Interior Views

Mom's Bedroom and Window.
Spare Room
Kitchen with Regular Walls.

Window with Grill.
Hallway.
Spare Room.
Hallway & Front Door.
Bathroom.

Little Bits of Missouri

Our road The Tree
East Fork of the Grand River, over full
Unplanted field
Some little stream we drive over on way to Homestead, over full
Our town sign
The other town sign
Fields and Buildings on the way to Town

Pictures of the Homestead

A view of the pond looking west from the driveway. A red winged balckbird perched on the grasses blowing in the wind.
Mom and Sarah bringing me some straw bales to build up the utility room wall with.
Chard in our garden.
Me stuffing straw (chaff) into the little gaps in a section of wall in the spare room.

(This is part of my MySpace blog that I added to)

June 14th, 2008

Oh dear, I didn't realize so much time had elapsed since I last updated this. Oops! Well we have quite the head way, which if you have been looking through my pictures you have seen. We have been building up walls. Today we finished a small section in the spare room and another small section in the utility room.

During the past few weeks we finished other sections in the spare room, bathroom (which is done!!!) and the closet. We still have quite a bit left to do though, of course. We have had quite the time trying to get metal lathe to put up around the outside to help keep our bales in place. Then there is the staple gun...I don't even know where to begin. Mostly because I was not present when it was first purchased. Mom and Sarah purchased two different ones to see which worked better and then we would return the other. Well one we discovered was an electrical one. We don't have electricity out there. So no good for us. The other one wouldn't staple, not a good thing in a staple gun. So we went to Maryville and returned them and got a new one. It worked for a little bit, then got jammed. So we went to St. Joe to try our luck there. We got one, but when we got home we couldn't get the staple chamber open. So no good. So mom ordered on online and we forgot to take it out to the property today, so we don't know much about it yet. We foolishly hope for the best. Working on the homestead has become great fun now that we have two kittens out there (did I mention yet that we got Buster a little companion whom we named Khova? Pictures forthcoming... SO CUTE!!!)

Today we also pulled little green worms with horns on their heads off of our tomato plants. It was fun and they Buster ate a few, we killed the rest. I love the homestead and can not wait till we can move out there. Life will be great. We will be able to have complete privacy, kittens to attend us, beauty around us, sun shining, trees to view, and our lives to live as we please. I am really not liking apartment life anymore. Give me the Homestead!!

A Spattering of Little Subjects Conveniently Placed in One Paragraph

I feel that I should just say that I am a much happier person now. Hilo can't get me down anymore! Still don't know what the heck I am doing, but isn't that what being 19 is all about, no direction? Except that I am not completely directionless which is evident by my lack of social norms such as dressing like a slut, sleeping around, having an illegitimate child, drinking, smoking, reading trash, and watching smut...except for "Friends" of which I proudly own all ten seasons. Can you tell that I am too proud? I keep trying to work on that. Oh well, there is always tomorrow. (Separate note: I love to procrastinate not procrastinating.) Well, it is time to go waste my entire night playing the Sims 2. I can't be detained for too long from this most desirable recreation.

Truman and June 2

On Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 10:05 PM I finished reading Truman by David McCullough. THANK GOODNESS! It took me around six months and a lot of effort. I read it because I have this lofty goal to read a biography on all of the Presidents of the US. I was going to read them in chronological order, but I guess I am not now, since I went from Jefferson to Truman. (I have read ones on Washington, John Adams (also by McCullough), and Jefferson.) I loved all three of those guys, especially Adams and developed a crush on his son and can't wait to read more on him. I do not care for Truman that much. There are a few things that I admired, but mostly not so much. Some things I didn't care for which he did were fighting in WW I because he he was old enough to stay home, a farmer, and his families provider. He left his sister to work the farm pretty much all by herself, also, he shouldn't of even been in the military because he had such terrible eyesight but talked all the doctors into signing his papers that let him go to war. He was a pusher of the social programs (a staunch New Dealer), he thought the UN was the best thing ever, talked about world peace but dropped the atomic bomb and decided to send troops to Korea, and I still can't figure out why that war was ever fought. I don't think people fight in the jungle during monsoon season with extreme heat and humidity over something so arbitrary as communism and the 38th parallel. I am sure something else was going on. But what do I know, I am only 19 and have only read one book that touches the subject and watched a few MASH episodes (which mostly seem to deal with teaching the women how to give birth, which I am sure they already knew how to do with out any help from any man). He was also a party man, it was always about the Democratic party. I always knew I didn't care for the party system and this book just pushed it more (in conjunction with this years election...if I never hear the names Obama, Clinton, and McCain again it will be too soon).

On another subject, June 2nd has come and gone and I will not be going to the University of Hawaii this fall. The only way I could get there this fall is if I somehow come into some money allowing my to live off campus, and I don't see that happening. So I don't know what will happen. I might go to BYU-Idaho, but I don't really have any money for that either. So we'll see. I am working on some ideas, but I really don't know yet what to do. I keep saying that I am happy and optimistic because I want to be. I am sure that God must have something in mind for me and it is probably great, I just wish He would share it with me. I guess I will just have to keep asking and trying to do what all I can think of to get the answer. I sure will be glad when my actual emotions catch up with what I keep saying to myself and others, because right now I just want to cry. But I want to cry with someone but they are all at work. So I don't even have that! But I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy. It is okay that I can't go. I am fine with not being able to go. I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy.....happy.....happy....happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. Word has lost all meaning!

Good night.

SL