Welcome to 54!
I was going to write more of a post , but this website was having trouble loading. Now it’s 9:00 and I’m in bed. Sorry, all.
Brad, have a great day!
by Lauren 2 Comments
Welcome to 54!
I was going to write more of a post , but this website was having trouble loading. Now it’s 9:00 and I’m in bed. Sorry, all.
Brad, have a great day!
by Lauren 2 Comments
The toilets are finally out of the house. The snow has melted enough that I could call the garbage company and ask if they would pick them up. They’ll let me know if it’s going to cost anything extra.
Goodbye, toilets. Thank you for your service.
by Lauren 3 Comments
Way, way back in ….. 2019? Samith gave me a box of giant match-like fire starters.
Wait.
Never mind.
I already wrote this post when I bought the next box. Good grief. There are no new ideas.
Here’s that post: Fire Starter Safety. I wrote it in January of 2022, so it’s safe to say that a box of these lasts about 2 years.
Well, I ponied up the $14 bucks for new box and did the same thing – removing the match heads so I can sleep at night.
And, yes, I once again burned all the match heads at once. It was SUPER smokey, so I added a couple of sticks to try and activate the secondary-combustion action of the Fire Can.
by Lauren 2 Comments
The world ran out of eggs during the snowstorms, so when they came back, I went ahead and got what was available – 24 eggs. Good grief. How long is it going to take us to finish those?
I usually like to make a fried egg on my cast iron skillet, but that thing might need to be re-seasoned. I dug out an old little pan that I’ve had for ages, and guess what?
I’ve discovered that I don’t need a spatula to turn it over. (If I’m holding it over the sink.)
(I’m not skilled enough yet to do this at the stove.)
By the way, the clock in the background had a dead battery.It’s not 11:30 at night – it was actually early morning.
by Lauren 2 Comments
This January is so weird – I just feel like it never got started and I just can’t get my legs under me. With the weather, we hadn’t had a ‘normal’ week of school until this week….. and then sickness hit the center like a ton of bricks. We’ve sent soooo many children home sick, but they often return too soon. (“They didn’t have a fever when we got home!”) I have thought about making a cartoon-style chart to show all the things children say to us. “I’m not supposed to tell you I’m sick.” “I had purple medicine last night.” “I threw up last night.” I mostly take these things with a grain of salt because young children also have a terrible sense of time. ‘Last night’ can also mean three days ago.
Anyway, we also have many staff out sick. We had to close one classroom for the week because we can’t staff it correctly with two lead staff out. (College students are great, but their schedules are piecemeal.)
Anyway, it’s been National Lutheran Schools Week and we’re supposed to focus on how great it is to be in a school where we can learn about Jesus, but the overarching message has been Keep Your Sick Children Home.
So, Happy KYSCH.
by Lauren 2 Comments
Lloyd and a bunch of people went in together to purchase a couple of thermal imaging cameras from an auction. There is just one problem….. I never want to stop playing with them, so how on earth can we share them?
We didn’t really get to play with them until just this past week, and it was great to do it when it was so cold. It’s helpful in a old house to see where the insulation is working and where it is failing.
I put together a documentation/demonstration video. The first part is when we played with the cameras on a below-zero night, the second is a little tour I made Saturday morning. (In that first shot, the care is white/warm because Lloyd had just returned from Missouri.) Also, sorry for the bad camera work. It’s hard to balance a phone/iPad while using it.
After I made and published the video, I wondered what would happen if it read something that was actually hot. Guess what? It’s not just black and white!