =P)

I like this so much I had to post it again!  Rainbow colored Kool-Aid!  I was so excited when I was helping Ma unload the groceries and I discovered that she'd gotten the rainbow colors without even realizing it!  (By the way, no, we don't usually get so much Kool-Aid, but I think it was on sale or something. =) )

Orange on the orange kool-aid

Strawberries and kiwis

Grapes

Strawberries

Some of the many irises that are beginning to bloom!

Our wheat down south.  I only took a picture of it because I wanted the tree and the water.  This wheat looks AWFUL though!  It doesn't show up so much in the picture, but it's the worst looking wheat that I've seen this year.  No joke.  And I've seen dozens of wheat fields over the past couple months, so it's not like I've only seen one or two other fields that look better.  The stuff we planted on the east and down by the garden is doing pretty well, but this south stuff is just doing awfully.  We even put extra fertilizer and everything on it, but it doesn't want to behave.

Ah.. much better!  Some of the wheat on the east side of the house is heading! =D

Uh... some sort of plant that randomly got it's picture taken.

And now comes the garden pictures!  Here is some spinach.

Lettuce  (Oh, I guess I only put two on here.  We also have broccoli, carrots, potatoes, beets, green beans that haven't come up quite yet, and other stuff that I'm forgetting.)

Scenery south of the garden.  It's GREEN!!!! The wildflowers (I think they're actually wild onions) look pretty neat down there too.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!  It's been much more fun taking outdoor pictures this spring, since we are actually having spring, unlike last year! =D
I should be able to think of something to say after nearly a month, but I guess not!
Have a lovely week, and watch out for rattlesnakes!
-Junior Josephine Joanna Jalopy

Random Pictures

Heh heh... here we go again; a "random" post! I'm going to see if it will let me post on two blogs at once...

Here are some of our tulips that are bloomed out. The purple ones are coming yet; hopefully I'll remember to take pictures of them! (Oh, notice anything wrong in this picture?)

Closer up picture of tulips.

Dew on the wheat south of the house. Swingset and sunrise in background!

Close up of wheat. (I like taking close up pictures =P)

Wheat! Doesn't it look neat with the hill and pampas grass in the background? Oh, yeah, it kind of looks like there's a clump of weeds in the center of the picture, but it's just some of the wheat that's farther along. This patch is very finicky about size. Some is real tall and some is real short!

I guess that's all the interesting pictures I could find for now! =)
Josie