Recent things

WHOO HOO! Two blog posts in one day! I feel very accomplished. ;)
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Mom has been working on embroidering various different items, and among those she made Lisa some monogram decorative bath towels. :)

She really liked how they turned out and had fun making them, which is always a plus!
Aren't they nice?

One Saturday, Esther and I got spontaneous and decided it was high time we repaint our bedroom. We've actually been tired of the khaki walls for a few years now, but we were going to wait to repaint it until our room was remodeled. Dad's been really busy, though, so since we had no idea when that would happen, thought we could have it painted and looking nice in the meantime. 

We drove to Lowe's and got started on two-toning our walls! :) I had picked out the paint colors a year prior so it was easy enough to just drive over last minute to buy paint.

The happy painting team!

 Towards supper time, after mom had gotten back from shopping, she pitched in and helped us with the trim. It was a lot of tedious work with that since we have chair rail in our room, but mom was fast at it since she's had a lot of practice with the rental homes.

My side of the room. :D One wall is blue, and the other three are green..We were so pleased with the colors, and of course VERY happy to finally have some color on our walls. 

We don't really have a theme in mind when it comes to our room, and we had never settled on one before we painted...so when it comes to wall decor, what do you think we should do? Please let me know in the comments directly under this post! It would be much appreciated. :)

Laurisa has completed another masterpiece of a wood burning, but I don't know if she wants it posted just yet..So you'll just have to wait til the state fair in October! =D

Now this bad boy.. Was (and I say WAS) one of our two roosters. He's the mean one that kept all of us in fear when it came to approaching the chicken coop/yard, or even walking around outside while the chickens were free-ranging. I've wanted him gone a looonggg time... And finally that dream has come true. 

Not the literal dreams I had, which involved using an axe..*ahem*, but nonetheless he is gone to a place in which I hope he and the owner are quite happy. We sold him to a man who kind of has a small farm (aka lots of acreage for this nasty beast to roam on.) 

(Take a load of those spurs..I won't be missing those!)

Oh, guess what! I went swimming!!! It was so nice to be in the pool by myself..For about forty minutes I was enjoying the peace and quiet when Gabriel came barreling out of the house.

Look what he did. 

I'm totally kidding. I actually did that. I managed to do something I never in a million years would have even had cross my mind.. HOW CAN YOU BREAK A POOL!?!?!

Well..I don't know. But I managed. O_O

So what happened was...

Gabriel had been in the swimming pool for less than 5 minutes or thereabout...I had been holding a pool noodle for him to swim under, and after that was just kind of floating near the edge of the pool. (Yeah, that broken edge. :P) As we all do, when I decided to start swimming again, I pushed off the side of the pool with my feet, not really all that hard.. And then all of a sudden I got sucked back a tiny bit as I watched the water level right in front of me drastically dropping. 

I had turned the pump on before getting in, so once the water level dropped it was making some nasty racket. I quickly stood to my feet and turned around to see what had happened. The side where I had pushed off had split all the way down, and the water was gushing out the side, barreling downhill towards the creek like a rushing river. 

I yelled at Gabriel to shut off the pump while I hopped out myself. When he came back from doing that, he noticed the swim towel he had set on the bank had been swept off by force of the current and was rushing straight towards the creek along with a few various other pool items, such as goggles, shoes, pool noodle..

He exclaimed, "Hey! Our stuff!!" and quickly retrieved them. 

Needless to say, there was no stopping that out-pour of water as hundreds of gallons all made their escape..After it slowed down majorly, we just sat in what water didn't make it over the fallen liner (well, I sat..Brother there "swam" around on his hands). I felt bad because Mom had been saying that once..Just ONCE she would love to go swimming this year..annnd I knew that now she couldn't. Plus, she had made plans with her sister-in-law to have two of our cousins go swimming with Gabriel on the next available weekend.

We've had this pool up for probably at least 8 years straight, and I think owned for roughly 14 years..so I'm guessing it must have been dry rotted or something..but yes..no more swimmy pool. :'(

It was apparently quite noticeable as the first thing out of Esther and Dad's mouths as soon as they got home were "What happened to the pool?" and "Who broke the pool? Amazon woman?" 

O.O 

If any of you have ever succeeded in accidentally breaking a pool, I'd love to hear about it in the comments. It'd  make me feel like I'm not alone in this. ;) 

I already have another thing to post about in mind, BUT I've noticed I never really make it to getting them blogged as soon as I mention, so this time? I'm just not saying when it's going to be up and maybe I'll surprise us all. ;D