Monday, July 28, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
A Dime a Dozen
The last three game series have been sweeps. The Giants have been on the losing end of the broom stick 2 out of 3. I went back and looked at the Giants record this year and sweeps. Not surprised I saw they have been swept 8 times and they have swept 4 times. A few of those sweeps have been against the Nationals. Can we change the rest of this season so we play the Nationals at least every week?
Picture taken from Google Images.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Fever and Prayer Request
Ultimately, I know this little fever is NOTHING in the scheme of everything. I have been reading a web page called ConnorWatch. This web page was set up 40 days ago when a young man (18 years old) injured his spinal cord while attending a youth camp. This young man is daily fighting for his life and the life that he will now live. So, my little fever is NOTHING but I do ask you to pray.
Who Can Tell Me the Problem with the Arrow?
Answer will be revealed sometime in the future.
Bye Bye Duram, Welcome back Roberts, Last 2 Times at the Ball Park
Here's Jen, Joe and my mom (in the back ground) holding baby Joey. Cute picture J & J.
Mom you are the best Grandma ever. Trin Trin loves you so much and Baby Joey loves you too!
Amy and I went to a day game on Thursday. We had a great time and this time the Giants won.
Here we are at the ball park after the Giant's won. Always a good day at the ball park when the good guys win. See the giant Coke~Cola bottle in the back ground? Some of you know this, some of you don't but there are 4 long slides inside the bottle. 2 are curvy and the other two are a straight shot down with a couple of dips along the way. On Sunday, Amy and I had a race down the slides. Each time I got to the bottom first. She claimed it was her jeans that held her up. I know better.
At Thursday's game Dave Roberts returned from being on the DL. It was good to have him back and he stole the show, literally. He made two fantastic plays in the outfield and hit a base hit to knock in the lone Giant's run and the only run of the ball game in the 8th inning. Welcome back Dave.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
1 Year in the Blogging World
Thank you for your time and energy if you stop by and read my blog. We will see what God does in this next year of life in the blogging world.
Meet and Greet
This is Michelle, one of my sister's closest friends. This is her baby Addison.
Olivia and Angela brought their little doggy Taffy to the party. Trin had a ton of fun with the "girls" and the pup.
Addison is at least a month older than Joey and look at the hair difference. It was cute when Jen set him down next to Addy (or is it Addie? This was a debate for the day) she said, "You need to sit down here next to your future prom date". This made us all chuckle.
Here is my Gma, my cousin Cheryl, Steve, Trin and the girls.
I love this shot of the girls. They were playing inside the little playhouse. Olivia did not fit inside so she is leaning in the window.
I love my baby Joey Love.
3 sisters and a brother and a sister. We all got down and were enjoying baby Joey.
Monday, July 21, 2008
More to Come
Random Pictures
Firstly, thank all the fire fighters for their faithful committment to fight fires for the sake of civilians. On the drive up to Lassen we saw several "crews" of fire fighters traveling to one of the biggies within the hundreds of fires burning. When my grandma and I went into a local city we stopped at the airport and saw this helicopter. The large tube hanging on the underside is called a snorkel. This snorkel is placed in a lake or creek to suck up water to dump on a fire. Pretty cool!
This is in a meadow near the cabin. I had stopped the car to take a few pictures of some daisy's. Thought this fence was pretty with the green grass below.
I love this picture. Daisy's remind me of the silly saying we did as kids when we liked a boy and plucking petals, "He loves me, he loves me not. . ." But since being a Christian I like to say, "He loves me, He loves me, He loves me, He forever loves me. . ." Because I am His, it is always, He loves me!
Just looking up a tree trunk. As you can see the air quality was poor the day I took the picture because of a few close wild fires burning. There was no blue in the sky this day.
This picture was taken up at Lake Helen at the base of Mt. Lassen. The elevation here was close to 8,000 feet. On this day, my grandma and I drove up to the national park and had lunch by the lake with the peak in the background.
Speaking of the peak, it has been a few years since I have climbed to the top. Hopefully, I will get up there this year.
Ping
Ping
Ping
. . . (counted 29)
Today I canned another round of jam. This time my job was easier because I had skinned, pitted and cut up the fruit about 10 days ago and stuck it in the freezer for when it was convenient to can. I made 29 jars of jam. Surprisingly, I only have about 10 jars left from the first two rounds that I made (47 jars). I have been giving them away to different people. The round today consisted of apricot, plum and apricot raspberry, all reduced sugar. The plum might have some problems setting up because I used more fruit than the recipe called for and the label warned me that it might have trouble setting. If it does not set, I will either open the jars and use the 6 cups the recipe calls for and try to set it again, or turn it into plum sauce.
I love to hear the ping after the jars come out of the water bath. You know that your jars are sealed when you hear that cute ping. Each batch that comes out of the bath I count to hear the pings. It got a little confusing today because my first batch was not finished pinging when I took my second batch out and they started pinging. Thankfully, all of my jars sealed properly.
I am also trying a recipe that I pulled off of the Ball Canning Jars web site for Strawberry Vinaigrette Dressing. The strawberries are sitting in a large steel pot with distilled vinegar over night. Tomorrow after I get back from the farmers market I will finish the recipe and can the dressing.
What a joy to have learned how to can jam. I am having loads of fun. By the way, if you remember a few post back when I first spoke of learning how to can. Marie told me that I had to pass along the skill of canning to someone else. The second time that I made jam I taught my good friend Janet how to can. Still hoping to teach my sisters one day.