I tried to make butterscotch pudding tonight. One bite and it all went down the garbage disposal. I am not sure what made it bad. I used the same recipe that I use for chocolate or vanilla pudding. I guess what I used as butterscotch flavoring really did not work. Mette had bought a bottle of Italian Soda flavoring that was butterscotch and it did not add the correct flavoring to the pudding.  I will have to look for a better butterscotch flavoring for the next time.

So I went out for a bike ride today it was a nice ride until the second to last turn before I got home. Then me bike thought it would be a good idea to slide out from under me as I was making the turn. Down I went luckily there where no cars coming so I did not get squashed, just banged and scraped up a little. And my front tire is now totally flat. So I don’t know if it blew out and that is what caused the bike slide out from under me.  Now my left leg and shoulder are scraped up and aching. Hopefully I will be able to ware pants tomorrow. I guess this is what comes with the fun of being out on my bike. I need to get out riding more now that the weather has finally turned nice.

by: Ethan Warnick

Here is Ethan’s first color comic that he did all by himself. The topic of the comic is courage.

A few weeks back Gareth did something to our camera and it stopped working. Will today we finally got a new one. It is a Nikon CoolPix S630. So far it is a nice little camera. And the pictures are nice. Here is an example of one.

This is Gareth fast asleep in the middle of the hall. That is where he was when I got home from Tae Kwon Do. No nap today wiped him out before dinner.

Here I sit in the kitchen of my own home and daydream about when I was younger. No worries beyond what I needed/wanted to do right then in the moment. I remember not wanting to take a nap on Sunday afternoon and so we (me and my brothers) would build forts in the living room with the rocking chairs, couch cushions, and all the blanks that we could find. You know I remember building the forts and taking them down after mom and dad woke up, but what we did in them I don’t remember much.

Then I remember as a teenager I looked forward to that Sunday afternoon nap. It was a chance to do nothing but sleep in the middle of the day for 3 or 4 hours at a time. Then I remember spending all evening sitting in the den playing what ever computer game we had at the time. The games I played the most where the Dragon Lance games Champions of Krynn and Death Knights of Krynn.

Now sit in my own home and just try to relax. I am thankful that I can do that. I don’t know how my parents ever trusted me and my brothers to leave up alone while they took a nap. I am almost sacred to think of the condition the house would be in if I left my four kids alone for a hour or so.

OK that is enough rambling for today.

Ok so now I have published my first public web site. GFBlends is now up and live.

Still needs some work. I am not happy with how the footer is currently set up. But I have not had the time to sit and work out a better solution.  I really want to make the footers dynamic and fit to the content that is on each page.

Oh well. And I need to get better pictures of the building and the process floor. I might have to wait until Rachel comes home for a visit then she can take some pictures with her good camera.

Not much to update right now. Work on the house is slowly going forward. The hole in between the two halves is 60% done. The ceiling in the quiet room is mostly taped (still have to do the corners). 

My wife decided that since we where having turkey meatloaf for dinner that we needed to have pumpkin ice cream to go with it. Yummy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will hopefully get better at posting updates here. And maybe I might post something worth actually reading.

Mette’s grandmother passed away yesterday. Here is a photo album of her.

 

Carol Powell

Started the one hundred pushup challenge today. Arms are sore. will see if I can make it.