Tomorrow's a sad day.
5/24/06 12:06 pm.
49 º F, Light rain, S wind 7 mph.
Good afternoon,
Tomorrow will be a very sad day - I ate the last stroopwafel this morning. I probably will not have any more until it get over to the Netherlands again. :-( :-( That’s not nice. I have rationing them out since I received them - one a day - except for one package I shared with the Bible study bunch. They liked them too, but only took one package for them.
Margriet called Astrid earlier. She had been chatting with her for a short time, and Astrid mentioned they were living through a couple of the adventures of life. One of which is a medical problem for Astrid. That was enough for me to tell her to call her, which she did. Seems in a couple of weeks Astrid needs a minor medical surgery. From the sound of it, Margriet had the same reaction Astrid did when she first heard about it - some minor panic. While we normally keep the phone line free from noon to 1:00 P.M. so the kids can call if they wish (early evening there and their calling costs are much less than here), this was important enough for us to call her. After a lot of talk, about a lot of subjects, the calm returned. The instant messaging portion of their conversation I ran though the translator and got an interesting English version. Always good for a chuckle.
The rains have returned about eight hours early. Not only that, I looked at the radar as I was about ready to go outside - no rain on it, except to the south. That is what the weatherman predicted too. But about 5 minutes later, the rain came. Time not to work outside! We are supposed to have some rain overnight and most of the day tomorrow. We really don’t need it. The yard is finally getting a bit dry again. I am sure we will have a really good crop of mosquitos this year too. The kids should be here to "enjoy" them!
I am really having some fun going through all of the pictures and trying to get them in one "place." For some reason, my head keeps thinking we were married in 2004, instead of 2003, so I keep putting pictures in the wrong year folder! Hope eventually I will get them all in the right places. Reliving the various experiences is a lot of fun too. There are a lot of, "Remember this? Where was that? ......." Not only am I trying to get those we have taken, but also the others that have come our way, one way or another.
Our ride to Green Bay was a success yesterday. When we got back, we discovered the price of gasoline had dropped here to 3¢/gallon less than we had paid in Green Bay. Really didn’t expect that at all! Most often the price here is the same or a penny higher, but with the discount, we normally come out ahead buying in Green Bay. I did get the van washed, so guess that is a plus.
One "non-food" item we picked up was a cheap, small hand vacuum cleaner. The idea is to keep it in the van for use when we travel. I like the recharging feature of it. I had received one many years ago from Dori for my birthday. It has long since died and been disposed of. One thing I really didn’t like about it was the need to put in new batteries in it practically after each use. This will eliminate that problem. Of course I have to talk to it in Chinese! It seems to work very well cleaning off my keyboard, but has to sit on the charger for a day before real use.
Food prices that are economical are hard to fine, as a result our shopping cart was rather light this time around. We did stop at the Goodwill and drop off several bags of clothing. We can walk on the sunporch again too! Now the closet has a bit of room in it. Do need to get a few things of clothing though.
The rain has stopped and the sun is out again. Maybe it is time to get a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
49 º F, Light rain, S wind 7 mph.
Good afternoon,
Tomorrow will be a very sad day - I ate the last stroopwafel this morning. I probably will not have any more until it get over to the Netherlands again. :-( :-( That’s not nice. I have rationing them out since I received them - one a day - except for one package I shared with the Bible study bunch. They liked them too, but only took one package for them.
Margriet called Astrid earlier. She had been chatting with her for a short time, and Astrid mentioned they were living through a couple of the adventures of life. One of which is a medical problem for Astrid. That was enough for me to tell her to call her, which she did. Seems in a couple of weeks Astrid needs a minor medical surgery. From the sound of it, Margriet had the same reaction Astrid did when she first heard about it - some minor panic. While we normally keep the phone line free from noon to 1:00 P.M. so the kids can call if they wish (early evening there and their calling costs are much less than here), this was important enough for us to call her. After a lot of talk, about a lot of subjects, the calm returned. The instant messaging portion of their conversation I ran though the translator and got an interesting English version. Always good for a chuckle.
The rains have returned about eight hours early. Not only that, I looked at the radar as I was about ready to go outside - no rain on it, except to the south. That is what the weatherman predicted too. But about 5 minutes later, the rain came. Time not to work outside! We are supposed to have some rain overnight and most of the day tomorrow. We really don’t need it. The yard is finally getting a bit dry again. I am sure we will have a really good crop of mosquitos this year too. The kids should be here to "enjoy" them!
I am really having some fun going through all of the pictures and trying to get them in one "place." For some reason, my head keeps thinking we were married in 2004, instead of 2003, so I keep putting pictures in the wrong year folder! Hope eventually I will get them all in the right places. Reliving the various experiences is a lot of fun too. There are a lot of, "Remember this? Where was that? ......." Not only am I trying to get those we have taken, but also the others that have come our way, one way or another.
Our ride to Green Bay was a success yesterday. When we got back, we discovered the price of gasoline had dropped here to 3¢/gallon less than we had paid in Green Bay. Really didn’t expect that at all! Most often the price here is the same or a penny higher, but with the discount, we normally come out ahead buying in Green Bay. I did get the van washed, so guess that is a plus.
One "non-food" item we picked up was a cheap, small hand vacuum cleaner. The idea is to keep it in the van for use when we travel. I like the recharging feature of it. I had received one many years ago from Dori for my birthday. It has long since died and been disposed of. One thing I really didn’t like about it was the need to put in new batteries in it practically after each use. This will eliminate that problem. Of course I have to talk to it in Chinese! It seems to work very well cleaning off my keyboard, but has to sit on the charger for a day before real use.
Food prices that are economical are hard to fine, as a result our shopping cart was rather light this time around. We did stop at the Goodwill and drop off several bags of clothing. We can walk on the sunporch again too! Now the closet has a bit of room in it. Do need to get a few things of clothing though.
The rain has stopped and the sun is out again. Maybe it is time to get a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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