Rainy Days

The rain's been falling down for the last 48 hours and the ground is pretty slushy around here. The roads are cut both north and south and that meant that Sharlene couldn't get to her inservice in Mackay today. So instead it was just a normal day at school. Talk about an anticlimax. The rain also caused havoc with my dads' playgroup and the guest speaker I invited, couldn't make it either. Our phone isn't working properly and Sharlene is spending the night marking. So, in summery I think I should just go to bed and pray that tomorrow is better.

New Order for COLE:

We received this letter in the mail today. Click on it to enlarge.

Gingerbread Man

Today Zem and I made some gingerbread men. First we read the story and then we mixed up the batch. Zem kneaded, rolled, cut and decorated the dough.

So we didn't get any runaways, we didn't open the oven until they were well and truely cooked.

New ipad

We've had our ipad for a week now. It is a great device. We've gleaned some good applications from the app store and Zemi really enjoys them. It is a family thing, but we also got it with Zem in mind. I've already had some fun putting on some social stories. I've also managed to download for free some old books that I would never find in Bowen. At the moment, I am reading the sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Tomorrow our kids sabbath school is taking the morning program at the church. Shar and I are a little ready for it, but we'll see what else God can inspire us to do.

Our garden is now planted with tomatoes and egg plant. We are planning on getting some capsicums put in shortly too. We also got some rock melon vines. The seedlings came from the high school ag-farm. They had too many so we got the extras. Looking good!

Raised Beds

Well, we've finally got our act together and decided to make some raised beds. We are planning to utilize the no-dig garden approach. Click here and here if you want to know more. We only only have one started at the moment, but hopefully we will get up to four going eventually. Sharlene is trying to sprout some seeds in her seed-raiser trays, but every night it buckets down rain and I think most of them have been drowned. Besides that, Azariah has taken a fancy to little green plants that out of the ground and likes to pull them out. Luckily, I usually get to the uprooted shoots before they dry up too much. Even so, it could take a while before we get something growing.