9-4-2009

So here we are in home school making 'melty chunky crayons' (breaking old crayons into a muffing tin and melting them into new chunky rainbow crayons). The girls finally succeeded in getting me to put the foam curlers into their hair...Gina had me put them into her also the night before, but she did not want to sleep with them.

Afros! Curlier than expected - but fun!

Jane taking a picture of Mary's hair with her 'phone'. (Trav's old phone - she uses it as her camera)

Today we went to the Elko County Fair in town as a family. The girls looked beautiful with their ringlets and Luke in his Wranglers. We checked out the rabbit and chicken barn, the cows and sheep and goats. Then we walked over to the rides in the dirt parking lot...Well it felt like we walked straight into Hell. The wind literally blew in huge gusts all around...The Carnies working the booths were unimaginable truly...So we just went on the Ferris-Wheel. When Jane saw the man operating the rickety Ferris-Wheel she exclaimed,"Look at his hands!" The portly man's hands were so dirty - they were black. The poor man was smoking a stump of a cigarette with his blackened sausage fingers. He hollered to another fellow Carnie for help in actually turning the wheel to get it started. We crawled aboard and the winds of Hell picked up once again as we rocked on the ride. I was very happy when it was over. Jane Mary and Luke also took a ride on the Big Slide in a gunny sack. It was fun to watch their faces as they slid down. As we left the rocky dirt parking lot, it felt as if we crossed from the telestial to the terrestial kingdom - weird!