(I couldn't access my account for awhile... so here are the blogs you missed- posted all in one day. This one is from 1-2-08.)
It snowed outside! This pretty much sets in stone my plans for the weekend. I will be somewhere in the woods sledding my ass off with my kid. We have a variety of sleds. Last year was the first time our oldest was really old enough to get into sledding. We don't mess around- we're talking giant-ass hills at a good rate of speed... with rocks... and cow crap. (-the crap is frozen, so it's more like a rock when you hit them.) Sleds: We started out with one of those little plastic sheets. That was a frickin joke! That was torn up at pretty much the first run. Can't believe people make money on those... well, yes I can... dumbasses like me go and buy them. Then we went to a hard plastic one-man sled. My girl needs someone to ride down with her... I wouldn't send her down by herself where we go. So we then bought a two-man hard plastic sled. It lasted quite a little while. We had a lot of fun(!)... and then it broke. We busted the bottom out of it hitting rocks... and frozen crap. Then we got one of those metal disks. That thing should be illegal to sell. That is a dangerous piece of equipment... especially when you turtle-wax the bottom. (NO I didn't send my daughter down the hill on that one... that was a momma-sled only.) The disk would spin around fast while you went down... making it hard to maneuver and go around stuff you don't want to end up eating. So late last year we finally bought one of those metal rail sleds. That's fun! That thing is meaner than hell on ice! (Kinda sucks in light snow though.) Plus, you can steer it very well. Those sleds run anywhere from $80-100 each... we've been looking at them over the last year. We found one from a guy at a nearby feed store for $50. They are pretty good sleds if you get the ones that are actually put together by someone that knows what they're doing. (-No drunk 5-yr olds putting in an 18 hour day in China.)
We'll prolly have to play around on the wheelers a little this weekend too- it's not deep enough to take the truck out. It's not really deep enough, or the right kind of snow, to build a snowman... but snowmen suck anyway (I always lose a scarf and hat out of the deal). Not a whole lotta entertainment going on in that. I didn't even do that when I was little. Of course I was a country kid though too. I think snowman-building is more of a town-kid thing. And that's just cause they don't have anything else they can do in the snow. -Poor kids, that's gotta suck. When I was a kid, dad would chain an old car hood to the back of the truck and drive us (all 4 of us kids) down the snow covered gravel roads, ditches, banks. Wicked fun! We had a blast doing this! He'd go fast enough that we had to try and steer the hood together... or wipe out. I'll never forget those winters... fun! BUT... this is super-dangerous, and I would never in my life allow my kids to ever do this! I can't believe my dad let us do that. You'd hear of kids breaking bones and even getting killed doing that. We also hooked sleds on the 4-wheelers and pulled each other around. -Not as dangerous... unless you're sledding with my brother/step-brothers... then it crosses over into an "extreme sport". Oh look at that... I'm rambling again...
Anyway, I'll be sledding this weekend most likely.
My daughter has been telling me different (weird!!) little things about her school that she's going to. And I'm always having to confront them and ask... "what the hell...?" If you've read previous posts... you know that she's going to a Christian private school (that I'm not really "enjoying"... and will be pulling her out and placing her in public school next year). I'm always freaked out about them teaching her strange things... potions with frog-hair and bat toenails... well, not really that freak-ish... but it's weird (they are very old-school amish type). Anyway, she's been telling me about this "strange blue flame" at her school. We'll have short conversations every now and then about this blue flame at her school that she is terrified of. She's never seen anything like it before. She tells me the flame is really big and really blue. (My first thought is a torch... and what in the hell are they doing there??!) Well, yesterday she tells me about her little buddy in class with her- this little girls was skipped to 1st grade along with my daughter (they are very good friends). So, the little girl brought Ramen Noodles in for her lunch that day. (-I've never made Ramen Noodles for my daughter... she has no idea what they are... yes, I'm serious.) Anyway, my girl is getting real freaked out while talking about them... she's like, "They put this block of what looked like brains into a pot of water. AND THEN... they used the blue flame to make the water boil! Then the block turned to noodles.... and I tried them and they were really good mommy!" I'm like, Whoa... back up this story a little. So, my daughter has been talking about 'the blue flame' for quite a while... she finally tells me that the blue flame is on their stove at the church. Besides Ramen Noodles... another thing my daughter has never seen... a range stove. We've always had a flattop stove and so have her grandmas. This whole time she's been talking about the burner on the stove. I was getting ready to go up to the church and give 'em the what-for for teaching my daughter witch craft. My girl... very very smart girl... and, I guess, very sheltered.
Took the kids up to eat with my mom and little brother yesterday evening. We didn't do Mexican this time... done learned m'lesson there. We had a good time. My little brother is on a med for ADHD... and it is amazing how smart the kid is! He just needed to be settled down a little so he could sit and have an entire conversation with ya without climbing up the wallpaper. He told me all about planets and Martin Luther King... all while sitting still in his chair. He is also in 1st grade.
I've got chores and stuff beckoning at me.
Have an awesome Friday/weekend!
P.S. The grater-guy? -Gone. Him and his road grater just poofed into thin air. No idea where he went to... but I haven't seen him since the last time I typed about him. (I've got a buddy that's good friends with the commissioner... my buddy has lunches with the commissioner, and my buddy is also one of the hundreds that do NOT like grater-guy. My buddy is very verbal and speaks his mind. I'm thinkin maybe I know what happened to grater-guy after all.)
