A couple of weeks ago at school I was talking to my coworker.  I got to talking about hanging clothes out.  As we talked it came to her attention that I don't use a clothes dryer, microwave, dishwasher, or have television piped into our home.  At that time we had our internet turned off as well.  She couldn't believe it.   She said we needed to come into the 21st century.  I told her I would live without electricity if I could talk my husband into it, well, we would have to have one outlet for an A/C in the summer.  I guess I am a little strange for our high tech society.  I feel like I need to do as much for myself as I can and stay as active as possible.  I don't have a lot of time to exercise so I get it as I work. 
One of my coworker's students heard me say I didn't use a microwave and asked me how I cook.  What a sad state of affairs when our young people don't know how to cook except in a microwave.

Well, I got the job as Newton County Family and Consumer Science Extention Agent.  That is a long name.  My first day will be January 2.  We are already planning a County Food Show, for the 4-H kids, in January.  I am looking forward to getting started.  Here is the website, though there isn't a whole lot of local stuff on it.  http://newton.agrilife.org/

I haven't posted in a while and probably won't post for a while, either.  We decided to simplify and do away with internet at home.  I am hoping to be getting a new job as county extension agent, soon.  If I do I will probably have to have internet for my job and will begin posting again, then.

The strangest thing happened last night.  I got a call from Greg as I was coming home from class.  He asked why the little bench in front of our house was crushed and neatly stacked in a pile.  I had no idea, it was fine when I left home.  Evidently, someone pulled in the drive in front of our house and ran into the bench, crushing it and messing up the siding on the house.  We are hoping who ever did it will confess.  This is the second time our house has been run into by a car.  We don't live on a corner and to hit the house would take an effort.  Maybe someone came by to see us and accidently put it in drive instead of reverse.  It is a mystery.

Well, Greg and I had another first.  We were out riding around in the truck enjoying the wonderful weather.  We chose a road that we were unsure where it went.  When we finally figured it out Greg commented "I have never been on that road before".  As far as I remember I hadn't either.  It was the second of our firsts.

We have decided that part of our "No Big Vacation" summer will be "Firsts".  That is doing things together for the first time; things we have never done before, together.  So, this is the first of the firsts.

We made homemade ice cream for the first time!  When I bought an ice cream freezer, a year ago, I bought a hand cranked one.  I figured if we were going to make ice cream then we needed to work for it.  When I told several people about it they said that would be a lot of work.  It kind of put a damper on the ice cream making.  Just the other day Greg said "Let's make ice cream."  It wasn't hard work at all.  It only took 20 minutes and we had fun talking about when we used to make ice cream as kids. 
People, I guess, are so use to electric everything, that any little bit of exursion is "hard work".
Now, I need to get to thinking about what we will do next weekend for the first time.

June 24th was Greg's birthday, so on June 23th our friends cooked supper for him and brought it over.  After dinner we rode to the lake to watch the sun set and eat watermelon.

Greg and Toppy

 

Greg checking out the lake.

Greg's birthday present from God.