Jericho's Halloween Picture

Jerico will be 3-months old at the end of this week.

Where does the time go?

Just a Couple More Thoughts

I am shocked that the Vikings managed to win the game against the Bears. I watched the last part of the game, and it was pretty sloppy. The Vikings had a safe margin with only a couple of minutes left in the 4th quarter, and yet these jokers did everything in their power to give the game away. The bright spot on the Vikings hasn’t changed, other than that I think this racehorse may be getting better and even more motivated to steamroll his way to breaking offensive records. Adrian Peterson played his heart out to win, and he did, in fact, break at least one record today. He has gained more yards in one game than any running back has ever done in the history of the Minnesota Vikings. If the Vikes could only get a team full of cloned Petersons, they would be hard to beat. Until that happens, I will resign myself to the prediction I stated a while back. The Vikings will win four games this year. That stinks!

I am going to bed soon. I hope that the rest of the work is posted this evening, so I can get that done by morning. I think I will get out of bed at midnight or 4 a.m., somewhere in that timeframe, and will finish the team assignment so that I can post a preview for the team by the time the rest of the group get out of bed in the morning. I probably won’t sleep much the next day or two, but I will make up for that later, when I get really sleepy. Life is too short to oversleep!

Saturday Morning, Sunday Morning, Its Just a Blur

I worked on the greenhouse Saturday afternoon, and we finished assembling the whole thing, other than the door. I had to modify the roof vent, but I am used to that. Anything we buy, I find that there are better ways to assembly the thing, and usually the hardware is the cheapest and most malleable junk the manufacturer could find. This was no exception. Eventually, we finished the greenhouse, but the tomatoes and flowers in pots are still under plastic in a makeshift greenhouse made of two ladders and electrical conduit. We will probably move the plants to the greenhouse in the next couple of days. I still need to put river rock on the floor of the greenhouse, but we will use the greenhouse in the meantime and add the gravel in spring, if the weather trends toward wintry weather soon.

Saturday night, we planned to watch Evan Almighty. Dave and Josh spent the weekend, so that Dave could look at housing situations in the area where he will be living when he gets trained and situated in his service area. To be accurate, the rest of us abandoned Dave, who watched Evan Almighty, while Heather and I planned to go to bed. I had just closed my eyes, literally, and the telephone rang. There was a primary jackpot in North Dakota at 12:15 a.m. So I got out of bed and hit the road. I didn’t get to the casino until 4:30 a.m. and didn’t get back home until 11:00 a.m. I slept about 45 minutes today, and didn’t sleep at all last night. It was a big jackpot for this area, just a few thousand under $3 million dollars, not a bad haul. I was pretty tired when I left the house, and when I got home, I figured I would sleep so well, after about 30 hours without sleep. I woke up Saturday morning, and here I am, still awake, and the Sunday sun is setting.

Picture This!

Yesterday was an eventful day. Little did I know, the day would become a lot longer than I had expected. In the morning, we took Gabriel and Jericho to get their pictures taken. We get a large picture of Gabriel in his Halloween costume every year, and this year, we added Jericho to the mix. Then, we had Christmas pictures taken, too, though the only people in those pictures are the boys. We just had a family picture taken in July, when Jericho was two days old. I figure that once every year or two, I can get in front of the camera, though I definitely prefer to be the one taking the pictures. I will start posting the pictures of Gabriel and Jericho soon, though I did order some pictures for Nana J, and for my parents, so they don't have to worry about printing out pictures from the blog. (Yes, I am speaking to the grandparents on both sides of this family!)