A Cat’s Rules

 

• CHAIRS AND RUGS:
  If you have to throw up, get into a chair quickly. If you cannot manage in time, get to an Oriental rug. If no Oriental rug, pick the nicest rug you can find.
• DOORS:
  Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get a door opened, stand on hind legs and hammer with forepaws. Once the door is opened, it is not necessary to use it. After you have ordered an outside door opened, stand halfway in and out and think about several things. This is particularly important during very cold weather, rain, snow and mosquito season.
• GUESTS:
  Quickly determine which guest hates cats the most. Sit on that human’s lap. If you can arrange to have Friskies Fish’N Glop on your breath so much the better.
• For sitting on laps or rubbing against trousers, select fabric color which contrasts well with your fur. For example: white-furred cats should go to black wool clothing.
• For the guest who claims, “I love kitties,” be ready with aloof disdain; apply claws to stockings or use a quick nip on the ankle.
• When walking among dishes on the dinner table, be prepared to look surprised and hurt when scolded. The idea is to convey, “But you allow me on the table when company isn’t here”.
• Always accompany guests to the bathroom. It is not necessary to do anything. Just sit and stare.
• WORK:
  If one of your humans is sewing or writing and another is idle, stay with the busy one. This is called helping, otherwise known as hampering. Following are the rules for hampering:
• When supervising cooking, sit just behind the left heel of the cook. You cannot be seen and thereby stand a better chance of being stepped on, picked up and consoled.
• For book readers, get in close under the chin, between the human’s eyes and the book, unless you can lie across the book itself.
• For knitting projects, curl up quietly onto the lap of the knitter and pretend to doze. Occasionally reach out and slap the knitting needles sharply. This can cause dropped stitches or split yarn.The knitter may try to distract you with a scrap ball of yarn. Ignore it. Remember, the aim is to hamper work.
• PLAY:
  It is important. Get enough sleep in the daytime so you are fresh for playing catch mouse or king-o-the-hill on their bed between 2 and 4 a.m.
• SUMMARY:
  Begin people training early. So you will have a smooth-running household. Humans need to learn certain basic rules. They can be taught if you start early and are consistent!

Veteran’s Day 2009

Grandpa Probeck

Grandpa Truitt

Grandma Truitt

 

To those who gave and were willing to give their lives for our country.

Because freedom isn’t free.

 

{yes, it’s a day late. No, I don’t know why the picture of Grandpa Truitt is so blurry.}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve Been Tagged…

by Hannah!

1. Do you like to write?

Definitely! I like to write letters and stories and articles.

2. Favorite books?

oo, that’s a hard question. I love to read so I like pretty much anything that’s good!

3. Do you compose music/write songs?

I can, but I don’t very often.

  

4. Do you like poetry?
Not very often.

5. Love someone so much who made you cry?

Well….I guess….yeah.

6. Broken a bone?

Yup, I broke my wrist when I was eleven. I was riding bareback and a plastic grocery bag flew into my horse’s face…she reared and I flew off and landed on my arm.

7.Been in a police car?

Nope!

8.Been on a boat?

Yes, we go canoeing a lot, and I went on the ferry to Wisconsin, and the ferry from France to England. And this summer we went boating with some friends…that was fun!

9.Fallen asleep in school?

Certainly…I’m homeschooled!

10. Did you sing today?

Nope. I sang yesterday though.

11.KFC, Popeyes, or Church’s?

KFC!! Oh boy, now I am so hungry for Grilled Chicken.

12.Chick-fil-a or What-a-burger?

 

Chick-fil-a, mmmm!!! When we lived in Indiana there was a Chick-fil-a near us…delicious!

 

13.Starbucks of McCafe?

Starbucks if I can get it, but McCafe is all right too.

14.What’s your favorite time of year?

Spring and summer.

15.Do you ever talk to yourself?

Yeah, all the time. When I’m working by myself I have conversations with other people in my head. That sounds a bit mental written out like that…I’m not crazy…really!

16.Do you have a favorite treat you like to buy on occasion?

Reeses or Butterfingers, but I don’t get them too often.

17. Do you believe the Bible is the literal Word of God and is infallible?

Absolutely!

18. What’s your favorite sport?

VOLLEYBALL!!!!!!!

19. What color is your ipod?

Hot pink!

20. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

I’d stay here. I went to Europe once, and I’m perfectly content to stay home. I might go to Ireland though.

21.If you could go to any fictional place, where would you go?
Camelot!

22.Do you love to write or do you just like writing? Or do you write at all?

Somewhere between love and like. It’s not my life work or anything, but I do really enjoy it!

23.What do you want to be when you’re a grown up?

Wait, you mean I’m not a grown up now? I want to get married and have a lot of children!

24.Favorite animal?

Cats, naturally.

25. Favorite song?

I like a LOT of music.

26.Do you like school?

Yeah, I guess so. Learning stuff is good.

27.Are you a people person?

Yes, definitely!

28. Do you like to talk?

Yeah….you might say that.

29.Favorite food?

Mashed potatoes, ham, green bean casserole and stuffing. With cheesecake for dessert. That’s like the best meal ever.

30.Hobbies?
I don’t know if I do anything that would classify as a hobby.

31.’Favorite author?

I don’t know…I have a lot of favorite authors!

 

32. Favorite weapon?

Paintball gun? No, wait, I’m just kidding. Why would I need a weapon?

 

33.Is this a fun tag or are you getting bored?

Yes it is fun, and I’m not bored.

34.Do you like Hannah Montana and all those girly people and movies like Highschool Musical?
Not at all.

35.What are you scared of?

Umm…I’m not going to tell you.

 

36. Favorite flower?

Daffodils.

37.What is the expression on your face?

Neutral.

38. Color of your eyes?

Blue. I couldn’t be a Truitt if I had any other color eyes.

 

 

 

Ok, I’m not going to tag anybody as usual….so if you want to do it, consider yourself tagged.

Friends

 

~also known as the girls of the  BBFC/BBHBC graduating homeschool class of 2010~  

Hannah Gabrielle Templeton

MaryBeth Elizabeth Sunshine Roberson

&

Anna Joy Truitt

 

 

Can they pick me up?

They can!

Help, Mom! I think they’re going to drop me!!

 

 

 

 

Save us! Save us! We’re falling down the hill!

I got a bit tired walking back to the car so Hannah kindly volunteered her back…for about two minutes until I got terrified and jumped off…I didn’t wish to be responsible for chiropractor bills.

 

“A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope.”

 

 

 ”A friend loveth at all times.”
- Proverbs 17:17

My hair grew when I wasn’t looking, I think….I had no idea it was that long.

Aren’t we just too cute?

 

 

Thanks Mom for spending your afternoon “shooting” us! We love you.

 Might post more later….which of these do you like best?

 

 

 

 

Michigan Autumn, defined

 

Beautiful leaves and beat-up Fords

 

Apples to Applesauce

 

 

Washing the apples

 

Mom, ready for action

…cutting…I was using one of those nifty little things that you put on the apple and press on, and then voila! Your apple is “cored and sliced”. Supposedly.

 

 

Cooked apples, all ready to be made into delicious applesauce!  

 

Cranking the Victorio…

 

We voted down chunky applesauce….BSBT likes to remind me of the time I (clearly without thinking first) announced that “I don’t like apples in my applesauce!”

 

 The finished product! Nothing is quite as good as hot applesauce. We didn’t make much…hopefully we’ll have more time later on.

 

 

 It is very difficult to take a decent picture of a cow eating an apple. And Miss Daisy here got two, because her friend Raisin was further out in the field and didn’t know that there were apples to be had!

 

 

 

I thought this one was pretty good.

Joy

{picture: canoeing with friends a few months ago}

  “The religion of Christ is the religion of JOY. Christ came to take away our sins, to roll off our curse, to unbind our chains, to open our prisonhouse, to cancel our debt; in a word, to give us the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Is not this joy? Where can we find a joy so real, so deep, so pure, so lasting? There is every element of joy – deep, ecstatic, satisfying, sanctifying joy – in the gospel of Christ. The believer in Jesus is essentially a happy man. The child of God is, from necessity, a joyful man. His sins are forgiven, his soul is justified, his person is adopted, his trials are blessings, his conflicts are victories, his death is immortality, his future is a heaven of inconceivable, unthought-of, untold, and endless blessedness. With such a God, such a Saviour, and such a hope, is he not, ought he not, to be a joyful man?”

 

Yes, I will do a regular post….just as soon as I can!

-Your busy blogger

Roses

 

 

The precious Rose of Sharon, broken and bruised in cruel shame

Stained the cross of Calvary so that men might be saved.

Satan cheered as He died, while Mary and the others cried,

But God raised Him up from death’s sleep,  and kept a promise only He could keep:

 

Roses will bloom again; just wait and see,

Don’t mourn what might have been…only God knows how and when but

roses will bloom again

 

 

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God’s love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.

~Eric Liddell

 

 

Shipshewana, Indiana

This past Wednesday Mom and I drove down to Shipshewana, Indiana, and met my sister there for a few days. The three of us going to Shipshewana in the fall has been a tradition since I was a baby. On the second day that we were there, Thursday, Mrs. Cosby, Amanda and Stephanie drove up to spend the day with us shopping, eating, and of course, talking.

Trying on hats…I actually really liked that red one!

Amanda was trying to get a picture of us in front of a Christmas tree, but I couldn’t stop laughing.

Look at what we found! A GIANT chocolate bar! Just fifteen dollars for an instant stomach ache…if you ate the whole thing!

Steph…what are you doing? It looks like you’re hanging Christmas tree ornaments from your ears…my word, that IS what you’re doing. I don’t know her, folks. She’s just a random person, in a store, that was following me around, and I really, REALLY don’t know her…

..see??

On the top floor of one of the buildings there was a carousel…so naturally we had to go on it.

I think the “look” in this picture is because Amanda had just called out that we were the biggest kids on the carousel, but probably not the most mature.

Lena and I at the Essenhaus, the hotel that we stayed at.

 

We found a nice friendly person who was willing to take a picture of all three of us right before we left.

 

Unfortunately it was rainy, unhappy weather, so I didn’t get any pictures of anything outside…but in spite of the dreary drizzle, we had a wonderful time!!

Rain

{picture: Lena last September}

 

If I cannot hear “The sound of rain’ long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit,

as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees,

though six times or sixty times I am told “There is nothing’, till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea,

then I know nothing of Calvary love.

 -Amy Carmichael