The Latah County 4-H Program and Extension Office is heading up a Gift Card Drive for the Randy and Carrie Brooks. Randy is a long time Extension Educator from Clearwater County. Many of our youth know Randy and his family well from CL2N 4-H Camp. Carrie was in a car accident Saturday morning outside of Peck. She suffered extensive injuries that will require many surgeris and months of rehabilitation. The Brooks have three children ; one of which is a sophomore in college and another still in high school.
Please help us to lessen the burden by providing gift cards in any amount to major chain, grocers, restaurants, gas stations, as well as Costco or Wal-Mart. Please send the gift cards to the Latah County Extension Office , PO Box 8068, Moscow, ID and we will get them to Randy as they are relocating from Spokane (Deaconess Hospital) to Seattle. Please attach a note or card and we will be sure to get that to them as well.
Your prayers are greatly appreciated.
Note:
The Brooks's family is very near and dear to my heart. If you have been following my blog for awhile you have seen me post about Ty, Randy and Carrie's son who is a UI football player.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tag your it!
So I don't usually get into the tag thing on blogs, facebook, and my space, but I checked my blog this morning and noticed that it has been awhile since I posted. Well, i am sitting here and have no creative juices so I though I would try the 6th photo in the 6th file tag to inspire me. So now the rule of the tag is I have to explain the photo. i will admit I was a little nervous of some awful picture of me.
Thank goodness it was a pic of Mike and Jake at Easter 2004. Yes, that is a tattoo on Jake's chest and if my memory is still with me we took off his shirt in order to save it from egg dye.
It is hard to believe that in this pic he was 5 years old and just a cloverbud in 4-H. Now he is 9 going on 10 and is approaching his second year of taking a market steer to the fair. He was working with his steer last weekend and I couldn't believe how much he has changed in one year, let alone 5. He was so confident and matter of fact, telling his steer a couple times to remember that he was the boss. I must say I am proud of the young man that he is growing up to be.
BTW, that is my husband in the pic, but isn't that how it works. Parents always get over shadowed by their kids. Just last week Hailey and my niece Karson got v-day flowers from my mom, but evidently the florist forgot to deliver mine and Kelly's!?! Like I said parents always get overshadowed by their kids!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
4-H Meetings Galore
meet·ing
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(mtng)
n.
1. The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
2. An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.Idiom:
meeting of the minds
Agreement; concord.
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So this may be the definition, but over the past 6 days I have attended for 8 meetings, and let me tell you boy can their purpose and usefulness differ from one to another.
Some meetings are effective, some not so much. Some you just have to put up with a lot of boo-pucky to get to the one or two effective points.
Now mind you that of these meetings two were for pleasure, one for my own volunteer work, and 4 were for my job itself. I had to miss a meeting in this time frame due to another meeting. (Sorry LCYAC Public Relations).
Yesterday alone I had three meetings and I am excited to report that all three were very effective and well worth my time. Will they all be? Probably not, but I can be hopeful.
Now you may be asking why I am writing about meetings. Well to be truthful it is because I get so irritated by people saying, "Are you ever in your office." To be honest I often ask myself the same thing. The answer is sometimes. Often I am not here because of a meeting somewhere, sometimes I am here but not available because I am meeting with someone in my office, and sometimes, yes I am taking some much needed time for my family due to time spent away like the past two nights! So for those of you that ask the question and think you are being funny, there is your answer, and no I am not trying to be funny, just truthful.
play_w2("M0197300")
(mtng)
n.
1. The act or process or an instance of coming together; an encounter.
2. An assembly or gathering of people, as for a business, social, or religious purpose.Idiom:
meeting of the minds
Agreement; concord.
hm()
So this may be the definition, but over the past 6 days I have attended for 8 meetings, and let me tell you boy can their purpose and usefulness differ from one to another.
Some meetings are effective, some not so much. Some you just have to put up with a lot of boo-pucky to get to the one or two effective points.
Now mind you that of these meetings two were for pleasure, one for my own volunteer work, and 4 were for my job itself. I had to miss a meeting in this time frame due to another meeting. (Sorry LCYAC Public Relations).
Yesterday alone I had three meetings and I am excited to report that all three were very effective and well worth my time. Will they all be? Probably not, but I can be hopeful.
Now you may be asking why I am writing about meetings. Well to be truthful it is because I get so irritated by people saying, "Are you ever in your office." To be honest I often ask myself the same thing. The answer is sometimes. Often I am not here because of a meeting somewhere, sometimes I am here but not available because I am meeting with someone in my office, and sometimes, yes I am taking some much needed time for my family due to time spent away like the past two nights! So for those of you that ask the question and think you are being funny, there is your answer, and no I am not trying to be funny, just truthful.
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