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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!")

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

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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.)

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

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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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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Last week, we went to Missouri for a denomination meeting (which I skipped and visited Grandma and Grandpa during) and one of my cousin's wedding. The wedding was out-doors in 105 degree weather. The reception was indoors, which was nice. Mom, Dad, and I went to the reception place to help set stuff up.

That's the cake. The thing that looks like cloth is actually icing. (And the letters behind it aren't the beginning of the alphabet. Those are my cousin's and her husband's initials.)

I thought the reception place was freezing, but everybody else liked it.

I'm surprised the groomsmen didn't pass out. Haha. My other cousins who were in the wedding said that their dresses were really hot, but they were pretty.

The outdoors place was really pretty.

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I really like books, but don't have enough bookshelf room for them. I went through the books and got rid of duplicates and ones I didn't like enough to keep (which is rare) and implanted the Dewey Decimal System.

(That's what that piece of paper is. I don't have it memorized yet.)

It involved pulling all the books off the shelves and moving some of them between rooms so that only the ones I'd use regularly were in my room.

(Mom took the pictures.)

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Lizzie took this picture of Arane and is letting me use it. It's the first picture I've seen that made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe and turned purple.

Also, Felix has a tendency to sit like a person and help Dad do his work.

I'm not sure why he does, but it makes him happy and us laugh at him, so we let him. (Felix, not Dad.)

That's what happens when I try to take a picture using flash of a white page. (It's the page in Real.)

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That's a page from my copy of The Aeneid. It's a used book which was used by at least two people, both of whom wrote in the book. It's getting hard to see the print anymore. Haha.

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That's Arane lying on the quilt I made her. Lizzie posted the picture on FB and Mom sent it to me.

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Lizzie and Justin like Arane a lot. They're not too happy about the staying-up-all-night thing, but are pretty happy in general.


Funny

Arane makes the goofiest faces sometimes. In the first picture, she got surprised by Dad doing something. In the second, she was yawning.

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My room has this tendency to crash within two days after cleaning it up really well. So I cleaned it up extra-really-well a couple weeks ago. Here's what it looked like before, during, and after.

I got it all done before the second act of Into the Woods. (I listened to it while working.) Right now, my room is about half as good as it was when it was all finished, so it's going to be cleaned up today as much as before we leave for a trip.

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