We Don't Have a Garden Yet. We Don't Have Any Vegetables Yet. But We Can Can Water!

Since Sharon and I were married a few months ago, we embarked on a quest to become more self-sufficient.  When the ground thaws we plan to plant some sort of garden.  Historically even my $3 room plant from Wal-Mart survived no longer than a few weeks; I think I drowned them with too much tender loving (or probably too much water, as Sharon recently pointed out that they don't require watering everyday).  But this time will be different, we hope.

We have a nice rectangular spot in our yard picked out - away from trees or the stream that courses its way through our yard each time it rains.

Last night, we tested out one of our favorite toys that was given to us as a treat for getting married - a 23 quart pressure canner!  For fear of poisoning ourselves or exploding some sort of mutilated goop all over our kitchen, we just canned water for this first attempt at canning.

Mason jar lids have two parts - the part that screws on and the part that just sits on top.  After cooking our water, you can even pick up the can by the part that sits on top without the screw-on part.  I am quite impressed, and I feel I have been neglected by someone that should have introduced me to canning at some point in my childhood.  Awesome.  As proof, see below.

Paper or Plastic?

Recently, Sharon was sick with a vicious cold.  In the middle of the night she awoke with a congested nose and her throat and mouth were dry from breathing orally.  Her medicine was not kicking in fast enough so Kyle was roused slowly and gently.  "Kyle, please pray for me." Sharon pleaded.  So Kyle proceeded, "Dear Jesus." A long pause while he tried to think.  "Please help Sharon with this job at the grocery store."  Sharon stopped groaning and started giggling.  Kyle asked, "What's so funny?"  "I don't work at a grocery store."  Kyle responds, "Well, you did in my dream."  "I'm glad I'm in your dream!"

3D IMAX Avatar

Sharon and I (Kyle) had really been looking forward to going to our church on Valentine's Day to eat dinner with our Sunday school class and then watching a brand new movie called "No Greater Love" in the sanctuary. But my brother Brennan and his wife Jorja happened to be in Little Rock, and we really wanted to spend time with them! We had not spent any time with them since Christmas. So after dinner, we skipped the church movie and we drove to a distant and obscure part of Little Rock to watch a movie with my brother and sister-in-law that they really wanted to watch - Avatar in 3d at the IMAX.

During the movie, another movie-goer snapped a picture of all of us wearing our 3d glasses.
We loved seeing the world in 3d so much, we wore them all the way home too. Here you can see Sharon sporting the Chipboard Classic 3d Glasses, while Kyle bears the rugged and sleek Geek Clip Ons.

02.04.06

Four years ago today, Kyle and I went on our first date! Since then we've had many great adventures!

Here's a few pictures from some more recent adventures:

Our first Christmas Eve Dinner at a Cabin on Mount Magazine.