Pro: It was light when I got to get up. I woke up earlier. My brain was confused. So were the dogs. Plus the man gets up earlier than I do and that wakes me up. Con: I’m still tired. I sorta forgot about Daylight Savings and the time change because my phone did it for me. The clocks in here are still wrong. Whoops.
Saturday I talked to a solar guy…he’s the first one who didn’t say I needed to cut my trees down. He designed a system with the trees. A miracle. This might actually happen. I mean, I’ve grown this one from a tiny plant. It’s a volunteer. I love trees.
Yeah. I know. Trees can cause problems. So can people and I don’t cut them down. Well. Much.
There’s been a lot of dog sleeping going on here…
Lots of dogs too…
And lots of grading. It gets frustrating at times. Sometimes I feel like I’m just recording that they did stuff and I’m not even sure what they’re getting out of it…
Please don’t ask me what she meant by this. I really don’t know. Hopefully texture.
I don’t have any choice with quizzes and tests and projects. I have to grade them. This one amused me.
Physical change vs chemical reaction on scrambling eggs. Yeah. Sigh.
So my co-teacher and I keep searching for the solution to grades. I’m not a fan, but the kids don’t work without something to motivate them, although grades is not always a good motivator. I’m not willing to run a candy-based classroom.
Ah yes. More dogs…not my house, because that fluffy over-shedding one in the middle is not allowed on my couch.
That’s why she looks so guilty.
Meanwhile, Kitten has actually been playing.
She carried that purple mouse into the living room. Brought it right to me.
Good kitty. 6 hours of grading later. Ugh.
I did do art stuff…I went to another opening. This is in Hillcrest…
I think it’s time for another bathtub quilt. Not that my schedule fits that. Wait. A minute. Hmmm. I gots an idea.
I traced Wonder Under finally on Saturday night…see Kitten on her new perch? No fear.
Tracing is meditative. Not enough, because I’ve been grinding my teeth for a few weeks. But better than nothing. Working on that…took a pilates class for the first time yesterday. Gonna try three months. See how it goes.
Core strength would help. Plus my neck and back need it. Strangely, the only thing sore last night was my left foot. It’s better this morning.
I added a space cat to the quilt. I had a conversation with an artist’s spouse on Friday night about the cat in one of my quilts. And I realized this quilt didn’t have one. So I added one.
I guess I’m up to 872 pieces now. I traced again last night…I’m at piece 288. Not bad. I’m looking forward to some down time over Thanksgiving week to get a chunk of this done.
So far, my Thanksgiving plans include cooking my own turkey for December turkey sandwiches, getting my Real ID, going to pilates twice, going on at least one hike, and IDK what else. I guess I’ll figure that out.
Today is prep for a lab and a 2-hour staff meeting. Ugh. Well. OK. First I need to figure out what to do with all these dogs. Doing that now.
Kathy Nida 