Fun on SE Sturgeon St - Monday, September 21, 2009

It was a fun and busy Monday today on SE Sturgeon St. First Isaac and I watched a trash truck picking up and emptying the green waste trash barrels, then next another trash truck came to get the rest of the regular trash. Because the trucks were taking trash barrels from a house across the street where the neighbors have moved out, the two trucks stayed in front of our house for about 5 minutes - Isaac was in 7th Heaven seeing two trash trucks up close and personal for so long. After the trash trucks left, we drew a regular trash truck, a recycle trash truck and a "green waste" trash truck in the street with chalk. Later, Isaac rode around the street with down-the-street neighbor Brandon Neilson in Brandon's Jeep. They looked like twins in their almost matching yellow T-shirts, shorts, short hair, and huge grins on their faces. Then Isaac played pirates with next-door neighbor Shelby Mitcham in our back yard while Shelby's mom and dad went shopping. Good Pirate-Prince Isaac and Good Pirate-Princess Shelby celebrated chasing the bad pirates away from the swings, their pirate ship and out of the back yard by drinking some Martinelli's Sparkling Apple Juice.

20th Annual Scappoose Sauerkraut Festival - Saturday, September 19, 2009

Saturday, after the quilt show, DeeDee, Isaac, and I went to the 20th annual Scappoose Sauerkraut Festival. While we didn't eat any sauerkraut, there was plenty available (if one is so inclined), along with sauerkraut ice cream, sauerkraut muffins, etc. We checked out the vendor booths, Isaac "smashed" a Scappoose High School Safe & Sober car at their booth (he looked really cute because he had to wear gloves and safety glasses even though they were WAY big on him), he pulled golf tees from a cabbage with a pair of pliers, he stood in the cab of a Scappoose Rural Fire District fire engine, he went cabbage bowling, and he got an ice cream cone painted on his face. I don't know if we could have done anything more after the quilt show and sauerkraut festival - after all, a person can only handle so much fun in a day.

Columbia River Piecemaker's Quilt Guild quilt show - Saturday, September 19, 2009

Around 10:30 Saturday morning DeeDee, Isaac, and I went to the Columbia River Piecemaker's Quilt Guild quilt show to see many of the beautiful quilts some of the guild members have made. DeeDee is a member, but did not enter any of her quilts in the show. I took photos of the quilts I liked. Isaac really liked the Halloween print in the top two photos, so of course Gramma bought it and four other pieces of material for the border, and soon Isaac will have a new quilted Halloween wall hanging.

Teaching Sunday School - Sunday, September 13, 2009

Today I did something I never expected to do, teach Sunday School, and especially to pre-schoolers through 6th grade. Our church does not have a large congregation, so this year we decided to try a one-room school approach, with pre-schoolers through 6th graders all together for the initial Worship and introduction to the day's lesson theme. (Jr High and High school kids meet with the Pastor and his wife at a different time for their program). After Worship and the lesson, the pre-schoolers go off to their classroom with their teachers and the elementary kids stay and break up into workable size and age groups to work with their teachers on the lesson, projects, and crafts. Carol Covlin and I are the two main facilitators who lead the worship and intro to the lesson. Today, I was Moses, leading the Israelites to and through the Red Sea, protected by pillars of clouds and fire, as Pharaoh and his Egyptians were coming up from behind.