ToraGirl

Finally found use for my favorite ratchet T that I can't discard. Perfect WorldCafe addition! Zoom in and learn a new phrase!

Some of finished (close enough) classroom...the WorldCafe@MacMillan. Doing as before/after. I love this part of "starting over" even when every muscle aches. 

My new school digs...my kinda place. #MacMillanInternationalMagnet

Maybe some o'y'all been worrying for no good reason?  

Laugh...I have never.  But I used to dumpster-dive for aluminum cans to recycle at...what was the name of it...The Casino!  ("Thanks, Dad.")

2 hours ago, gr82be said:

Got home yesterday from a few days in Kentucky with my sisters and our spouses. After our mother passed in April we decided that we would not be a family that drifts apart so we plan on taking vacations together a couple of times a year. Went to the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum. The Ark is enormous. I gained some insight on dinosaurs that I had always been curious about. Great times and great company. I had to laugh at the photo of Noah talking over the plans of the Ark with a man who appears to be Keanu Reeves. 

Grest pics! That place was something else! Few Novembers ago for Ark...not done CM yet. Covid19 deviated that plan in March. Love that you got to go. Adore KY. Nailed Keanu...🤣😂👏

P.S. Ken Hamm has done his research. 

16 hours ago, AUBwins said:

Cool, so a chance to go play with kitties? 

Yes...I was out for coffee, but my daughter brakes for cats! "Gatos and Beans"... 🤣🌶🇲🇽

So Birmingham has a "Cat Cafe" if anyone needs to know. Following Japan's lead! 😉🤣🦋

Sioux City, Iowa..."after midnight," because I'm relentless...and I said I would try. 🦋🌍

https://thewalkingtourists.com/chief-war-eagle-statue-looks-three-states-sioux-city/

Greetings from guess where? 

3 hours ago, Tiger Refuge said:

Hey! We haven’t seen a significant uptick in usage lately. Mask use has stayed about the same...less than 50% in my unofficial view.

 

School for my wife is still a ? No news yet from the parish or the Parish. All the schools seem to be waiting for someone else to make the first move. 
 

How about you? Any word on your next year?

Yes, on first move, too.  Elmore County, where I live and my daughter teaches, came up with a policy Friday that lets families decide for "in person" or "online."  She's secondary, so it's really different for elementary.  Neither of us has underlying health conditions, so the personal connection is a must for us, despite the risk, we feel.  It could all change on a dime.  No word for my system yet.  There's talk of September starts for area systems, but she was told that August 10 was their starting date, "as planned."  Mask usage here depends upon where you go.  No one is unmasked in Whole Foods.  Aldi, about 2/3 wear them.  Dollar General, 1 in 10.  It has ebbed and flowed.  I believe the African-Americans I've seen seem far more committed and faithful to wear them; they inspire me.  We're taking them on the road to Yellowstone tomorrow and I have more on order.  It's a simple thing for me...it doesn't hurt me to wear one, but I am forever gauging the situation.  

Hey @Tiger Refuge, are you seeing more nature-loving traffic with things lifting, are you seeing a lot of mask-wearing, and what news does your wife have about what her school might look like for the fall? 

Trash to TREASURE...a project for my Creativity class toward my Gifted Certification.  Halfway done in July!  🙂  (The itinerary is not the one I ended up with.)

I'm sorry for your loss, M. He was legendary. He sounds movie-worthy. Good memories there. Prayers for you and McW...all...sure the LITTLES, too, will feel it on a different level. ❤🦋

1 hour ago, Grumps said:

I picked 12 ripe, full-sized tomatoes from this one plant today. I have never had a plant do this well. I have already picked 2-3 from it and have probably 20 more getting close to full size. I love a BLT!

That's fantastic...love anything you can do with a tomato!

Dating memories...that turned to more! 

20 minutes ago, gr82be said:

Definitely remember the heyday of Elton. Empty Garden was haunting. Anyway the answers are Lennon and Marilyn. 

Lennon and Diana...Marilyn, too?  

Two favorites from a favorite!~here's the backstory on the first. 🥰

"In August 1968, the country was still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. four months earlier, and the race riots that followed on its heels. Nightly news showed burning cities, radicals and reactionaries snarling at each other across the cultural divide.

A brand new children’s show out of Pittsburgh, which had gone national the previous year, took a different approach. Fred Rogers had met François Clemmons at a church service after hearing him sing, and asked him to join the show. Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood introduced Officer Clemmons, a black police officer who was a kindly, responsible authority figure, kept his neighborhood safe, and was Mr. Roger’s equal, colleague and neighbor.

A year later in 1969 when black Americans were still prevented from swimming alongside whites, Mr. Rogers invited Officer Clemmons to join him and cool his feet in a plastic wading pool, breaking a well-known color barrier. And there they were, brown feet and white feet, side by side in the water, silently, contemplatively, without comment. The episode culminated with Rogers drying off Clemmons’ feet. Most young kids were probably unaware of the real weight the episode carried, its scriptural overtones, but the image of a white man tending to the needs of a black man was seared in their minds nonetheless.

Twenty five years later, when François Clemmons retired, his last scene on the show revisited that same wading pool, this time reminiscing. Officer Clemmons asked Mr. Rogers what he’d been thinking during their silent interlude a quarter century before. Fred Rogers’ answer was that he’d been thinking of the many ways people say “I love you.”

In a world screaming out for tolerance, acceptance, kindness, and love - choose to be a Fred Rogers - because if more people could find a way to love others the way he did, without barriers, this world would be a much better place..."

Watch this one with a solution-minded eye...and with your kids whenever they get the least bit "whiny-why me?"

https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Ways-School/dp/B07DXZDN9B

Nostalgia, part 2. Which three are remembered here? ❤ What movies as well depict any of their lives? #lou

Two great tributes...had forgotten the one remembered in the first. Heard today, first time in years. Who remembers the songs' heydays; who can name his subjects? 

On 5/25/2020 at 8:06 PM, Brad_ATX said:

Spent a few days on Lake Hamilton just outside of Hot Springs, AR this weekend.  Beautiful view from the rental and a cool storm blew through last night with some awesome clouds.

Also found some damn good flavored moonshine.  Poured it on some vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.  

Finally, saw the biggest damn loaded baked potato that I've ever laid eyes on.  Came from a BBQ shack on the side of the road.

 

ALL kinds of WOW!  Love the pics!!

Here's Opelika-Auburn News' version...

(I can't help it. I got excited!) 

https://www.oanow.com/sports/college/auburn/cam-newton-s-brother-caylin-headed-to-auburn/article_cf5dda5c-9c8b-11ea-a40e-2361a32c7d97.html?utm_medium=social

15 minutes ago, bigbird said:

More like this...

Resilient middle-schoolers!

1 minute ago, AUDub said:

It's a very, uh, dramatic household. I don't win arguments. 

You sound very resigned...and very wise. 🤣😉

4 minutes ago, AUDub said:

Want to borrow a couple of them? I'm badly outnumbered and can only handle so much estrogen.

Good for now, but bless you! Ours is two and two, not counting Pierre. Whoops, and the betta plus the outside cat. I may be outnumbered after all! 🤣