Jones Clan Journal

Well, we’ve gotten as far as partially roofing the ‘green house’.  It’s decked and papered and partially shingled.  We’ve been blessed with some rain, and Stan still has to work to make a living, so it’s getting done a bit at a time.  Rico helped with putting shingles up last night and wants to come out this weekend if we haven’t finished by then.

The boys were hunting rabbits a few days ago and found a 3 foot long coral snake.  They dispatched it with their shot gun.  So, even though they didn’t get any rabbits, I felt they did a good days hunt.

Now for the pics:

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We’ve been busy working on the little building I call our ‘Green House’.  I suppose we will have to paint it green after all is said and done.  The site where the building stands is where Laurel Beth’s greenhouse use to be.  After she stopped gardening, she sold it, but the site was already cleared and waiting for another structure.  I was so use to saying something about ‘being down at the greenhouse’ when I was looking for one of the chidren, it just seemed to stay fixed in my mind that that location is the ‘greenhouse’.  Since it will be housing people instead of plants now, I’ve just altered it to being the Green House, rather than the greenhouse.

Enough of that.  Here’s the progress pictures.

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Here is what we did this morning.

Well at least we got one wall up…..sort of.

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Madalyn returned from Honduras safe and sound.  She enjoyed her visit, but was a bit frustrated by her lack of language skills.  She has been offered a job as paramedic at our county emergency services as soon as all her paperwork gets finished.

Simon accepted a job in California, so will probably be there until after the baby is born in January.  After that, who knows where he will land.

Rico and Laurel are doing well.  Rico has started his own marketing business and has lots to do.  Laurel had to suffer through Ian having his first round of real fever this week.  There is nothing so helpless feeling as seeing your child suffer, and not being able to do anything to make it stop.

Oliver has a part time job, and is looking for a full time one now.  Hopefully, this one will either work into a full time, or he’ll find another one.

Kathryn is happy since it looks like we’ll be keeping the grand piano for a while to make sure tunings and other adjustments hold up properly.

Tamara is still planning on starting EMT classes in September.  She’s plugging away at her math book which is all that holds her back from graduating from high school and getting her driver’s license.

The boys, Truman and Edward, you’ve read about more than anyone else.  They are still into fishing.  They are growing up too fast, though.  I can’t believe my youngest is 11.

Stan and I just keep on doing the same things.  Work, school, keeping up with children.

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It seems things have been changing fast around here. Madalyn finished her schooling and then left today for a month of clinic work in Honduras. I’ll miss her singing every time she comes rolling in from a shift.

Simon and Lindsey came down last week, and we got to visit with them for the first time since they got married. (Except for an hour or two when they were passing through from Florida to California) We found out they are expecting their first child in January.

Laurel and Rico are expecting their second child in late November or early December.

Oliver moved into Austin. He is renting a room from a man in south Austin. He will be closer to work and hopefully will be able to save a lot on gasoline. He exchanged his Mazda for our Honda Rebel, so that should help out on gas cost also.

Tamara and Kathryn are singing in the Wimberley Chorus Fourth of July concert, so practices are starting up for that now.

We are down to one normal size dining table. There are only 6 of us eating together now. It seems kind of lonely.

The young boys have a bedroom all to themselves now. So far (3 days) they have kept it immaculate. I’m hoping it will continue to be so.

Well, I’m off to round up boys for school.

Elaine

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So We left the house, T. G. , dad and I, and drove to the airport at 1317 hours. We got to the airport around 1348 hours. We got off of the ground around 1415 hours. We were flying in a Cessna 172.

It was really weird to be on the ground then all of the sudden be in the air.

We taxied out and onto the runway. The take off was really smooth. Actually the takeoff and the landing were my favorite parts I think. Well……. I don’t really like just the plain flying. I like the banking, and being in the clouds. Anyhow, our first place to go was a lake 30 miles or so from us. Dad and the boys are going to go fishing there Saturday with their new boat.

It was really neat cause everything was like miniatures. So we flew around the lake, then we flew over the land for a while. Then it got a little boring so ata (atamar) got the pilot to take us up a little higher. We went around 4000 ft.

That was really fun cause we got to go into the clouds.

Then dad started to get a little queezy (SP?) so we came down.

Over all we spent around 1 and a quarter hours in the air. :))

here is a pic of the plane that we flew. Sorry that I couldn’t get a bigger pic.

 here is another pic. We didn’t fly in this one but it is the same kind.

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Stan, Truman and Edward took off early this morning to look at a fishing boat for the family.  It evidently satisfied their requirements.  They came home with a 14′ John boat with a 5 horsepower Honda engine and trailer.  The only drawback to it is that it is finally pouring down rain so they are going to have to wait a few days to try it out.

The rain also put a damper on Tamara and Kathryn’s plane ride.  This is the 3rd time we’ve had to cancel on account of the weather.  The first two times the wind speeds were around 40 mph so we decided it would not be a good time to take a first ride in a small plane.  We’ve rescheduled for next Thursday.

I am not complaining, however, we have been needing rain for months around here.  I hope it will continue to rain all day.

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Here are some pictures of a quilt that I have been working on. I did all of the quilting by hand. the rest was done by machine. Oh… except for the embroidery (the pig tail, the butterfly antenna, and the whiskers).

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Here are some pics of the Piano that I am trying to clean up.

Oh…. BTW Dad got a 7 and 1/2 ‘ or so piano that was in a fire. so I am trying to clean it up.

 Hopefully I can play it soon.

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last week I lost my job so I am looking for another one. It looks like Tamara and I are going to sing in the choir this spring. We have been to two of the rehearsals. If you want to come to the concerts you can email me (jonesclan@jonesclan.net) and ask because I might forget to post the date, time and location here. If I remember though I Will post them here. I really like the director. He has been directing High School for quite a while.

On a different subject, Oliver ran into a tree the other day. Well……. ok I will tell the whole story he was going around a curve while it was wet and he slipped off of the road. He was not hurt that we can tell. He went in to get checked up and the doctor said that he would be fine. He is just really sore.

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