Well, very busy weekend - I've barely has time to catch my breath. Friday was a statewide in-service day, and I went to a Science Teacher conference in Portland that was about 40% worthwhile. I got a few ideas and wasted time at some boring sessions. I got a taste of real city traffic on the way home - Friday afternoon on 205, yuk (90 minutes in the car for what should have been barely 40 minutes). I got home and raked walnuts for an hour then started packing for our trip to San Diego for one of Andy's college buddies' wedding. Andy returned at 8:30PM from a day flight to Seattle for a work team meeting. Our Saturday flight left at 6:40AM, which meant a 4:30AM wake up call. After a small incident with security (corkscrew wedding gift with a hidden knife), we made it on time to southern CA. The wedding was at 2:00, and was nice with a reception in a small hall, but it was still fun to catch up with Andy's buddies. Our flight left the next afternoon at 1:30ish. We were only slightly delayed and arrived in Portland at about 4:30. We headed straight to Andy's grandfather's 90th b-day party. It was nice seeing family and Andy's cousin from San Antonio even made a surprise visit! I had to grade a bunch of papers when we got home at 9:00PM, and barely made it an hour, before I was ready to pass out.
This week at work is a bit hectic with 2 partial days of subs for curriculum crap. I'd rather just teach it myself than to try to write out what to have someone else say/do. I guess it's the control freak in me.
Today the wind is blowing pretty good, and I keep thinking that someone is knocking at our door, but it's just walnuts crashing into the house. I've already picked up about 6-7 gallons and there are at least that many more in the yard right now. I may try to actually process them this year - Peal off the outside, open the shell and roast the nutmeats. Sounds like a tedious procedure. Ill try it out on a few and see how it works.
Sounds like all is well with the rest of you! Keep us posted!
