Memories of the Wizard

I think you would have to agree, if you saw the Wizard of Oz last weekend that it was spectacular! I finally had a few minutes to get some pictures up. Everyone did a great job, I'm a little partial to Uncle Henry on Thursday, Friday and Sunday and the guard on Saturday (personally my favorite character in the whole show) but it was just awesome all the way around. Now patiently waiting for the video!

This is Dawson, I got to sell tickets with Dawson's mom whom I felt like I had known for a long time, but technically just met on Friday evening. It was really good to meet you Rebekah and I look forward to talking to you again one of these days.

This is from Saturday, Robert as the guard. One of his friends from the Junior High, who had seen him as the guard Friday morning informed me he "rocked the suit". Well, after this performance, I totally agreed.

Singing his solo, GOOD JOB!!

Kiersten as Dorothy, Taryn as Glinda, Landon as the Tinman and Danny as Scarecrow.

I was so honored that the kids came to our house to eat between shows. I really think they enjoyed just getting away for a few minutes and we sure enjoyed having them. Take a good look at this bunch, they, as far as I am concerned, are some of the finest young people in the world.

Robert as an Ozian, his "other part"when he is Uncle Henry

Robert as Uncle Henry, with Jenna as Dorothy.
Family portrait, Robert, Jenna and Rachael

Our four junior boys. Danny, Robert, Landon and Jared. Just think, we get the pleasure of seeing what they are going to be up to next year!

Trying not to cry just posting these, I know some of the kids are having withdrawal already and some of them still have crazy lives but for the rest of their lives, they will remember this weekend, and the months that preceded it. Truly memories worth keeping.

Ya' ever just wanna scream???

What a day yesterday was!!! Frustrating to say the least, but before I go any farther I have to say the brightest part of my day was watching the NCHS Chorus present the Wizard of Oz! Good job cast and crew!

Yesterday morning, I headed to Olney to the Weatherization building. The guys down there had some pretty simple requests. They needed new email addresses set up on both their towers and their laptops, they needed Weatherworks put on their laptops and ONE of them needed Lotus put on his laptop. All was going well until I tried to install Lotus. I bought a new Lotus disc about 6 months ago. It had worked fine until I was trying to install it on a computer at the new Weatherization building in Greenup, then I met with grief. I had tried everything I could think of and ended up calling MASS, who finally go the thing to install. Yesterday I ran into the exact same error. I looked it up on the internet and found a fix but it involved getting into the registry, which I normally don't do. I called my friend Mat from MASS who told me he had found the fix on the internet, he was in Shelbyville working a job and couldn't come down but the fix he found did contain getting into the registry. Brian needed the program on there asap so I rolled up my sleeves and delved into the registry. I did what I had instructions for and low and behold, it loaded!! Success!!! I was so excited.

My next feat of the day was to install a printer in Robinson. Installing printers are no brainers---most of the time. I left Robinson yesterday evening with the printer not installed. Every time you hook the printer up to the tower, it shuts down. I believe there are too many old conflicting printers still installed so I will have to do some uninstalling but I didn't have time yesterday so I have another trip planned for next week.

Last night, Robert took the jeep to go pick up some friends before the musical. The jeep fell apart at the rest area south of town. Looks like we need a new rear drive shaft; which seems to be scarce. The guys didn't worry about it until after the musical but it meant for a very late night, we hit the hay around 2 this morning, Robert had to be at school at 7, I am sure he will honestly come home and go to bed when he gets out of school this afternoon.

There are days I just have the old Hee Haw song running through my mind....If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.........

I know there are worse things in the world, but still......

We're off to see the Wizard......

Oh, the beginning of the absolute craziest week of the year!! I think the worst part of the musical at our house will be, as usual, next Monday night when Robert is trying to figure out what to do with himself (I may drag him to a basket bingo, he used to have pretty good luck when he was younger!)

I got to see a little preview this evening, to keep from getting in trouble, I won't expound, but I am very impressed with everything I have seen.

Robert is Uncle Henry on Thursday night, Friday night and Sunday. He is the Guard for the Friday morning show and the Saturday shows. He loves both parts but I am especially looking forward to Saturday because he sings.

Thrown in for good measure this week, I have class tomorrow night, our first night of Word--by the way, I gained a student last week, which makes this my biggest class ever--7. And then there is the fact that I got this hair brained idea last week to paint the kitchen. Of course, I don't just pick a color. I picked out Orchard Park Plaid. I gathered a napkin, three longaberger picture frames and a basket and away we went to Menards to get the paint. So......My walls are sage green, my cabinets are ivory, the ceiling is a lighter ivory, the cabinet doors are (going to be) paprika and the little trim (and there is a BUNCH of it) is rich brown. I love what is done, but the big problem is it ISN'T done. Andrew took all the hardward off the cabinets and is planning on cleaning the 80+ years of paint off of it. He has three days off so I am not to worry....it should be done by Saturday, which is good since I am having company in for the musical. I am technically having company Wednesday night, as it is our Youth group fun night and we are all meeting here to go geocaching then out for pizza. Maybe, just maybe, everything will be perfect by then!


Then, there is April 15th. Everybody be forewarned, the cutoff for the child tax credit is SIXTEEN. Robert turned 17 before the end of the year. Andrew and I neither one like letting the government keep our money interest free, we never get hardly anything back. So as you can imagine, us loosing our $1,000 tax credit= us paying a $1,000 in taxes. Not looking forward to the 15th. There are all these things online where you can set up a payment agreement. Yeah, let me know how that works for ya'. I think I will pass and just feel broke. I'm still trying to figure out why I can't be one of those "50% of middle class America doesn't pay taxes". I missed that class and afraid I am too big of a tightwad for our own good. According to the tax websites, if our mortgage were bigger, we bought more cars, owed more money to doctors, hospitals, dentists, etc, had more debt. We would probably be better off.

Oh well, Andrew reminds me that at least when we pay taxes, it turns around and pays my wages, guess it's only fair.

I will try to post pictures from the musical next week but if you get a chance, you should come out, I don't believe you will be disappointed.