Fun Evening

This evening my family hosted an outdoor get-together for the teens in our local homeschool group.  So there were about 25 of my brother Josh’s friends over here tonight.  I went outside and joined them and it was really fun hanging out with a bunch of high school people (and younger).  It seems like forever since I was sixteen, though I guess it wasn’t really that long ago.  *sigh*  We played a great game of ultimate frisbee.  Life is good!…(though I may not be saying that tomorrow while I’m writing a research paper.) :-)

Retreat

Yeah, I know I promised a week ago to post these, but I’ve been busy…very busy… so I’m going to do all of this quickly in the same post.  Enjoy.

Friday evening:

This is me right after I realized that Bobby had stolen my camera…

..And this is me trying to get it back.

A cute picture of April that Bobby took while he still had possession of the camera:

This is Bobby after I got the camera back.

Everyone.

More everyones.

Bruce and Nathaniel.

Saturday:

Breakfast…

Just before Bible study:

Audrey:

Nina and Audrey:

That’s right.  Look away from the camera. :-)

Out the window…

Stand up and sing!

Girls’ prayer time.

2nd group:

Afternoon hike:

A view down the road leading to the lodge.

Hikers:

Here’s me with the weed that’s taller than I am.  (Thanks, Nancy! It’s a good picture.)

Scenery along the way:

Stopping to rest…

“Ok, folks, now about this here tree stump…”

Some interesting fungus:

Looking through the trees…

The last stretch of our journey…

Headed for the lodge.

Study in James:

Sunday:

Early morning scenery…

I think he’s plotting to steal my camera again.

And my favorite picture from the weekend…  The airy look at the top of the picture isn’t clouds, but mist between the tops of the trees and the mountain. Pretty!!!

That’s all, folks. :-)

My Recent Life

Last weekend, I went on a retreat with my friends from the Bible study group I go to on Wednesday nights.  We studied the entire book of James over the weekend (amazing stuff!) and just generally had a good time being the fun people that we are. :-)  I am going to post pictures (hopefully) some time in the near future, when I’m caught up on all the study time I lost last weekend.  So, have a nice day (or several days or weeks) while I study and maybe I’ll get some pictures on here later. :-)

Ouch.

That’s all I can manage to say right now.

Ho, hum…

My brain is too shot from school right now to think of something creative to post, but I’m tired of seeing my old post up there.  All I can think about right now(or what I want to choose not to think of right now) is a big exam that I have tomorrow.  *sigh*  BRING ON CHRISTMAS BREAK!   And Thanksgiving would be nice too.  But I won’t complain, really I won’t…really…

What…….?………

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just spent all day writing for a research paper, and I finished it(almost)!!!  YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Having Fun With Ragtime…

Stop Time Rag -by Scott Joplin

For my group project in Intro to Music class, we’re researching Scott Joplin and I get to talk about six of his rags in front of the class.  How exciting!…….

Click above link to listen to my favorite.

I Have Been Tagged…

…And what I want to know is:  How can a completely spectacular person like me come up with six unspectacular things about myself?

And, having no one else to tag,(unlike the person who tagged me), I am forced to suffer alone.

1.  I am strongly interested in musical instruments.  Most people who know me also know that I play the piano, (I consider that to be the one spectacular aspect of me.)  However, I also (in a very unspectacular manner) play the guitar, violin, fife, dulcimer, and recorder.  Just for fun. :)

2.  I have had a steadily increasing interest in photgraphy for the past few years, and am still exploring all the exciting elements of the fancy new camera that I purchased a little over a year ago.  Besides doing pretty nature and portrait photography, I also enjoy taking pictures of random/unusual things.  For instance, my brother flying through the air with or without his bike underneath him, or just strange sights in towns/buildings, and road signs in various places.

3.  I recently discovered that I like movie soundtracks, and my collection has been increasing in the last couple years.  I’m sure you want a listing:  The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, Rio Grande, The Magnificent Seven, Gettysburg, The Patriot, Facing the Giants, Fidder on the Roof, and The Wizard of Oz. (no comment regarding the last mentioned)

4.  Speaking of collections, I have been obsessed with collecting various items throughout my life, including(but not limited to), rocks, shells, crystals, cough drop wrappers, vacation Bible school projects, bugs(including a yellow jacket), crosstitch projects and emroidering thread, needles(and they all seem to get lost!!), yarn, scraps of cloth, pictures, little notebooks, stationary, lots of different kinds of paper, keychains(ranging from Larry Boy to green frogs), books, journals, recipe books, scrapbooks, quotes,  and I could go on and on…  I have remnants from all these, as well as several still complete collections.(excepting the cough drop wrappers; that one was short-lived, I believe.)

5.  When I have absolutely nothing else to do(which doesn’t happen often these days) I either like to go do some type of vigorous exercise, go on a picture taking expedition, or sit down and read a good book(and don’t ask me what my definition of a good book is; I have a very wide range, and would never be able to decide the best one.) 

6.  Two great pleasures that I get out of everyday life are:  Seeing God work in those little things that I thought were so insumountable(and they weren’t that big of a deal, really; why couldn’t I just totally trust Him in the first place?), and watching trees/grass blowing in the wind. :)

It’s 1:15 a.m., and I finally get to quit studying and get some sleep.

Yea.

Enjoy a random picture.

Ok, how about another random picture. (And don’t even ask what we’re supposed to be doing…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:-)