Water+Sand+Chips+Rock+Portland=Concrete

As I said before, I have been helping Dad and Grandpa pour concrete in our basement. Yesterday we did the last section. One step closer to my room!! While we were working on pouring the concrete, my mom came down and took pictures. So I thought, "What a wonderful thing to share with all my blogosphere friends." Great idea, huh? So here you go, enjoy!!


Me measuring the cement into a bucket

Same as above

Dad dumping a load into the wheel barrow

Rachel putting water into the cement mixer

Rachel measuring chips, Jonathan sand

Me with a bag of cement. I have a strange expression in this picture. Maybe because the bag weighs 94 pounds.

About a fifth of the way done. (I am guessing here and my guesses are not always accurate)

Grandpa screeting (leveling)

We had an assembly line of sorts going, Rachel putting the water in the mixer and filling a bucket half full of chips (small rock, not the kind you eat. Just thought I would let ya'll know), Jonathan filling 2 buckets half full of sand (making it easier for Dad to dump it into the mixer), and me filling 2 buckets just over half full with rock (again, for ease of dumping) and one bucket 3/4 full of cement. Dad would dump it all in the mixer, then when it was mixed, dump it into the wheel barrow and push it into the garage, where Grandpa was leveling it all in. I helped level it at some points, but Grandpa did most of it. All the work went really well and we were done in just over two hours. And then we got donuts!! How cool is that?!? :) After it set for a few hours, Dad went over it with a trowel to give it a nice finish. I will get a picture of it all finished and the size of the area that we poured for ya'll soon. But until then, enjoy the pictures and may God bless.

In Christ,

'becca

I received an award!!

Ok Lucie, sorry it has taken me so long to get this up, but here it is: The Narnia Lover Award!!

Thank you!! :) I award anyone who reads my blog and is a Narnia fan!!!

Lots to say...enjoy!!!

Hey there ya'll!! I have returned and have a lots to write about. So let's get right to it! This all isn't going to be in order, so sorry about that.

My burn is healing up very nicely. The green scab came off and now it is pink. I will have a scar, but I am glad that I never got an infection. It was a pretty bad burn!

Now that school is done, I have been working hard on 4-H projects. I am in the process of staining the secretary that I am refinishing and have cut out the fabric for the dress I am making. I am sorting through pictures, reupholstering a stool...the list goes on and on!! But I enjoy the work it takes to make something beautiful. I am training my dog and that is going well. My New Zealand doe had kits, so I will be able to show a meat pen and single fryer at fair. One thing I need to do is start practicing my presentation!! I will try to do a post with pictures on all my 4-h stuff soon.

We went fishing in our pond a couple weekends ago and caught ten catfish, cleaned eight of them and threw the other two back (they were small). I caught the largest cat of the day, a whopping 2 1/4 pounds!! Ok, so it isn't the biggest fish ever (not by a long shot!!) but considering we put these cats in two years ago and they were around a pound, that is a good sized cat. After the fishing was done, it was time to clean the fish we kept. I washed off the meat after dad cut it off. I smelled like fish and let me tell you, that smell is hard to get rid of!!!

We have had two Irish Step Dance performances in the last couple weeks. They both went very well. I did Single Jig solo at both performances. That was my first and second time!! It was a lot of fun and I did very well. The other dances went well too. Well, most of them... :) During the last dance, I rolled my left ankle off of the stage (it is about 3 inches off the ground) so my ankle is sore and the outside of my calf is tight. I have the week off from dance, so it will be better soon.

I went to the horse barn on Thursday. I got to lunge Holiday (for those of you who don't know what that means, it is having the horse walk, trot and canter in a circle. The person lunging stands in the middle and has the horse move around him of her). I also got to sit on Sha, a horse that is at the barn for breaking in. He is a two year old, but he is so gangly he looks like a yearly! He is going to be tall when he is done growing. I enjoyed my afternoon there and am going back next week.

For the last month, we have been getting ready and pouring the concrete for our garage floor in our basement. We have two sections left to do. I helped my dad and grandpa pour on Saturday. We sent up a assembly line of sorts, filling buckets so Dad could dump the bucket in and know he had the right amount. I was in charge of putting cement and rocks in buckets. I also helped to screed the concrete to make it level. It was fun to help and it puts me one step closer to having my own room!!!

My birthday is coming up soon! My cousin is taking me to a movie and we will have family over. Other wise, I don't really have any big plans. I am planning on saving my birthday money because I would like to get an ipod. I also would like to get a few things for my bow, like a new rest, an arm guard, stuff like that.

Well, I think that is about it. Hope ya'll enjoyed reading about what I have been up to. Sorry it took so long for me to post again. I will try to post more often, but I am not promising anything! I will do a post about 4-H stuff with pictures of some of my projects soon. Enjoy the rest of your day!

'becca

I will return!!!!!!

Hey everybody!!!!

Sorry I have not posted in so long. I have been very busy. Which means that I have a lot to post about!!! So sometime in the next couple days I will sit down and type it up for ya'll to enjoy. And let me tell you, there is plenty to read!! Again, sorry for the long pause in posting. I will have a new post for ya'll very soon.

In Christ,

'becca

The painful start to my week

On Sunday, our 4-H club had a craft project meeting. There were four projects to chose from and you could do any number of them. The projects were: tie-die, recycled bags, puppets, and soap. And since we had duck tape for one of the other projects, we also made duck tape wallets. So, all the projects went really well, and we were cleaning up and taking stuff out to the van. We had three irons for one of the projects and I was picking them up to take them to the van. The cords were all wrapped up, so I figured that all of the irons were cool. I grabbed one in my right hand, and then set one on my right fore arm. OUCH!!!! That iron was VERY HOT!! Just turned off, kind of hot. Let's just say I picked it up very quickly!! But I have quite the burn on my arm. It does not really hurt anymore, just stings a little when I put aloe vera on it. But I am defiantly going to have a scar!! Sorry if I gross anyone out, but I wanted to share.

Then on Monday, I went to the orthodontist. Yippee!! I got two new wires and skipped a step on both of them!! I also got chain rubber bands on the sides of the top to pull my teeth together to fill in the hole where I had teeth pulled. On the bottom I have offsets to pull the two pointy teeth (bicuspids) forward. So my mouth is quite sore!! I have been eating alot of yogurt and soft food. My teeth are feeling a little better today, but there are not going to feel normal until next week. Oh well, at least my smile is straight now!!

'becca

p.s. - My burn turned green because I have had it covered in aloe vera. :)

Bow happy!!!

Me and my bow. It's blue!! My favorite color!!

Pulling it back

I missed the first time, but I am still working on my aim.

Trying agian

Watching my shot

YES!! I hit the target!

Ok, so that may be a dorky title, but it is true!!! I am now the proud owner of a PSE Elite Laser Magnum compound bow! It is very nice and I am really excited to have it. I got it about two weeks ago, and have been meaning to post about it, but have been quite busy (I have been doing more than just shooting my bow!!! Dance recital was last week, so we had practice almost every day.) My target, for now, is some flakes of old, moldy hay that our horses won't eat, tied together with some twine. I am still working on figuring out how to site, but practice makes perfect. It is different the closer or farther you are from your target, but figuring out the correct distance takes some hit and miss. We have some paper targets that I can attach to my hay bale, but I am going to work on hitting the bale before I try to hit a bulls eye!! I am having a lot of fun, and with some practice, I will get much better. Enjoy the pictures!!!

Random Ramblings from a rambling girl

Hey there everyone!! Sorry I have not posted in so long. But I want to get you all caught up on what I have been doing. So, to start.



I get done with school next week!!!!! All I have had to do for the last few weeks is history and literature, but I can not wait to get done. More time for 4-H projects, helping Dad and getting some much waited for reading done. I have not gotten to do a whole lot of that lately. I will still have writing class until the middle of May, but that's ok. Although I am not really looking forward to writing my paper on CRP. Oh well, this is the last tri then it is all over.



Dance recital is next weekend, so I have stayed very busy with rehearsals, pictures and all those other things that go into a dance recital. Although it keeps you hopping, all the prep work has been a lot of fun. I am in 8 dances, a first for me, since I am taking ballet again this year. The last few years I have just taken Irish, so I have been in one, maybe two dances a recital. This year's recital is going to be amazing!!



I have been working on 4-H projects for the last few months, but now is the time to really crack the whip since school is almost done. Today I finished stripping the paint off of the secretary that I am refinishing and took the fabric off of a foot stool that I am reupholstering. Last week I finished my scrapbook of my trip to New York City, although I still have to do the goal card. I have picked out my pattern for the dress that I want to make and am planning on starting that as soon a recital is all over with. We have gotten our garden started and have plants growing in the green house. I can't wait for farm fresh veggies!!!! I have my meat rabbits bred so they are due at the correct time so I can show at least one meet pen at the fair, if all goes well. The chickens are growing up. We started them on layer feed this week. The horses are doing well. I am going to start training them to pull a cart, although they probably will not go to fair this year. I have started working with Fritzy, practicing all of her amazing obedience skills. I was actually quite surprised at how well she did the first time we practiced. Goes to show you how smart my dog really is!!!



I have been helping my dad fix things up around this place, but that is a post of it's own so I will get back to you on that.



Also, I have been going outside for a run (and some walking first to warm myself up and then to cool down at the end) every morning. Fritzy likes to come with me, although she stops to sniff and has to catch up.



Well, I think that is about all I have to say. Catch you all later!!!