Category: Our Family

I am so excited that we have a new video camera. Our old one was damaging the audio every time we rewound the tape to watch what we had recorded and that was just making me so sad. Well Kyle and I have talked about it for a long time now, what kind of video camera we would like to have to replace it. We were talking about a video camera that would record to a hard drive, but in the end we decided on one that records to SD cards. So we just got the Cannon FS100, and it’s just so little, and easy to use. We had it shipped to my parent’s house so that I would have it on our trip. I am really excited 😀 The best part is that at Kyle’s work they give him occasional bonuses in the form of Amazon.com gift cards, and he had a few of them saved up and the video camera and the SD cards we got for it just came out of those. So nothing out of our pocket for our new tool for capturing our family history in the making 😛

My nana’s big brother, our Uncle Teddy, died on Thursday.  I don’t remember too much about him (only met him a few times when I was young, and recently when his son Ralph died), but I hear he was a fun person, and loved entertaining people with his ventriloquism.  It makes me sad to see that generation go.  Now we have our wonderful Aunt Gail, and their brother Monroe (whom I’ve never met, but heard stories of), left from that generation!

Anyway, I heard he died in the morning, but don’t know more details.  If anyone knows, help us update out family history site with the time and place, ok? 🙂

We pulled more weeds today. Kyle spent the morning pulling weeds in the snow, while I made apple jam inside trying to finish canning these apples. He cleared the whole west side of the house of the weeds all the way to the first garden box on the West side of the yard. I went out this afternoon to work on pulling more weeds, and here is the progress:

About half the backyard has been cleared now, and today’s pile is a lot larger than Tuesday’s pile. Even Ethan went out to help some. He helped Kyle a bit and he helped me move plucked weeds to the big pile 🙂

Well here is the progress I have made with the weeds today:

I can see the ground! And that huge pile in the upper right is the pile of weeds that used to cover this bare ground. I did this all by myself today, me, myself & I. It took me all day, but I got it done, and now I am SORE!

Well we got a letter from our HOA like last week saying we need to clear the weeds from the west side of the house in 10 days from the date of the letter, or they will come out and do it for us, and charge us for it. 🙁 And today a man from the city came over to say we have till Oct 20th to clear the weeds from the entire backyard or we will fined $50/day. 🙁 So double pressure. Kyle is almost never home, so it’s pretty much up to me to get these weeds pulled! So I am feeling more than a little bit overwhelmed right now.

Like our jungle? You can almost picture a tiger hiding in here.