Thursday, August 28, 2008

Brooke went back to school yesterday. She is pretty happy with all her classes, and she has a study hall last period which means she can leave early. Gary had yesterday off, but we didn't do too much. He had to mow the lawn, it was a week overdue, and I weeded the gardens. Ugh, not my favorite job. We spent 3 hours listing things on e-bay, and we still have more to go. I made tacos for dinner, and since I have not really cooked dinner much in the last few months they were thoroughly enjoyed. We had our propane delivered yesterday too. No problemo, she pre-paid for our whole winter's worth. Well we pre-paid at like $2.75 a gallon and it is down to $2.34 a gallon. So we paid probably about $170 more than we needed to. That was a bummer, but it could have been the other way too.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Shack

This book was not at all what I thought it was going to be when I bought it. It is actually a story about a man's journey in finding his way back to God. I have to confess I flipped through some pages and just scanned them because I wanted to finish it. It was a strange story and I had a hard time staying real interested in a lot of parts.
cat
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Vacation

Gary has been on vacation as you can see from the pictures. We can get Brooke to try on any hat when we are shopping and we make her model the most outrageous ones we can find, as you can see in the montage of previous pictures we hit the jackpot in a store in Ogunquit.
And, I know, I look pregnant with that top that I had on. I fervently hoped that is what everyone else thought too, not that I was fat!!!
Gary has been having a great vacation, the weather is fabulous this week. We spent one day in Ogunquit, went to the movies and saw Stepbrothers, it was hilarious. Brooke had her senior pictures taken on Sunday night, we went for chinese food last night, and tonight is Bingo. This is it though, we go home after this vacation and Brooke is back to school on Wednesday. We only have a few precious weekends left to come to Maine and then we have to shut it down.

Girl of Many Hats

Breaking Dawn

That's it. The stunning conclusion to the Twilight series. I read all 754 pages in a couple of days. I am sad that there will be no more to this story, but the movie comes out in November now, and they are in talks to film the others.
"To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs."