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So I managed to pull the muscle in my back again.  Not bad, but enough to be aware of it.  Then something I ate upset my stomach so I was trying to sleep propped up and that didn't help.  I did get up and sit in the living room for a while which helped, before heading back to bed.

Despite tired and sore back, I did go into work and do some reorganizing/rearranging today.  No camps this week due to the holiday so I'm hoping to get a bunch of stuff done.  

Tomorrow ds has school so dh will have my car so I'll be stuck at home, so I'm vacuuming and mopping the kids floors.  Evidently dh saw something that prompted that request.  I can't wait to see it for myself.  🙄

Then Thursday and Friday, I'll probably do more at work.  Next week's camp is small and in addition to my teacher, dd will be working as a helper so I really shouldn't be needed.  I'm going to work in my upstairs space because I have to get it cleaned up and organized so I can call Verizon to get my internet switched over and run upstairs, and I think it may be easier to do it upstairs, then run it downstairs than the reverse.   But it needs to be cleaned up enough for them to come in and look.  

My admin is starting in a few weeks and I need to have a workspace and the internet functioning upstairs before she starts.  

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Good morning!

Guess what I found at Aldi?!?!  RAINIER CHERRIES!!  I got the last three bags which needed some serious culling, but there's enough for Independence Day at least.  Then a quick stop at Kroger, home, groceries away, and a quick lunch of leftover rice and vegetables and some cherries.  Now trying to finish my coffee before heading out to string quartet.

Coffee!

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Book report/EdPo:

I skimmed How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor, liked it, and will buy a copy or re-borrow to assign to DS between fall break and Christmas. We need to finish How to Read a Book first.

I skimmed Move Fast and Fix Things and appreciated seeing a written overview of the ideas from the podcast, but have little room to apply corporate problem-solving in daily life. I did appreciate this Peter Drucker quote: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast."

I read Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning and took notes. It was nothing new to me, but good reminders about the value of spaced repetition. I found, bookmarked, and pointed a task  on our Trello board back to online flashcards that will align with one of DS's courses this year.

I also found a reference that enumerates a bunch of Aristotle's topoi to share with DS as we work through WWS. (Headline: Lazy Homeschool Mom Refuses to Spend a Summer Month Wading through Aristotle.)

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String quartet was good.  I seriously love driving a small car.  Plus it gets much better gas milage than the 12-passenger van!

Last night I really enjoyed the Old Time Jam.  I only knew about 2 of the tunes that we did (out of 25 maybe?), but I am getting better at figuring out the chords and could usually at least chunk out a few chords with the tunes.  But they are super welcoming of new people and anyone who is interested in learning or just sitting and listening so there's not any stress or awkwardness if you don't know the music.

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In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.


Georgia

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton

 

North Carolina

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

 

South Carolina

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

 

Massachusetts

John Hancock

Maryland

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

 

Virginia

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

 

Pennsylvania

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

George Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Delaware

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas McKean

 

New York

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

 

New Jersey

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark

 

New Hampshire

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple

 

Massachusetts

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

 

Rhode Island

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

 

Connecticut

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

 

New Hampshire

Matthew Thornton

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It's a quarter after 1 and I am doing laundry.  🙄  I sent the girls to bed because they need sleep, having been getting up at 5am and to sleep after 11pm every day.  But also they need laundry done so they can finish packing before leaving on their scout adventure tomorrow morning.

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Good morning!

Willy_Nilly!  I opened my eyes this morning thinking "must be about 5" because the light was still sort of dim but checked my clock and it was 8.  Ack!  Girls!  Wake up!  They are now finishing the packing and making themselves a lunch.

I finally got to bed at about 2:30.  We have to stop at a cash machine.  But first, breakfast.  There is camping gear all over the kitchen table and living room and the floors...

Dd25/sil are on their way here.  Probably arrive around 11am.

Coffee!

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Good Morning!

Happy Friday!

We had a power outage and an internet outage last evening, but not at the same time.

I guess that's one way to limit the amount of time I spend in front of the computer.

 

 

 

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Happy Holiday Weekend.

I went in to work yesterday to do some cleaning/organizing.  Ended up moving some stuff around and thought I did well because my back didn't hurt at all.  But then last night I must have slept funny or something and pushed it over the edge because it woke me up and now hurts.   Bleck.

Today I may see if I can clean up the breakfast bar that theoretically serves as my home office space but has been such a mess that I can't actually do anything there.  Or I may just take it easy and let my back rest and be lazy.  

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The architect came over to go over the initial plans for our addition today.  It looks great.  We are adding just over 400 square feet to our currently 750 square feet house.  So a pretty big difference for us at least.  I'm afraid to get too excited since last time we almost redid the house dh got laid off and we had to cancel everything.  So kind of a -I'll believe it when I see it - kind of thing.  If it all gets done, we'll have a dining room big enough to eat in, a laundry/utility room where we can actually get stuff done and it's possible to reach things when they need to be fixed, a bedroom more than twice the size of our current one, a large deck with a hot tub (hot tub may come later), a crawl space for storage.   

Tomorrow my mother is supposed to come for dinner.  Supposedly for Father's Day since we were away, we initially discussed it as her coming here but she offered to cook and have us come to her house (which we hate doing, she moved an hour away, ds gets car sick on the ride, we hate driving to the boonies) but went with dh buying steak to grill here.   She acted surprised we were going to do it.  We're supposed to get rain/thunderstorms tomorrow so I figure it's about 50/50 her actually coming and not cancelling. 

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13 hours ago, Susan in TN said:

It's a quarter after 1 and I am doing laundry.  🙄  I sent the girls to bed because they need sleep, having been getting up at 5am and to sleep after 11pm every day.  But also they need laundry done so they can finish packing before leaving on their scout adventure tomorrow morning.

Gymnast's scout camp starts July 14. They're going to Camp Alexander in Colorado. Which, ironically, starts two days after her church youth group camp ends, also in Colorado. We're playing musical cars by having me rendevous with the youth group in Colorado Springs to pick her up, stay with my sister for a couple of days, then drive over to Camp Alexander. If I don't, she'll have an extra 10-11 hours of driving, being brought back to Santa Fe and turning around to go back up the same way 1.5 days later.

We supposed to be going to the laundromat today to wash clothes, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen... She has waited until the last minute to get things together. She has a campout with her troop Saturday (tomorrow) evening to Sunday. Youth group leaves Monday at 5am. Adventure camp next Sunday. She is prepared for none of it.

So, she has two camps to pack for, although some of the things from youth camp can be reused - I'm sure my sister will let her wash clothes. I have to carry her footlocker up when I drive up (alone, hopefully not in the rain), and oh yeah, I should probably pack what I need too. I'm one of two female leaders - if I hadn't volunteered to go, the girls would not have been able to participate (the other female is actually with the boy's troop, but cross-registered with the girl's so we'd have two female leaders). Ugh, I still need to figure out how to pitch this tent. I have no idea what I'm doing.

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39 minutes ago, Renai said:

Gymnast's scout camp starts July 14. They're going to Camp Alexander in Colorado. Which, ironically, starts two days after her church youth group camp ends, also in Colorado. We're playing musical cars by having me rendevous with the youth group in Colorado Springs to pick her up, stay with my sister for a couple of days, then drive over to Camp Alexander. If I don't, she'll have an extra 10-11 hours of driving, being brought back to Santa Fe and turning around to go back up the same way 1.5 days later.

We supposed to be going to the laundromat today to wash clothes, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen... She has waited until the last minute to get things together. She has a campout with her troop Saturday (tomorrow) evening to Sunday. Youth group leaves Monday at 5am. Adventure camp next Sunday. She is prepared for none of it.

So, she has two camps to pack for, although some of the things from youth camp can be reused - I'm sure my sister will let her wash clothes. I have to carry her footlocker up when I drive up (alone, hopefully not in the rain), and oh yeah, I should probably pack what I need too. I'm one of two female leaders - if I hadn't volunteered to go, the girls would not have been able to participate (the other female is actually with the boy's troop, but cross-registered with the girl's so we'd have two female leaders). Ugh, I still need to figure out how to pitch this tent. I have no idea what I'm doing.

Svengo + Willy_Nilly!  Camp in Colorado sounds amazing!  Dd25 was a camp nurse in Bailey, CO the summer after she graduated from college.
  
Also, YouTube is your friend.

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Good Morning!

Happy Saturday!

Cleaned the master bath and now I'm taking a break.  Still working on not spending so much time on-line.  I've got a couple of books that I want to finish in the next week.

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Good morning!

Sir Pups-a-lot was barking at 4am.  I looked outside but couldn't see anything.  Probably the hoodlum skunk gang that has been boldly cruising around the neighborhood.  Eventually I fell asleep again. 
   
Now heading out to toodle around the farmers market with dd/sil.

Coffee!

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Good morning. Another Giving Week is in the books! This year, we focused on our Box Project family. (We also helped three Kiva loans, and I won at giving blood this morning, with an A+ grade 😏 and prizes of chips and ginger ale.) I'm trying not to dwell on all the things we did not do.

I hope you have a great Sunday.

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Good afternoon!

Ds19 and I played for services this morning and got back just a bit ago.  Then dd25/sil left for home in The City That Must Not Be Named.  The Girls left base camp this morning and are off on their kayaking trek adventure.  It's going to be quiet around here this week.  Imma make some more jam.

Coffee!

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Edpo:

I am going back to homeschooling this year. I'm still teaching at the Christian school, but just one grade and not 2 (4th grade, not 4th/5th combo). K12 was not great for Gymnast, and went as bad as I thought it would. This child cannot be near the internet when she needs to be focused on schoolwork, and K12 is schoolwork on the internet. 

Our school is only up to 6th grade now (my kids moving up). The plan is to go through high school. If we get the teachers, we can add more grades sooner as we already have a waiting list, with Gymnast on it. So, I figure I'll put her on the same curriculum they are using (BJU) and hope they catch up with her grade (currently 8th). BJU has the classes on DVD, so no need for her to be on the internet; I plan to get a portable dvd player. I do want her to have a live math class, so have her enrolled in Schole Academy. She also wants Spanish, so I'm looking for live heritage language classes.

She'll still be sitting in my classroom, she has friends at the school, and even participates in some of the specials already.

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Good morning!  It's The Queen's favorite day!

I am planning to make and can a couple batches of strawberry-rhubarb jam today but first will take a short field trip to my favorite town - Bucksnort, TN, to meet up with son-in-law who accidentally left his work backpack/laptop at our house.

Coffee!

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1 hour ago, 73349 said:

The grocery store was extremely Willy_Nilly.

It didn't rain, perhaps because I didn't wear sandals.

Slache, are you experiencing effects from Beryl?

Just some light rain. I got some emails from the power company warning me of Dorothy and Toto conditions, but nothing came of it, unfortunately. 

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