I've pretty much moved over to Blogger.  I was getting frustrated with Themes not working properly and started messing around over at Blogger and decided I prefer it, so that's where I'm at now.  Everyone is welcome to come visit at http://thingsfrommyhouse.blogspot.com/.   I still get my Xanga subscriptions and enjoy hearing what everyone is up to.  I haven't put any Xanga links on my Blogger site yet.  Xanga seems to be a little more of a closed forum and I didn't want people to get unwanted traffic.  If you would like me to add you to my site I would love to, but you need to let me know it's OK to do so.  Hope to see you over there for a visit soon.

Jenny

Jessica loves the Discovery Channels new commercial, Boomdiyada.  I must admit I think it's a great video also.  Here's the link if you haven't already seen it.  Or even if you have and want to listen to it over and over as my daughter does.  It really is a neat song and video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PK00DMcDygs

Jessica added her own ending to it;  I love God cause He created all the world.  She says it nice to see people singing about how wonderful and awesome the world is and I agree.  Our favorite scene is the guys from MythBusters, Adam and Jamie.  Adam is lighting Jamie's arm on fire with a blow torch and Jamie is being true to form and not showing a bit of emotion.  I guess you have to be a MythBusters fan to get that one, which we are  .

Jenny

Today me and Jessica went to the library to visit my mom.  She volunteers at the libraries used bookstore and we usually go visit her when she's there.  We have such a great library.  It's really old and beautiful. 

Here is the inside.  This picture shows one of the sitting/study areas.  The books are on the other side of the library behind me as I'm taking the picture.  It's really large and has beautiful woodwork and wood floors.  We're very blessed to have such a wonderful library in town.

Here is an outdoor garden sitting area.

And here is the Lincoln Shrine Museum right behind the library.  It has Lincoln and Civil War artifacts and memorabilia.  It's a really great little museum.

Then we went to the Bracken Bird Farm.  It's a fairly large well known bird farm that ships birds all over the country.  They have birds of all kind and an aviary to walk through.  I wish I could share some pictures.  Unfortunately, they don't allow any pictures to be taken.  Maybe it frightens the birds.  But it was really fun to see so many beautiful birds. 

But they also have other animals outside and we did take some pictures of those.  There were three turkeys that were strutting around all puffed up.  Jessica really liked these guys.  She was calling them the preppy turkeys.

Here is another turkey.  I'm thinking it may have been a wild turkey.  Not actually out in the wild, but they were different than the other ones.  I guess these could have been the females but they looked very different.  I'm not a turkey expert so I just don't know. 

Then there were two cattle.  I'm not sure what kind, but they were very unique.  They had very long hair.  They kept coming over by the fence to say hi.

And here I am with the animals.  Don't I look all countrified in my coveralls.  Actually I'm wearing them because I've gained weight and they don't have a waist so they're really comfortable .

They also had a Brahma Bull, a camel, some goats, a miniature horse, and several ostriches.  But these were behind another fence so you couldn't go see them. 

We had a really fun day.  Jessica even got some of her school done before we left this morning, so that was good.  Then the rest of her school was the field trip.  The weather was cold and drizzly this morning and never did clear up.  We had such lovely spring weather for a while and then it went away.  Drats!  Well, this is Southern California.  I guarantee the sun will be back .

Jenny