Year 3 - Day 220 - August 7

If you look at yesterday's picture, you can see the preview of this. I'm carless today for the 2nd day in a row, and feeling bored. I honestly didn't do anything interesting today so I walked back over to the end table where I took yesterday's picture and turned the page. :)

This is her visual representation of our library. Alphabetical shelves, some people, and of course a SmartBoard. :)

Year 3 - Day 219 - August 6

Another bag from the end of the school year emptied and another end of the year gift. :)

Year 3 - Day 218 - August 5

It's "Breakfast at Wimbledon!" Except it's the Olympics. And Wimbledon is dressed up in purple and hot pink. And the players are not wearing all white. And there's more rock music and less bowing to the Queen. Since the grass is always a mess at the end of the regular Wimbledon tournament and it didn't have time to recover before the Olympics, it's going to take forever to get the lawns pretty again.

Year 3 - Day 217 - August 4

Remember these pencils? I found one in our house. When I was younger I thought they were so cool - but the lead disappeared quickly and as soon as you started popping it in the back to get a new lead, you were guaranteed to lose one and render the pencil useless. Not to mention needing a separate eraser! I seriously wonder where this came from...

Year 3 - Day 216 - August 3

As the cat has transitioned into a wet food only animal, he has become increasingly whiny. This is a big change because he was a pretty silent cat up until this point. He begs and begs for food, but he can no longer graze, so if we give him too much he gets sick. He's missing the logical part of his brain though, because he still begs and begs. He took it to a new level this week and began jumping up on the desk counter where (he thinks) the food is. (It's actually on the chair that pushes up on the counter, plus it's in cans!) He's spent the first 9 years of his life very well trained in this department - I saw him go up on top of the cabinets a couple times when he was young and bouncier but he got "no kitchen surfaces" trained pretty young. But today he went even further - when he didn't find what he wanted on the desk, he tried the top of the fridge. And then when I yelled, he leaped to the floor in one jump. Talk about a thud. Ouch.

Year 3 - Day 215 - August 2

I just realized I never did a picture of the other home improvement project my mom did while she was here. We did the kitchen and Mike's sink faucets last summer, so she did the powder room & my bathroom this year. Mike has to help with the strength part (getting the old screws/bolts undone with 25 years worth of corrosion) but then my mom does the rest. :) They're much nicer than the old ones with the plastic handles!

Year 3 - Day 214 - August 1

It's like Christmas morning! The size of computer memory never ceases to amaze me. My first college computer had a 2GB hard drive. 2GB! This one has 500GB and they gave us an external with another 500GB. Holy moly! I'm so lucky to work in a district that believes in keeping teachers up to date in the technology world. Every 4 years they lend us a brand spanking new computer and give us training on all the new "stuff" that's out there. It used to be more software based, but now it's more resource based. Either way, I'm happy to do the PD in exchange for the use of a new computer. And for a whole year, we get to be the club with the most recent version. :)