I’ve been thinking a lot about composting lately. Sustainable Dave has worms doing his composting right in his basement, but that’s a little too creepy for me. I’ve thought about having a worm composter right outside our back door, because then I could just toss the scraps right after I’ve scooped them from the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
Keep it safe. Remember the purse fiasco a while back? Well, it was the perfect opportunity for me to justify a gadget purchase. I saw the Cash Can a few months ago, and now I have one! Yessir, even though I may forget my wallet, I’ll still have an origamied greenback dangling from [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
The spatulas arrived today. Many thanks to David Hall, best guy in the world! That’s all I have to say about that.
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 10, 2008
First of all, Happy Birthday to my Dad!!!!!! “Buy cheap, regret later.” Every. single. time. I wanted to buy a small voice recorder so I could more easily do observations of the children at school. Usually I jot stuff down and then re-write it later, but I really, really hate writing by hand. Especially twice. So [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 9, 2008
After home visits today I went into Lincoln to see what Lloyd was up to. Turns out it’s exciting and slightly dangerous putting up projectors. Well, maybe not ‘exciting’, but this part looked pretty dang cool. Notice his lack of eye protection. I guess he thinks that squint will save him. Anyway, I tried to be [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 9, 2008
My undying thanks to Lloyd, who took over posting duties this week since I wasn’t feeling well (a cold, a fever, a rash, then a different, more sinister cold). As you have seen, he’s such a good writer that people are footnoting him! When he fixed the sink earlier this week, I was very grateful [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 25, 2007
Good thing my boss doesn’t read this, or I’d make her pretty mad. She’s got this classroom rating thing that says it would be good for children to have a listening center. Phewsh. (That’s a scoffing sound.) Have you ever seen classroom listening centers? They’re nothing like they seem in the [...]
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
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