Wednesday January 7, 2009

 

 

Wednesday in Maine

 

 

 It was a snowy, rainy, icy day – the reason we are still here.

 

 

 Cerwin decided that it wasn’t worth the hassle of driving on hazardous roads for ten hours.

 

 

 I woke up to the sound of Josiah making coffee.  He had just come home from night shift at Wal-Mart.  He played a game on my old laptop while waiting for the others to wake up.

 

 

 Lydia bought a horse coloring book at Play ‘n Learn on Monday (after shopping at L.L. Bean) and colored a few pages while waiting for breakfast.

 

 

 

 

 Hezekiah and Cerwin watched a hunting video.   Breakfast (brunch) was late because Mark only got in at 1:00 a.m. this morning – and was not driving bus today.  Josiah went to bed after eating, and the rest of us relaxed or cleaned up the breakfast dishes.  Abigail spent most of the day in bed, as she was sick with a stomach flu.

 

 

 At noon, Cerwin and I logged on to the Webinar that TFC was conducting this week.  We planned to participate at home tomorrow, but changed our registration to Mark and Diane’s computer today – because we will be on the road tomorrow.  (Wireless is a bit uncertain here – the reason I did not use my laptop.)

Technology is amazing.  The seminar was conducted from Pennsylvania, and TFC staff were logged in from across the USA and Canada.

 

 

 We “goofed off” in the late afternoon and evening – playing games (computer and otherwise).

 

 

 Toward evening, Hezekiah went outside to check on the snow.

 

 

 It appears that we got two or three inches, along with rain and sleet.  It would have been a miserable day to drive.

 

 

 Josiah woke up in the late afternoon, and played a computer game with Lydia and Hezekiah.  You can see that Hezekiah’s cheeks are still rosy from being outside.

 

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Supper

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 It has been a long time since I ate soybeans.  They were delicious.

 

 

The highlight of the meal was stuffed crab shells.  Diane cleans for a lady whose brother is a commercial fisherman, and when he gave them fresh crabs the other week, Diane and a few of the children helped to “pick” the crab meat.  They were rewarded with some of the meat.  It was fabulous.

 

 

 Elizabeth made the dessert:  a mixture of raspberry and cranberry yogurt, Cool Whip, and blueberries. 

 

It was a wonderful, snowy day in Maine!