Day 67

I have just finished the last of my ten things.I only have thirty three more days to go. What a beautiful day out today. It felt almost like spring. I am always ready for spring as soon as December is over. I made it outside today to do yard work. I am sure I will really feel it tomorrow. I clipped a lot of branches that were coming through our fence. I made it without getting any scratches today from the sticker bushes.

I remember when the girls were small and I was just about due to have Ethan we were outside in the yard and the girls discovered berries on the other side of our barbed wire fence. The neighbor told me they were salmon berries but I was not too familiar with them and I did not want the girls getting in the habit of picking berries when ever they were outside in case they chose some that were not edible. I went inside and told them to stay away from the berries.

I went in to start making lunch and as I looked out my kitchen window I saw the girls standing on a five gallon bucket reaching over the fence picking berries. I was just about ready to knock on the window when I saw them jump down and run around the house.They came inside and both of the girls had scratches on them and wanted bandaids. As I was examining the scratches I asked how it happened, knowing all too well where they came from. I wanted to see what they would say.

Right away one quickly piped up and said they were playing in the yard when they spotted two bunnies, One was blue and the other one was pink and they thought they were so cute they wanted to catch them and play with them, but when they got a hold of the bunnies they started scratching them so they let them go and they ran off. I asked the other one if that is how it happened and she nodded yes. I told them I knew they both were lying because for one I have never heard of a pink or blue bunny and second I saw them out the kitchen window. They both broke down in tears ,they knew they were in trouble.It was really hard to keep a straight face.

Besides working in the yard today I practiced my Spanish and the piano. I read my books and studied algebra. I listened to another lecture that goes along with the course I am finishing . I organized more in the office and sorted through more family photos and I decided to pull out my card making stuff and play around.It has been a very pleasnt day.

Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forske your mother's teaching. They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. PROVERBS 1:8-9