Well, you already lived up to today's title, Kathryn. You did
PWYC! Actually I got carried away with my post when there was nobody else on. And by the time I posted you had already posted, so will save my title for another Saturday.
Dh and I got up not too long ago. I got up at 7:15 to take my thyroid med. Then dh came back in bed with me for about an hour. We don't manage that very often.
Harriet, at first I had to remember the reference in 'kitten' in your post about your ds & picture. Now I'm trying to remember the name of the 'city' so I can go check it out. Every time you mention "the young man" I go, "What? DD18 is not old enough!" Oh sadly the years march on all too quickly.
My teacher/friend from the Dr's office sent me a message a week or so ago to have the secretary at the Dr's office let her know when I come in this week. She wants to come upstairs and just chat a while. Then I got a call yesterday while at rehab from a Rochester number I didn't recognize so didn't answer. Ended up it was the Dr's office from a new person reminding me to get my lab work done for appointment on Wednesday. I plan to go Monday morning. Coming home from there then dh and I are taking our car for NYS inspection, oil change and tire rotation. Hopefully they might spot what is making the noise -which we think is tire noise. At least if it is tire noise the sound should change -where it's coming from. None of us can seem to pinpoint it.
Kathryn, when you go to see the eclipse, is this the time you're swinging through NY? Saw that you were going to Ithaca. That's where dh was born by the way and they lived not far from there till he was a teenager. They moved near the town where I grew up and we went to the same high school.
DGS12 has lacrosse try outs in Hamburg, NY today and tomorrow. One father is taking him and his own son today and then ddil is taking them tomorrow. Hamburg is beyond Buffalo so a fairly long trip. At least an hour & a half.
Dh took him with him and another friend to Empire Field Days Wednesday. There were a few demonstrations that dgs was interested in watching. But the "virtual welding" really got his attention. You just never know what may peak a growing child's interest. Right now he absolutely hates school and it's a struggle getting him to do even the needed parts and certainly no extra.
DD texted us that she has 168 students this year and her class size is about 29 -well above what they're supposed to have. But she says she's not complaining -the art teachers have 40 to a class. The first day of school at 6pm they still had over 400 students waiting for buses. They're well above their maximum for student load. Know last year when the school opened for the first time they expected 900 students and had over 1,700. And there's no room for 'portables'. Obviously a new school needs to be built ASAP. One reason the class loads for electives are so high is that there is no business course this year. Nobody signed up for that class because no one liked the teacher. She was not asked back. Hopefully by the mid-year things will even out. Then of course dd is an excellent teacher and almost all the kids love her class, telling all their buddies to sign up for this class. (She teaches technology -industrial arts/computers/robotics, etc.)