We came home from our trip to Arizona with 7 packages to open . Most are not worth mentioning, just merely stuff we've been saving up to get with the second half of the Amazon bonus money. The other stuff we got is a canner and canning supplies. I've been wanting to get into canning but for whatever reason haven't gotten around to it. When we visited Dan's sister Krista, she really got Dan and I convinced and we bought a canner even before we left her house. We've canned our pumpkins that we got from the pumpkin patch that we didn't carve, some turkey meat we got for $.29/lb and lots and lots of pears. We did pear halves, pear preserves, pear jams. We've tested the freezer pumpkin puree and made pumpkin bars for FHE. Excellent! Made some Papa's bread and tested the pear jams...also EXCELLENT! Too excellent. I had to run to the gym yesterday because I felt like I put on several lbs. Thankfully my metabolism took care of it otherwise with how much I eat, I would be overweight.
Perhaps the biggest purchase this last 2 weeks is having our new camera to play with. We finally decided on which one to get. Thank you all for your inputs. We bought i a week before we went to Arizona but with all the hassle trying to rush it here and it still didn't get here before we left so we just had it held at the UPS warehouse until we came back. Crystal clear is the right word. We went from a 4.0 Megapixel camera to a 15.0 Megapixel DSLR. It's the best one for the price. We wanted it to be no more than $1000 and we were able to keep it a little lower than $1000. It is AWESOME! I'm going to help some people take their family pictures for Christmas. We're excited to create many memories with it.
So good bye old camera! In memory of you we will post the last good picture you took. Our new camera!
I love my phone! I'm not saying goodbye to it because it captures moments that my nice camera can't because I don't always have it on me. This picture has no meaning except that this is me during the day catching various cute things of my kids that I normally wouldn't get my nice camera out.
There's a story behind this picture that was captured by my camera. Every Wednesday I go out to the courtyard park in Seattle with a street team from the House of Hope to help the homeless reconnect with their families and to help assist them in finding future employment. This one particular night was cold, a little usually cold for Seattle and I looked around my house in the comfort of my home and thought that I can sacrifice something that I own for these sweet people. So I took a sleeping bag that I bought in college that I love but rarely ever used and as I walked around the park I asked each contestant to share with me their story. To make the story short I was touched by this couple's story, mostly the woman's. She's been homeless her whole life and was fortunate to have 1 place she called home and that was a 1 bedroom apartment with her ex-husband who later on kicked her out because he got crazy and raped someone and eventually went to jail. I was so touched by her sad experience and many unfortunate events and gave her my sleeping bag so that that night she could call it her home underneath the open sky. My heart was full that day.
I chose to call this blog Crystal Clear because it was crystal clear sunny and blue sky when I started writing it. It is now 4 days later and I've had to correct this sentence a couple of times. The forecast does make it look worst than it is unless you look at the hour by hour. We've had 2 sunny clear sky 2 days in a row! Not a bad week. We like it when it dumps it all in one day and then be clear rather than off and on rain. Where did all this water come from anyway? In the summer we went weeks without a single drop of rain.
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