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.