Now you see me, now you don’t
I’m back…I think…
We have our laptop - that’s the good news. After nearly 3 weeks, the nice men in US Customs apparently decided that my email was boring and my hard drive was not likely to contain any illegal drugs.
The bad news is that our new exciting high speed satellite internet is sporadic at best. We can [sometimes] open 3 or 4 webpages very quickly (oh, so quickly!) and then the connection is gone. The technical support personnel have patiently walked me through the settings so many times that now I just tell them where everything is set while they ask me to wait for their screen to catch up. Then they stall for time by asking me to unplug the modem for 5 minutes while they put me on hold. sigh.
I can’t decide if I should go outside and jump up and down on the satellite dish hideously hung on the front of our deck (whose idea was that????) or toss the laptop out the window. Maybe I could aim for the satellite dish when I toss the laptop.
Or maybe I should just hurry and hit the “publish post” button and hope that my connection hasn’t already gone to visit the Customs guys on the Canadian border.
On a brighter note, we had some authentic Texas weather here today. The last few days have been hovering around the 100 degrees mark. Today, we had temperatures in the 70’s, rain, thunder, a tornado watch (we learned later), and Texas snow: hail the size of shooter marbles! Before I realized what was happening, the girls ran outside and stood in the hail, catching it in bowls and yelling “Ow! Ow!” as they were pelted from above. When it was done falling, they stored their cache of hailstones in the freezer and ran down the hill to the trampoline to recreate the experience: as they jumped, the hail on the trampoline bounced up and fell from the sky again. Just to make things more interesting, they did all of this in bare feet.
Kids.
If you're new here, please take a moment to introduce yourself! If you enjoyed this post, feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
You loved it, right? Here's more like it:
Did you enjoy this post? Subscribe so you'll never miss a new post!
Filed under: Huh? Category?
Oh my goodness! How terribly funny…jumping on the trampoline, that is, not about your computer situation! I’ve missed your posts!
I just love hearing about your girls, Kim. They sound like such lively, real-life people. I don’t know that I would have ever attepted such but I can picture it vividly in my mind. Epecially yelling, “oww, oww” as the hail fell on them. I’m glad no one suffered a concussion.
Speaking of bad weather, my dad went outside once when he used to work down south of where we live to watch an approacing tornado. He said that as it was coming toward them, it went up into the clouds and right over the building. Yikes!!! I’m glad I wasn’t nearby.
Hello! I just came upon your blog here through a Large Family webring while searching the web. I am also a Mom of 7 and am 31 weeks pregnant with number 8! I thought I would introduce myself.
Feel free to stop by and visit my blog anytime.
Take Care and Congrats!
Leona
Nice to see you back!
Welcome back. Sorry about all the computer problems — amazing how much time these time-saving devices take, isn’t it?
Yay!!! You’re back! I really miss “hearing” from you when you’re out. How did your vehicles fare during the hail? Last year at this time we had 3, count ‘em, 3 vehicles that needed major hail damage repair…talk about an ordeal.