11-30-15

Happy 30th Anniversary to my best friend. Xxxoooxxxooo

11-29-15

Looking for a new color for the front door. Something a shade less green and a smidge more blue. Dusty Tiffany maybe. Opinions?

11-28-15

Dan and I went to the AU UA game. I lasted for two quarters.

11-27-15

An explanation.
This blog.
I wanted to quit it this month, last month too. I wondered if it was worth it, if anyone ever looked at it, and most importantly, if I would even want to remember this part of my life anyways.

This semester has been so very difficult for a number of reasons:
Teaching overload
Depression of a terrible magnitude
Squirt moving out
Frisbee dying
Missing my daughters
Missing my sisters

The joy left me and I felt like I'd lost myself, and so I saw my doctor.


He switched my medication and I woke up with joy and a sense of self again.

So, in contemplating yesterday, on Thanksgiving day, whether to ditch this blog, I realized that I still had joy worth remembering. Whenever I feel that joy, I will try to capture a photo to remember it by.

If you read this blog, I am sorry to have left you in the lurch for a month, and I hope you will check in on me now and then. I hope I won't go silent again. But If I do, say a prayer for Chrissy. Life can feel heavy sometimes.


11-26-15




Thanksgiving dinner with my mom, my dad, and my sisters Sta and Sakura, with Dan and Squirt, and Gwennie, and Kels and Brick.
Dessert was yummmmmmmmmmmmmm......

11-24-15

I did this today. My sister Sta and I went to Lowe's and bought plants and pots to decorate my front porch better. Dan said, so, when are you going back to buy a third pot like the others? On my next trip to Lowe's. And we really need to get that mold off the paint. and I really don't like the color of those steps anyway. What color would look good? Red?

11-23-15

The mural is coming along. It was painted 10 years ago in Virginia, but was destroyed in a building renovation. My students and I are re-creating it on canvas so we can move it should our classroom move one day.

11-22-15

I finished blocking this today-- a strange shawl/scarf I made that I'm not crazy about, but will find someone to give to.

11-17-15

This was my evening... teaching and working on the mural we are creating...

This was my morning and my day-- in the ER with my mom who suffered a TIA. She is fine now... fully recovered, but it was a wake up call to slow down and take care of herself better.

11-6-15

BEFORE

AFTER

Three houses up from us, this happened. It is so depressing.

11-4-15

This day I drove out to a school in a neighboring county. This teacher had the most awesome looking room ever. A beautiful painted classroom with stenciled quotes, biological specimens, scientific equipment, projects on the counters... just delightful. 

11-3-15

Tuesday night class. My students were investigating my curriculum and trying to build a generator. This group created the best one.

11-2-15

As we leave Scaly Mountain, I quickly take a photo of this house with a Confederate flag. There was a man on the porch earlier with a hillbilly hat and a long gray beard. What a sight, and a contrast to our cabin just up the road. But this family has a million-dollar view.

11-1-15

The mountain behind our cabin in the woods... Scaly Mountain.
We love this place and plan to return.

10-31-15


We are loving it here in our mountain house. More photos to follow. Nature, ahhhhhh.....

10-30-15


Dan and I spent the day in Clemson, SC. I was giving a talk at the university on engineering for kids and Dan was touring. We drove to Scaly Mountain, NC this afternoon. 

10-18-15

Sunrise over Apalachicola Bay. 

10-16-15

Yes. This.

10-15-15

We are here. Apalachicola. In an old oyster shack. It's wonderful.

10-14-15

House on our street bulldozed today.

10-9-15

Dan and I downtown for Summer Night.

10-8-15

Took my students into the woods.

9-26-15

Sweater sleeve final attempt.

9-23-15

Look who got on the home page.

9-15-15

Meeting up on the roof.

9-13-15

Sweater sleeve attempt. Frogged.

9-11-15

My office.

9-7-15

We drove up to Rocky Mountain National Park today. It snowed! We went on a long hike 1000 feet in elevation up and 1.7 miles long each way. This is what we found at the top... a lake!


9-6-15



Hike this morning, hike this evening, fire in the hearth.

9-5-15

Ahhh.... Cool clear pure