No Place Like Home

Nerdo Jones - he's become pretty popular with our current series at KidPak online.  There's just been a strange fascination with Nerdo all these years, an indescribable quality that makes him irresistible to the kids.  We've got a lot of characters coming back soon - Daddy has some writing to do very soon.

It was raining today, as it will for much of the week.  It was a cool rain, the overcast skies keeping the temperature down lower today.  It's okay - Madison was needing to stay indoors to finish up all her classwork for seventh grade.  Yes, and here we are at the last week of seventh grade, not at all what anyone expected.  Parents are posting pictures of kids for their "last day of school" shots, and of course they're all taken at home now.

Tonight we continued our "Oz" movie marathon with the classic "Wizard of Oz," which is still such a great movie.  It's so timeless.  It's hard to believe how old this movie is.  Shortly after the release of this movie, America got involved in World War II.  So much history in real life between then and now.  It's such a well-made movie too.  Madison likes the one we watched last night a little better, as this one doesn't have the special effects and so forth.  But can we talk about those special effects in 1939?  The tornado?  The flying monkeys?  All of it is just amazing!

This watermelon and cantaloupe we've had from Jaemor Farms... it's been so good.  The strawberries were magnificent.  It's just been so much better than the grocery store.  We picked up ears of corn too, and can't wait to sample those as well.  Mommy has been cooking some wonderful meals lately, and this whole quarantine isn't going to prevent her from cooking up some wonderful feasts!  Lately, she's been making orange chicken, squeezing the oranges and making a delicious sauce to coat some gluten-free fried chicken.  Magnificent!

Madison was working on her piano some today, but she'll have to pick up on that more - there's an online "recital" on Saturday, and she'll be playing for a slightly larger audience.  She'll have more time to practice later.  In the meantime, we were reading tonight from our "Pirates" book, and we said our prayers for Ba-Ba, who has a lower blood count right now.  He needs it to be higher in order to get chemotherapy, which makes it lower.  Such is the process.  We're praying for complete healing.  If cancer were ever personified, I'm sure there'd be a tremendously long line of people waiting patiently for their turn to mercilessly pummel it.

Anyway, we got a few things done today, planting a few things and working on the driveway some.  We didn't go out beyond the filming of Nerdo, but that's okay.  There's no place like home.