It was warm and sunny today – indeed very summery. It was time to get out there and start taking care of everything. I don’t cut down the flower beds in the fall, because I always hope that the “winter interest” of such leftovers will actually be a thing. We have a lot of trees […]
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This has been an amazing week of subbing. Three absolutely great days in a row – when one is usually just a total win. I happily went off to elementary school art this morning. You remember the art from a month or so ago? Same teacher. Um…turned out to be a not the same day
No, we aren’t on another trip. We saw the musical “Memphis” tonight at the Artistry Theater in Bloomington. It was a very good show about desegregating music in the 1950s in Memphis. The cast was really strong, and it is a very enjoyable show. The downside to this production was it was too quiet, which
It was a super great day at work. I was subbing in one of my favorite places. The kids (8th graders!) this teacher works with are (surprisingly) great (a testament to the teacher’s skills) (okay, they are, of course, people and make their own decisions, but she has helped them figure out how to be
I made an early appointment downtown St. Paul for a kidney ultrasound, another step in trying to figure out my high blood pressure. I couldn’t eat or drink before the test, so I thought the earlier, the better. When I got to the parking lot at 6:30am, I was the second car in the lot.
We went to Fort Snelling National Cemetery for the first time today. Our friend Kristine’s dad was interned at 2pm. I read that Fort Snelling is home to the first all-volunteer Memorial Rifle Squad. They perform funeral honors each weekday for as many as 17 Veterans between 10am and 2pm. They have been there for
I distinctly remember the first time I was old enough to say, “That was twenty years ago,” about something that I had done. I don’t remember how old I was – 30? 35? Probably around then. Keith was going to Eau Claire today for chamber orchestra rehearsal and said that rehearsal had been moved from
I think it is super fun having a pool. I swim. I float. I watch other people swim and float. Keith says he has fun balancing chemicals and watching Julius, the vacuum robot, clean. Today was extra special fun for him, because he got to try to figure out if there is a leak –
I worked in a special education classroom today. That means the teacher is in the room most or all of the day and the kids on her caseload are there most or all of the day. Sometimes they go out to mainstream classes, but they may stay all day. I had a student scheduled to
If only there was some way for people to indicate which direction they were planning to turn their car. That is an Alexander quote, which he is prone to say whenever someone randomly maneuvers their car in traffic. Why is it so hard for people to use their blinkers? I actually use mine when the