We'd get ready for school together in the bathroom and have great conversations. At some point we made up a game where when one of us had mouthwash in our mouth, we would try to continue our conversation through a mixture of sign language and vocal tone inflection. The crazy thing was we could nearly always figure out what the other person was saying (I've tried this with Taylor without success).
Annie and I have also practically been banned from being on the same team when our family plays Taboo. We can always get each other to quickly guess the word on the card.
Apparently, Annie is not the only person I've shared a common thought with. In college I lived in a house with three other girls. One of these girls also married a boy from western Kansas and they live in the next town north of Taylor and I. Recently I saw a blog post she had put on Facebook telling that they are expecting a baby. The crazy thing to me was that her blog was also titled "Life in Western Kansas" and after I looked, I realized that she had started her blog 4 months before I had started mine. I had no idea; I didn't even know she had a blog. But after thinking about it, I decided to change the name and website address of my blog. In case you didn't notice, it's now called "Home on the High Plains" and the address is www.highplainsofkansas.blogspot.com
Lately Taylor and I and his family have been busy with one thing - milo. Pretty much the whole month of October was spent in the fields cutting milo. Yesterday we finished up the last field. Honestly I love harvest. I love being out in the fields, working with family, and seeing the results of our labor. Even so, we all were ready to finish cutting and get back to the normal routine.
We still had about a third of the field left when we started yesterday morning, and we figured we might be able to finish it up by mid afternoon. At about 12:30 the guy we were cutting for had finished the fields he was on, so his three combines came to help us. About 45 minutes later we were done. With five combines running, you can really cover some ground!
Western Kansas Fact: A handkerchief is an essential part of a wardrobe.
We get some windy days out here (kind of in the same way Death Valley has some hot days). :) So maybe it's not quite that bad, but all together, there are probably a couple of weeks worth of days that are super windy. On these days if you're outside you may find that if you clench your jaw you're going hear/feel a lot of "crunch"-ing because of the dirt that has gotten in your mouth. A handkerchief tied around your nose and mouth is the way to go.
This is a video I took on one of the windiest days we had this year. We had gusts around 70 mph. No, it wasn't cloudy - that's dirt blowing around
I really like this Scripture. It is simple and true. We need to be humble, and if we have to tell others about the "good work" we're doing, it probably isn't that good.
Hope you all have a great week!
Lyndee
