Is it wading or swimming? cousins
Creek wading trip on the old bridge near Poppy's
BFF's Bryce and Kellen
Our trip to the city for lunch, wonderful! Me, Lana, Heather, Patty, Kathy and Aunt Peggy
The National Zoo!What happened? How can summer be over, before I think it ever began? Tomorrow school starts. Today is the last day of morning deck sitting, late nights, late risings, squirrel chasing, bird watching, playing with grandchildren, wading in the creek, swimming, random sitting, and oh so many luxuries. How did the end come so soon? Yes, I know there will be more times of fun and maybe even some fun normally connected with summer activities, but for actual reason---summer is done when school starts. I like my job, but come on it is August 12! We, I, need more time. Ok, so all that said, I am trying to change my attitude---right now.
I have a few left over summer musings. I just heard a little news type ditty the other day talking about a toaster convention. I am so telling the truth. What do they do? I do not see any thing that interesting about collecting toasters, but some must love it? I will admit it makes the Barbie people we met seem way smarter. We did have, and heard, even more strange conversations when we were at the hotel in Washington. Keep in mind there were people from ServPro there and Barbie doll collectors. So we heard people talking about dolls priced at $5000 and other groups talking about the worst mess they had ever cleaned after. (I think the one that won the prize in our estimation, was the ServPro woman telling in detail about cleaning up after a death in a bath tub---left undiscovered for five days.) Groups of dressed up over the top collectors telling of their many trips around the world to idolize Barbie, and then workers telling of horrendous loses people have in a fire. We were serenaded by the group from France singing "You talk too much" in French. They assured us they were just singing that because it was the only song they all knew the words to, we were not sure that was true. We were inundated with green for ServPro and bright pink for the Barbies. All of this was fun to watch, if not always to listen to-----but toaster conventions? What is there? Pop up or oven?
Last week in the Item there was this from the Police Beat (a very comical source of entertainment in our paper). " Trespass warnings, 200 block of S State. Officer warned a group of adult subjects to stay off the railroad tracks when trains are running." I consider that darn good advice! I'll put it right up there with the directions on a lawn mower-----"Do not place hands or feet under blade when blade is in motion." Or those on a hair dryer-----the ones that have a picture of a shower and a line through that. Expressing the idea we should never dry our hair while showering. Again, a good idea. Also during a recent shark week advertisement, I heard a man answer the question, "How do you dive for shark research and stay safe?" The shark hunter replied, of course, "You stay out of the shark's mouth." Wow what logic we need to be reminded of to stay safe.
So here I am anxious to go to school. See, I changed my attitude. Wondering how I will manage to get all these tidbits of info while at school, or how will my birds get any food, or how in the world will I wake up at 6:30, but excited to see my students and go forth to help them learn. Right?!
I have a few left over summer musings. I just heard a little news type ditty the other day talking about a toaster convention. I am so telling the truth. What do they do? I do not see any thing that interesting about collecting toasters, but some must love it? I will admit it makes the Barbie people we met seem way smarter. We did have, and heard, even more strange conversations when we were at the hotel in Washington. Keep in mind there were people from ServPro there and Barbie doll collectors. So we heard people talking about dolls priced at $5000 and other groups talking about the worst mess they had ever cleaned after. (I think the one that won the prize in our estimation, was the ServPro woman telling in detail about cleaning up after a death in a bath tub---left undiscovered for five days.) Groups of dressed up over the top collectors telling of their many trips around the world to idolize Barbie, and then workers telling of horrendous loses people have in a fire. We were serenaded by the group from France singing "You talk too much" in French. They assured us they were just singing that because it was the only song they all knew the words to, we were not sure that was true. We were inundated with green for ServPro and bright pink for the Barbies. All of this was fun to watch, if not always to listen to-----but toaster conventions? What is there? Pop up or oven?
Last week in the Item there was this from the Police Beat (a very comical source of entertainment in our paper). " Trespass warnings, 200 block of S State. Officer warned a group of adult subjects to stay off the railroad tracks when trains are running." I consider that darn good advice! I'll put it right up there with the directions on a lawn mower-----"Do not place hands or feet under blade when blade is in motion." Or those on a hair dryer-----the ones that have a picture of a shower and a line through that. Expressing the idea we should never dry our hair while showering. Again, a good idea. Also during a recent shark week advertisement, I heard a man answer the question, "How do you dive for shark research and stay safe?" The shark hunter replied, of course, "You stay out of the shark's mouth." Wow what logic we need to be reminded of to stay safe.
So here I am anxious to go to school. See, I changed my attitude. Wondering how I will manage to get all these tidbits of info while at school, or how will my birds get any food, or how in the world will I wake up at 6:30, but excited to see my students and go forth to help them learn. Right?!
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