Busy Month Ahead

 June always seems to clog up pretty heavily for many reasons. For one, we are preparing for vacation. For another our church VBS has been in June for the past few years. Also, 4-H judging is in June.

Lunch with My Friend

 

May Adventures

Library story time, lots of trucks, taking walks, double skinned knees😥, making a bird mobile, and carrying around a brick cuz why not??

 

Phone Problems

We've been struggling with Bryan's phone for days now. Suddenly for no apparent reason, it lost the ability to make or receive phone calls and many other random functions. His wallpaper was gone, and his contacts(!), and all his photos.

It could be that it did an update. Or it could be Bryan hit something. He's not terribly versed in technology. I'm a bit better but things happen that I don't know why and can't fix either.

The first day we couldn't communicate at all until he got home from work. Then we thought we got it working. But the second day he called me from the work landline. 

A few hours each night until we were too bleary to continue fixed it little by little. First redownloaded his contacts I guess from the cloud. Thank goodness for that! It would have been quite an ordeal to get all those recollected and probably several impossible that would have just been lost. The wallpaper was pretty easy because I had copies of that picture elsewhere, just had to find, send, and place it. It's a picture of the tree Bryan took in Gettysburg National Cemetery. The photos took the longest. I don't even know how I found them or where, or why I ended up having to do. Just took forever, a couple hours each over 2-3 days of searching, trying, failing, looking again, but it finally worked.

Sad that it crippled our lives so much! 

 

Bella Banquet

 I thought we totally missed the Bella Banquets this year. Everything was so busy it just got away from us. But I guess there was so much demand that they scheduled a additional bonus banquet. So Melissa and I went and I invited my neighbor Jenny and she came. Melissa invited her co-worker but she ended up not being able to.

It's always such a tremendous blessing to hear of the updates of how many lives have been saved and impacted and changed for the better!

Fascinated with my Umbrella

 

Reading Update

 Still working my through Tactics by Greg Kokul and The Watchmaker's Daughter by Larry Lofton as well as Swiss Family Robinson. All have been difficult reads for me, but for different reasons. Tactics because it's deep material I want to fully understand in order to consistently implement it. The Watchmaker's Daughter because it's about the Holocaust so quite heavy and heartbreaking. And Swiss Family because it's just not that interesting to me.

The Story of Alfred the Great by 

     How England became united due to the constant invasion of the Viking Danes. Another Charlotte Mason recommendation.

Once Upon a Summer by Jeanette Oke

    Great fun to reread. Another orthodox author I can relax and enjoy while still be challenged with Biblical content.

Just started Happy Lies: how a movement you (probably) never heard of shaped our self obsessed world.

  Very eye opening with lots of explanation, history,  definitions, and examples. Another deep read though!