Photos from Home

I still get stuck when people ask me where I'm from...do they mean, "Where do you come from?" or "Where is home now?" I use home in both manners.


"I'm going home the day after Christmas." aka - Klamath Falls or

"I'm staying home until the day after Christmas." aka - Pendleton


Here are just a few shots from home at Christmas. (Klamath Falls)

I call these first two,

"Three men and a remote."

These are the men in my life!

This is what 'home' looks like in the winter around Chapman Ranch.

I love home...both of them.

LISTS

Lists are the only thing keeping me going these days. I have 'blog' written on a list somewhere. Yet, not on the top of any current list. This is a short post for my favorite stalker...my brother, Jason. He keeps me on task. Thanks to Stacy too, for checking in. I miss you all when you don't post...but I get it. Really, I do get it.

Things I've crossed off my list:

• Set up my classroom.


• Clean out drawers of summer clothes that don't fit.


• Finish one quilt.


• Make a budget for this school year.


• Photo of kids on the first day of school.


• First day of school.


• Round Up Twilight Breakfast.


• Pack for Disneyland.


• Finish book #4 of Twilight Series.


• Camping w/Nelson's @ Target Meadow.


• Pick Huckleberries.


• Make Huckleberry pancakes.


• Make Huckleberry muffins.


• Freeze Huckleberries.

Things still on my list:

• Upload pictures and update blog.


• Order pictures. (1,000 + photos on computer...not yet printed.)


• Read other 8 books on Summer Reading List.


• Organize Sewing Room.


• Lesson Plan...get ahead a few weeks...stay ahead. Ha-Fantasy world-


• Take Reagan to Disneyland. (Sept. 10-14, 2008)


• Make Huckleberry Crisp.


• Survive Back-to-School September.

Photos may follow...

Future posts will happen...

I'm just not promising when.

Racin' Jason...hits 35!!!

Today is the day my 'baby' brother was born!

As if being born isn't traumatic enough ... this little bundle was greeted by his two big sisters. Jill and I could come up with a number of ways we enriched his life. I think he would be happy to tell anyone about the numerous ways he has been tortured by us.

35 facts about my brother...

1. He will be the 3rd generation to own and operate the Chapman Ranch in K. Falls.



2. His favorite book as a boy was, "Can I keep him?" by Stephen Kellogg.



3. He rode his bike miles and miles around the ranch.



4. He ALWAYS wore his cowboy boots on the wrong feet.



5. He is a HUGE OSU Beaver fan.



6. He prefers his 4 Wheeler over a horse ANY day.



7. He likes microbrew beer and Pendleton Whiskey.



8. He loves to steel my husband to work cattle, play poker or golf.



9. He DOES NOT like Chicken Divan.



10. He DOES NOT like avocado but loves guacamole.



11. He prefers late nights to early mornings.



12. He has been to Hawaii and I haven't!



13. He has moved me (apartment to apartment) more times than I can count.



14. He recently helped us move the claw foot tub out of the basement for the remodel.



15. He loves to argue/debate and mostly loves to be RIGHT.



16. He won local, state, and national FFA honors.



17. He is VERY private about his private life.



18. He doesn't have much hair under that hat.



19. He has been ran down by random black cows. (More than once!)



20. He DOES NOT like black cows.



21. He likes to own all the newest technology trinkets.



22. He owned a swather and custom cut hay for neighbors as a teenager.



23. He loves chocolate bordeaux's from See's Candy.



24. He affectionately refers to my girls as Satan, Lucifer, & Hades.



25. He is a lousy housekeeper.



26. He has the worst smelling feet I have ever been around.



27. He used to whistle just to bother me.



28. He hated being called Racin' Jason.



29. He is very smart and is full of useless s--- (I mean trivia!)



30. He has terrible handwriting.



31. He lets Grace go feeding with him in the tractor...a favorite activity of hers.



32. He was an Alpha Gamma Rho(ΑΓΡ) at Oregon State.



33. He is a smart gambler. He knows when to hold & fold.



34. He has fought a barbed wire fence and won. He has cool scars to prove it.



35. He is loved by me...even though I don't tell him enough.

Happy Birthday Jason!