| july 4th |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|01:34 am] |
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http://prechewedworms.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/july-4th/ http://prechewedworms.wordpress.com/?p=1330 We kicked off July fourth with the Upper Arlington Parade. The theme was “There’s no place like home” so there were lots of wicked witches, Dorothys, etc. Faith LOVED it and kept saying, I should have worn my Dorothy dress!
Come evening, Jeremy’s parents, the Boyds and one other family joined us for some smores and a little sparkler fun. Thankful that the rain held off, we loaded up the kids and headed down to Whetstone for the fireworks.
Caleb pulled all these munchkins down to the park…that’s one strong dude!
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| Great Scots |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|01:51 pm] |
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http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-scots.html Forget Portland and forget Brooklyn. The best pop music in the world right now is coming out of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland. Here are two more pieces of evidence.
 We Were Promised Jetpacks -- These Four Walls
It's the 21st century now, dammit. Just where are those jetpacks?
Aside from being bent out of shape about the unfulfilled promise of the technological age, Glasgow quartet We Were Promised Jetpacks are exorcised about just about everything else as well. This is the angst-ridden, anthemic side of Glasgow music (think Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad, as opposed to the angst-ridden, non-anthemic music of Belle and Sebastian or Camera Obscura). As such, these young lads are basically imitating their elders. But that's fine, because the elders bear imitating, and because it's hard to improve on soaring guitars and Bono histrionics delivered in a thick Scottish brogue.
 Broken Records -- Until the Earth Begins to Part
I hate to sound like a ... well, you know. But this is more of the same, with a fiddle, cello, and accordion tossed into the mix, and a lead singer who channels Mike Scott of The Waterboys rather than Bono. If Scott's overemoting on albums such as A Pagan Place and This is the Sea is your cup of single malt, then this album will delight you. That works just fine for me. Until the Earth Begins to Part is full of melodrama and big noise, and in unhinged frontman Jamie Sutherland the band has a truly charismatic, plaintive star in the making. This band will get better, and they're pretty good now. |
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| Westerville, Ohio: Lawn Care Epicenter of the Universe |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|11:21 am] |
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http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2009/07/westerville-ohio-lawn-care-epicenter-of.html  "The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever."
-- Isaiah 40:8
I don't know the exact unemployment figures for Westerville, Ohio. But judging by purely anecdotal evidence accumulated via numerous daytime walks through the 'hood, I think I can safely state that there are an abnormally high number of middle-aged men who have too much time on their hands. This is because I see them out puttering in their lawns on weekdays at 10:00 a.m., at 2:00 p.m., spreading mulch, whacking weeds, and mowing in various geometrical patterns; activities normally reserved for Saturday mornings. As a result, even though overall income and retirement savings are down, and people may not have enough to eat as they sit in their about-to-be-foreclosed homes, the various bluegrass, fescue, and rye permutations found throughout the greater Westerville area have never looked more impressive. This may be the high renaissance of suburban lawn care.
The striped pattern is particularly noteworthy this summer. Using a closely guarded technique, some homeowners have mastered the art of mowing alternate rows at different lengths. This produces the striped pattern shown above. It's a hell of a lot of work -- you have to change the height of the lawnmower wheels after every row -- but the breathtaking visual impact is undeniable.
 Others have perfected the art of mowing in concentric circles, as shown to the left. This, of course, requires a relatively square, open, treeless lawn where one can spiral out to one's heart's content, but given the proper lawn configuration the results can be quite dramatic. It's a little tough to see the circles up close, but when viewed from, say, a glider or hot air balloon, the effect is scintillating. The oval pattern offers a slight variation on this theme, and can be used for a more rectangular lawn to produce a series of parallel egg shapes, a particularly appropriate pattern given the number of chicken farms just outside the city limits.
 Most dramatic of all is the checkerboard pattern shown to the left. It's the ultimate in commitment to lawn care. Not only does the proud homeowner have to mow regularly, but he/she then has to mow again almost immediately, at a 90-degree angle to the first mowing. But look at the results of the prodigious effort; here is a lawn that is suitable for both chess and checkers, for foursquare, even for financial spreadsheets if one is willing to add hand-lettered headers to the columns up near the front of the house. The versatility of such a lawn is virtually unmatched.
It's a glorious time in the neighborhood. Come by and see these and other astounding feats of lawn care before the banks take over and it all turns to weeds. |
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| The Emitt Rhodes Recordings 1969 - 1973 |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|09:19 am] |
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http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2009/07/emitt-rhodes-recordings-1969-1973.html  AMG Notes in a 5-star review today that Hip-O Select has compiled all the music Emitt Rhodes recorded between 1969 and 1973 and released it as a 2-CD set. Rhodes is the fifth (sixth?) Beatle, although he never met the Fab Four and he grew up in L.A., not Liverpool. But he did a better Paul McCartney imitation than Paul McCartney did after 1969, and anyone who appreciates, say, Revolver and Rubber Soul, which is pretty much everybody, will find much to love in his music. With any luck, Rhodes will be the Nick Drake of the late '00s, that unknown great artist whose rediscovery will make the hipsters drive environmentally friendly cars. One can hope, both for Emitt's sake and the good of mankind. |
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| Schtuff |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|07:59 pm] |
So, yeah, I'm still tired.
I haven't scraped much, despite good intentions, and wasn't going to scrape any until Alisa just showed up this afternoon to execute the "I've come to help you scrape" pop-in. I love the pop-in, but I will confess to misgivings on this pop-in. It was hard to rally to the occasion. She's such a gentle, patient sort of person that it worked out for a while and we discovered that the heat gun was a good idea. Then the kids woke up and William melted down from that moment on.
I taught a class last week on making pop-up books and I was completely sad when it ended. I'm sad that I don't get to go teach it again tomorrow morning.
There is a total geek fest debate over the Lord of the Rings going on in my living room just now. I am only marginally participating.
I'm still trying to not do all the things I want to do, although I DID schedule HELP in doing the things I want to do for others this week (thank you, Ariel, see you for baking / cooking on Thursday). Is that cheating? Is God pissed at me now? In a wry, twisted smile of amused disappointment as he clucks his tongue at me and begins plotting my next lesson kind of way? To avoid him, I declined to go up for prayer for my aching shoulder this week, which I probably needed. I totally chickened out this week. Is God disappointed at me for that? Our pastor was challenging us today on how if we're not emotionally mature, we are not spiritually mature, and I am all sitting there thinking, "Dude, I'm sold. I'm operating on the spiritual maturity of a 13 month old right now."
My son is sick with a virus and a fever and the clinging, sobbing, miserable misery of the very young and very ill. I feel so sad for his feverish little self. To make him feel better this morning, I let him brush his teeth for as long as he wanted because there is nothing he loves better to do in this world than brush his teeth. Aside from grope me, of course.
I brought home all the pop-up books I checked out from the library and Emma and I have spent three days doing almost nothing else than reading them, over and over and over. That and playing Candy Land, which she calls "King Kandy" which is cute. Some times I cheat and slip that special pink ice cream card into the deck so she'll pull it next because it automatically moves her to within 20 spaces of winning and then the game will be OVER AND WE CAN GO TO BED THANK GOD!
I have bread dough that I'm thinking about baking.
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| basement wrap up…almost |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|01:17 am] |
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http://prechewedworms.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/basement-wrap-up-almost/ http://prechewedworms.wordpress.com/?p=1328 So our week of basement renovation came and went. We survived and thankfully none of it was as bad as expected. Once the basement guys left, I spent 2 days cleaning everything, washing the cement floors twice, vaccuming the carpet, ceilings and walls & washing down all the walls. Saturday, July 4th, we were able to kick our air back on; just in time for temps to rise back up into the 80’s.
Our week of waiting for the cement to dry ended on Friday.
Today, July 10th, Jeremy put the tack strip down in preparation for the carpet to be relayed on Wednesday. Once the carpets down, we’ll clean it, wait for it to dry and then start to move everything back in.
We’re on the home stretch!
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| Carepackage for Buckleys |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|05:14 pm] |
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http://www.centralvineyard.com/message-board/2009/7/11/carepackage-for-buckleys.html Parker and I will be leaving US soil for Tanzania in 2 weeks!
It is also Doug's birthday on the day we leave!!!
Words don't express enough how much it blesses them to receive greetings from home!!
If anyone would like to send them cards, gifts etc... I will have room to bring them.
Please contact me if you have anything you would like to send: jlee737(at)yahoo(dot)com or 268-7115.
I will need people to drop them off at my house by Saturday July 18th ( a week from today).
Jamie
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| CV Kids Schedule for July 12. |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|02:38 pm] |
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http://www.centralvineyard.com/message-board/2009/7/11/cv-kids-schedule-for-july-12.html 8:45am – 10:30am
Sign-In Table - Peter Niswander
0-17 Months - Crystal McVay/Meghan Davis
18-35 Months - Christopher Chiero/Carol Carstens/Elena Fruechnicht
3-5 Years - Liz Waldie/Emily Hartman/Paige Bailey
K-1st - Jeremy Slagle/Jeff Kobelt
2-3rd Grade - Emily Kehlmeier/Andy Fruechnicht
4-6th Grade - Nathan Cates/Caleb Ely/Maria Kelly
10:30am – 12:15pm
Sign-In Table - Mark Kehlmeier
0-17 Months - Kara Hill/Lisa Burleson
18-35 Months - Angela Poole/Zoe Pappas
3-5 Years - Judy Crawford/Tani Kushner
K-1st - Whitney Barchus/Carolyn Wilkins
2-3rd Grade - Steve Languis/TBD
THE JAM - Catherine Papai/Megan Hackworth/Corey Hackworth |
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| my life can never be the same |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|03:28 pm] |
i've been meaning to blog a lot about the new job and all that, but frankly, i'm constantly exhausted. with the 1 hour commute one way and our house being on the market, well, there's not much time to do much except sleep and keep the house cleaned and picked up for showings when we're at work. here are some of the things i've been meaning to share:
now that we're working with at-risk teens (i.e. teens in a poverty-stricken area), i don't have much tollerance for petty things that just don't matter. we had 80+ volunteers come from pennsylvania on their own money to help at the center. they did vbs 3 days this week, and helped paint the cafeteria, do landscaping, and thoroughly clean the kitchen. they did a lot of other things, but i'm not sure exactly everything... it was awesome to see how much they wanted to help and did help!! but it only confirmed to me that i am so thankful to be with at-risk teens versus "churched" or "normal" teens. i mean, one of the youth pastors that came down had to deal with teen drama for several hours one day. seriously?? i mean, the kids at inside out want us to pray for their mom and/or their dad. and their relationship with their parents. and a job for their mom. one kid wanted to pray that he would hear from his dad because his dad changed his phone number so his son couldn't call him. (which, by the way, his dad ended up calling him after several months and he felt that he needed to - God is good!). 80% of these teens have 1 or both parents in jail. it's just heartbreaking, so i'm sorry if i don't feel much compassion for waiting in line for 15 minutes or whatever "problem" or inconvenience that disrupt anyone's very comfortable life.
okay. i don't mean to sound mad, but you know, it just irks me these days. i'm just sayin'.
so last week they took the "good" kids to the lake. i didn't get to go because it was my day off, and i had all the boys with me. dennis said that most of the kids that went had never been on a boat before. wow! i would have never even thought that! they ended up having a blast - tubing. =) dennis got super burned and is now peeling. poor dude.
we see the police on a pretty regular basis... between stolen bikes, stolen cell phones, fights, etc. we also have video cameras all around the building. i've already had to use them once to review and see if a kid was lying to me or not (come to find out, he was). *sigh* at least we have them!
we're still looking for a house there. we're going to see about 5 houses tomorrow. and our house is on the market! we have a second showing on sunday, and another buyer is considering our house. pray that our house sells soon and we get moved!
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| July Coffee Shift |
[Jul. 4th, 2009|06:21 pm] |
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http://www.centralvineyard.com/message-board/2009/7/4/july-coffee-shift.html I have been looking for someone to fill in for me during the 2nd Sunday in July for coffee. I've tried contacting a few folks from the list the coffee team, but I haven't heard back from them or they can't do it. Can anyone fill in for me during the 2nd Sunday for coffee 10:30 ? I will be out of town for the whole month of July and I would dearly appreciate the coverage. Please email me and let me know. Sincerely,
Claudia
claudia.nosuperman(at)gmail.com |
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| CV Kids Schedule for July 5th |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|04:12 pm] |
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http://www.centralvineyard.com/message-board/2009/7/2/cv-kids-schedule-for-july-5th.html 8:45am – 10:30am Sign-In Table - Dave Hartman
0-17 Months - Crystal McVay/Erika Crawford
18-35 Months - Christopher Chiero/Naomi Kenner/Elena Fruechnicht
3-5 Years - Liz Waldie/Emily Hartman/Paige Bailey
K-1st - Jeremy Slagle/Katie Heck
2-3rd Grade - Emily Kehlmeier/Andy Fruechnicht
4-6th Grade - Nathan Cates/Caleb Ely/Maria Kelly 10:30am – 12:15pm Sign-In Table - Mark Paxton
0-17 Months - Kara Hill/Lisa Burleson
18-35 Months - Ariel Trudeau/Zoe Pappas
3-5 Years - Judy Crawford/David Sigler
K-1st - Whitney Barchus/Betsy Zile
2-3rd Grade - Steve Languis/Nicki Pappas THE JAM - Catherine Papai/Megan Hackworth/Corey Hackworth |
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