versatile...

 My younger daughter teaches gifted elementary students... it's s pull-out program. Each day students come to her classroom from three different elementary schools. One day for each grade level.

Her program doesn't actually start till next Tuesday... giving the regular classroom teachers these last days a chance to get their classrooms organized and running.

So her building has been taking advantage of her not having students... yet. She has been called upon to escort kids to the bathroom... to the nurse... to waiting rides home whether it be parents or bus .. and so on!

Last week she monitored 2 little boys in ISS ( in school suspension)... they had gotten into a fist fight!

Yesterday the school art teacher was absent... so she taught art to kindergartners to 5th graders. Tomorrow she will teach 2nd grade. She's never taught art or 2nd grade!! Luckily the 2nd grade has a student teacher who knows what's planned and my daughter will just be in charge of classroom management!!

If she didn't have meetings on Thursday she'd be teaching art again...

My daughter calls on her way home from school... interesting to hear her daily update!!

nice afternoon

My elder daughter ... the non-profit person... was feeling the result of a stressful week. Too much of which was covid's fault. Her non-profit is having to decide what to do about the October fund raising event. The event provides much of the non-profit's annual funding and the chance for interested people to reconnect.

The board is deciding whether or not to cancel.

So my daughter spent some time recuperating... and so we did not see her until yesterday when she finally felt up to snuff.

No work was planned and the weather was a little cooler. The deck was the "place to be"... she made a light dinner and we enjoyed sitting, eating and having a frozen daquerie  on the deck. Scout and Harper enjoyed having all of us there too!

Harper acted like the hunter for quite some time... trying to capture a skink that lives in a hole next to the rose bush!! I think the skink would try to nip her nose because she would rear up from putting her nose in the hole every so often!!  Don't know what she'd do if she were successful!!

well... that was yesterday, Our daughter is back to work ( lots of meetings) and we will be going out to give the dogs an afternoon potty break. However it poured this morning with wind and thunder. The dogs will gave to do a pee and run back in ! We will visit with them a bit when they go back inside!

Scout potty break time

 Our daughter has been working hard on distributing the ' back to school'  back packs AND accumulating donations for the non-profit's fundraiser this fall and can't get home for the dogs. So Bob and I are on Scout potty break time. She is still young enough that she cannot last for 10 hours. I know I can't either... lol

Scout and Harper are very glad to see us. Out they both go and Bob and I think of something to do while they run around and "poo and pee"!  Yesterday Bob and I did nothing but read and drink cold tea on the deck. It was just too hot. The day before he mowed the lawn and I trimmed around the house.  I think today we will week whack along the back yard fence.

After the break... we crate Scout back up and Harper reclines on her bed.... both of them waiting for their "mistress" to come home.

Actually they are glad to go back inside...they think it's too hot outside for more than the potty break.

BTW ... they have started making our replica Heinie Groh baseball jerseys!! They sent us a sample picture !!

Heinie Groh bottle bat

 Yes... I know he was a long ago baseball player but he was my husband's great uncle. He played professionally from 1912 to 1927. Best 3rd baseman in the deadball era... winner of two World Series rings ( Reds and Giants). After playing he was a coach and a scout . His bottle bat is in the Cooperstown  Baseball Hall of Fame and he is in the Reds' Hall of Fame too!!

Well... the reason for this all is that my daughter's non-profit is holding a fundraising event. The Kansas City Royals baseball team will be one of the sponsors. Event goers wear costumes. I have been hunting around for replica Reds shirts for my family to wear with Heinie's name etc on the back!!

I think we have found a company that will make them!!

wild wild day

 Bob and I were "assigned" to doggie day care while the rest of the family helped sort and fill 500 back to school backpacks  for our elder daughter's Phoenix Family students!

So out we went to do our doggie bit.... Gorgeous sunny day but the thermometer registered 99 F. The dogs did their bathroom bit but it was too hot for them to run around. As we sat on the deck we made sure they had plenty of water and lots of petting etc. and they wandered around the yard.

When we left the sky started darkening... huge black clouds to the Northwest! It started sprinkling as I collected the mail. By the time I got inside it started to pour... then it started to hail....Water poured from the gutters! Huge puddles in the backyard. The temps dropped rapidly! 

BTW... the e-check in worked no sheets to fill in ,nothing but my name  and a quick look at the computer. My doctor was a little behind schedule but I always take my kindle along so that was no big deal. When she apologized ... that's what I told her too.

Dark and rumbly

 Here it is almost 9 am and it is so dark that we have all the lights on and I am beginning to hear the sounds of thunder!!

I have a check up appointment on Thursday and found an email in my computer requesting an "e-check-in".  Covid is still escalating in Missouri and a mask mandate is in force... so an e-check in is supposed to help. So I did... pages of pages of my history etc. to be updated. Insurance numbers to be verified and on and on. It will be interesting to see just how much the doctors and nurses go over again when I am actually in the office!!

Bob had a call for help from our older daughter yesterday morning... her refrigerator was leaking. He rushed over and they spent the morning taking out food.. removing shelves etc. It turned out that the defrost "tubes" had plugged and were frozen shut.  They cleaned.. melted ice... and put things back together. When he got home Bob was exhausted!  It could have been much harder things to have coped with!!

The online show is  over and boxes were packed and mailed!!  Thinking about the next one - middle of September!

All that thunder and a few lightning flashes and it didn't rsin enough to get iwet under the oak trees!!

Online bear show plus

 I will be spending the next three days keeping an eye on the online bear and friend show I am participating in.... PayPal has changed its shipping partner so Bob and I will have to check that out. PayPal said to wait till I had something to send... not looking forward to that.

Just another note on the fish/carp. They are in our local man-made lake which was made for recreation and water retention etc. The carp help keep it clean... they are bottom feeders. One never sees them except at the marina where you can buy ( or bring your own) dog food pellets to feed them. Ducks come too and there is a competition on who gets a pellet first. The marina is a very popular place!!

Here's my "lead" bear.... the bear on the show's home page which one can click and get to my "shop".

doggie care

 Our elder daughter had meetings all day so could not take her puppy to work with her. Now Scout ( the blackish one) is a good dog but being crated for all day is just too much so we were asked to go out and give her and Harper a mid-day break.

Bob and I decided to give our daughter a break too.. by mowing and weeding her back yard while the dogs were out and running around. Luckily it wasn't one of the Missouri super hot days!Things looked good when we were done!!

Harper and Scout were happy to go back inside when we were done...They were super tired. Scout to her crate and Harper to the couch.  A chewy snack to both and we headed home!!

Our other daughter ( and her family) are enjoying a "staycation". She has finished teaching summer school and Dominic is finished band camp. One day they went to the local park/lake and enjoyed feeding the fish. Another day they went to the new Oak Grove pool and enjoyed swimming and the lazy river.

Here is a posting I made on FB a long time ago.... but the fish (carp) are still as happy to have you feed them as ever.

assembling the hall tree

 After our brunch my daughters came to my house... hauled the 65 lb hall tree box down the front steps and into the SUV. Then we all drove separately to the new owner's house and the hauled the box into the house.!

The two of them opened the box, dug out the instructions and went to work.

Bob was on doggie entertainment duty and I sat in a chair and watched my daughters!

Soon the hall tree was assembled and placed in its new spot... perfect!