The rants, rambles, and otherwise uninteresting happenings in the life of...well, ME, you might say. You mean you wanna know more? Ok ok, you have my warning! (For you who want to know lots more about me, go here.)
Some of you may remember the guy who works with Ben, Kelly N., who's
very strange. Well, he came over today, with his wife and seven kids.
I'm not quite sure if all the kids are theirs...I think some were
"hers" and some were "his", and some were adopted. Anyway. It was quite
an interesting visit, and not as unpleasant as past encounters with
Kelly.
All the kids went downstairs as soon as they could. If you've
seen our stairs, you'd know why! After a while I went down there (Eric,
Beth, the twins, Tess, Rase, Jay, and Abby were already down there).
Everyone was pretty quiet...some of their younger ones were trying to
climb the railroad spikes in the bricks of our staircase, and the three
oldest, Riley (a girl), Cameron, and Kenton were talking to each other,
and our kids were sitting on the kids' desk (handy place), watching. I
come down, and stand there for a while...Eric and I feeling pretty
out-of-place. All Cameron could think of to say was "So, how about them
Yankees?" And since none of of us, including them, knew much about the
Yankees, that's about as far as the conversation went for a while. Then
Cameron told us about his life...a very short account. When he was
done, he glanced at Eric then looked at me and said "So, anyone else
want to tell their life story?"
I never did.
Instead, Eric told about all the billions and
trillions of guns in Joe's guitar case...he invented a pretty wild
story. After he exhausted his inventory that was in the case, he moved
on to the Marshall amp. From left to right, he went along explaining
the knobs. "The gain here is to make it [nuclear missles] blow bigger.
The bass is to make the missle have a bigger boom. The mid is to keep a
middle altitude between space and the earth. Treble is...I forgot. I
don't work this thing."
Then Joe, Ben, and Kelly came downstairs and Joe grabbed his
guitar case, thereby proving once and for all that it was a guitar
inside and not guns, and grabbed the amp, thereby proving it was indeed
and amplifier and not a missle guider.
They trooped into Dad's office aka the studio. Joe and Ben played
a couple songs, then I grabbed the bass. It took a while for Eric to
get me plugged in, but finally I had SOUND. We played a couple
songs...I sang to "Come, Now is the Time to Worship" (was hard to hit
the high ones!) and "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord". Riley sings, but
she wouldn't sing with us. Kelly did a little, though, on "Blessed Be".
Then we all went down in the gully to look at the boys' fort.
Kelly took one look at that and said to Ben, "And we let you build
TRUSSES??"
(Their fort is...um...vertically challenged, shall we say. And
horizontally challenged. And architecturally challenged. Let's just say
it's challenged all around. But pretty cool.)
Everyone stayed down there for a long time...then came up...listened to
Jesus Said, the first song we've finished for our CD, then they left.
Oh, and not ONCE did Kelly mention finding spouses for any of us! (Ben DID say Kelly hadn't been teasing him as much anymore.)
Anyway. :)
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Anne-the-cat 
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