RTB Chapter 1

Chapter One

I don't know how many of you readers have ever raised two boys that were born close together. If you have you know the struggles that come, and the blessing that come as well. It has been a real adventure for me and my wife. We have two boys (both are red heads) that are stubborn (just like red heads) and have gotten into a lot of mischief, In fact I think that our youngest one, who we will call Dragon, only smiles when he is up to something. It is really funny because he will look at you and start to smile. In his eyes you can see that his mind is coming up with ways to get into trouble. He is a funny kid. Our oldest, who we will call T-Rex, was like that, but now he is a little more secretive about when he is up to something. I don't know if you have heard the saying that keeping kids alive until age 5 if a real chore, but sometimes it feels as if 50% of the time it is keeping yourself from killing them. Now don't get me wrong, I would never kill one of my kids, but there have been times when they had done something that could have caused them to be killed if they were much older and had done it to someone else.

This book is about some of those stories that they have done something where I learned something about myself, what I put my parents through, or that are just plane funny. This first story has to deal with candy and having it in a hiding spot. If you have candy that you don't want your kids to eat you need to find a better hiding spot than what I used for this story.

It was just after Christmas. (Yes, we are a Christian family) My wife, who will be Foxy, and I had put the left over candy in the cabinet above the microwave in our kitchen. Foxy or I would get candy out for the boys if they had earned some, and they would see where we would get it from. I have caught Dragon many times trying to get up onto the counter to get into that cabinet. Since he was two at the time I didn't think that he would ever get up there.

Well, one day shortly after when I was at work I got a text message from Foxy. In the text message was a picture of Dragon up on the counter with his face covered in chocolate. He had climbed up onto the counter and ate almost all of the candy. (That little Stink) Foxy said that he got that ability from my side of the family. She is right about that. My dad has said that we kids were able to smell out the candy and had a knack for getting it. He once caught me on top of the frig when I was two just like my little boy.

This experience taught me a few lessons. The first one was to never let the kids see where you get the candy from. If you do then it is no longer a hiding spot, and then they can come up with ways to get to the candy. This brings me up to the next lesson that I learn or re-learned was the kids are very inventive. They will find a way to get what they want such as candy. My son, Dragon had made a ladder out of multiple stepping stools, a bench, and a chair to get to that candy.

T-Rex has shown me other ways that he has been inventive to get what he wanted but that if for another time.

update

Hey everybody just a quick update.

Steph and I both only have one semester left after this semester.
Jr loves to play with the teddy bear and to attack the burp cloth.

Here is a video of him and his teddy bear.

Oh and people wanted to know if they could request an engineering topic. You can but that doesn't mean I am going to give you an answer right away or at all. The topic might not even be in my field. I will do my best to get an answer posted though.

Engineering

Do you know what is worse than listening to an accountant talking about accounting? Listening to two accountants talk about it. Do you know what is worse than that? Listening to an engineer talk about the velocities and pressure caused by the spinning of the props on a multi-rotor to cause thrust which when it has enough force over powers gravity to cause lift.

As I get further along in my education I have noticed that a lot of people have a hard time understanding what I do at school. I am sure that most of you have shot off or changed to a different website by now. For the few of you that haven't gone to a different website I am thankful. The reason why I bring this up, is because I would love to help you understand what I talk about when I start talking about engineering. Because engineering really is fun and can be understood if it is presented correctly.

So every once in a while I will be posting something about engineering and I would love for you to give my feed back on what I post. This way I can learn what I can do better to present it better. If you don't understand just say, "speak to me as if I am 8 years old" and if you still don't get it just say, "now as if I am 5 years old."

I will still be posting other random things. Hope you still come and give a look once in a while.

Boy or Girl

Hey everybody. I know that you are all wondering what we are having. Well, it is a .... I can't tell you yet. We have a way of telling you all but we have to wait until steph is able to tell her family when she goes out this coming Friday. So sorry about that but you can put down you guess of what it is.

 

Facts from last week.

This past week has been really busy and I have learned a lot. Some from classes that I am taking, and others from experiences. I will start off with the biggest thing I learned yesterday.

Don't ever season your Dutch Oven inside an regular oven in the middle of winter. It is just bad for the lungs, and your health all around. So I hadn't seasoned my Dutch Oven until Monday. About 30 minutes into it the whole apartment was filled with smoke. We had to open the windows and doors to get the smoke out. Our apartment went from 68 to about 40 in a very short time. It was cold. With stuff I learned from doing things with a Dutch Oven is how to make cobbler. Don't do what I did. You won't get a cobbler, but a cake instead. It was still really good, but I have learned a few things. One is don't use a quick home made apple pie filling. There just isn't enough moisture. Oh, and don't open the lid on the cobbler before it is don't it could ruin the cobbler. Luckily for me there wasn't enough moisture to make it soupy when I opened the lid.

I also learned this past week that the "Lectures on Faith" at one point were in the Doctrine and Covenants. They were taken out in 1921 because they hadn't been presented to the church as doctrine. It was just a lesson in the School of the Prophets. I thought that was cool.

I have also been learning about thermodynamics. It is really interesting. It is funny that we say that water is incompressible. It is but it only compresses a little bit. In fact so a small amount that it is really hard to tell. That is why we say that it is incompressible.

Freezing

Yes it has been freezing up here in Rexburg. With the freezing temperatures come a lot of things. You have the bad and the good. This post is just to show you one of the good things that comes from freezing temperatures. So the good that come from freezing temperatures is beauty. On Saturday I had to work earlier than I usually do, 9:30 am is when I had to be there. So I walk out from our apartment to find that it was really foggy out. I know you are saying that fog is not beautiful. Well, before you go to far just remember that it is really cold here and that fog is a cold with lots of water in it. We were getting freezing fog that day. Here are some of the pictures that Steph and I took after I got back from work.

 

Looking up a tree into the ice crystal covered branches

 

Ice crystals growing off the branches of trees.

 

 

More crystals on this tree.

 

 

Steph while we were walking (I didn't get permission from her.... ...bad idea?)

 

 

We really liked the deciduous trees.

 

Well, I hoped you liked that pictures. I think that it is best to see it is person.



 



James Bond

I want to tell you all that I love the James Bond movies, some better than others. However, I have noticed that James Bond has a few gadgets that are physically impossible to work. I am sure that some of you know which ones I am talking about.

The first one that I am going to talk about is the belt grappling hook from "Golden Eye." The reason why I say that this could never work is because of a few reasons. The first one is that there is no way to get enough energy from the belt to shoot the buckle as far as it does. You say what about an explosive. Well, it would work, but it would also blow off his hand when he launches it. Air pressure or any other kind of pressure wouldn't work either. This is because there would be no place or room to hold that much pressure.

The second one comes from "Golden Eye" as well. It is his watch that has a laser on it. I am not saying that a watch can't have a laser, but not one that is as powerful as his. He is able to burn through the floor of a train with it. At least right now I can say that isn't possible to fit a laser that powerful in a watch, but who knows about the future.

The third one is the flying car. It was in the movie "Man With the Golden Gun." The reason why this car is impossible is because of how the wings are connected to the car. The force that is required to lift that car and get it to fly would just shear the bolts, and then the wings would come off.

I think that is it for now about the impossible toys that James Bond has. I hope you had fun. 

Salt vs Sand

Okay it is now that season where we need to melt the ice on the sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, and other places. Everybody has their opinion on what to use to melt the ice. Our two contenders; weighing in at about 58.4 g/mol and in white is salt; weighing in at about 60 g/mol in brown is sand.

So the question is which of these two is going to come out at the top? Let the fight begin.

Salt

Salt is very strong is it likes to remove the ice completely from the fight. It does this by lowering the freezing temperature of the ice from 32 F/ 0 C to 0 F/ -18 C. This happens because the atomic structure of water with the salt requires a lower temperature to reach the point of wanting to get close together. Salt's strength is also its weakness. Because it lowers the freezing temp. it must get the job done before it gets too cold. Salt also like to destroy other things in the ring besides ice. It isn't the biggest friend to steal or concrete. Most industries that use steal and concrete have found ways to prevent this damage.

Sand

Sand like to man handle his opponents. He likes to put more friction on the ice. This allows the cars to drive on it and not slip, even in very cold weather. Unlike salt though, sand freeze to the ice if it gets wet or another layer of ice gets on top of it. In places of high traffic sand also is easily removed from the salt. Sand does not cause damage to other things beside maybe crops and to clean up crews.

Outcome

It is a tie everybody. They both do a great job against the ice. They do the job in their own way, and they make a great team when in needs to be done. So the choice is yours of which you want to use. Sand is dirty and it just allows friction on the ice as long it is on the surface. Salt melts the ice as long as it is not too cold.

 

Cooking

So lately I have been wanting to try some new recipes. Last week it was a recipe of fish. My Dad gave us some halibut from when he and two of my brothers went up to fish one of the final frontier of the world, Alaska. My wife and I aren't very big fish people. In fact we both kind of hate it.

This is my usual face for when I hear the word fish for dinner or smell fish. I can't really say if this is my Love's face when it comes to fish. So it is really surprising that I actually cooked up the fish instead of giving it away. The reason why I wanted to cook the fish is because it is healthier for you and it was a challenge to find some kind fish that I would eat.

We got the recipe from a family that Steph was babysitting for, this last August. At first I put off making fish. The reason for this is because I have had a lot of people say that I would love the fish, but I was never a really big fan of the meal. (Sorry to those that cooked fish for me. At least I ate it, and I just don't  like fish.) This recipe, however, was really good. The part of fish that we don't like is the fishy taste that comes with it. The recipe, that we used, got rid of that. If anybody wants to try it out just give me a shout. I don't literally mean shout at me or shout to get my attention. All you have to do is call me and ask.

This week, today actually, was pumpkin roll. Unlike fish, my face for pumpkin roll is like this.

My love for pumpkin rolls came at first taste. I first tried pumpkin roll the fall before my mission in Washington DC (some of the few good thing that has come from Washington DC to me.) I didn't have it again until this last October when a neighbor brought back our plate from when we took over some cookies. Then again, last week, at a reception for a friend couple.

I got my recipe from allrecipe.com for this one. It turned out pretty well. I have learned a few tricks though for the next one I make. The next time I make it is going to be for Thanksgiving.

My tricks are mine and you can only have them if you ask. It has been great trying these new recipes.



Time to vote.

Well, I guess it is time to vote. I have read all the names that has been suggested. Some of them didn't make the primaries (I am sorry I just think that they didn't spark anything for me to write about); however, I have chosen at least one name from everyone that suggested a name. You get two votes so use them wisely. To vote just your two choices in a comment, and put down the number not the name. There is no changing your mind so make sure you vote for the one that you want. NO WRITE INS!!!! You had your chance to suggest a name.

Here are the choices.
1.Ardent Armstrong
2.Taylor's Tirades
3.The Chronicles of Staylor
4.Stretch Armstrong
5.Cool Hand Taylor Talks Trash About Technical Things Thought up by Thugs and Thinkers
6.T.T.T.T.T.
7.Taylor and Steph

So choose but choose wisely

New Name

Hey everybody, I want to get back to doing a little blogging. I want to start with some thing new completely. So as I started I realize that with a new start I need a new name for this blog. So I am going to ask all of you to participate in this process. If you have any suggestions for the name please just leave it in a comment. If you like someone's idea then wait until I post again because I will have a vote on which name it should be. Hope we can get a really good name for this blog.

Try to keep the name reasonable please but do as you like.

The Scottish Festival

Well, as most of you know that last weekend I went to the Scottish Festival at Thanksgiving Point. It was really fun. Some of you who were there most likely saw me in a kilt. You lucky buggers you. Yes, I did wear a kilt to the festival, and I have a right to. I am at least a quarter Scottish if not me. Plus the last name Armstrong just brings out the best of me. Then when you put me in a Scottish festival it gets even worse. I do have some pictures of me in a kilt but they are not when I was at the festival. So I will post those with this post.

"Look at this awesome person! Only real men can pull this off"

So as you can see above. I look dang good in a kilt. Now some of you are like, "I didn't know that you were like this. It is impossible." Well, all I can say is that kilts are for real men, and we Armstrongs can always pull this off.

So back to the festival. My old mission companion, Elder Jasper, went with me. Then a good friend from Serbia, Nikola, meet with us there. It was a great time to hang out with them. Of course I got some crap from them about wearing a kilt, but I did get them to call kilts, kilts and not skirts. There is a difference, not much but there is. You are probably saying what is the difference of a kilt. One is what you wear with it. You don't wear a sparan with it. You are asking, "what is a sparan?" Here is what it is. It is the little pouch thing that is in front. You can see mine in the picture above. It is black. The other thing is that we usually have a knife on the belt (which by the way is a huge belt usually.) After teaching my friends about the kilt we watched the Scottish Games that were going on. It was really cool. I might be participating in those. I don't know for sure. It would be really fun. I would have to get a lot stronger then I am now.

The only regret that I have about being at the festival is that I didn't have any haggis. I need to try this dish. I have heard some mixed likes and dislikes about haggis, and I have decided that I need to try it before I can make up my mind. Other than that I do wish I could of made it to my nephews b-day party. It was kind of sad that I didn't know where the party was and I didn't get to their house until a hour and a half after the party started.

Well, that is about it for me. See you next time.

The Weekend

As you read the title you were probably thinking that this post is going to be about last weekend. Well, YOU ARE GOING TO BE correct about that. This post is totally going to be about this past week. Well, it started off with a long drive home. It was not the funnest drive I have done. It was a good weekend did a lot of things. Sorry to Jasper. I have a good explanation on that.

So Saturday I spent the day doing random work for my parents around the house. Put up a waterfall in the back yard for them. It is a pretty cool waterfall, but it would be better if the dirt behind it was piled up a bit higher. Then I helped with my mom put on the coolest item on her bike.

(Note: This is not my mom or her bike or my dog.

I hope that you all know that I would never even buy a dog like that)

Now, the problem is with the dog we have would brake the bike. I have three good reasons for this fact I just said. Our dog is at least 100 lbs over weight. I sti

ll don't know how this happens with raccoons taking her food. Two the basket that I put on is only made for a weight of 35 lbs at the most. So, the beast that we claim to own is 200 lbs heavier than that. (Sorry to the beast, but we make fun of her all the time. There is no way for that dog to fit in a basket like that thou.) The third reason is just the first two reason combined do not make the basket work with that dog in it.

After that great experience, we went to go see Thor. It was a great movie. I wonder how it would be in 3D. It would probably be a good movie, but I get motion sickness really easy. It kind sucks, and that is why I am not a big fan of boats. Sorry girls this guy most likely not own a boat in his life. Unless I get scuba certified and I go scuba diving a lot. I don't see that happening. Okay back to Saturday. Well, that is basically it there was much after that. I guess I did see How to Train Your Dragon. It was a good movie. The dragon reminded me of a dog and a fish at the same time. It looks like a cat fish, but it acts like a dog kind of.

(This is a dragon is what the dragon would look like if it was real.

I actually don't know.)

Sunday was a good day. Went to church and that is about it for me. Saw my cousin and his wife for a little bit. Oh yes, I also was taught how to wear a kilt. I will have to say. I like good in a kilt. You may say that is a little weird since a kilt is basically a skirt, but it isn't a skirt. I had to learn how to wear one for the Scottish Festival that is in two weeks. We also went to see my grandparents graves since it was memorial weekend. The kilt just made it better for is the side that I get my Scottish last name. If you want to see me in a kilt you will just have to wait until after the festival so I can get some more pictures. Hopefully my own kilt will have received on time for me to wear it.

Monday was a good day as well. My Dad, brother (Joel), and I got up at 3 in the morning. Okay, I know you are saying, "wait a minute. 3 in the morning doesn't sound like a good thing to me." Well, it usually isn't, but when you have two raccoons making a mess in your backyard you have to do something about it. We tried doing something about it. We were going to shoot them with paint ball guns and BB guns, but my brother's paint ball gun went crazy and started shooting before he pulled the trigger. So unfortunately they got away without a scratch. Oh well, that just means that next time I am down, if they haven't taken care of them yet, I can help.

The rest of the day was basically getting some things that we need for the BBQ and some other things. Unfortunately nobody but my oldest brother was able to come to the BBQ. The rest of you missed out on some really good brisket, suckers. You should all come next time. It would mean a lot to me. So take this as your invitation to come if you want one.

Then I had a long back to the windy city, and no I don't mean Chicago. I mean Rexburg which is the real windy city. I don't think that I have had a day without wind since I have been here.

Plantar Fasciitis

"You have plantar fasciitis," the doctor said. Me, "what did you say?" again the doctor said "You have plantar fasciitis." "What is that? I have never heard of it." (Nor 9/10 of the health problem out there) "Is that some sort of disorder where I just want to plant thing and have a fascination to gardening?"

No, plantar fasciitis is a painful inflammatory in the foot. You have your arches right, and your arches are created by ligaments and tendons that pull your bones into an arch shape. Just imagine a bow. You have the wood part of the bow, this is your bone. Then you have the string which is the tendons and ligaments. With plantar fasciitis the ligaments or tendons are inflamed and might be stretched a little. This can cause much pain in the persons foot. The pain is usually in the heel of the foot but can be in other parts of the bottom of the foot. If your foot hurts and you think you have it go see a doctor about it.

(disclaimer-I am not a doctor so if there is anything that isn't true don't be angry)

The Mission

Sorry that it has taken a long time. I have been busy with school. This blog is going to be about my mission. I know that the last couple have been about the mission, but this one is about the whole thing. In other words it is my thoughts on a mission.

At the age of 19 many young men who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ go on missions. I was one of those boys and I am proud of it. It is a great deal. They don't see their families for 2 years and they can only talk on the phone twice a year (if everything is okay) with their families. A lot of people, I found out, think that this is hard. To be honest, it is for the first little bit. As you work hard though it goes away. In the first month you learn a lot of skills, and a lot of lessons. You are put through a very lengthy day of learn the gospel and if it is part of your mission, you learn a new language. I had to learn a new language, and most of you know that I learned Serbian.

No once out in the "field" things change. The language that you thought you knew isn't even close to what they speak in the country. Your meals are no longer cooked for you, and you have a little bit more freedom. What I mean by this is that they have you locked up in a compound and they aren't always watching over you. You are the one that decides to get up in the morning. Things also get a little harder. You start having to do things that you normally wouldn't do. Some would say that you have to leave your bubble, or comfort zone. This is so true, or at least in the missions in Europe. I don't know about the other countries.

On the mission, you meet people that you never thought you would meet. You also have experiences that you never would have had. You will have both of these happen, believe me I know. The members are always great, especially the ones that help you out a lot. On the other side you have things that you really don't want to happen at all. You will have the complete opposite sides of the spectorum. There are times when you will have a great day and everything doesn't go wrong. Then the next day you will have a day when everything goes wrong. Those days may have been bad but they are sometimes the ones that you learn the most out of. Most people they ask about my mission and always ask about the part that were hard. Then after I answer them they always ask if I hated my mission. I don't know why that is. I tell them the truth about my mission, that it is was hard, but I loved it. So now if you have read this had you ask me if I loved my mission you have your answer, yes I did. Sure there were long periods of time without teaching someone, but I received blessings from it. I learned a lot and now after looking back on it I am glad that I went.

Well, that is it for me. I loved my mission and I will tell everyone out there that missions are hard but they are worth it in the long run. I guess since I am talking about the mission that I kind of have to bare my testimony of the church. I know this church is true. It was set up by the power of God again on the earth through Joseph Smith. He did translate the Book of Mormon with this same power. I know that it is through the gospel that this world is saved and there is no other way. It is through the Atonement that all men will return to God (to be judged) and that all men will be resurrected from the dead. I know that Thomas S. Monson is the prophet today. The Lord leads the church through him today. Our leaders in the church are called of God and that is why that we need to support our leaders. I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

memory for the week.

Well, as you have read that I don't remember which memory I am on I don't have a number for this one either. I could find out of I really wanted to but that wouldn't be as fun. My memory for this week did not happen in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, or any other country that/was is in my mission. It happened in Germany. Most of you are asking (those that haven't really stayed in contact with me) when did he go to Germany. Well, I just happened to have a chance to go to Germany in the month of July of 2010. I can tell you the day to it was the 6th of July. My companion and I had to fly to Germany for a few things. As we were up there in Germany we had some fun (up in a country where you don't know the language you aren't very useful.) One of the things that we did was go to the Zoo there in Frankfurt. It was really fun. It was my companion, another elder in Germany for some medical reasons, and I. We had a blast. The main thing was that we had the funnest time watching the monkeys that day. There were some monkeys that had a mountain type deal in their area. On the mountain deal there was like a trail that went around it. The monkeys would run around it for a few minutes than attack the door that lead to the inside place. After a few minutes of them attacking the door, they would do the process all over again. It was very funny to watch. I will put photos on when I get home (in a week). If you have any questions please ask them to me by emailing me at tmorey@gmail.com. I will get back to you in a few weeks.

Have fun.

Must likely be the last one while on my mission.

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memory #?

Okay I don't know what memory this is. Some of you are asking how can you not know. Well, one I haven't looked at my blog for a long time (2 years), I have been emailing my blog posts by my missionary email. So I don't know what memory it is, if you want to know just take the number from the last one and add 1 to it. It isn't that hard a 1st grader can do it.

Okay, back to the memory. This one is first and only Christmas that I had in the mission field. (I did have two Christmases on my mission, but one was in the MTC.) So my first and only Christmas was in Zadar, Croatia. If you have kept in touch with me you would have known that I spent part of my mission in Croatia and not in Serbia. Well, for this Christmas I first went to some of the members and had a short Christmas lesson with them. After that we had district meeting, had phone calls to the family, and while waiting for that we made banana bread. I will say this. It is one of the Christmases that I will remember the most. I didn't receive anything that day (it came about 2 months latter, stupid postal service in post-communist countries), but I did get to see Christmas in the true spirit as it should be. Helping out with those in need and talking with those that you love. I shouldn't limit this just to Christmas day, but to the Christmas season. During the Christmas season my companion and I helped deliver food to those that where helpless and couldn't leave their homes. That was always a good feeling when we were done.

That is my memory for the week. Holidays on a mission are very different from those at home with the family. Don't think that your well be different when you go on your mission.

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Memory #5

I think that I am on memory #5. I am not sure. Everything seems to me as a bler.This week has been so fast that I just think that everyday has been the same almost. That is one reason why love Sundays. It gives me a day that I know for sure what day it is. I would say p-day, but that is after Sunday, and I didn't have this memory on a p-day.

One Sunday (when I was in Novi Sad) I was trying to play the piano. Most of you know that I can't play, but a few hymns. Well, one of my companions (was the Branch President at the time) was having a interview with one of the members. He had asked for a blessing at the end of the interview. My companion asked if he could use my oil that I had. So I gave the oil over. The first counselor was the one that was going to be placing the oil on the guys head. (something that my church does when we give blessings to the sick. don't worry it is in the bible) Well, he didn't had never given a blessing before. He started off with placing his hands on the shoulders of the member. He then said the beginning of the blessing, however, he had not put the oil on until the middle of the blessing. When he did put the oil on his head he dumped the whole thing of oil on the guys head. (talk about greesy) Tp add on top of that it wasn't just the whole thing, he put it on in a shape of a cross. That was funny. When my companion handed the vilel over to me it felt a little empty. I opened it and tried to poor out more oil. EMPTY. My companion then told me the story.

Don't worry the blessing was done again the right way.

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memory #4

Well, we are on memory number four. I think that this memory was when I first had to stay inside because it was unsafe outside. It was the 10 year anneversiary for the bombing of Serbia by NATO. We cooked a lot of food for we had to stay in for about 4 days. To be honest I got really tired of being in. Not much of a memory. That is about it. Have fun.

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Memory #3

Memory #3 is going back into time from #2. It was my first experience in Serbia that I had with the police. It was the very first day that I had ever seen Serbia. My companions (I say companions for I was trained in a three-some. weird isn't it?) and I were on a train heading to my area. My mission president had dropped me and another missionary off in Belgrade. I meet my companions there. So back to the story. We were on the train when two cops came over to us. They started to ask for my papers. (I not know the language yet didn't understand) I was like what is going on. One of my companions had me get out my passport. The cop took it and started to look at it. The other cop started to ask questions like why we were there. Then, the cop that was looking at my passport pulls out his flash light to look at my passport. I don't know why for the train had the lights on. It isn't like he is going to see any black light marks on it either with a regular flash light. It was a really funny experience. That night was one of the few nights that I got home late on my mission. Don't worry I had permission to get home late every time from the mission pres. or my zone leaders. I got home at about 1-2 in the morning that day. Luckily my mission president let us sleep in 1 hour. Well that is about it for this memory

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