Happy Pi Day!
We celebrated with a lemon meringue! I love to eat this pie, but it is a lot of work to create one. My mom whipped out two of them, rather regularly, and frequently on an early Sunday morning. If a...
View ArticleInteresting Evening in the Yard
It was a beautiful evening here in the Mojave! I took off my shoes and hobbled around on my teeny lawn in the backyard, admiring the tomatoes and the geraniums. The vegetables we planted the last week...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Brother
Yesterday was my brother-in-law's birthday. Notice I did not write "brother-in-law" in the title. That's because he is much, much more than just some guy who married my sister a long time ago. He...
View ArticleGrandpa's Birthday
Today is our grandfather's birthday. He was born on April 6, 1889, the year before Idaho became a state on July 3rd. He lived in Idaho, but it was only a mile from Wyoming, where he attended school and...
View ArticleToday Was a Pretty Good Day
Today, my students were cooperative and actually lined up without arguing and ridiculing. Yesterday, it took us five extra minutes to get ready to go to P.E. because they resisted my insistence that...
View ArticleI Love Technology
But, I'll tell you--technology is not loving our school district this week. This is the week we've been anticipating since the first day of school. Notice I didn't say "looking forward to," or "excited...
View ArticleWe Did It!
We were able to log into the websites and take our math tests on Friday! In fact, it all went smoothly enough that we asked the students if they wanted to take both sets of tests on Friday. They were...
View ArticleLoving the Desert
It's a really good time of year to live in the Mojave Desert. It's just beautiful. There are so many flowers in bloom, the days are warm, the nights are not cold. Look how our garden is thriving:We've...
View ArticleI Will Love to See this Temple...
I went up to the Star Valley, Wyoming Temple groundbreaking ceremony over the weekend. It was a very quick trip. I flew into Salt Lake City Friday around 11:00 A.M. My sister picked me up and we left...
View ArticleHappy May 1st!
I celebrated by going swimming! First Swim of the Season! It was chilly, but excellent after I just got right in and started to swim. The ocean is colder. It felt great! I'm going back in...
View ArticleFather's Day...rerun
I love this blog that I made last year about Father's Day, and it is still true, so I'm just republishing it for 2015. Fathers Are So Special I've enjoyed watching the Father of this family as he has...
View ArticleHot Time in the Hot Town
At 7:45 A.M. or so, our electricity went out on Sunday. I woke up at 8:00 because there was a weird beeping sound that was NOT my alarm. I looked at my clock radio to see what time it was, and there...
View ArticleCan't Have Too Much Fun
We had our annual Grandma Camp a week ago. Or, I should say, "Grandpa & Grandma" camp...He is essential! The four grandchildren spent the five days with us in a non-stop carousel of fun, fun, fun....
View ArticleEverything Old Is New Again
You've heard that motto before, I'm sure. This weekend, we got to enjoy the reality of it. CoolGuy and I went to a motorcycle show this weekend called BornFree, for people who like to build old...
View ArticleThe Treasure
I came back to Nevada with two boxes of peaches on Monday, this week. My daughter had pointed out that peaches were now available, and she was thinking of canning some on the weekend. So, since we LOVE...
View ArticleYes, You Should Rotate Your Food Storage...
It was time to put away the yummy peaches. I washed the jars carefully in some warm, soapy water (they come out of the canning kettle sticky), and set them on a towel to dry. Then, I went to my really...
View ArticleChecking Off the List
New principal New vice-principalEleven new teachers in our buildingThree of them are long-term subsA new school year is beginning when the students arrive on Monday. We teachers have been plugging away...
View ArticleSeptember 1st
Yes, Fall is in the air! The temperature only went up to 99 today. Last night, it dropped all the way to 85. If it keeps this up, my students will be wearing their knit caps soon. BWAAA HAAA HAAA.No,...
View ArticleTrip to the Past
We went to a concert last night to celebrate CoolGuy's birthday. It was the opening night of John Fogerty's show at the Venetian. Fogerty reached that point in his career where he can get a gig for a...
View ArticleWriting a Story
I've decided to transfer some of the stories I've written in my Writer's Notebook to this page. The Writer's Notebook is what we make for my classroom. It is where we write the first draft. I start out...
View ArticleTime Flies, So Have As Much Fun As You Can
Time seems to accelerate when you age. I've read about this phenomenon and I've really been experiencing it lately. CoolGuy's birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and we celebrated by visiting our...
View ArticleOur Furry Child, Jed
I'm writing here some of the stories that I've written in my "writer's notebook" that I use in school with my students. This time, I chose from the "Things" column--as in "People", "Places", and...
View ArticleOnly Eight More Months Till October 15th
Oh, deer! In the fall, bulls of this species - aka the wapiti - fight for harems that can number up to 60.This was a clue on Jeopardy last month. It was the $1000 clue, so I assume it was expected to...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to Me..Soon
Yes, yes, tomorrow, February 23rd, is my birthday. I had to really concentrate to not write "2/23/53/ on the board tonight, because I'm so accustomed to writing my birth date on things. There are a lot...
View ArticleThrough God's Eyes
I got to give a talk in Sacrament meeting today. I was asked to use Elder Renlund's talk from last October's conference as the basis for my remarks. It was entitled "Through God's Eyes." It made me...
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