Mortaine’s Blog

Well, I’m in Missouri, still. I wrote a journal entry last night on my Palm, but haven’t had access to upload it yet, so I’ll skip all that stuff for now.

Today we went to Sears and got family portraits taken. Then it was lunch at the buffet– I ate WAY TOO MUCH! The good news is that I took a swim this morning, so I got a little bit of exercise in.

Oh, yes. The swim.

There was a frog in the pool while I was swimming. A little boy was also in the pool he had been “helping” get the frog out (really just lying to Oren about helping and letting the frog back into the pool). After I got the frog onto the side of the pool, he went over to “look at it” and it mysteriously ended up back in the pool.

Near the end of my swim, I found the frog again and decided to get it out of the pool and onto the grass nearby. I mean, this frog had no chance of getting out on its own– it’s too high to jump out of the pool, and the pool’s full of chlorine. Since the frog is breathing the water, it’s basically breathing chlorine while it swims around– not a healthy thing for the frog. Also, it was clearly getting tired.

So, I get it out onto my hand and was about to let it go. Well, then Austin (my little ray of sunshine) was standing at the fence and wanted to know what I had. He’s 4 years old, so you better believe I brought the frog over to show him. Austin wisely pointed out that frogs live in rivers, and so I decided we should put the frog into the lake, where it would be able to wash off the chlorinated water.

Did I get my shoes on before walking down to the lake? Of course not. I walked down barefoot, on gravel, with my little nephew, my sister, and the growth on her hip that is also known as my sweet little niece (the umbilical cord only stretched longer when she was born). We tenderly walked down (tender for my feet, that is), and let the frog jump into the lake water, where it will be quite happy.

After this escapade, it was time for my shower and dressing, and then off for the family photos. In addition to all our prints, I got a “portrait” print, which was done on the spot, of 3 photos of us. I was wearing red, and everyone else wore either grey or blue, so we were very patriotic-looking, and I got the flag background for the portrait print. The other prints will be ready in mid-September, which is when I’ll be able to scan them in, I suppose. We got the proofs on disk, so I might be able to post those from here.

When I got back, it was too hot to take a nap in the trailer, so I turned on the air conditioning and walked down to the store to log on and use the computer.

Right now, I’m at the store, updating my LJ and checking things out. When I left Friday, I had 87 support points. Today, I have 113. I broke 100 without even knowing it! Cool! I also had a few responses to some journal posts, and I’m about 2 pages out of date on my Friends pages. I better go check up and see how folks are doing, I guess!