milk, quails, & hooper

matt and i are attempting the Old Testament and a few nights ago we were in Numbers chapter 11 and came across this scripture (verse 32) :

"And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp."

we have a student manual that we will pull out every once in awhile to help us understand something better. this is what we learned from the manual about homers:

• 10 baths = 1 homer

• 5.8 gallons = 1 bath

so i am trying to understand and wrap my brain around these ancient measurements and relate it to our day...

ash: so there are basically six gallons of milk in a bath
matt: right
ash: and there are ten baths in one homer
matt: yes
ash: so...60 gallons of milk in one homer
matt: yep
ash: and they guy who gathered the least had ten homers
matt: uh-huh
ash: so he had 600 gallons?!
matt: yep, that's a lot of quail

*pause in the conversation*

ash: so there are two quails in a gallon of milk?

*matt laughs hysterically*

i really enjoy our scripture study...it indeed makes me smile.

tonight we went to grandma's new apartment to help clean before she moves in tomorrow. we left our porch light on because we knew it would be dark when we got home and i get freaked out in the dark. anyway, we get home and pretty much find a plague on our front porch. bazillions of bugs were basking in our porch light. they were caked on the door. there was no way we were getting in without at least a hundred of those varmints coming in with us. matt suggested the back door, but again, the dark freaks me out. there is no way i can smack enough of them with my flip flop to make a break for it. light bulb! the hose! i sprayed off our entire porch, drowning any bug in sight. welcome to hooper.