this that and other things, take note no birthday posts!

Mary was home for fall break, and she wanted to go duck hunting.  We went out Friday morning and she bagged a green-wing teal. She had a couple more  opportunitites that morning but they just did not want to come into our decoys.  As you can see with the smile on her face she had fun.  And so did I.

Daniel will be next, we just need to break this string of bad luck we have been having when Daniel and I go out hunting together.

Saturday afternoon we went over to Summner and celebrated Sarah's belated birthday.  We came, we invaded, and we left.  It was  good time, Mary finally got to see Sarah's new place. Everybody had a chance to play with Watson (Sarah's kitten).  I put up some curtains in her bedroom.  I did forget to do a light bulb inspection.

Mary is going back to school Sunday night. The other three kids just got done doing a big pile of dishes that back logged over the weekend.

My Accounting classes for my Masters class is a killer.  The darn book is written all in Greek.  It is called Accounting principles for Government and not-for-profit organizations.  First of all since when has the Government balanced an account? So If you think about it, what I am learning is basically theory and "dream-on" material, not real world stuff. But, ...Anyway I will get done with that class on December 4th. 

Mary has her Steel Pan concerts on the last weekend in October.

Sarah's musical she is assisting with is coming up soon also.

Well that is all for now. hava a good week

Posted by Randy

Happy Birthday to Sophia!

Thank you Sarah for catching this.
I had my dates mixed up, I was a week ahead of myself, now I have to go back and work that week I skipped.....bummer!

Happy birthday Sophia, I hope you receive lots of presents and eat a whole bunch of cake and ice cream.  Enjoy your special day and have a fun party

Posted by Randy

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Jacinta!

I hope you had a fun day filled with presents, cake and ice cream!


Posted By Randy

Happy Birthday to Stephen!

Happy Birthday to Stephen!

Yes, if you look closely that is an actual real bug inside that lollipop he is licking! (well it is dead....at least it was not moving)

Sarah got those on her Wartburg Spring band trip last spring.  She gave one to each of her brothers.  Stephen was the only brave one to try it.  So, ....did he eat the Bug?  No.  When the bug became exposed, he stopped licking the lollipop.  But he was braver than his other whimpy brothers who didn't even open the wrappers to their lollipops!

Believe it or not Sarah found those gems at the Amana Colonies.

Stephen is all excited, he did pick out his breakfast cereal, even though he does not eat cereal.  It was Apple Jacks (good choice)

for a cake he chose Chocolate

for icing it was Chocolate

for his first choice of ice cream it was Chocolate

for his second choice of ice cream it was Chocolate  (you get to choose two ice creams)

I think he likes chocolate.

We will celebrate his birthday sometime in the evening.

posted by: Randy

This time I think it is finally fixed!

OK,

I do believe I finally fixed the problem posting comments to the blog site.

so when you post a comment it should take you to a new page and you will see the comment box and the random word you are supposed to type in and then select the user profile you are going to be.

Anna has been my quality control expert, she has been trying and trying and it kept kicking her off.  But I do believe I outsmarted it and fixed it.

If Anna can get through then I know it is finally fixed.

posted by: Randy
(Well this is a fine howdy-do, I updated the program to post blogs and I just noticed that the place where I type the blogs no longer has a spell checker option.  How am I to know if i spleled a woord corretcly?)

problems commenting on blog

It has come to my attention that there seems to be a problem posting comments on the blog.

It will not let you post a comment for some reason, particularly if you choose the anonymous choice.

Here I what I did to get around that issue

type in your comment

Choose the anonymous choice

click post comment

if it will not let you post or not give you the secret letters to post you comment

then click the preview comment button

that will get you the secret letters to type in

type in those secret letters and then it will post your comment.

the comment that was deleted was my test comment to see if it worked

posted by Randy.

I am kind of wondering if I am typing in the wind?

Message to all family members

Dear Family members,

parents,

Brothers and Sisters,

aunts, and uncles,

nieces, and nephews

Siblings,

Did it ever occur to you to try and consolidate your birthdays, anniversaries, into one tight group or month?

It seems like this is all I ever get done doing is wishing someone a happy birthday.

The following pairs have the program down and know how things should be:
Daniel and Xavier, Andrew and Monique, Joachim and Maria, Doug B. and Katie, and Jason and Carlon they all share the same birth date! Arlene and John H. get a double bonus for having their birthdays on the same day, and married to each other (minus a point for their anniversary not as their birth dates)!

Nancy and I come close with our birth dates side to side and Doug and Janice throwing in an anniversary alongside us, I believe that is doing pretty good.

Let us look at September, which is just packed with birthdays and anniversaries
Daniel and Xavier share a birthday

Caroline and I have our anniversary alongside Carl and Donna's with Kolbe and Bret blocking us with their birthdays on each end of the string.

Doug and Nancy should have some credit with their anniversary right next to Caroline's birthday but Greg and Marcy stretched it a bit having a day space after Caroline's b-day.

Joseph and Donna did good, but Sarah is all by her lonesome down at the bottom of the month.

What is up with Stephen, Sophia, Jacinta and Matthew? Their birthdays are completely scattered across the month of October? I believe you four need to communicate better to tighten up that pattern.

Carl and Gabriel, have a seven day spread which is doing good for November, but Alicia your near the beginning of the month, you could have at least dropped down a week! Remember November is a light birthday month you all need to be team players!

December is looking good with a nice tight pattern with Noelle, John S., Joachim/Maria (on the same day), Catherine, and Marie. I applaud Catherine for hitting the lucky number in December.

Unfortunately January is scattered again with Allen, Carrissa and Angelica, with a good save from Doug B. and Katie (birthdays on same day)

February being such a small month it sure packs a lot of birthdays with Anne, Aunt Lourdes, Doug S. and Martha and Chris which they have kept their birthdays good and tight, but Franseco and Philomena slid away from the pack with birthdays at the end of the month.

the reason March is so windy is because of all the birthdays for that month. There is Jim, Teresa, Tom, Mary, Nathaniel, Greg H. Janice, Dominica, and Raphael and with Carlon and Connie's anniversary.

April seems to be easier on the eyes, with Joey, Val, Mathias, Marcy, and Michael celebrating birthdays with John and Arlene celebrating an anniversary.

May is nice and compact with Birthdays of Grace Annie, Claire, Robert, Arlene/John H. with Jim and Martha's anniversary starting the pattern, but Greg and Val throw the curve with their anniversary at the end of the month.

Megan, Melissa, and Connie share the month of June all to themselves. BOYS take note June is an all girls birthday month. There is not a single boy birthday in that month. Be careful of June.

July erupted with birthdays with Lucas, Jason/Carlon (same day), Mary H., Nicholas, and Martha H., and with Bret and Anne's anniversary

But August is looking real good, a nice pattern, a nice consolidation, a nice even flow. You can tell the birthdays and anniversaries just knew what they were doing in August. All other months should emulate August. August knows what is going on. August is one smart month.
Did I mention I was born in August? Along with Paul, Emmanuela, Nancy, Randy(me) and Greg, but there goes Greg again by having that wide spread, it is so hard to reign him in at times. Anniversaries go to Tom and Melissa and Doug and Janice.

If I had to count (OK, maybe Caroline counted) But if I did happen to count up all the people on our calendar it would come up with 38 nieces and nephews 4 parents, 9 siblings with 8 spouses, and 6 children. And to think there are 365 days in a year


posted by Randy