Christmas Open House

We had a great open house at the library on November 30th. I severyone ready for Christmas? We lighted trees sang Christmas songs and all enjoyed cookies and punch.

Sky is in band in Alpine and they are calling themselves the "Stealing Shadows". They made t-shirts and hats and have a logo button. Now they need to practice music and start singing together. His school work is going well. We just have Spanish to finish for this section of classes.

Sky is going to start a program at the library in January. He will be on a volunteer program but work 150 hours to earn some money.

Merry Christmas to all.

Marathon Snow storm 2007

Hi everyone. Sorry things have been busy at the library so I have not posted in a while Going to add a few of our snow pictures to share.
One of library, home and the Post Park in Marathon.

We had a great Thanksgiving but very white.

My brother and family was here from Houston.
All is well.
Having Christmas Open House Nov. 30th at the library 6-7:30PM. All welcome to come and visit.

Marathon2 Marathon

The M2M is going on this week-end in Marathon. It is runners from Alpine to Marathon. Everyone has a great time and comes out to support the runners.

I will be selling tickets for the MPL Friends group in front of Artensianas gift shop on Hwy 90 for our Quilt Raffle. The tickets are $5.00 each of three for $12.00 donation to the friends group.

Everyone come and join in on the fun in Marathon.

Quilt Donations

The Friends of the Marathon Public Library is having a quilt donation drawing. The quilt is queen size, jalapeno fabric, and was made by Carol. Carol received a 3rd place ribbon, in tied quilts at the quilt show this year in Marathon. Carol has been making these types of quilts since she was 9 years old.

The tickets (donation) are $5.00 each or 3 for $12.00. The money goes into MPL Friends group. We are trying to raise funds to have a covered porch for our summer reading program at MPL. If you wish to purchase tickets contact Carol at the library at 432-386-4136.

Marathon Public Library is a branch of Alpine Public Library. We are a small library in West Texas with wonderful community support. Please help us with our fund raiser and you could be the winner of a beautiful jalapeno quilt.

Birthday

Hi everyone. Sky will be 16 on the 19th of September. Time really goes by fast. We went to the ranch to pick-up his things and celebrated a little with Cinda. Sky's new friend Kaila went with us. Sky thinks that is how she spells her name but we will find out.

We also celebrated at church with a cake for his birthday. We took the rest to Cinda and Teryn's to share with them.

Sky will miss the ranch and hopes to visit soon. We will miss going down there to visit too. It is a beautiful place and Cinda and Teryn are wonderful friends.

We also took a picture of the donkey Mijo and the horses name is Jasmine. Sky will really miss them too.

Happy Birthday Sky, we all love and care about you.

Rose Bush

Roses are beautiful.
Thanks Sande for the beautiful gladiolas. They brightened my day.

Ace is on the run looking for the cottontail!

Our rose bush in the yard. I received this when I was in the hospital a few years ago. It blooms most of the time and the flowers are great. Our other plants are fruit trees and they did not do well this year. Enough apples to make 1 pie and just a couple of peaches from the peach tree.

Beautiful sunsets

Found a small cottontail wondering around. Maybe looking for our Bunny Ace?

Beautiful Sunsets out our backyard.

I took a few pictures around the yard last night as the sun was setting. Thought I would share with everyone.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures. We are all fine and busy working and Sky is busy with school and playing guitar.

Have a great Day.

Upcoming Events

Sky will be 16 on the 19th of this month. Hard to believe time goes by so quickly. Marathon is having a Westfest on Sept, 22, 2007. It has a cabrito cook-off, desert contest and many things for the children to do, and a dance. We usually have a lot of fun at it.

Not sure what we will do for the birthday yet but trying to see what Sky would like to do. No recent pictures lately. Have not been out with the camera.

Homeschooling is going great. The library has slowed down because all the students returned to school. Sky has been working a little part time job with Mark and Shirley and has been doing great. They really appreciate the help they are getting and Sky likes making a little money too.

All is well in the homestead and hope all is well for our family and friends.
Have a great day.
Carol

Library helper

Hi all. I am getting better everyday and have had help from family and friends. Sky helped me in the library all this last week and we rearranged the junior and easy section of the library. Steve built us a new shelf and everything looks great. Sky has been learning how to be a volunteer in the library and has been helping me a lot this week.

We went to "praise in the park" in Alpine yesterday and Sky and the group from church played some nice music. All of us enjoyed a hamburger cook-out and fellowshipping with each other. Other churches from Alpine joined in on our fun and all had a great time. Took pictures but need to get them developed. Sky is getting very good on the guitar. He has been playing for 6 years now.

Hope everyone has a great week and a wonderful day.
Keeping in touch.

Back on my feet

Just a quick update to say I am back at work and doing a little better. I am still using a cane but starting to improve. Have friends helping me at work to reshelf things in the library. I was off a few weeks but back in the library our regular hours.

Maybe soon I will be able to get out and take more pictures of the area we live in. I really enjoy photography and look forward to doing some more.

I hope my family members can use this blog too. Please leave me a message or comment.

Ace the Rabbit

Ace our pet rabbit. She has grown very much in three years. Our house pet. Friendly, wanting to be petted all the time, no barking at all just little scraping noises when she decides to chew something apart. She loves cardboard boxes.

Returning to good health

Sorry I have not posted in a while. I have been in the hospital and off work for a short time. All is starting to get better and back on track. I plan on taking some new pictures soon that we can post to the site. I recently purchased a new camera and hope to enjoy taking pictuers again. I really love photography and have missed doing it.


David is well and always busy helping me. Ace our pet rabbit is starting to look old. We will take pictures of her soon to and add them to the site.

Sky is doing well and trying to keep up with his school work. Home school is year round for him.

Cinda has been keeping up with her site and the pictures and stories are wonderful. We look forward to her posting all the time.

The picture is of Pirate "D" and mate Callie who helped us with our summer reading program at the library. They were happily married on July 21, 2007 in Marfa. Unfortunately that is where I had a back problem and missed the beautiful wedding. They are a wonderful youg couple planning on being school teachers.

Townsends: Staying in touch.

Townsends: Staying in touch.

Staying in touch.

Things have been busy at the library so I have not posted in a while. We have a wonderful pirate reading program that ended on July 11, 2007. Our pirates are all great readers.

I hope to start doing photography again soon and to able to post some pictures. Sky is agood topic at the ranch and the ranch is beautilful . We are so grateful to Cinda and Teryn foa ll their support and help for Sky. He loves being on the ranch.

We met Sky, Cinda and Teryn at Brad and Karen's house last Saturday night and had a very good time. The potluck was fun and sharing fellowship with everyone was great.

Will post more soon. Have a great day.

OPEN HOUSE

SKY PLAYED GUITAR FOR ONE OF THE OPEN HOUSES WE HAD AT THE MARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY.

BABIES

BABY GOATS. ARE THEY LOOKING FOR MOM?

COWBOY

WANTED TO SHARE THE PICTURE OF COWBOY. CINDA AND TERYNS HORSE.

MORE RANCH PICTURES

SKY AND GOATS ,
DAVID AND SKY AND GOATS


ABOVE IS SKY AND DAVID, SKY AND CAROL

Sky and Cowboy 7-01-07

Sky at the ranch on Cowboy
July 1, 2007

New Blog

I created a new blog and canceling the old one.