Mom's self-portrait

In a little over two months, we will be hitting the road with The Woodworking Shows. The first show is in Dallas, so there will be plenty of open road before us on the first leg.

I'm planning out our school year now, hoping to start things up in another couple of weeks, to get prepared for our journey. Things will look a little different for school this year, as they should with an adventure of this magnitude before us. Have no fear, the kids will be learning plenty--probably more than they can even handle.

We're so excited, we can hardly sit still, but sit we must...for two more months. I'll record as much of the preparation process as I can. Read along as you wish, but the real action starts up in October.

written by  RoadScholars on August 5, 2009 from Stevensville, United States
from the travel blog: Western United States
tagged Home, School, Fire and TWWS
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Last night (saturday) i woke up at 215 am ish, i thought it was 5 am or so, I tried staying in bed but i couldn't. So i decided i would get up and do some things around the house to get myself tired. I was up about 30 min and still not sleepy. Then i wrote for a bit in my journal saying how i just dont understand why i wasnt sleepy. I was a lil hungry because it smelt like BBQ. Earlier in the day the Gardener was burning compostheap (old organic cut offs from gargen)which is part of every gardeners job here..

So i peeked out my window and saw the smoke from the ashes. No big deal. I sat in bed did my text, then looked again out the window because i kept smelling smoke.
I had the light on and just woke Kyran up and said i saw smoke. He said it was fine.

Ok so i finally lay down and read a book. Then i hear crackeling. And thought, 'this doesnt sound right'. I got out of bed again, and HOLY SMOKES!!!!!! There is a fire and flames behind the staff's Quarters!!!!!!! I woke Kyran up and said 'this cant be right, something is wrong'.

Sure enough, we got dressed and went out. I was so ready to pack up the car. He grabbed 3 buckets and started filling them with water. Mean time i said, " call the fire dept". i could just see his thought bubble.."She has no clue".
He said there was no fire dept. Everyman fights there own fire here. GREAT!!!!!!! THIS IS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR!!!!!!!

No, the thought of panicking passed my mind for a sec, maybe 2. But i told myself and Kyran that Jehovah woke us up, so he can help us too. I knew then, why i couldnt sleep, and Jah didnt let me fall asleep. I just kept thanking him for waking me up. No one can convince me that he didnt.

Anyways, you can get an idea of how big the fire was by looking at the pictures i put up. All we had were 3 buckets, and a fire extinguisher, which i found doesnt do much good for an outdoor fire. Our Night guard helped us out alot. It took us 4 hours to put it out. It was just under being uncontrollable.

Well.. there you have it. I promise it was more intense than it sounds. On top of that i didnt get a picture of how big it was, maybe 10x10 foot of ground. Oh and i forgot to mention that it spread to the neighbors yard... Geeze..

Always an adventure with me and Kyran..WHY US!!!!

till next time,

Love dre n ky

written by  africandre on November 29, 2009 from Nanyuki, Kenya
from the travel blog: Eldoret kenya
tagged Fire
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