Wow was Texas brown and dry. You couldn’t see the fires but you sure could smell the smoke. On the other hand, Colorado sure was wet. It was starting to drizzle when I was driving to the airport in the am but was a full fledged downpour by the time I landed back in Denver at 5pm. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we sure are lucky to live in Colorado. The only thing better than living where we live would be to live a little further out from the city with some more land.
It was a quick trip and successful. The misses spent the whole day cleaning the house and when I arrived home, it was sparkling. Both boys were in full excitement mode and it was time to start winding them down. Today the misses has to be at work at 6:30am for a store wide meeting, luckily she’s off at 3pm. The little guy has some big scratch on his lower left leg that’s raised and appears to be infected. We thought he got into some bushes or poison ivy but it looks like something else. I think I’ll get him in to the doctor as soon as possible this morning as we don’t want to take any chances. A good dose of antibiotics are probably in store.
The big dance is tomorrow night. The boys are getting their pirate costumes all lined up and so is the misses. She looks so cute in her pirate wench outfit. I hope she doesn’t make all the other mothers mad because she looks so good. I’ll be the only one dressed as is because I just don’t have any pirate garb or the time to get it together. We’ll make sure to take pictures.
I’m still waiting on some money to be transferred before I can buy our Italy tickets but it looks like the trip is a go. We have an appointment at the passport agency on Monday to get our expired passports reissued within a week. It should be a fun family trip. We deserve it. I and the misses certainly need a break and the kids will learn a lot and have loads of fun. Their teachers are 100% behind them going as they too think it’ll be super educational for them both. They will send along some homework to be completed along with the weekly spelling test.
I haven’t talked to any of you lately so I’m not sure what you’re all up to but hope everyone is doing well. The next three days are pretty busy. First up as I said, is the big pirate dance tomorrow, Saturday we have soccer and Sunday we’re taking the boys to the football game. I think cousin Tasha from Hawaii and Aviak (my great niece I think, I’ll have to ask my Mom or the misses as I get confused as to who I am in the relative world) are in town. I’m not sure when she arrives but know she’s here on Sunday. You might remember her from doing the hula dance at our wedding.
I almost forgot, the Self Reliance Expo is here in town on Friday and Saturday. This will be a “must go to” event. Now before you think it’s some survival thing, let me stop you right there. It’s more about living in a way that’s less dependent on everything we’ve been conditioned to. An example would be composting to eliminate your trash by more than 50%. No matter what anyone says, that’s a good thing! There will be seminars on back yard chickens, canning your own food and all the other things, that if you really think about it, my grandparents and especially yours (if you’re older than me) were part of their daily life. We’re about the only country in the World that ships food over 3000 miles to stores. Think about it, in Europe or Asia or anywhere else, people eat food from their local area grown by local farmers. We need to get back to this here in America and thankfully we are. The small farm, despite huge road blocks from company’s like Monsanto, are starting to make a comeback. When you buy local, you’re getting healthier better food, saving energy and supporting local farmers. Don’t get me going on GMO’s or genetically modified foods, just trust me that they are not good for you at all! Do a search on Google and you’ll find tons of blogs and info regarding this. It’s a tough battle as the big companies won’t give up their hold on us without a fight. They’ll knowingly produce and sell us food they know is not good for us just to make a profit, kind of like the big drug companies. You can see where this is headed so I’ll stop now but it’s a big concern. One of the downsides to our advancement as a society or people are issues like this. I’m sure when my Mom was a kid, the food was much healthier and much more local, enough said.
Ok ok, I’ll stop now. It’s almost 5:30 and the misses needs to get going. I’ll be making breakfast and getting the boys off to school this morning. The other day her supervisor at work said to her “rumor has it you’re quitting around the holidays”. She said no but she does need more money and then Tanya (her boss) asked when her next employee review was and she wasn’t sure. Anyhow they don’t want to lose her so hopefully she’ll be getting a raise soon. By the way the rumor came from me walking up to her and her boss a couple of weeks ago and saying “did you tell her you’re quitting yet?”. Looks like that got things moving!
Well time to go, hope you’re all well, God Bless everyone and the U.S. of A.
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