A weekend with Humphrey

We have been so blessed with tomatoes this year! I haven’t counted all I’ve put up, but it’s in the several dozen range. I’m ready to not see another one until next year, but I have one more big bowl full … for another day.

We have had an exciting weekend. Humphrey the bear, from Eden’s preschool, came home with her for the weekend. We get to have fun with him for 4 days, then write a short story about him to tell the rest of the class. Eden has fallen in love with the big, soft, cuddly thing, and he even went with us to have his picture taken at the studio on Friday. He was so well behaved and looked at the camera when he was supposed to, unlike Lars, who cried the whole time. Those pictures will be back in two weeks, I know you’re all anxiously awaiting them.

Had my last week of teaching EMT class this week, and we met Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday night. Wednesday evening was the student’s final exam. It was a really tough exam & it took most of them a full three hours to complete. Had to cut them off and send them home at 9:00.

On Monday, I will travel with them to Scottsbluff to be moral support while they rotate through their lengthy practical exam. That’s a pass or fail set of 6 ‘real life’ stations on splinting, airway, trauma, medical, bandaging & the like. I’m looking forward to it, but I’m not the one having to test, either!

The rest of the week was fairy mundane. It rained on and off all week and was actually cold at times. I managed to squeeze in a quick lawn mowing job on Friday after we returned from Scottsbluff and before the Douthit girls came over for supper & a sleepover.

Saturday, Lexi got up early and left for a G.S. event while Kyra stayed and did arts & crafts at our house. Her & Eden made some fun Christmas presents with special supplies that I picked up when I was in Casper last time. I knew they would have fun making them, and boy, did they ever! My kitchen table is currently a drying rack and I’m going to be scraping Mod Podge off my chairs for a week, but it was a good time.

Lars received a late birthday present in the mail and opened up a beautiful large, fall colored squirrel quilt for Grandma Great & Aunt Janet. Eden said excitedly, “Aunt Janet made me MY special blanket too, and Aunt Janet & Grandma Great made MY animal blanket too!” And she immediately went to get both to show Lars. He played with the quilt for quite a while, he loved the bright colors. It’s currently spread out on the toddler bed in his room, waiting for the day he gives up the crib.

Sunday morning, we travelled to Potter, NE for a special event at the church down there. Eden was able to attend their Sunday School before the service began, and Allen was their guest preacher, followed by an awesome pot luck dinner, and another presentation on ‘missions’. It went very well & we all had a good time. Of course, Humphrey came with us and

sat in the pew like a good little bear the whole morning.

Once we got back into Bridgeport, it was a pit stop at the house to change clothes & head to the ‘nail pulling party’ at the Douthit’s. Since Pastor & Mark pulled up all those wood floors up in the old parsonage, they have been stacked in Mark’s shed, waiting for the nails to be pulled. The LYF came, along with a few other adults, to pull all afternoon. We quit for a quick supper, then went back out until 8:00 p.m. We figure we’re about half done with the pulling…yikes.

Tonight, I pulled in all my pots in expectation of our first freeze. Let’s see if I can manage to keep the geraniums alive until spring.