This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week, or so, I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana mas o menos regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
Yes this quiz is from a pictures taken over a year ago.
On December 19th, 2008 at almost two in the morning we heard a noise. It sounded like something had fallen on the house. We put our coats on, and went outside to see the above.
We were worried that the branch may have been too heavy to leave hanging on the cable that feeds us our internet. We also did not like the idea that it might fall on the car.
This branch was about the diameter of a healthy cantaloupe, and was very long. Jacob went up to it to see if he could just push it off to get it away from the wire.
Upon closer inspection, it was really really big. He gave a few heaves, and decided it would be best to move the car out of the way so as to not allow the chance of the branch falling on the car. So, he ice-picked his way into the car, kept the door open to see and backed the car up a ways. He went back to the branch and gave it some good pushes.
Down it came. You can see where the car had been. The sound from the branch hitting the ground was loud, and the vibrations from it hit other places where ice had formed, and we heard lots of cracking and popping around us. The best we can describe it is to say that it sounded like a battle field. The apartments across the street had lots of ice on the roof, that (we believe) in response to the branch noise, cracked and slid off the roof into the parking lot. We hope all the cars were ok after that.
The ice storm really was pretty to look at even though it really was not good for the trees (or likely the animal life either). This is one of the electric lines next to our house that we saw at that time.
This is a picture taken after getting up for the day.
So last spring/summer we had the back door open for fresh air, a lot. A mouse came in, so we got traps and caught it in just a couple days.
This fall another mouse dared to enter the house. We set the traps again, and it was caught with-in the hour of setting.
We had one still set along the wall, just waiting in hopes that we would not catch another.
We went out of town for a week, and the trap was empty.
The temperatures dropped, a mouse came in for a snack. It died.
We went to pick up more traps (because even though it says reusable, let’s be honest here, I am not un-clipping the mouse and using that nasty thing again!) just in case we need them. The temperature outside keeps dropping, and I don’t want to be outside!
The price of the traps this time was $6.88, I think-once I find the receipt I will know for sure. This evening we were at the store getting other supplies in that area of the store, and passed the traps display, and this is what I saw:
It is the original price again. It makes me so stinking mad!!!!!
We figure that because the outside temperatures dropped, many people were having trouble with the mice coming in, and the store (or rather the people who run it) decided that they might as well make extra money off the people who already have enough problems in their lives. And now that the traps are in less of a demand, the price has dropped back to the original rate.
Now, if I can just think of how to make this work to my advantage…. Any ideas?
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week, or so, I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana mas o menos regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
Here is the answer you all have been waiting for…
On October 12th we had dinner at Jacob’s parents’ house with the missionaries, Elder Pickett and Elder Drake. Elder Pickett is from Canada and that happens to be Canadian Thanksgiving. So using our super internet abilities, we found his family. Jacob called his parents and talked to his brother and his mom and asked about any traditions. We discovered that Elder Pickett has tried many new foods on his mission. The plate above is his clean plate.
Here he is loading up his plate:
Here he is trying new foods:
He liked it so much, we sent leftovers home with him:
I seriously need about 12 of these dress up days a year, one a month would be a lot of fun for me. Jacob on the other hand would not really enjoy costuming once a month. In fact, I was unable to get him to dress up, even to be a butcher and carry a fake meat cleaver…to go with my swine flu (I was so excited about this one!):
Sitting outside to hand out candy (what was up with only 30 minutes of trick or treating?):
And my tail closer-up (it may very well be my favorite part of the costume):
With out my snout (like when I had to get a drink or eat):
My eyes, simply because I like this picture:
The scary (lunging) monster that made a little girl cry:
It also got a “What the fff…?” by a boy about 12-13 years old, that caught himself, and then I told him he should not know that word. And I think Loana Deveraux had to go change her drawrs after her encounter with the monster…. Here she is, or was?
Here are cookies I made using the cookie press (for the first time ever) that Jessie gave me because she never used it:
This is a piece of a bigger picture. I welcome one and all to guess at what it is. In one week, or so, I’ll give the answer, and post a new one. Good luck and may the guessing begin.
Esta es una parte de la foto grande. Hay que adivinar lo que es. En una semana mas o menos regreso con la respuesta y otra foto. ¡Suerte!
It has been a while since I posted a quiz. I am not giving up on them. I just have been lacking motivations. So today I am presenting a quiz, though it is of a different sort.
It is a driving quiz. There are 13 questions/situations. Feel free to answer, or to describe any other questions that you think ought to be added to this set. I know there were 2 more, that I had trouble remembering when I was putting this together.
Please select the multiple choice answers in a comment.
(I have edited this so that each question has separate comment spots. It occurred to me that by having all of it in one post, it makes it harder to answer, especially if you only want to answer some questions, if at all.)
Car 1 arrives at the stop sign before car 2 does:
a-car 1 should proceed after coming to a full stop so that car 2 may do the same
b-car 2 should wave car 1 through the intersection so that car 2 does not have to come to a full stop
c-car 1 should sit and wait for car 2 to go because car 2 is on the right
The protected left (also called the left turn lane, though in this case it is not only a left turn lane) turn is about to not be protected and the eastbound traffic will get a green light in less than a second:
a-the red car turning right from the south side of the intersection should turn now since the eastbound traffic will need to go soon
b-the red car turning right from the south side of the intersection should wait until the eastbound traffic has gone and it is clear to turn with out cutting off any drivers
c-the red car turning right from the south side of the intersection should roll back and forth trying to hit the sensor to turn his light green