Monday morning we woke up to find a creature in our fish pond--a furry, piglike desert creature--the infamous javelina. the desert animals come to our pond to drink early in the morning, and well, this one was overly ambitious or else nudged in by a fellow, but somehow, the footing was lost... i was awakened by thomas telling me what he had found as he got ready to haul it out of the water. it was still alive, but when i groggily bumbled out of bed to take a peek, it was clear that this creature had no fight left in it except just to keep its nose above the water! at first thomas tried to push it out with a rake, and the blobby little guy didn't even struggle or move! when he let it sink back down to go get his shovel, i felt such compassion for the poor thing--i understand the feeling--not going under again? thomas lifted the soggy boarlike fellow out with a huge heave, and he lay there totally exhausted and helpless. then, cause he was still on the edge of the pond, we pushed him over to the sand. he was shaking miserably. he stayed there just huddling in the sun, not able to move--a few times he tried to get up, but was shaking so badly that he could not coordinate his limbs; it was actually rather funny. an hour later, though, when thomas tried giving him some old apple, he was so uninterested that he decided to get up and wander off into the desert. that night we encountered the herd near our house again, and i am sure he was among them...
enjoy the video.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
the dark side hasn't got a thing on us
yesterday: another nasty bug self-destructs by drowning itself in our house! YEAH! i think God is definitely saying something here. if we don't even have to worry about killing our own scorpions and centipedes, what DO we have to worry about? evil can't touch us! we don't have to spend all our energies trying to keep the devil out necessarily, for God has rendered him powerless!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
may memorables
G: "Are we going back to the old hallway?" (driving home from California) -May 3
Sp: "Mom, I wish candyland was real and that we lived there." (doesn't every 5-yr-old?) -May 3
G: "Some reason places are goooood places. and nice places. They're good places, and real." -May 3
Seeing me putting ice into a glass of coffee,
G: "I want ice water!"
Sp: "Actually, it's iced wine." -May 8
G: "Mommy, God told to get in this hot car for a long, long time. And God said the whole world to get in this hot car for a long, long day." -May 10
G: "Always, Adam and Eve always eat fruit off that tree." (the story happens the same way each time, no matter how we wish it would end differently! i feel ya, little one!) -May 11
Sp: "I know why it's called 'Starbucks.' Cause it sounds like 'fourbucks' and everything there is four bucks!" (she's got insight, that girl!) -May 15
Sp: "I want a mommy just like Journey's. Just the same as her, just the shape as her! With the same hair." -May 19
G: "I'm five."
Sp: "No, you're not, you're only two."
G: "I'm actually two half old." -May 19
Sp: "You'll always be my mom, but you're also gonna be like my grandma, cause you're old." Reflecting a little further, she says astonished, "I don't know how my Opa and Oma stayed alive this long!" -May 19
G: "Last time, at the coffee shop, I scrumbled, and there was a baby in my hand, and I poured it out..."
me: "You scrambled?"
Sp: "No, she means stumbled."
G: " No, stambled; no, scandaled!" -May 21
Sp: "Mom, in college are there great big tall sky scrapers?" -May 21
Sp: "If you're first on land, you're gonna be last in heaven." (love how she called Earth "land!") -May 23
(Playing house with British accents)
Sp: "Oh yes, my dear, it's very simmering." -May 24
Sp: "I want to go to Superhero camp!"
me: "Well, they have something for you too! They have princess camp for girls and superhero camp for boys."
Sp: "I think monkey camp is also for boys." -May 25
G: "I want some mango!"
me: "It's not mango, it's honeydew."
G: "I want some honeydude!" -May 28
(We were all brainstorming names for characters in a story.)
G: "I know! Apple-face!" -May 29
G: "You're erupting me!" (interrupting) -all the time!
Golden likes to bring people a book and say, "Can you read this to me in German?" If they don't know German, they then tell her so, and she gets all disappointed! I don't think she would mind if it were in English, do you?
Sp: "Mom, I wish candyland was real and that we lived there." (doesn't every 5-yr-old?) -May 3
G: "Some reason places are goooood places. and nice places. They're good places, and real." -May 3
Seeing me putting ice into a glass of coffee,
G: "I want ice water!"
Sp: "Actually, it's iced wine." -May 8
G: "Mommy, God told to get in this hot car for a long, long time. And God said the whole world to get in this hot car for a long, long day." -May 10
G: "Always, Adam and Eve always eat fruit off that tree." (the story happens the same way each time, no matter how we wish it would end differently! i feel ya, little one!) -May 11
Sp: "I know why it's called 'Starbucks.' Cause it sounds like 'fourbucks' and everything there is four bucks!" (she's got insight, that girl!) -May 15
Sp: "I want a mommy just like Journey's. Just the same as her, just the shape as her! With the same hair." -May 19
G: "I'm five."
Sp: "No, you're not, you're only two."
G: "I'm actually two half old." -May 19
Sp: "You'll always be my mom, but you're also gonna be like my grandma, cause you're old." Reflecting a little further, she says astonished, "I don't know how my Opa and Oma stayed alive this long!" -May 19
G: "Last time, at the coffee shop, I scrumbled, and there was a baby in my hand, and I poured it out..."
me: "You scrambled?"
Sp: "No, she means stumbled."
G: " No, stambled; no, scandaled!" -May 21
Sp: "Mom, in college are there great big tall sky scrapers?" -May 21
Sp: "If you're first on land, you're gonna be last in heaven." (love how she called Earth "land!") -May 23
(Playing house with British accents)
Sp: "Oh yes, my dear, it's very simmering." -May 24
Sp: "I want to go to Superhero camp!"
me: "Well, they have something for you too! They have princess camp for girls and superhero camp for boys."
Sp: "I think monkey camp is also for boys." -May 25
G: "I want some mango!"
me: "It's not mango, it's honeydew."
G: "I want some honeydude!" -May 28
(We were all brainstorming names for characters in a story.)
G: "I know! Apple-face!" -May 29
G: "You're erupting me!" (interrupting) -all the time!
Golden likes to bring people a book and say, "Can you read this to me in German?" If they don't know German, they then tell her so, and she gets all disappointed! I don't think she would mind if it were in English, do you?
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