It was time to re-contain the cat food, so I videoed it. (I can’t leave a bag of cat food anywhere or Ralph will destroy it.) I had to speed the video way up so it could upload to the website, and it’s so fast, it’s like it never even happened. 😉
Archives for March 2021
Not quite burnin’ down the house
If you don’t live in Seward, you don’t know the saga of anticipation, temporary agony, wistful sorrow of an era on its way to bygone days, the open-armed embracing of modern times ……. barf. I can’t do that anymore.
We got a new Dairy Queen a while back. The old one has been put behind a chain-link fence, awaiting demolition. On the way back from Wal-Mart this morning, it was teeming with firefighters, like ants on a toppled jam jar.
We thought they were going to do a controlled burn, but we’re under a high winds/‘red flag’ warning, so they just practiced chopping through the roof. (It was a training exercise.)
Oh, we also went to the new Dairy Queen later in the day. Clean, bright, modern, and completely soulless.
Shed update
It finally warmed up here the past week or so. Last weekend I slept in the shed Friday and Saturday nights on my new cot. (Different post!) I also worked on getting some ….. covering… on the some of the walls.
There’s no sense using drywall, so we bought some panels of thin plywood a long time ago, and now I’m getting around to putting it up. It’s a bit of a pain – I have to dismantle the dividing ‘wall’ to work, and there’s an awful lot of shuffling and really, really bad cutting.
Here’s a before:
Here’s an after, with bad lighting:
It’s just tacked up so I can put some Great Stuff foam behind it when the weather warms up, but hey – one step closer!
Just a Monday
Our observations at school are mostly over…. for now. On Friday, all the paperwork that our director assembled and organized regarding curriculum, trainings, procedures, etc. was gone through by the assessor and we got full points. Also on Friday, one of our preschool rooms was assessed (not mine, thankfully) for an environmental ratings scale thing (ECERS), and that was over. Sometime in the near future we will have another set of observations to assess our interactions with the children (positive, warm, open-ended questions, scaffolding their learning, etc.), but at least that’s in the future.
Monday had a certain lack of adrenaline, and it showed. I was soooo tired in the afternoon, and when I came home, I didn’t make it to 8:00. Out.
See you tomorrow!