Almost 11 inches! And at least a couple pounds, I’m sure :)
Great Day!
Spent the morning at church worshiping and listening to a great message.
Scored some great deals for my classroom at Staples (Just a warning to my family that it’s 1 cent folder week at Office Max so I’ll be requesting some help!)
Bought a $35 lamp that I’ve had my eye on for $15 after remembering about a gift card I’ve had for at least 2 years.
Great lunch of baked veggies over noodles.
Awesome, long nap on the couch with Tony.
Happy hour slushes at Sonic.
New fishing pole from the sporting goods store (for Tony, not me.)
Reading on the canoe around Reed’s lake and on the grass on the shore of Reed’s lake.
Catching a fish (again Tony, not me.)
Ready to tutor and work in my classroom tomorrow!
Keeping Plants Alive: Take 2
Last year, as an end of the year gift from a student, I received a beautiful planter filled with colorful flowers. I found the perfect place for it on our back deck and enjoyed looking at them until they died…about 4 weeks later. Apparently flowers do well when watered, something I only remembered to do every couple days or so.
This year I am determined to prove that I can keep plants alive, not only because I want something pretty to look at on our deck, but because I want to prove that I can be trusted with the plants I’m hoping to plant in the front of our house this summer.
So I headed to Meijer for some potting soil, then grabbed a shovel, the empty planter, and some flowers given to me by a couple students this year and started planting!
Here is the final product.
I realized once I finished that I should have added more soil before I put the plants in because they look pretty low in the pot, but I didn’t think pulling the plants out and trying again would help my chances of keeping them alive.
I watered the flowers yesterday after planting and again today, but only after Tony came home from work and reminded me. The potting soil I bought says Miracle Grow on the bag. I’m thinking that’s what it might take for these flowers to make it to the end of the summer!
Back in the Saddle Again!
Today it finally feels like spring is here! I hope this isn’t another michigan weather tease, i don’t know if I could take any more of that… I got my bike back out again this week and even biked my commute today. My times were respectable at 24, 25 minutes for the five mile trip, but it’s obvious i’m not in the same shape I was last fall. My best times from last year were in the 15-16 minute range. I wonder how long it will take me to get back to those times. My garmin is out of comission, so I’m in the market for a bike computer of sorts. hopefully one that can track best times. For now i’m using the stopwatch on my cell phone. If you’re into the details, check out the bicycling page. Happy Spring!!!
Family Night #3: Scrabble Night
Scrabble night started with dinner of Lipton noodle soup with alphabet letter noodles. I was going to take a picture, but I put so many letter noodles in it was impossible to spread the letters apart enough to see what they were. The soup was almost as thick as mashed potatoes!
We followed dinner with a game of scrabble…
…while we ate scrabble tiles- rice krispy treats cut in little squares and decorated with frosting letters- for dessert.
My highest word score was 36 and Tony’s was 42!
