A snow storm? In september? Naw...it can't be! Oh, how it appears that way though. The wind is blowing, white stuff is falling...and did I mention that it's bright, sunny, and 80 degrees outside?
But wait, 80 degress....It can't snow when it's 80...perhaps I misread the thermometer and it's really 80-? No, no, that can't be right either. And WHAT is that horrible racket going on outside? Ah, yes, the answer to all these questions lurks right outside my front door: The insulation guys are here.
They've been working on blowing insulation into the walls ever since about 9:30 this morning. It's terribly loud what with the drills and the banging and the power-blowing and all....And my dog barking off and on at the people who are invading her territory.
My pathetic attempt to block out the noise hasn't been working at all. My clock radio just can't stand up to the racket these guys are making.
*sigh* I'm just gonna have to put up with it. After all, this stuff is suposedly going to keep my room from turning into the boiler pot in the summer time and the ice box in the winter, so we'll see how it all works out.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Friday, September 21, 2007
How....Fair!
Ah, the sounds, the smells, the fun, the animals, the rides! Oh how I love the fair.
Isn't is so odd how you know that it's one day and it seems like it should be another? My dad took the day off work and it totally seems like a Saturday. It always seems to when it's the day of the Nez Perce fair.
I think that one of the best parts is just the suspense of it all, really. You show up and you're heart's just pounding with excitement and anticipation..."How did I do this year? Did I get a lot of ribbons? Did I win a lot of prize money? Did I get one of the BIG ribbons!?!? Oh, mom, let's look and see how our entrees did before we go anywhere else, okay??"
The suspense is always killing me. Every year since I won my first big rosette ribbon I've gone to the fair hoping that I willl have earned another. I remember the first time that I got one....It was a wonderful feeling I got when I walked up and saw that there was this huge ribbon attached to my artwork! What a thrill for an 11 year old :) Now I'm 14 and I still love getting 'em just as much as before. The first time I got them, one was for creativity and the other was a best in show. After that there was one year (when I was 12) that I didn't get one. Then I was 13 and I won the sweepstakes ribbon in art and then this year I won it as well.
And of course, the fair just wouldn't seem like the fair without going on the rides. I met up with my friend Rebecca and we went on several together. So as we're being tossed and turned, I'm as camera happy as ever, taking video of the whole thing. Once I put it on to my computer, I will hopfully post my pics and vids from the fair for y'all.
Isn't is so odd how you know that it's one day and it seems like it should be another? My dad took the day off work and it totally seems like a Saturday. It always seems to when it's the day of the Nez Perce fair.
I think that one of the best parts is just the suspense of it all, really. You show up and you're heart's just pounding with excitement and anticipation..."How did I do this year? Did I get a lot of ribbons? Did I win a lot of prize money? Did I get one of the BIG ribbons!?!? Oh, mom, let's look and see how our entrees did before we go anywhere else, okay??"
The suspense is always killing me. Every year since I won my first big rosette ribbon I've gone to the fair hoping that I willl have earned another. I remember the first time that I got one....It was a wonderful feeling I got when I walked up and saw that there was this huge ribbon attached to my artwork! What a thrill for an 11 year old :) Now I'm 14 and I still love getting 'em just as much as before. The first time I got them, one was for creativity and the other was a best in show. After that there was one year (when I was 12) that I didn't get one. Then I was 13 and I won the sweepstakes ribbon in art and then this year I won it as well.
And of course, the fair just wouldn't seem like the fair without going on the rides. I met up with my friend Rebecca and we went on several together. So as we're being tossed and turned, I'm as camera happy as ever, taking video of the whole thing. Once I put it on to my computer, I will hopfully post my pics and vids from the fair for y'all.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
One of the Grand Old Writings
I was looking through some documents on my computer and came upon this poem that I wrote almost a year ago. So I decided to share it ;)
A Walk on the Narrow Side
Sarah Iddings October 2006
I'm walking down the line, on the long and narrow road
It's tiresome and long
But I'll end up where I belong
This race seems never ending
And my pace is slowing down
I'm getting caught in sinful obstacles and I fear that I will drown
Some times I stop and wonder why I entered in this race
This road is just so difficult and I can never keep up this chase
Just when I'm about to quit I look a head and see the light
The pearly gates of splendor are now shining in my sight
I know I've still got a ways to go but now the prize is in my eyes
And although this road's quite toilsome it won't be my demise
For I know I'm in my Father's will and he's holy, great, and wise
A Walk on the Narrow Side
Sarah Iddings October 2006
I'm walking down the line, on the long and narrow road
It's tiresome and long
But I'll end up where I belong
This race seems never ending
And my pace is slowing down
I'm getting caught in sinful obstacles and I fear that I will drown
Some times I stop and wonder why I entered in this race
This road is just so difficult and I can never keep up this chase
Just when I'm about to quit I look a head and see the light
The pearly gates of splendor are now shining in my sight
I know I've still got a ways to go but now the prize is in my eyes
And although this road's quite toilsome it won't be my demise
For I know I'm in my Father's will and he's holy, great, and wise
Confessions of a Sickie
Okay, so about what I'd said...I guess I actually do have a cold. ugh.
But for once in my life I admitted it. I'm the sort of person who never admits to being sick for fear of missing out on something fun. So many times when I have admitted, I have missed out on something fun. Surprisingly though, it's different this time. Basically, my mom just said this time "You can go to your activities or whatever if you feel up to it, but don't blame me if your cold gets worse." So that's what I did- I took a bunch of vitamins and such and went on ahead with my life.
I worked at the library with Carolyn and Jeanette yesterday and then headed over to the park for the Teen Team's Ultimate Frisbee day. It's amazing what you can do after you've taken Tylenol ;-)
Nobody ever threw the frisbee to me though...the tall guys always get it and then throw it to other tall guys...Or to Jesse (he's only about as tall as me and 11 years old, but he's a great catcher!). Then near the end of our two-hour game the teams were tied and the frisbee was heading straight through the air and landed in my arms. I couldn't believe it-I'd made the game winning catch! And once again, Jesse's team had beat Allen's. lol. Perhaps there's just something lucky about being on Jesse's team!
Now today I've got yet another activity to go to...The first youth group meeting of the school year! Yay! Okay, yeah, I'm in a church with no kids. How can there be a youth group? Simple: I go to my friend's church's youth group. It's really great. I made a video of the stuff we'd done this past year and I will be playing that for everybody at the meeting tonight. Perhaps I shall post it on here some time. It's similar to the Camp Hope video, but with more video than pictures and different music.
Ah, yes, and also today Luke & Jacob (a couple guys from my youth group) came over to look at the swing set in my back yard...They're going to take it down, bring it over to Luke's place, and set it up there for his 2 year old sister to use. Then on their way back out to the front yard, they spotted my dad's cars and thought they were totally great. What is it with guys and cars? No matter their age, they seem to have an attraction to them. Haha, I guess they're born with it.
But for once in my life I admitted it. I'm the sort of person who never admits to being sick for fear of missing out on something fun. So many times when I have admitted, I have missed out on something fun. Surprisingly though, it's different this time. Basically, my mom just said this time "You can go to your activities or whatever if you feel up to it, but don't blame me if your cold gets worse." So that's what I did- I took a bunch of vitamins and such and went on ahead with my life.
I worked at the library with Carolyn and Jeanette yesterday and then headed over to the park for the Teen Team's Ultimate Frisbee day. It's amazing what you can do after you've taken Tylenol ;-)
Nobody ever threw the frisbee to me though...the tall guys always get it and then throw it to other tall guys...Or to Jesse (he's only about as tall as me and 11 years old, but he's a great catcher!). Then near the end of our two-hour game the teams were tied and the frisbee was heading straight through the air and landed in my arms. I couldn't believe it-I'd made the game winning catch! And once again, Jesse's team had beat Allen's. lol. Perhaps there's just something lucky about being on Jesse's team!
Now today I've got yet another activity to go to...The first youth group meeting of the school year! Yay! Okay, yeah, I'm in a church with no kids. How can there be a youth group? Simple: I go to my friend's church's youth group. It's really great. I made a video of the stuff we'd done this past year and I will be playing that for everybody at the meeting tonight. Perhaps I shall post it on here some time. It's similar to the Camp Hope video, but with more video than pictures and different music.
Ah, yes, and also today Luke & Jacob (a couple guys from my youth group) came over to look at the swing set in my back yard...They're going to take it down, bring it over to Luke's place, and set it up there for his 2 year old sister to use. Then on their way back out to the front yard, they spotted my dad's cars and thought they were totally great. What is it with guys and cars? No matter their age, they seem to have an attraction to them. Haha, I guess they're born with it.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Achey Brakey Fun
The cons about this day: I've got a head ache and a sore throught (I think because of all the smoke that's in the valley at the moment).
The pro's: Where do I start? It's been a totally awesomely fun day despite my head-cold-like symptoms!
It was the first PCHE meeting of the year...PCHE stands for Port Cities Home Educators. It's the home school group that my family's in.
The first meeting of the year is always the best because they do it in the park so that the moms can bring their kids and let them play with their friends while they have their meeting. Most of the other ones are in the evenings and only the moms come.
My mom, brother, and I were the first ones to get there. The reason why we were early is one of the things I'm so happy about today.... We got the home school yearbooks back from the printer's!! We weren't expecting them to finish until Thursday, so it was such a great suprise to get the phone call this morning saying that our print order had been finished. The timing couldn't have been more perfect, since the meeting was this afternoon.
Well, anyway, people started showing up and before I knew it I had so many friends in the park that I barely had time to hang out with them all. Some were friends I hadn't seen since the begining of the summer, others were friends I'd just seen a few days ago, but no matter how long it had been since I'd seen them, I was happy they were there!
So I talked to several of my girlfriends for a while and then my friend Allen (he's the one I'd mentioned in my last post) came up and invited me and whoever else to join in a game of Ultimate Frisbee. Of course, now that I've actually gotten good at the game I seized the opertunity...Even though it made me the only girl in a crowd of guys. Then my friend Taylor walked by and I convinced her to join me in the game. For the first half of it Taylor and I were on a team with Allen's little bro, Jesse. Then halfway through Allen's team was loosing so badly that they had me switch sides to hopfully help balance out the score a bit. They lost with a score of 2 to 5 anyway, but at least my switching over helped them gain 2 points. Otherwise, that would have been REALLY pathetic.
So yeah, fun, fun. And I'll be playing the same game all over again tomarrow afternoon at Teen Teams! Good thing it's one of my fave things to do.
The pro's: Where do I start? It's been a totally awesomely fun day despite my head-cold-like symptoms!
It was the first PCHE meeting of the year...PCHE stands for Port Cities Home Educators. It's the home school group that my family's in.
The first meeting of the year is always the best because they do it in the park so that the moms can bring their kids and let them play with their friends while they have their meeting. Most of the other ones are in the evenings and only the moms come.
My mom, brother, and I were the first ones to get there. The reason why we were early is one of the things I'm so happy about today.... We got the home school yearbooks back from the printer's!! We weren't expecting them to finish until Thursday, so it was such a great suprise to get the phone call this morning saying that our print order had been finished. The timing couldn't have been more perfect, since the meeting was this afternoon.
Well, anyway, people started showing up and before I knew it I had so many friends in the park that I barely had time to hang out with them all. Some were friends I hadn't seen since the begining of the summer, others were friends I'd just seen a few days ago, but no matter how long it had been since I'd seen them, I was happy they were there!
So I talked to several of my girlfriends for a while and then my friend Allen (he's the one I'd mentioned in my last post) came up and invited me and whoever else to join in a game of Ultimate Frisbee. Of course, now that I've actually gotten good at the game I seized the opertunity...Even though it made me the only girl in a crowd of guys. Then my friend Taylor walked by and I convinced her to join me in the game. For the first half of it Taylor and I were on a team with Allen's little bro, Jesse. Then halfway through Allen's team was loosing so badly that they had me switch sides to hopfully help balance out the score a bit. They lost with a score of 2 to 5 anyway, but at least my switching over helped them gain 2 points. Otherwise, that would have been REALLY pathetic.
So yeah, fun, fun. And I'll be playing the same game all over again tomarrow afternoon at Teen Teams! Good thing it's one of my fave things to do.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Um, you might not know this, but we've never met...
It's strange how I end up getting so many friends. I must just look like a friendly induvidual because people will just walk up to me some times and introduce themselves. It's just so funny how that sort of thing always happens to me.
I was just out taking a walk and this girl whom I am constantly seeing but never knew rode past me on her bike and then we just ended up talking. I just made a new accointance right there.
Weather I'm at the park, or the beach, or the water park or whatever people seem to come to me and want to be friends.
What's really strange though is when some one comes up and know who you are but you've never met them in your life! Now that is just weird. That happened to me this summer as well.
I came to the home schooler's Ultimate Frisbee night for the first time and as soon as I walk on to the field where we play, this guy walks up to me and says "Hi Sarah, glad you could make it!". Then I'm just standing there staring at the guy thinking, "Ok, I've never met you. How the heck do you know my name!?" So then as I'm trying to figure out if I knew him from some where and just forgot, he realizes that the two of us have never actually met and explains to me that he saw me in presentation night (the home school talent show). And well, we've been friends ever since.
Really, it can be pretty fun. Well, unless the person you meet turns out to be a real pain once you get to know them. That's happened before too. But most of the time the people I meet turn out to be a lot of fun...
Could this be considered a talent or something? Haha, I don't know! lol. But I like it.
I was just out taking a walk and this girl whom I am constantly seeing but never knew rode past me on her bike and then we just ended up talking. I just made a new accointance right there.
Weather I'm at the park, or the beach, or the water park or whatever people seem to come to me and want to be friends.
What's really strange though is when some one comes up and know who you are but you've never met them in your life! Now that is just weird. That happened to me this summer as well.
I came to the home schooler's Ultimate Frisbee night for the first time and as soon as I walk on to the field where we play, this guy walks up to me and says "Hi Sarah, glad you could make it!". Then I'm just standing there staring at the guy thinking, "Ok, I've never met you. How the heck do you know my name!?" So then as I'm trying to figure out if I knew him from some where and just forgot, he realizes that the two of us have never actually met and explains to me that he saw me in presentation night (the home school talent show). And well, we've been friends ever since.
Really, it can be pretty fun. Well, unless the person you meet turns out to be a real pain once you get to know them. That's happened before too. But most of the time the people I meet turn out to be a lot of fun...
Could this be considered a talent or something? Haha, I don't know! lol. But I like it.
Friday, September 7, 2007
They're Always Watching...
Their eyes are everywhere. No matter where you go, they seem to follow, darting in and out of bushes. Just when you think you're alone, you hear a twig snap and there they are agin.
You look out accross the path to see the bodies that go with these eyes...Then you see, the deer fawns want to play.
You grab a bottle and give the little creatures a snack, and if you find the right one he will rub against you and lick until your hands are covered in fawn drool.
When they've gotten their fill they'll run back off into the trees, watching who ever happens to go by.
As you're heading off down a trail, you suddenly hear rustling in the bushes and look up just in time to see a brown blur. You go and investigate what this was and find at the end of the trail a mule deer doe, one of the fawns of last summer. "Terra! It's Terra!" exclaims a voice beside you. Ah, yes, Laurel...knows them all by name. You walk up and pet the soft fur on Terra's head and then turn off down the trail. After a couple minutes you hear running behind you and turn to see the doe speeding up the trail after you. If she could speak human, you just know she'd be shouting "Hey, wait for me!!!".
Sounds like a fairy tale, no? 'Tis true I'm telling you. For if you go to a certain house in Waha at this certain time of the year, you would know that it is.
Do a bit of work, a bit of play, have fun as the deer follow you all over that day....
You look out accross the path to see the bodies that go with these eyes...Then you see, the deer fawns want to play.
You grab a bottle and give the little creatures a snack, and if you find the right one he will rub against you and lick until your hands are covered in fawn drool.
When they've gotten their fill they'll run back off into the trees, watching who ever happens to go by.
As you're heading off down a trail, you suddenly hear rustling in the bushes and look up just in time to see a brown blur. You go and investigate what this was and find at the end of the trail a mule deer doe, one of the fawns of last summer. "Terra! It's Terra!" exclaims a voice beside you. Ah, yes, Laurel...knows them all by name. You walk up and pet the soft fur on Terra's head and then turn off down the trail. After a couple minutes you hear running behind you and turn to see the doe speeding up the trail after you. If she could speak human, you just know she'd be shouting "Hey, wait for me!!!".
Sounds like a fairy tale, no? 'Tis true I'm telling you. For if you go to a certain house in Waha at this certain time of the year, you would know that it is.
Do a bit of work, a bit of play, have fun as the deer follow you all over that day....
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Positive Vs. Negative
It's funny how two kids who were brought up in the same family could turn out so different.
My brother (who's 11) and I are different as day and night. Especially in our atitudes twards life.
I'm always the super happy optimistic one who's practically never in a bad mood and he's a total pessimist who always is going around complaining about stuff.
In my opinion, who needs to waste time complaining? Life's only so long so live it to the fullest and enjoy it while it lasts. Even on the baddest day there's usually some little good thing.
I suppose that could be considered a talent of mine...I can almost always find something good in anything that happens. Even if I can't at the time, later on I think back on what ever happened and I can find the good in the situation.
Like a couple years ago one of my best friends in the whole world moved away to California and left my brother and I as the only kids in the entire church. It took a while, but now I can see all sorts of good stuff that came out of it.... If I hadn't been the only girl my age in the church I probibly wouldn't have the incredibly cool birthday gift of an awesomely decorated room from these two ladies that are in the group. And I might not have gotten to know the people at Laurel's church because I most likely wouldn't have gotten to go to their evening church times. Infact, I might not even know Laurel because if that family hadn't moved my mom wouldn't have put me in choir because she thought I needed to make some new friends (I met Laurel in choir). So...yeah. Like I had written in one of my poems I'd posted, "every dark could has it's own silver lining".
I've learned that the Bible verse is very true-"All things work together for good to those who love the Lord."
My brother (who's 11) and I are different as day and night. Especially in our atitudes twards life.
I'm always the super happy optimistic one who's practically never in a bad mood and he's a total pessimist who always is going around complaining about stuff.
In my opinion, who needs to waste time complaining? Life's only so long so live it to the fullest and enjoy it while it lasts. Even on the baddest day there's usually some little good thing.
I suppose that could be considered a talent of mine...I can almost always find something good in anything that happens. Even if I can't at the time, later on I think back on what ever happened and I can find the good in the situation.
Like a couple years ago one of my best friends in the whole world moved away to California and left my brother and I as the only kids in the entire church. It took a while, but now I can see all sorts of good stuff that came out of it.... If I hadn't been the only girl my age in the church I probibly wouldn't have the incredibly cool birthday gift of an awesomely decorated room from these two ladies that are in the group. And I might not have gotten to know the people at Laurel's church because I most likely wouldn't have gotten to go to their evening church times. Infact, I might not even know Laurel because if that family hadn't moved my mom wouldn't have put me in choir because she thought I needed to make some new friends (I met Laurel in choir). So...yeah. Like I had written in one of my poems I'd posted, "every dark could has it's own silver lining".
I've learned that the Bible verse is very true-"All things work together for good to those who love the Lord."
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
From Start to Finish
Well, today is the start of the new school year at my house.
Honestly, I'm really not ready to give up my summer vacation time just yet. It's funny, at the begining of the summer I felt like I didn't want the school year to end because I wouldn't have my science class at my friend Hannah's house anymore, my youth group leader would be gone so we wouldn't get to do that until school starts again, and I thought that the whole summer would be pretty boring.
Guess I was wrong.
This has really be absolutally the greatest summer of my entire life! It's been one great fun time from spending the last week of June at Camp Hope clear down to hanging out with my friends at the local water park in August.
It's just so weird how the time goes. In one sense, it seems as though summer just started, but yet another part of me feels like it's been summer for forever. Odd, isn't it?
Then when I get to thinking about that, my mind seems to shift to another thought having to do with time.... I don't know why it is just so hard for the human mind to grasp how God doesn't dwell within the bonds of time as we do. Every time I think of it, my mind feels like it's tied in knots. I mean, I sort of understand it, but then again, I'm not sure if I really do. Everything in life has a begining, except for God and I guess it's that fact that is so hard for me to grasp.
Well, I'm off to work at the soup kitchen with my youth group now, but I shall hopfully get on again soon to write more...or at least sooner than I have been. Sorry for such long delays!
Honestly, I'm really not ready to give up my summer vacation time just yet. It's funny, at the begining of the summer I felt like I didn't want the school year to end because I wouldn't have my science class at my friend Hannah's house anymore, my youth group leader would be gone so we wouldn't get to do that until school starts again, and I thought that the whole summer would be pretty boring.
Guess I was wrong.
This has really be absolutally the greatest summer of my entire life! It's been one great fun time from spending the last week of June at Camp Hope clear down to hanging out with my friends at the local water park in August.
It's just so weird how the time goes. In one sense, it seems as though summer just started, but yet another part of me feels like it's been summer for forever. Odd, isn't it?
Then when I get to thinking about that, my mind seems to shift to another thought having to do with time.... I don't know why it is just so hard for the human mind to grasp how God doesn't dwell within the bonds of time as we do. Every time I think of it, my mind feels like it's tied in knots. I mean, I sort of understand it, but then again, I'm not sure if I really do. Everything in life has a begining, except for God and I guess it's that fact that is so hard for me to grasp.
Well, I'm off to work at the soup kitchen with my youth group now, but I shall hopfully get on again soon to write more...or at least sooner than I have been. Sorry for such long delays!
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