Tag: Chelsea

Day 7- Wild Wednesday

Well what a day today was, and it isn’t quite over yet. We finally got rain here, what  a blessing. I had an inch and 40 points in my gauge at the house. I know we had more than that at work. It pretty much rained all day. And then we ended the day with a rainbow at around five o’clock, and then an absolutely gorgeous sunset. A myriad of blessings all in one day. Thank you Lord.

Work was busy again. I think they meter crews were trying to see how much they could do in the few days left before billing. It kept me busy and that was good.

My son tried to burn up his truck today. He was working on it after dark last night and forgot he left a pair of needle nose pliers on the radiator. On the way to school this morning they ended up on his battery and started a fire that put a hole in the battery, fried a ground wire and put a hole in a vacuum line, as well as ruining one of the contacts to the battery.  We replaced the contact and the battery and he managed to repair the rest. It was an expensive lesson.  he is still on the road though, so I guess all is well.

I had lunch with an old friend. We talked about old times, and how we met our spouses, the cost of living in Alaska verses here and pretty much decided things were more expensive up there, but in comparison were quite relative. We talked and laughed and  picked on each other for the rest of the day. It was fun, and a day i will remember for a long time. I am really glad we got to catch up, we will just have to try to keep in touch now.

Chelsea and Guy should be in soon, and then tomorrow starts the infamous rocket launches I have been telling you about.  Below i s the schedule for tomorrows launches, There are currently 17 rockets scheduled. I will try to post each days schedules in my blog.

Thursday, May 14, 2015
School
Name		 # 1st Level
Tsiolkovsky		 # 2nd Level
Oberth
Big Springs Charter (Ed Brune)
Tripp Davenport		 1 1
Fredericksburg High School
Andrew Matthes		 1
Hamilton High School
Seaborn Ashby		 1 1
Hollenstein CTC
Richard Griffith		 1 1
Kingwood High School
Louis Mascolo		 2 1
Kingwood Park High School
Jim Brown		 3
New Diana High School
Shawn Warden		 1
Roosevelt High School
Jessica Quisenberry		 2 1
8
Schools Launching
Totals 11 6
May 14th Total Rockets 17

Good luck to all the schools. If I get a chance to do some updates during the day tomorrow , then I will but don’t count on it. It will probably just be the end of day one. Here is the SystemsGo website again where you can find the livestream.

www.systemsgo.org

Good Day until tomorrow.

Day 6-Crazy Tuesday

It was just another crazy Tuesday at work, getting ready for Billing on Friday, which I won’t be there for since I will be, you guessed it, chasing rockets. Due to that though I had some reports and things to run and check in a hurry so that all would be done in my absence that could be. What comes in after tomorrow will be someone else’s to deal with, except what is left when I get there on Monday. Oh Monday, bad word, it will be a tired Monday after a fun, but tiring weekend. That’s ok, because it is always fun and so worth it to be involved with SystemsGo.

Chelsea drove truck all day today for her job. She put in 12 hours behind the wheel for her employer. This is new for her only the second week, to do this, because their usual drivers are out with injuries. That’s ok she took to it like a pro. There is nothing that girl won’t tackle I believe. So proud of how strong and independent she is. She is a special girl. She is a sweetheart too. She left me the sweetest note on my bed when she left Monday telling me how much she loves me and believes she is lucky to have me for her mom. Made me cry. I love her tons. She and her sister Kasey are such jewels. I am the lucky one to have both of them.

Well the parenting class I have been attending, for the last 8 weeks is winding down. In fact, we are going to close up shop after next week’s class, I do believe. I can’t say it hasn’t been interesting, even if I didn’t really want to go in the beginning. There really is a lot of things people could learn for their roles with children. In fact it wouldn’t hurt every parent to take this course even if they aren’t required too. I really wish my husband would have had to take it too, but he got out of it claiming to be on call and having to miss too many classes.  There is much he could have used from it.

In all honesty, there isn’t a person in the class that would have taken it willingly. Thank you to our sons for providing this necessity. That being said, though, we are all lucky that our sons are the great kids they are, because it has worked in their favor in this little one time big goof up of theirs. In spite of this, I love him greatly and nothing could change that, and I try to tell him daily. He is still my prince.

It has actually been fun though. Our instructor is great. Having him on speed dial as an extra disciplinarian has come in handy too. Having the, “let’s see what Ron says” option has come in handy a time or two and will probably again before this little ride is completely over.

Someday, I might post the story I have written about this little adventure, and tell you all about it, but for now, I just want to see it to its end and hope it is behind us never to be revisited again. Hopefully no more proverbial bridges in our future. Let’s just leave it at that.

Only one more work day, and then Chelsea and her friend Guy will be here again and the rest of the week/weekend will be all about the Rockets. Well almost there will be a wedding mixed in there too. Not sure how that will all work out, but I am sure it will. This reminds me I need to see if the dress is ready to pick up tomorrow since we will be in Willow the rest of the week. One more thing for the to do list.

It is funny how each day I start this thinking what will I write? Nothing happened in my life today, interesting enough to write about, and then the words just start flowing. I hope you find some interest in my silly little blog. It hasn’t drawn much attention, likes or even any posts or comments, so I really don’t even know if anyone is reading it. That’s ok, though, because it’s very therapeutic for me and that’s what it is really for anyway.

Well, I do believe I am about done for this evening. Tune in tomorrow to see what words of wisdom or ridiculousness I come up with again. And definitely you want to tune in Thursday through Sunday for more up to date Rocket’s high lights.

Catch you tomorrow on a Whirlwind Wednesday.

www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be greatly benefited.

 

Day 5 -“Maybe” a nostalgic short, and Monday’s high lights, or not…..

Maybe

I remember a time, long ago, yet not so long ago. We were young, we were friends; maybe we were more than friends. Maybe, we really didn’t know.

We played together, and fought together, and ran through pastures in daylight and dark.  We were born into each other’s knowing, and grew up in each other’s worlds.

We were together from childhood into adulthood, we were friends, like brother and sister, maybe more, although neither of us knew, or maybe we did.  We shared a lifetime together, playing, laughing, daring, wondering, exploring the world.

We began to grow up, and we saw each other differently, or did we?

Our lives grew apart, we still shared good times, but they became fewer.  We watched each other’s lives sometimes from a distance while we were yet near.

We warned each other about mistakes, but neither listened.  We tried to save each other from such things, but neither could be saved.  We were young, but no longer children and we knew better, or did we?

Then one day we lost touch, and only saw brief moments of each other’s lives through reports from others.  We both became an old memory, a forgotten past; frames of an old movie that just stopped with no ending; a cliff hanger that no one bothered to complete. No sequel.

Maybe our friendship had ended, or maybe not yet?  Maybe our paths would cross again, but when? Or maybe they never would; remaining an unanswered question, an unfinished story, slowly slipping away, lost forever.

Maybe……………………….

Ginger Burow   5/11/15

The SystemsGo crew made it home about 3:30 this morning. Steve went to work at usual time and Chelsea left for Lubbock at 2:00, making it there by 6:30. She will return Wednesday night to help run the pad for Fredericksburg Rockets out in Willow City Thursday through Sunday. Come out and join us and witness the accomplishments of these students.

There will be updates on the rocket launches as the week progresses.

Today was a fairly uneventful Monday, although I did get to have lunch with Chelsea and Steve before she left again. Work was good and busy. I visited my mom at rehab and was pleased to hear they finally had her up and walking and did therapy twice today. She reported that she had numerous visitors today and was well entertained.  Kim and I were both there until about 6:30.

Later I spoke with my Aunt Betty from Wichita Falls. She said they had 9 inches of rain and had spent several times hiding  in the halls with pillows over their heads waiting out Tornado threats. They are still expecting more storms. She was concerned that a cousin of hers was on the way through to Oklahoma, and that she felt that this trip should be cancelled until these storms have left the area.

Weather could be a factor for the upcoming rocket launches this week as well. We will be keeping an eye on the sky for that as well as the rockets. Low ceiling, rain, and high winds could cause us some issues.

To end the evening, I discovered a water leak under the sink in my bathroom and was unable to stop it. After turning valves to only seem to worsen it I finally woke poor Steve to come help. He ended up peeling back the casing on the broken faucet to allow it to drip back into the sink instead of down the inside of it and out the outside of the pipes. What a mess. We have it all opened up drying out until we can replace the old faucet. Funny how things like this always happen when company is due in a few days. At least I found it and it didn’t get a whole lot worse, especially since we  have carpet in this bathroom,

I believe I will end today’s write up on that note.  Funny I had no idea when I started this with the little story, that we would end the evening here. Life just loves surprises, both good and bad, and some slightly in between. God bless you all and good night!

 

TGIF -Day 2

In the interest of keeping this ongoing and up to date, I pause to enter a snippet for day 2 of my new blog. Spell check doesn’t like that word, oh well, too bad, it works for today.

It is a cloudy, dreary, yet mostly rain-less day in the Texas Hills. It looks cold but is instead muggy and warm. Apparently it is the same down in Clute where our SystemsGo team has been setting up for tomorrow’s rocket shoot for the Houston area. Lift off begins tomorrow through Sunday. Good luck to all the schools participating in this weekend’s event, may all tests be successful and recovery be 100%.

I understand that most of the set up that could be done today was completed by around noon. All was going well. Only complaint she had, was that love was in the air with the resident Love Bugs and they were all borrowing Chelsea’s truck to “play” and she was not appreciating that very much. On the bright side, if that is the worst of things, then I do believe they will all do well, team and bugs alike.

May I say though that if an alligator grabs your rocket, please just let him keep it. A message to the launch and recovery teams, if Chelsea falls in an alligator inhabited marsh while a looking for a rocket, save her and leave the rocket!!!

That was just for you, Chelsea, I knew you would appreciate it, just a little miscommunication flash back from years past. Hope you all have a great time and things go really well.

If there are any updates forth coming to share from that shoot this weekend, I will try to share them, but quite often they are super busy and details are limited and sparse. I do not know for sure if the video link will be available for this shoot that will be available at the Fredericksburg shoot next week. If it is, it should be available on the SystemsGo website I posted yesterday.

www.systemsgo.org

Ok, just to prove that I do write other than just blogging, here is a poem I wrote back in March and haven’t shared yet.

Spring Unfolds

Spring unfolds
Amid chill, warmth, and wet.
Temperatures yo-yo between hot and cold,
As rain in short bursts,
The parched earth strains to hold.

Nature rallies to Spring’s efforts,
Exploding with new growth and color;
Vivid greens blanket the prairies
And open like an umbrella,
Covering the trees.

Vibrant yellows, pinks, purples and blues
Create a patchwork quilt,
Across the hills and fields,
As flowers lift their faces
To the warmth the sun yields.

The world becomes a brightly colored canvas;
Changing and growing each day,
As a painting unfolds;
More beautiful and grand
For all mankind to behold.

Ginger
3/27/15