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I finally finished Pastor Boyer's quilt. Dad and I brought it to him last Friday. (Dad picked out the fabric, approved the pattern, and I sewed it together.)

Funny

I was quilting along but forgot to pay attention to where the backing was in relation to the needle. It didn't work.

What it's supposed to look like:

Real

In general, the only part of science that makes me happy is the experiments. (We use Apologia's science books. I'm in biology right now.) One of the paragraphs in the book said something about setting fire to sugar to make smoke, carbon dioxide, and some other stuff I don't remember. 

The sugar didn't catch fire, but it did do this:

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Lizzie wanted a wall hanging quilt to act like a bed header. So, I told her that if she got the fabric, I'd make it for her. This is what she's picked out so far. I'm looking for solid, dark brown fabric for the rest.

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A few weeks ago, the semminarian the church supports came to visit and do a church service. He and his wife play Settlers of Cataan, and so we had to play it. Mrs. Badenhop apparently has played it once before, but she's won both times. Nobody can figure out why.

Funny

That's Arane. She (and Lizzie and Justin, but they don't count :P) came to visit for a while. They live right on the edge of Hurricane Sandy, so they stayed for a little longer until they were sure that there'd be power. But Arane's sprout (pony-tail) is really funny.

"License is required for any use beyond individual consumption" So, if I want to eat the cloth, I have to get permission from Scuffy's owners? Shucks.


Real

I got these from a quilting store about half an hour away. It's the Scuffy the Tugboat cloth that the Funny came off of.

Mom is holding this up.

It's supposed to be used to make a book, but there're enough of those panels that I can use them in two different quilts. (They're really big panels.)

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I keep forgetting to do this.

Lizzie, Justin, Arane, and Grandma came over for a while over the past two weeks. Lizzie and Justin were planning on staying for only a week, but they were right on the tail edge of Sandy, so they decided to stay a while longer.

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This is a quilt for the lady who had our car when it exploded. Hopefully she'll be happy to get it.

Funny

That's what happens in a house where everybody knows or is learning Greek. It says says, "udroxlorothias loratadin" (Dad's medicine" and "bon ami".

("And they used Bon Ami!")

Real

That's Lizzie, Mom, Arane, Grandma, and I on the front porch. That's an awful lot of us.

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Reformation Day and All Saint's Day

On October 31, 1517 an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther nailed the 95-Theses to the Castle Church in Wittenberg and accidentally started the Protestant revolution. (We're Protestant because we protested against the Catholic Church. The "ant" is just a handy Latin left-over.) (If people want to nail topics for debate to a church door, check to see if the door is glass first. If the door is glass, there's a nifty new invention called tape, which is a kind of sticky paper. Use that instead; most pastors don't like it when they go into the church and find out the door is shattered. They prefer nail holes.)

On November 1, every year for centuries, Christians remember the other Christians who have died. Only Catholics, as far as I know, are the ones who pray for the saints. Most Lutherans probably ignore All Saint's Day, but some will actually remember the saints. (Also, all Christians are saints. Even the alive Christians. But I wouldn't go up to Aly and say, "Hey, Saint Aly, how're you?" because that'd be goofy.

On, and Reformation Day is a civil holiday in Germany, according to Brigitte--a native German in my Greek class and one of Dad's classmates.

Also, go here for a good post by Veith: http://www.geneveith.com/2012/10/31/reforming-the-church/. (I don't know if Veith is a pastor, lay-person, professor, or what. We always call him Veith around the house.)

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I got sick this week with a killer cold (which spread to Dad) and so didn't take many pictures. (It's too early to get sick! It normally doesn't go around until January and February when I have some prior notice and can get ahead in school and the like. Germs are not very considerate.)

Pretty

 Sausages are pretty. The pig that those came from was a happy little porker probably.

Happy

I like to cook supper a lot and do it every Thursday and Saturday. It makes me happy because it smells good and so far nobody's been poisoned from it.

Funny

This egg had a birthmark on it. See that weird lump? That's its birthmark.

Real

One of our potatoes went bad and so I looked at it through the microscope. The part of the fungus from under the skin was all lumpy like a volcano. The part on top of the skin looked like an alien. The brown part of the potato looked like paper.

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Turkish Roman Bath

Archaeologists found a Roman bath in southern Turkey. That's cool! Here's a news article about it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/roman_empire_mosaic_turkey/

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I keep forgetting to do this until after the link-up-do-dad-thing is shut.

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Mom went to help Lizzie and Justin with Arane during the first two weeks of school, which is when the students, parents, and teachers all get hopelessly confused and/or damage the software and Lizzie and Justin have to help them. It's a busy time.

Olivia's family gave Arane that box thing. Arane likes it a lot. 

She also likes those stacking block things.

Funny

Mom found Benny in Arane's bassinet one day. The stinker.

Real

I keep finding subjects that sound really fun to take...So I get the books and learn it. Those are the books (and CD) I'm using right now.

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Those are flowers from my garden. The color is weird. Sorry! (They're really pink, purple, red, and yellow, not orange, orange, red, and yellow.)

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School starts on September 4th! I'm happy.

(Those funny white squares are to mark out a friend's full name on her graduation card.)

All the books I'm using. (Not the ones on the shelf below the binders. Those are for-fun books.)

The unlabeled binder is math. The classics one is one that I'm mostly doing on my own, except for the Greek and Latin in it. Paideia I is from a new online school. It's a combination of history, theology, and literature.

Here are the books I'm using this year so far:

Deutsche Aktuell 2 textbook and workbook by Wolfgang S. Kraft
Exploring Creation with Biology textbook and solutions guide by Dr. Jay L. Wile and Marilyn F. Durnell
Pre-Algebra book, test book, and video from Math-U-See
Traditional Logic Book 1 textbook and video by Martin Colthran.
New Testament Greek for Beginners by J. Greham Machen and Dan G. McCartney
The U.S. Constitution: A reader from Hilsdale Press.
The Art of Styling Sentences by Ann Longknife and K.D. Sullivan
The Lively Art of Writing by Lucile Vaughn Payne

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This is a cigar box Mom and Dad got for me at an antique shop. (Dad got one, too. He's been looking for one for a long time.)

(It came empty. I don't smoke.)


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Dad does two church services a Sunday now. (One at church and one at a retirement home place thing.) Mom is going with him this week and she didn't change out of her church clothes all the way. I think she should go in her slippers, but if Lizzie found out about it, she'd have a heart attack.

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I've had this poster sitting in the corner for about six months. It used to be above my bulletain board but fell down while I was in German Conversations class. (I told the girl I was conversing with, "A picture fell on my head!" and she said, "What, like in a cartoon?" It wasn't like in a cartoon, but close.)

Mom got this stuff to hang it up with. Hopefully it works. (It isn't gum.)

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I planted a garden this year and surprisingly, most of the things in it are still alive. There were supposed to be flowers from seeds in it, but the day after I planted them, a tornado came by and washed them away. There are probably two shasta daisies in there. I lost one so got another and the original is decomposing somewhere under ground.

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Since our van exploded, we've been looking for a second car because it's really useful when Dad has to have the car pretty much any time of the day or night. (Go here for the van story: http://hannah-ingleside.blogspot.com/2012/06/pretty-happy-funny-real.html; It's near the bottom.)

The son of a lady in church had owned this truck for a long time and wanted to get a new one. He gave this one to Dad. Dad's pretty happy to have it.

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A friend of ours is a farmer and he always digs up rocks in his fields and he keeps the rocks in a pile. He gave us a present of some of the rocks for gardens and the like. (Almost like the family that gave us a truck load of horse manure. It was for our gardens.)

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(Lydia and some kids from Malawi.)

(Shaanthi and some kids from Malawi.) (By the way, her name is pronounced "shawn-tea".)

Lydia and Shaanthi went to a missions trip to Malawi this summer. Lydia's gone before, but Shaanthi's never gone on a missions trip anywhere, but we went to the same church as both of them, so that probably helped both of them a little. (Lydia looks like a ghost in that picture. She's not really that pale. Haha. Shaanthi is of India-Indian descent.)

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This is Pastor Boyer's quilt. I'm working on the binding and then will begin quilting it.

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This is another quilt I'm making. So far, no new fabric has been used, which I like a lot.

Funny

I think that this is funny because it's the kind of book Mom and Dad keep an eye out for for me while in bookstores and the like.

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Dad got some beer yesterday and it's see-through! He never gets see-through beer! It looks like lemonade, but is beer.

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