Cecilia helping us with out phone
Close up on my blanket
Finished! Took 5 months.
Zaphnathpaaneah jumping. (I cropped the picture)
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Other Pictures
Cecilia helping us with out phone
Close up on my blanket
Finished! Took 5 months.
Zaphnathpaaneah jumping. (I cropped the picture)
Matthew´s bday
Scrabble cake...If you notice, Matthew is about to get a 7 letter word!
Lorin´s poster for him. Looks like him doesn't it!
Birthday prayer
Happy birthday!
July 6th Mon
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTHEW!!
Matthew is now 13! Crazy!
Because he is 13, he can now play scrabble. He is very excited. So after lunch, Dad, Mom, Matthew and I played Scrabble. He did really well. 103 points. That is better than all the rest of us got on our first game!
Cecilia brought him a chocolate cake. She makes great goodies.
Ricardo and Alicia came over at 8pm to have a small party with us. They are alot of fun, and we finally got a picture of them, which I will try to put on. Ricardo did a ‘broma’ for us. He can take out his eye! We all knew it was a joke because he told us, but Peter didn’t hear, or didn’t get it, and he thought it was real. He said that it made his stomach turn. :>) Ricardo had a shell type of thing that has a perfect eye painted on it. He had it, but had someone else paint the eye on it for him. It is quite neat.
Matthew asked for a Scrabble board on his cake. It turned out pretty well I think. He also wanted mint chocolate chip with coconut Ice cream. He can’t have milk so I had to figure something else out. About a year ago, Hannah had given me a recipe for rice milk. As that is somewhere, I needed to get another, so I looked it up on the internet and found a great recipe. I made it, and made Icecream form it. It turned out really good.
He got a lot of homemade stuff. Several book markers, slippers, cards, and snacks. His store bought presents were a Mate cup, wooden plate for asado (BBQ) and new shoes which he really needed.
About 11pm we got a call from Gramma and Grampa to him. That was very special to him. We were up because Ricardo and Alicia had left less than ½ hour before.
We finished the night by eating dinner by candle light. No, it was not planned. The electricity kept going out, coming on for a minute and going off again. About 11:10 it went off to stay. Philip let me use his headlight so I could finish the Chicken and Dumplings for dinner. I could see a lot better than just using candlelight. We are pretty used to the lights going out. We would rather lose that than the gas. We have gas heaters, stove and so when that goes out, it goes cold (we haven’t got the pipes for the wood stove yet) and we eat cold food. :>)
Happy 13th Birthday Matthew!
July 8th Wed.
Well, we have finished with Lorin’s The Mystery of the Disappearing Shadow So we will have to go on to the next one. The problem is, she hasn’t got it finished yet. She has a little left, then I need to edit it, then we will start putting them on again.
We have been doing a lot of crocheting lately. Mom made a blanket; I believe I put the picture on last week. Yesterday I finished a blanket I have been working on for about 5 months. I am very excited that it is done. I made it with remnants of yarn from other projects that I did, so it is special to me.
July 9th Fri.
Last night the Rufins, asked if they could come over and visit about 7:30pm. They brought over a loaf of bread which was really good and we provided the desserts.
This afternoon, Peter, Philip and our neighbor girl Victoria, Graciela’s daughter, had made torta. It was similar to brownies this time. After they were done, Lorin and Julieta, Graciela’s older daughter, put dulce de leche and chocolate on it. It was really good. We brought some home and some stayed at their house.
Ricardo really liked the desserts and had several. We did warn him. ‘Peter 9, Philip 6, and Victoria 4, made this, and it could have eggs shells….’ They laughed and enjoyed the goodie.
We visited in a mix of English and Castellano and had a lot of fun. Fede and Belen played Sorry with Emily and Sami (Lucia’s 4 year old). Belen told us that her favorite game to play is Sorry.
Alicia told us that Ricardo has been reading the Juan and Romanos that we gave him every day. Please pray for his salvation!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTHEW!!
Matthew is now 13! Crazy!
Because he is 13, he can now play scrabble. He is very excited. So after lunch, Dad, Mom, Matthew and I played Scrabble. He did really well. 103 points. That is better than all the rest of us got on our first game!
Cecilia brought him a chocolate cake. She makes great goodies.
Ricardo and Alicia came over at 8pm to have a small party with us. They are alot of fun, and we finally got a picture of them, which I will try to put on. Ricardo did a ‘broma’ for us. He can take out his eye! We all knew it was a joke because he told us, but Peter didn’t hear, or didn’t get it, and he thought it was real. He said that it made his stomach turn. :>) Ricardo had a shell type of thing that has a perfect eye painted on it. He had it, but had someone else paint the eye on it for him. It is quite neat.
Matthew asked for a Scrabble board on his cake. It turned out pretty well I think. He also wanted mint chocolate chip with coconut Ice cream. He can’t have milk so I had to figure something else out. About a year ago, Hannah had given me a recipe for rice milk. As that is somewhere, I needed to get another, so I looked it up on the internet and found a great recipe. I made it, and made Icecream form it. It turned out really good.
He got a lot of homemade stuff. Several book markers, slippers, cards, and snacks. His store bought presents were a Mate cup, wooden plate for asado (BBQ) and new shoes which he really needed.
About 11pm we got a call from Gramma and Grampa to him. That was very special to him. We were up because Ricardo and Alicia had left less than ½ hour before.
We finished the night by eating dinner by candle light. No, it was not planned. The electricity kept going out, coming on for a minute and going off again. About 11:10 it went off to stay. Philip let me use his headlight so I could finish the Chicken and Dumplings for dinner. I could see a lot better than just using candlelight. We are pretty used to the lights going out. We would rather lose that than the gas. We have gas heaters, stove and so when that goes out, it goes cold (we haven’t got the pipes for the wood stove yet) and we eat cold food. :>)
Happy 13th Birthday Matthew!
July 8th Wed.
Well, we have finished with Lorin’s The Mystery of the Disappearing Shadow So we will have to go on to the next one. The problem is, she hasn’t got it finished yet. She has a little left, then I need to edit it, then we will start putting them on again.
We have been doing a lot of crocheting lately. Mom made a blanket; I believe I put the picture on last week. Yesterday I finished a blanket I have been working on for about 5 months. I am very excited that it is done. I made it with remnants of yarn from other projects that I did, so it is special to me.
July 9th Fri.
Last night the Rufins, asked if they could come over and visit about 7:30pm. They brought over a loaf of bread which was really good and we provided the desserts.
This afternoon, Peter, Philip and our neighbor girl Victoria, Graciela’s daughter, had made torta. It was similar to brownies this time. After they were done, Lorin and Julieta, Graciela’s older daughter, put dulce de leche and chocolate on it. It was really good. We brought some home and some stayed at their house.
Ricardo really liked the desserts and had several. We did warn him. ‘Peter 9, Philip 6, and Victoria 4, made this, and it could have eggs shells….’ They laughed and enjoyed the goodie.
We visited in a mix of English and Castellano and had a lot of fun. Fede and Belen played Sorry with Emily and Sami (Lucia’s 4 year old). Belen told us that her favorite game to play is Sorry.
Alicia told us that Ricardo has been reading the Juan and Romanos that we gave him every day. Please pray for his salvation!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Pictures
Taken by Ricardo. This is a common sight outside of Aluminé.
All the eggs
Mom's blanket
Mom and Edith
June 29th
June 29th Monday
Bill and Matthew were out putting our chickens back in their cage after they escaped. They noticed one hen heading for a spot under the coop, went to grab her and found something very surprising. Our hens had been laying eggs in a spot under the coop! We were getting 9-11 eggs a day on average out of 10 hens, and now we found that they had been hiding some. The boys got the pile of eggs, and brought them in. We float tested them, and they were all still good. We got 48 eggs in all. No clue how long the hens have been laying there!
June 30th Tuesday
Campmeeting started on Sunday. Today is the first big day, and we aren’t there!! We have gone for 12 years and now we can’t. We are pouting We are going to miss the preaching, seeing friends, food, fun and everything.
But we are doing well here.
The Mystery of the Disappearing Shadow
Chapter Seven
We crawled through the tunnel and into another tunnel. We heard voices coming toward again!
“Man, they always walk everywhere. I think they have guards around here.” said Bill.
Jeana and Annette were walking lazily down the ally.
“We will capture these girls too. Then we will only have to deal with the boys. We will put them in the stalls. But we will not put them in the same stall with Ashley.”
We snuck up behind them and threw a hand over their mouths. They didn’t faint like Ashley, they fought. But we got them down anyway. We put gags on there mouths and ropes in their wrists. We took them and put them different stalls. We searched them for weapons, hid them and locked the stalls.
“Before we catch the guys we should go get the police.”
“Hey, Timothy what if they go looking for the girls while we were gone?” said Matthew.
“I know! We could make a note saying that they went somewhere and will be back soon and not to worry.” I said
“Good thinking!” said Maurica
“Hannah you write the note. Put it in your worst handwriting so it will look like they are in a hurry.” commanded Timothy.
Hannah wrote the note. We ran and put the note were they would find it.
“We should take the girls with us, so if they go in the stalls, they won’t find them. We will grab them and get out of here with out being seen.” Timothy said in a hurry
We ran softly to the stall , unlocked them and grab the girls and cut the ropes on their ankles.
“Look here, You will walk with us and no funny stuff…see these?” Timothy asked and we all held up the rifles, “If you try to run or do anything other than what we say, we will shoot you.”
“And we are great shots” added Bill.
All three nodded yes and walked as straight as they could.
“Matthew and Bill and Lorin, lead the way, Ashley, Annette and Jeana walk behind them, and Maurica, Hannah and I will walk behind them. When we get out, Lorin and Matthew will drop back and be on either side of them.”
We went to the trap door closest to us and climbed out.
“Boy! That fresh air smells so good.” said Matthew, dropping back to stand beside the girls.
We jogged in to the woods. We continued until we got far away from the criminals dugout.
We finally got to a big rock and rested there.
We walked and walked. We walked past the pond, and were walking to the door when Emily, JonathanPeter (He like to be called Peter rather than Jonathan,) and Philip came running outside. The are our little brothers and sister. Emily is 9, Peter 7,and Philip 5.
They asked, “Why are those girls tied up and you guys are holding rifles on them?”
“Let’s go inside and call The Chief and we will tell you about it went they come.” answered Timothy
“The Chief? Are they bad very bad girls?” asked Peter.
“We will talk about it in the house so nobody will hear it.” said Bill
We all entered in the house. Dad was sitting on the couch reading.
“Well, what does my kids have?”
“Dad, it is kind of queer. They have three girls.” answered Emily.
“Sit on the ground floor.” Timothy commanded the girls, then we proceeded to tie their feet and check the other bonds.
“Dad, can we please use the phone?” asked Maurica
“We need to call the cops, and ask them to come as quick as they can.” continued Timothy.
“Ok! Here is the phone. What officers are you going to call?”
“We are going to call Chief Joe Wood, Silas Barrington, and Clint James. Thanks for the phone.”
Timothy took the phone and walked to the next room.
“Man! It looks like you guys got more thieves. I never thought that there was criminals at B.B.T.I.” exclaimed Mom. “But you really wouldn’t have shot them would you?”
“Of course not!” said Hannah.
“But they sure thought we would.” added Maurica grinning.
“Mom, these are the criminals that escaped from the state prison.” said Bill.
“Wow! If I hadn’t forgot that, I would not have let you guys out of the house.”
“But, we caught them! And boy, was fun.” said Matthew
“I am glad that you guys had fun.”
Timothy came back in the room, “Thanks for letting me use your phone. They will be here in a few minutes.”
A few minute later we heard a car approaching our house.
“I bet Chief Joe is coming now.” I said
Philip opened the door to look out. Sure enough, it was them.
“Come right in!” said Dad.
“Hello!” said Chief Joe.
“Hi!” we said back.
“You guys already have another mystery on your hands?” asked Clint.
“Yes they sure do!” said Peter.
“You guys just got done with the Mystery of the Missing Internet Box. We thought that this would be the end, then we got a call that says ‘please come down to BBTI, we have some people in our living room that escaped from the state prison.’ ” said Detective Silas
“Tell us the story and how you caught them.” commanded Chief Joe.
We all took turns telling the story.
“Boy! That is interesting.” said Clint, “I bet they will have a longer time in prison for escaping from it.”
“Can you folks watch these girls for little while these kids show us the dugout?” asked Chief.
“Sure, Chief.” said Dad.
“Silas, get the kit and knock them out so they can’t try to leave at all.”
“Can we go with you guys?” asked Peter.
“We will stay out of the way.” begged Emily.
“We want to see the hideout. Please?” Philip pleaded.
“What do you think Chief?” questioned Timothy.
“I don’t want these kids hurt.” Chief said thinking, “No, I don’t think we should bring these little hoodlums along. But what! don’t look so sad, when we catch them we will bring you guys to see the dugout. How about that? You guys can watch the girls and pretend that you guys are detectives and you captured them. But one thing do not untie them and take off their gags. Your Mom and Dad will help you.”
“Yea!!” yelled the three kids, “Hurry! We promise not to untie them.”
“Let’s go!” Clint said excitedly.
“These escaped criminals are very smart. They didn’t leave any tracks.” Bill said as we left.
We passed the rock and showed them were our bags had been stolen. We showed them the place where Maurica and I got captured, and continued on.
“We are almost there!” said Matthew.
“Shhh! We need to be quiet.” said Timothy.
“Wait! I have a plan.” said Joe, “Is there another door?”
“Yes, over yonder at that big rock with a point on it” replied Timothy.
“Good. Is there another door, other then the front and the trap door?”
“No. Only two.”
“Ok, some of us will go through that trap door and the rest in the front door.”
“We all know where the trap door is, but only Maurica, Lorin, and I know where the front door is.”
“K, we will spilt up. Timothy will be the leader on one group and I will be the leader of the other. Maurica, Clint, Lorin, will go with you. Silas, Matthew, Hannah and Bill will go with me. Is that ok?”
“Yes! That is great” We all chimed in together.
“Good! Lets go.”
We all skulked very quietly. We saw the three guys around a camp fire.
“I wonder why the girls wrote a note and didn’t come talk to us.” said Frank.
“I am hungry. They need to get here fast and make dinner.” complained Adam.
Joe came up behind us and motioned us away from the door. We followed him to the place where Hannah, Matthew, Bill, and Silas were waiting.
“Ok, Timothy, I have another plan. Those guys are sitting beside the campfire. You guys get down it that tunnel as fast as you can. Stand were I can see you but don’t let those scoundrels see you. Wait till I signal. You will pounce on them together. Hannah and Maurica will stay at the door with their rifles, and Lorin and I will guard this tunnel, and make sure that none of those guys escape. Do you guys think that is a good plan?” asked Joe
“That sounds great.” said Timothy and Clint together.
“Lets go!”
We ran to the front door and waited for a little bit then we saw them. Timothy stuck his head out so we could see him and Chief Joe would know that they were there.
“Are you ready?” Joe whispered to me.
I nodded my head yes. He looked toward Maurica and Hannah. They nodded slightly, then Joe put his fingers to his mouth and gave a piercing whistle. I almost laughed because the criminals about jumped out of their skin.
Ivan and Adam grabbed their pistols from their holsters and pointed them at us, while Frank aimed at Hannah and Maurica.
Just before they shot at us, Timothy, Clint and Silas grabbed their wrists and forced them up in the air. It was a miracle that nobody got hit. After a great struggle over the pistols, Timothy against Ivan, Clint with Frank and Silas with Adam, our guys got them subdued. Adam got shot in the foot and Ivan in the leg. It was a big fight. There were holes in the walls and floor.
Frank punched Clint, stunning him, and tried to escaped but he ran right into me. He was so startled that he could not move for a moment and he was caught by Joe.
“Please help me my leg is hurting bad!!” yelled Ivan. “I am going to bleed to death and you don’t care!!!
“Yes, we care. When we get you to jail we will get a doctor to fix it up.” said Chief Joe.
“What about the girls?” said Adam.
“Shut your oven door Adam!” boomed Ivan.
“You guys don’t have to worry about them.” said Clint.
Clint, and Silas grab the shot criminals and threw them on their shoulders. Frank was made to walk with all of us holding our rifles on him.
We walked past the big rock and rested there then we walked and got to the pond and past the internet post, and finally to our house.
“Look they are coming!” yelled Philip. The other kids came poked their head out the door.
“Yay!!! They’re coming! Let’s get on our shoes.” The kids chimed in together.
“Mommmyy!!! Please help me with my boots!!” Philip asked yelling.
“Where is my socks at?!” Peter shrieked.
“I can’t find my other shoe! Daddy have you seen it?!” Emily squeaked loudly.
“Kids settle down!! There not leaving now! I believe they are going to take the prisoners to jail.” Dad said coming out on the porch, and laughing with us at the antics of the kids.
“Man! They are very hyper.” exclaimed Clint.
“Yes. They want to go very bad and see the dugout.” said Timothy.
“Hello! Detectives. I see that you guys got more people to take to jail! Mom is watching the girls in the house.”
“Are they awake?” asked Joe.
“Yes, they are. Come in!”
We saw the girls on the carpet.
“When they woke up they had big eyes. Peter, Philip, and Emily were sitting on them when they awoke. They were pretending that they just got them down and they were pinning them. When they awoke it scared them so bad.” said Mom
We almost rolled on the ground, we were laughing so hard.
“That is hilarious!! I wish we could have seen their faces.”
said Clint.
“Ok! We will take these rascals to jail and we will be back as fast as we can. You guys eat some food and clean up a little bit, then we will go to the dugout together. Is that ok?” asked The Chief.
“Great!”
“Oh.” said Peter, Emily, and Philip. “That is a long time away.”
“Just wait. The time will go fast and these detectives need to eat.” said Silas winking at them.
“Ok! Hurry!” said Emily
Silas, Clint, Joe, Timothy, Dad, and Bill grabbed the criminals and carried them to the squad cars and threw them in it.
“See you later!” said Chief Joe, Silas, and Clint as they drove away.
“We just cracked the case. What should we call it?” asked Timothy
“Well there were disappearing shadows in it.” I mentioned.
“Well then we could call it… The Mystery of The Disappearing Shadow?” asked Timothy
“Yes, that is great!” said Hannah.
“I like it too!” added Maurica.
“That is a great name!” I said.
“I agree!” exclaimed Bill.
“Me too!” added Matthew.
We all walked in the house and Hannah and Maurica made dinner, our favorite meal. Hannah’s Oatmeal bake!!
“Yay!!” all of the Clegkleins shouted
“Hannah and Maurica Clegklein! You guys are the best!” yelled Bill.
“You guys sounded like you had a great time camping and capturing the criminals.” said Mom
“It was so fun Mom.” said Matthew
“It was very fun until I had to eat P.B. Js.” I said laughing
“Or that evil laugh that Ivan had.” Maurica added.
“Hey Timothy! do you have that knife that we found?” asked Hannah
“Yes I do. Here it is. While you guys are making dinner we will go fix the strap on Lorin’s rifle.”
Timothy, Peter, Philip, Emily, Bill, Matthew, and I walked to the shop where Timothy fixed the strap. We barely got it done when Maurica called out:
“Time To Eat!”
“Yay!” we all chimed in together
We all raced into the house and took off our shoes, washed our hands, then sat at the table. Dad prayed for the food then we all dug in.
We were washing the dishes when we heard a car.
“I bet they are here!” said Hannah
“I will finish the dishes while you guys are gone.” said Mom.
“Are you sure?” asked Hannah.
“I said so, didn’t I?” she said laughing “Go get your shoes on now!”
We all walked to the door and were putting on our shoes when there was a knock.
“Come in!” said Dad.
“Well are you guys ready? I am anxious to go!” said Clint
“Yes we are almost ready.” said Hannah.
“Can you help me find my other shoe, Maurica? Please!” asked Emily
“Oh Emily! Can’t you keep track of your shoes?”
“I do, but this one ran away!”
“Look Emily! Here’s is your shoe.” yelled Matthew.
“Where did you find it?”
“In the shoe pile.”
“I looked there.”
“Well I guess not good enough. You probably were so excited that you didn’t see it.”
“Well I guess you are right. Thank you!!”
“We all got on our shoes and are ready.” said Timothy
“Good let’s go!” said Silas
“Yippee!” screamed Emily, Peter, and Philip.
We walked past the internet box, and past the pond. Through the bushes in and out the dry river bed. We past the rock.
“We are almost to the dugout!” said Bill.
“Should we walk in the front door or the trap door, Emily?” asked Timothy with a bad guy voice.
“Let’s go in……”
“The trap door!!” yelled Peter.
“Yea! Let’s go!”
Timothy opened the trap door and jumped in. “Please hand in Emily, Peter, and Philip. The rest can jump in.”
“Emily first.”
We handed Emily to him, Philip, then Peter. Hannah jumped in next, then Maurica, I jumped in after her, Bill flew in, Matthew sat in the ground and dropped in, Clint went in next, then Joe and Silas. When we were all in Timothy close the door. We all were trying to see through the black.
We whipped out our flashlights and turned them on. We could see very well.
We all went to the stalls where Maurica and I had been held.
When we got there Clint whispered to Timothy, “Can you please hand me the key to these stalls?”
“Ok. Here is the key.”
“Hey Peter! Go in one of these stalls.”
“Why?”
“Because.”
“Because why?”
“Just go in.”
“Ok.”
He walked in and Clint took out the key and locked the door.
“Hey why did you do that? Please unlock it.”
“Ok.”
Clint walked over and unlocked the stall.
“Hey Maurica! Remember when Ivan said that he was going to take me to other stalls with that odd key. I wonder where they are.”
“Maybe we could go find it.” replied Maurica.
“ That is a good idea. Let’s go!” said Timothy.
We walked and walked. We searched through almost every tunnel and did not find them.
“I wonder if he was making it up.” said Silas
We were walking down the last tunnel when….. “Shhh! I hear something. It sounds like people talking and groaning down below us.” said Clint
We all listened and sure enough we heard what Clint had heard.
“Timothy look!” Bill said pointing to the ground. We all looked at the ground and saw another trap door! There was a hole for a key.
“Hey Maurica! That key hole looks like that one key that Ivan was holding. Timothy do you think that your pocket knife could fit in that?”
“Lets try it.”
Timothy put his pocket knife in the hole and it worked!
Timothy looked in the hole with the flashlight.
“What’s in there?” asked Peter excitedly
“Well there’s more stalls in here and it is pitch black. I would hate to be in there.” said Timothy, shining his light down.
“Can we go in?” asked Philip
“Well, I don’t know, with what we heard.”
“Please let us!” said Peter.
“Well, I guess we could.”
Timothy jumped in and told Clint to jump. We handed the little kids in then as Bill was about to jump in, Timothy said, “Wait! don’t jump in yet. You will have to jump in lightly because the jump is higher than the other ones that you have jumped.”
Bill jumped in lightly the rest of us followed. We headed off to explore under the underground tunnels.
We walked to the first stall and looked in, guess what we saw? We saw a person in there!!
“What in the world?!” said Joe.
“What are you guys doing in here? You better hurry and get out before those scoundrels come! Or you will be in here with us the rest of your life!” said the skinny guy in the stall.
“Don’t worry we already got the rascals in jail. I am Chief Joe Wood, these are my men, Detective Silas Barrington, and Officer Clint James and these kids are the Clegkleins. They are the ones that caught those scoundrels. What is your name? I will not let you out till I hear your name.”
“My name is Jeff Pack.”
“What! Are you the missing person that everyone is trying to find? Are you the owner of the electricity company?”
“Yes that is me! Can you get me out now. I am about to go crazy. And my wife is in the stall to the end of this tunnel. I don’t know how she is doing and they would not tell me. I keep on yelling but she does not hear.”
We opened the door and let him out. He started walking the end of the tunnel, we all went with him.
“Mary!! Can you hear me! I am coming to get you!”
We walked and heard a voice but, we couldn’t hear what she said.
We all started running. He kept on calling her.
“Mary! Mary!”
Finally we got there and Joe unlocked the door. She ran out and hugged her husband. We told her everything as we went out of the underground tunnels, and out the front door.
“Man! my eyes are killing me. We have been in there a long time. I have no idea how long.” said Jeff.
“You have been missing about 3 weeks.” Joe told him.
“That was the longest time in my life!” exclaimed Mary.
Soon our eyes got use to the sun.
“Let’s get some food for this couple. I bet you guys are starving.”
“Yes, Sir I am very hungry.” said Mary.
We walked past where we had seen the knife and past the rock, the pond and the Internet box, and back home.
Mom had made a good meal which we all ate. Mr. and Mrs. Pack ate hungrily, thanked us, then left with the cops. We waved to them as they drove off.
“Now it is time for you guys to hop in your beds. Timothy and Hannah you guys can stay with us if you want.”
“Please! Please!” said Peter.
“Well, let’s go and get cleaned up while we think.” said Hannah.
“Great! The kids need to get cleaned up to.” said Mom
They left and we all got cleaned up. They came back and they said yes, they would stay. We have an extra bed in both the boys and the girls room, just so they will have a place to sleep when they stay over.
We all slept great and woke up to a beautiful day.
THE END
July 2nd Thursday
Mom went over to visit Edith, Graciela’s mother, and to help her with English. Edith speaks very good English. Mom took over the stuff to make Maple syrup. They loved it. They put it in there Yerba Mate to sweeten it.
July 3rd Fri.
We had Cecilia stay for dinner after class today. We had chili bowls. Yummy! After we ate and cleaned up, we played Scrabble. Cecilia and I did great this time, and Mom and Lorin did horrible. It seems to work like that. :)
I made cheesecake this morning, and Cecilia brought an argentine goodie. Yumm! A little while later Ricardo and Alicia came to visit for a while. We chatted, showed them pictures of when we were on deputation, and they had some of the goodies too. They are interested in visiting the U.S. sometime, so we were showing them the pictures of OR, ID, MT and a couple other places.
They left at 10pm to go to a birthday party, and we finished our Scrabble game. After Cecilia left, I cleaned up the kitchen, then we all went to bed to the sound of rain.
Bill and Matthew were out putting our chickens back in their cage after they escaped. They noticed one hen heading for a spot under the coop, went to grab her and found something very surprising. Our hens had been laying eggs in a spot under the coop! We were getting 9-11 eggs a day on average out of 10 hens, and now we found that they had been hiding some. The boys got the pile of eggs, and brought them in. We float tested them, and they were all still good. We got 48 eggs in all. No clue how long the hens have been laying there!
June 30th Tuesday
Campmeeting started on Sunday. Today is the first big day, and we aren’t there!! We have gone for 12 years and now we can’t. We are pouting We are going to miss the preaching, seeing friends, food, fun and everything.
But we are doing well here.
The Mystery of the Disappearing Shadow
Chapter Seven
We crawled through the tunnel and into another tunnel. We heard voices coming toward again!
“Man, they always walk everywhere. I think they have guards around here.” said Bill.
Jeana and Annette were walking lazily down the ally.
“We will capture these girls too. Then we will only have to deal with the boys. We will put them in the stalls. But we will not put them in the same stall with Ashley.”
We snuck up behind them and threw a hand over their mouths. They didn’t faint like Ashley, they fought. But we got them down anyway. We put gags on there mouths and ropes in their wrists. We took them and put them different stalls. We searched them for weapons, hid them and locked the stalls.
“Before we catch the guys we should go get the police.”
“Hey, Timothy what if they go looking for the girls while we were gone?” said Matthew.
“I know! We could make a note saying that they went somewhere and will be back soon and not to worry.” I said
“Good thinking!” said Maurica
“Hannah you write the note. Put it in your worst handwriting so it will look like they are in a hurry.” commanded Timothy.
Hannah wrote the note. We ran and put the note were they would find it.
“We should take the girls with us, so if they go in the stalls, they won’t find them. We will grab them and get out of here with out being seen.” Timothy said in a hurry
We ran softly to the stall , unlocked them and grab the girls and cut the ropes on their ankles.
“Look here, You will walk with us and no funny stuff…see these?” Timothy asked and we all held up the rifles, “If you try to run or do anything other than what we say, we will shoot you.”
“And we are great shots” added Bill.
All three nodded yes and walked as straight as they could.
“Matthew and Bill and Lorin, lead the way, Ashley, Annette and Jeana walk behind them, and Maurica, Hannah and I will walk behind them. When we get out, Lorin and Matthew will drop back and be on either side of them.”
We went to the trap door closest to us and climbed out.
“Boy! That fresh air smells so good.” said Matthew, dropping back to stand beside the girls.
We jogged in to the woods. We continued until we got far away from the criminals dugout.
We finally got to a big rock and rested there.
We walked and walked. We walked past the pond, and were walking to the door when Emily, JonathanPeter (He like to be called Peter rather than Jonathan,) and Philip came running outside. The are our little brothers and sister. Emily is 9, Peter 7,and Philip 5.
They asked, “Why are those girls tied up and you guys are holding rifles on them?”
“Let’s go inside and call The Chief and we will tell you about it went they come.” answered Timothy
“The Chief? Are they bad very bad girls?” asked Peter.
“We will talk about it in the house so nobody will hear it.” said Bill
We all entered in the house. Dad was sitting on the couch reading.
“Well, what does my kids have?”
“Dad, it is kind of queer. They have three girls.” answered Emily.
“Sit on the ground floor.” Timothy commanded the girls, then we proceeded to tie their feet and check the other bonds.
“Dad, can we please use the phone?” asked Maurica
“We need to call the cops, and ask them to come as quick as they can.” continued Timothy.
“Ok! Here is the phone. What officers are you going to call?”
“We are going to call Chief Joe Wood, Silas Barrington, and Clint James. Thanks for the phone.”
Timothy took the phone and walked to the next room.
“Man! It looks like you guys got more thieves. I never thought that there was criminals at B.B.T.I.” exclaimed Mom. “But you really wouldn’t have shot them would you?”
“Of course not!” said Hannah.
“But they sure thought we would.” added Maurica grinning.
“Mom, these are the criminals that escaped from the state prison.” said Bill.
“Wow! If I hadn’t forgot that, I would not have let you guys out of the house.”
“But, we caught them! And boy, was fun.” said Matthew
“I am glad that you guys had fun.”
Timothy came back in the room, “Thanks for letting me use your phone. They will be here in a few minutes.”
A few minute later we heard a car approaching our house.
“I bet Chief Joe is coming now.” I said
Philip opened the door to look out. Sure enough, it was them.
“Come right in!” said Dad.
“Hello!” said Chief Joe.
“Hi!” we said back.
“You guys already have another mystery on your hands?” asked Clint.
“Yes they sure do!” said Peter.
“You guys just got done with the Mystery of the Missing Internet Box. We thought that this would be the end, then we got a call that says ‘please come down to BBTI, we have some people in our living room that escaped from the state prison.’ ” said Detective Silas
“Tell us the story and how you caught them.” commanded Chief Joe.
We all took turns telling the story.
“Boy! That is interesting.” said Clint, “I bet they will have a longer time in prison for escaping from it.”
“Can you folks watch these girls for little while these kids show us the dugout?” asked Chief.
“Sure, Chief.” said Dad.
“Silas, get the kit and knock them out so they can’t try to leave at all.”
“Can we go with you guys?” asked Peter.
“We will stay out of the way.” begged Emily.
“We want to see the hideout. Please?” Philip pleaded.
“What do you think Chief?” questioned Timothy.
“I don’t want these kids hurt.” Chief said thinking, “No, I don’t think we should bring these little hoodlums along. But what! don’t look so sad, when we catch them we will bring you guys to see the dugout. How about that? You guys can watch the girls and pretend that you guys are detectives and you captured them. But one thing do not untie them and take off their gags. Your Mom and Dad will help you.”
“Yea!!” yelled the three kids, “Hurry! We promise not to untie them.”
“Let’s go!” Clint said excitedly.
“These escaped criminals are very smart. They didn’t leave any tracks.” Bill said as we left.
We passed the rock and showed them were our bags had been stolen. We showed them the place where Maurica and I got captured, and continued on.
“We are almost there!” said Matthew.
“Shhh! We need to be quiet.” said Timothy.
“Wait! I have a plan.” said Joe, “Is there another door?”
“Yes, over yonder at that big rock with a point on it” replied Timothy.
“Good. Is there another door, other then the front and the trap door?”
“No. Only two.”
“Ok, some of us will go through that trap door and the rest in the front door.”
“We all know where the trap door is, but only Maurica, Lorin, and I know where the front door is.”
“K, we will spilt up. Timothy will be the leader on one group and I will be the leader of the other. Maurica, Clint, Lorin, will go with you. Silas, Matthew, Hannah and Bill will go with me. Is that ok?”
“Yes! That is great” We all chimed in together.
“Good! Lets go.”
We all skulked very quietly. We saw the three guys around a camp fire.
“I wonder why the girls wrote a note and didn’t come talk to us.” said Frank.
“I am hungry. They need to get here fast and make dinner.” complained Adam.
Joe came up behind us and motioned us away from the door. We followed him to the place where Hannah, Matthew, Bill, and Silas were waiting.
“Ok, Timothy, I have another plan. Those guys are sitting beside the campfire. You guys get down it that tunnel as fast as you can. Stand were I can see you but don’t let those scoundrels see you. Wait till I signal. You will pounce on them together. Hannah and Maurica will stay at the door with their rifles, and Lorin and I will guard this tunnel, and make sure that none of those guys escape. Do you guys think that is a good plan?” asked Joe
“That sounds great.” said Timothy and Clint together.
“Lets go!”
We ran to the front door and waited for a little bit then we saw them. Timothy stuck his head out so we could see him and Chief Joe would know that they were there.
“Are you ready?” Joe whispered to me.
I nodded my head yes. He looked toward Maurica and Hannah. They nodded slightly, then Joe put his fingers to his mouth and gave a piercing whistle. I almost laughed because the criminals about jumped out of their skin.
Ivan and Adam grabbed their pistols from their holsters and pointed them at us, while Frank aimed at Hannah and Maurica.
Just before they shot at us, Timothy, Clint and Silas grabbed their wrists and forced them up in the air. It was a miracle that nobody got hit. After a great struggle over the pistols, Timothy against Ivan, Clint with Frank and Silas with Adam, our guys got them subdued. Adam got shot in the foot and Ivan in the leg. It was a big fight. There were holes in the walls and floor.
Frank punched Clint, stunning him, and tried to escaped but he ran right into me. He was so startled that he could not move for a moment and he was caught by Joe.
“Please help me my leg is hurting bad!!” yelled Ivan. “I am going to bleed to death and you don’t care!!!
“Yes, we care. When we get you to jail we will get a doctor to fix it up.” said Chief Joe.
“What about the girls?” said Adam.
“Shut your oven door Adam!” boomed Ivan.
“You guys don’t have to worry about them.” said Clint.
Clint, and Silas grab the shot criminals and threw them on their shoulders. Frank was made to walk with all of us holding our rifles on him.
We walked past the big rock and rested there then we walked and got to the pond and past the internet post, and finally to our house.
“Look they are coming!” yelled Philip. The other kids came poked their head out the door.
“Yay!!! They’re coming! Let’s get on our shoes.” The kids chimed in together.
“Mommmyy!!! Please help me with my boots!!” Philip asked yelling.
“Where is my socks at?!” Peter shrieked.
“I can’t find my other shoe! Daddy have you seen it?!” Emily squeaked loudly.
“Kids settle down!! There not leaving now! I believe they are going to take the prisoners to jail.” Dad said coming out on the porch, and laughing with us at the antics of the kids.
“Man! They are very hyper.” exclaimed Clint.
“Yes. They want to go very bad and see the dugout.” said Timothy.
“Hello! Detectives. I see that you guys got more people to take to jail! Mom is watching the girls in the house.”
“Are they awake?” asked Joe.
“Yes, they are. Come in!”
We saw the girls on the carpet.
“When they woke up they had big eyes. Peter, Philip, and Emily were sitting on them when they awoke. They were pretending that they just got them down and they were pinning them. When they awoke it scared them so bad.” said Mom
We almost rolled on the ground, we were laughing so hard.
“That is hilarious!! I wish we could have seen their faces.”
said Clint.
“Ok! We will take these rascals to jail and we will be back as fast as we can. You guys eat some food and clean up a little bit, then we will go to the dugout together. Is that ok?” asked The Chief.
“Great!”
“Oh.” said Peter, Emily, and Philip. “That is a long time away.”
“Just wait. The time will go fast and these detectives need to eat.” said Silas winking at them.
“Ok! Hurry!” said Emily
Silas, Clint, Joe, Timothy, Dad, and Bill grabbed the criminals and carried them to the squad cars and threw them in it.
“See you later!” said Chief Joe, Silas, and Clint as they drove away.
“We just cracked the case. What should we call it?” asked Timothy
“Well there were disappearing shadows in it.” I mentioned.
“Well then we could call it… The Mystery of The Disappearing Shadow?” asked Timothy
“Yes, that is great!” said Hannah.
“I like it too!” added Maurica.
“That is a great name!” I said.
“I agree!” exclaimed Bill.
“Me too!” added Matthew.
We all walked in the house and Hannah and Maurica made dinner, our favorite meal. Hannah’s Oatmeal bake!!
“Yay!!” all of the Clegkleins shouted
“Hannah and Maurica Clegklein! You guys are the best!” yelled Bill.
“You guys sounded like you had a great time camping and capturing the criminals.” said Mom
“It was so fun Mom.” said Matthew
“It was very fun until I had to eat P.B. Js.” I said laughing
“Or that evil laugh that Ivan had.” Maurica added.
“Hey Timothy! do you have that knife that we found?” asked Hannah
“Yes I do. Here it is. While you guys are making dinner we will go fix the strap on Lorin’s rifle.”
Timothy, Peter, Philip, Emily, Bill, Matthew, and I walked to the shop where Timothy fixed the strap. We barely got it done when Maurica called out:
“Time To Eat!”
“Yay!” we all chimed in together
We all raced into the house and took off our shoes, washed our hands, then sat at the table. Dad prayed for the food then we all dug in.
We were washing the dishes when we heard a car.
“I bet they are here!” said Hannah
“I will finish the dishes while you guys are gone.” said Mom.
“Are you sure?” asked Hannah.
“I said so, didn’t I?” she said laughing “Go get your shoes on now!”
We all walked to the door and were putting on our shoes when there was a knock.
“Come in!” said Dad.
“Well are you guys ready? I am anxious to go!” said Clint
“Yes we are almost ready.” said Hannah.
“Can you help me find my other shoe, Maurica? Please!” asked Emily
“Oh Emily! Can’t you keep track of your shoes?”
“I do, but this one ran away!”
“Look Emily! Here’s is your shoe.” yelled Matthew.
“Where did you find it?”
“In the shoe pile.”
“I looked there.”
“Well I guess not good enough. You probably were so excited that you didn’t see it.”
“Well I guess you are right. Thank you!!”
“We all got on our shoes and are ready.” said Timothy
“Good let’s go!” said Silas
“Yippee!” screamed Emily, Peter, and Philip.
We walked past the internet box, and past the pond. Through the bushes in and out the dry river bed. We past the rock.
“We are almost to the dugout!” said Bill.
“Should we walk in the front door or the trap door, Emily?” asked Timothy with a bad guy voice.
“Let’s go in……”
“The trap door!!” yelled Peter.
“Yea! Let’s go!”
Timothy opened the trap door and jumped in. “Please hand in Emily, Peter, and Philip. The rest can jump in.”
“Emily first.”
We handed Emily to him, Philip, then Peter. Hannah jumped in next, then Maurica, I jumped in after her, Bill flew in, Matthew sat in the ground and dropped in, Clint went in next, then Joe and Silas. When we were all in Timothy close the door. We all were trying to see through the black.
We whipped out our flashlights and turned them on. We could see very well.
We all went to the stalls where Maurica and I had been held.
When we got there Clint whispered to Timothy, “Can you please hand me the key to these stalls?”
“Ok. Here is the key.”
“Hey Peter! Go in one of these stalls.”
“Why?”
“Because.”
“Because why?”
“Just go in.”
“Ok.”
He walked in and Clint took out the key and locked the door.
“Hey why did you do that? Please unlock it.”
“Ok.”
Clint walked over and unlocked the stall.
“Hey Maurica! Remember when Ivan said that he was going to take me to other stalls with that odd key. I wonder where they are.”
“Maybe we could go find it.” replied Maurica.
“ That is a good idea. Let’s go!” said Timothy.
We walked and walked. We searched through almost every tunnel and did not find them.
“I wonder if he was making it up.” said Silas
We were walking down the last tunnel when….. “Shhh! I hear something. It sounds like people talking and groaning down below us.” said Clint
We all listened and sure enough we heard what Clint had heard.
“Timothy look!” Bill said pointing to the ground. We all looked at the ground and saw another trap door! There was a hole for a key.
“Hey Maurica! That key hole looks like that one key that Ivan was holding. Timothy do you think that your pocket knife could fit in that?”
“Lets try it.”
Timothy put his pocket knife in the hole and it worked!
Timothy looked in the hole with the flashlight.
“What’s in there?” asked Peter excitedly
“Well there’s more stalls in here and it is pitch black. I would hate to be in there.” said Timothy, shining his light down.
“Can we go in?” asked Philip
“Well, I don’t know, with what we heard.”
“Please let us!” said Peter.
“Well, I guess we could.”
Timothy jumped in and told Clint to jump. We handed the little kids in then as Bill was about to jump in, Timothy said, “Wait! don’t jump in yet. You will have to jump in lightly because the jump is higher than the other ones that you have jumped.”
Bill jumped in lightly the rest of us followed. We headed off to explore under the underground tunnels.
We walked to the first stall and looked in, guess what we saw? We saw a person in there!!
“What in the world?!” said Joe.
“What are you guys doing in here? You better hurry and get out before those scoundrels come! Or you will be in here with us the rest of your life!” said the skinny guy in the stall.
“Don’t worry we already got the rascals in jail. I am Chief Joe Wood, these are my men, Detective Silas Barrington, and Officer Clint James and these kids are the Clegkleins. They are the ones that caught those scoundrels. What is your name? I will not let you out till I hear your name.”
“My name is Jeff Pack.”
“What! Are you the missing person that everyone is trying to find? Are you the owner of the electricity company?”
“Yes that is me! Can you get me out now. I am about to go crazy. And my wife is in the stall to the end of this tunnel. I don’t know how she is doing and they would not tell me. I keep on yelling but she does not hear.”
We opened the door and let him out. He started walking the end of the tunnel, we all went with him.
“Mary!! Can you hear me! I am coming to get you!”
We walked and heard a voice but, we couldn’t hear what she said.
We all started running. He kept on calling her.
“Mary! Mary!”
Finally we got there and Joe unlocked the door. She ran out and hugged her husband. We told her everything as we went out of the underground tunnels, and out the front door.
“Man! my eyes are killing me. We have been in there a long time. I have no idea how long.” said Jeff.
“You have been missing about 3 weeks.” Joe told him.
“That was the longest time in my life!” exclaimed Mary.
Soon our eyes got use to the sun.
“Let’s get some food for this couple. I bet you guys are starving.”
“Yes, Sir I am very hungry.” said Mary.
We walked past where we had seen the knife and past the rock, the pond and the Internet box, and back home.
Mom had made a good meal which we all ate. Mr. and Mrs. Pack ate hungrily, thanked us, then left with the cops. We waved to them as they drove off.
“Now it is time for you guys to hop in your beds. Timothy and Hannah you guys can stay with us if you want.”
“Please! Please!” said Peter.
“Well, let’s go and get cleaned up while we think.” said Hannah.
“Great! The kids need to get cleaned up to.” said Mom
They left and we all got cleaned up. They came back and they said yes, they would stay. We have an extra bed in both the boys and the girls room, just so they will have a place to sleep when they stay over.
We all slept great and woke up to a beautiful day.
THE END
July 2nd Thursday
Mom went over to visit Edith, Graciela’s mother, and to help her with English. Edith speaks very good English. Mom took over the stuff to make Maple syrup. They loved it. They put it in there Yerba Mate to sweeten it.
July 3rd Fri.
We had Cecilia stay for dinner after class today. We had chili bowls. Yummy! After we ate and cleaned up, we played Scrabble. Cecilia and I did great this time, and Mom and Lorin did horrible. It seems to work like that. :)
I made cheesecake this morning, and Cecilia brought an argentine goodie. Yumm! A little while later Ricardo and Alicia came to visit for a while. We chatted, showed them pictures of when we were on deputation, and they had some of the goodies too. They are interested in visiting the U.S. sometime, so we were showing them the pictures of OR, ID, MT and a couple other places.
They left at 10pm to go to a birthday party, and we finished our Scrabble game. After Cecilia left, I cleaned up the kitchen, then we all went to bed to the sound of rain.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Pehuen tree. Also taken by Ricardo
The money....Dutch Blitz cards
Philip's store
Sat. 27th
Sat. 27th
The kids love to play store. They each get things to sell, and someone is the banker.
This time Lorin was the banker. The kids 'sell' evething from food to stuffed animals. Sometimes they have auctions, they barter and alot of other things.
That is what these pictures are about. They are set up in the school room today.
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