Saturday morning girlchild infusion. Nice start to the day. I was thinking about her. She’s applying for jobs and will probably end up staying back East, committing for up to two years. I miss her. It’s a long way away.
Meanwhile, the boychild and I dragged the dogs up Cowles Mountain (in the case of the old lady dog, it really was hard for her at some point, although she’ll never stop).
An actual stream crossing the path up Cowles…don’t know that I’ve seen water up there before.
I don’t hike Cowles a lot any more…too many people. But we had daylight and it was the 2nd walk of the week, so the boy wanted to do something different.
And the weather was gorgeous, a little chilly with a breeze, but beautiful blue skies. Lots of flowers, although not as many as our regular dog hike…
I need to find a way to get out to the desert in the next two weeks.
Rest time! Calli was tired. Tried to get her to drink water, but she fights it.
She’s an old lady. Stubborn as hell.
Getting outside is the best medicine for a day that became more stressful than I thought it would. Two classes of not-listening. Just keep talking instead of hearing the instructions. Can’t read instructions. OK. Then don’t do the lab. Watch the table next to you. Don’t get mad at ME for your shit. Hopefully Monday will be better. Two more days of labs.
It’s not just my classes…it’s across the board in our grade level. At some point, schools might learn that testing on top of testing on top of Daylight Savings on top of the counseling program that didn’t seem to do much for MY kids is not a good plan. Plus normally Spring Break would be right around the corner…and it’s a LONG way away. Why do we pin these things to religious holidays? I don’t understand.
The water they wouldn’t drink…
Up at the top finally. More resting for the old lady.
The dog. I was OK. I don’t like stopping. My muscles complain.
There’s a migrating butterfly in this picture. Can you see it?
There weren’t a lot, but they were hard to photograph…never stopping. At the top, on the way down…
It wasn’t longer than what we usually do. It was just more up.
I’m glad I did it though…even though I have a shitload of other things to do this weekend. I came home and graded one assignment while this guy zonked out…
The old lady too. It was after 11 PM when I finally set everything up for sorting…
But it didn’t take very long. I’m hoping to start ironing today…but I do have other things I need to do as well. Efficiency! Ugh. Shower, breakfast, then clean up in here so I have some chance of getting to the ironing. Then grade some stuff if I have time before the social stuff and a few errands. I don’t know what’s planned for tonight, but I’m sure it will involve food. Food is good. Maybe art too. Hard to say. Although I do need a relaxing weekend, I don’t see one in the near future…so I’m trying to sprinkle life with some relaxing things in between the stressful have-tos.
This morning, Calli woke me up because Kitten stole her bed.
I think this is funny. And I hate brown carpet.
Art today, somehow.
Kathy Nida 