Wednesday April 5, 2006

Rain!

I couldn’t find any animals in the rain puddles, but it rained “Cats and Dogs” in Maine yesterday.

Everything on the exterior of this house was dripping wet.

I was awake early as usual, because I love mornings, and since the Myers’ have declared Grandma’s visit a “legal holiday from home school week”, nobody else was up at 4:30 AM. 

Consequently my “to do list” (pray, read online news, check email, update blog, read blogs, get dressed) was complete by 7:00 AM.  It was still basically quiet in the house, and I needed something to do, so checked the refrigerator and freezer for items to make a brunch casserole. 

Diane said when she smelled the aroma of baking food wafting up the stairs, she thought, “Thumbs up to Mom, she’s making brunch!”

A rainy vacation day is a wonderful time to watch videos or DVDs.  Cerwin and I enjoyed watching The Ice Road on the History Channel a few weeks ago and recorded it for the Myers.  They enjoyed it as well.  It’s about tractor trailers taking supplies across a large frozen lake in the Northwest Territories. 

Mark and Diane

By midafternoon, Mark had to leave for another bus tour.  This time he went to Logan Airport (Boston) for a group from Scotland.  He is taking them to Killington, Vermont for a skiing vacation.

Abigail designed a decorative cover for a storage bucket.

While Mark and Diane were gone (she took him to the bus terminal) we completed the evening chores, prepared supper, and caught up on anything else we wanted to do, so we could spend the evening watching Sound of Music. 

My new Sound of Music DVD has an intermission break, during which Josiah made root beer floats.  Yumm!