Tidbits

Hello Friends!

Been a little while, so I thought I'd update things here. We managed to avoid a parking ticket this week, thanks to our google calendar which now sends me an e-mail every Sunday afternoon to remind me to move the car. Very handy.

I have my first test of sorts tomorrow in my ornithology lab. I haven't had an exam in almost two years, so I hope I know what I'm doing, but I've been very busy studying all of the bird orders, internal and external anatomy, feathers, and bones. George has been helping me study the orders with my flashcards, and he's even picked up on some of them. Now when we see ducks at the creek he makes sure to point out that they are in fact Anseriformes. I have also been studying with a girl I met in class, Sara. She sat by me the first day of class, and now I'd even say we're beginning to be friends. She came over on Sunday night to study, and she was our very first house guest. It's great to finally know a few faces around here.

On Monday, while we were cooking dinner, George decided to fiddle some with the timer knobs on the oven, because if they exist, he must fiddle with them. He managed to do two things during his fiddling. First he somehow set the timer, and it went off at a later point in the evening. Not really what we were expecting. Second he some how managed to turn off the oven part. What I mean by this is, when we went to try to turn on the oven, simply nothing happened. Neither the broiler or the lower element would function. We thought he broke the oven, until today, he decided to fiddle again, and got it all to function again. I'm not really sure what the point of that certain knob is, but at least our oven is functional still. I was worried there that I wasn't going to be able to bake my birthday cake.

In other news, my wonderful mother took on the task of sewing curtains for our windows. They arrived a couple of days ago and they look really great. It is a huge improvement over sheets on the windows, and now they neighbors can't stare at us while we eat dinner. (We also don't have to see our neighbor while changing her shirt...this we did see by accident) Okay I just took pictures, but George's camera won't load onto my computer, so I'm going to have to make him add them later. Be sure to check back for an update!

This coming Sunday, George is playing solo for the first time at church. Everyone there is so excited about him, they even put a story in the news paper. He's at choir practice right now, and one of the members was going to bring him a clipping of it, so you'll also have to check back to see that. We'll scan it and post it up here.

We absolutely cannot wait for things to thaw out around here. We've had maybe one or two days above freezing since we've been here, and it's starting to get a little old. It would be really nice to walk outside with out being bundled, and to not have to risk my neck on the walk to school because of the ice all over the sidewalk. Apparently Phil saw his shadow on Monday though, so it looks like we'll have 6 more weeks of winter.

Anywho, much love to you all!!