1964 revisited

Jan. 5 Dad went to Minnesoa Lake, Minnesota to visit a church and hear the pastor.
Jan. 13 got a frost remover to use for grave digging
Jan. 14 John Deere Day in Lowden???
Jaan. 17 Sold Grandpa the ford (would later become my first car)
Feb.8 Sherrie has tonsilitis
Feb. 13 Sherrie went to Dr Wray in Cedar Rapids (specialist?)
Feb 16 Sherrie has sore throat again. Went to see Dr. Montz
March 17 shearing sheep this morning
March 22 Dad flew to Purham Minnesota to hear a preacher
March 25 Jutes Freese came home today after 10 days in hospital
March 27 Dad flew to Marinett Wisconsin (surely this was a small plane? Who flew them?)
April 6 Bill left for Norfolk Virginia
April 12, Pastor Tinge did a sermon and accepted the position. He was the one from Purham Minn.
April 13 Wind storm took down box elder tree by outhouse
April 21 Sherrie breaking out with chicken pox
April 22 Jutes Freese died
April 24 Jutes Freese funeral. Grandpa and Grandma Horman came to stay home wiht Sherrie. Bill called is coming home on 3 day pass
April 30 Sharon starts moving her stuff home
May 2 Bill leaves for California
MAy 12 train derailment just north of farm
May 28 found an old well caved in on the lawn
June 13 went to Aberdeen DS for anniversary of Alice and Ted
June 15 came home from SD. Tree across the lane
June 20 got Cheryl home from Girl's state
October 10 Cheryl had her pre-college physical
October 23 Took Sharon to Hospital this morning. Larry Wm made his appearance at 2:10 pm
October 27 SHaron and Larry hom from hospital (Darlene and Mom has visited them each day in between)
November 7 Cheryl is in Iowa City taking tests (ACT or SAT?)
November 20 Sharon went to Tipton and ran into ditch by Deerberg's. Couldn't see becasue of snow
November 30 Gus Holms died
December 24 Sherrie not feeling well
December 28 Sherrie has measles

they're lost

In case you look, and are confused, I added 2 new entries yesterday, hit some button I shouldn't have and lost my latest 25 entries - I will try to fins them but I don't know...... Darn, some good stuff, too!

I have pictures!

I have been trying to upload some of my pictures of Noelle, but my computer and I have not been agreeing.  Looks like I finally got it right!  I spent Tuesday through Thursday this week in Ames, and Thursday through Saturday last week there.  School went pretty well, better the second week as I found out what was missing from my generic lessons plans the first week.  The whole having a new grand daughter process is pretty hard to explain to my class!

I tried to be generally helpful while visiting but my main job was playing with Emily while everyone else napped.  She has a set of pop beads that she got for her birthday (she calls them snap beads) and we created jewelry every day.  They are just like the pop beads we used to have only more shapes, sizes, colors and patterns.  They still just "pop" together.  Fun and we did something different with them each day.  They couldn't be used while Dallas was awake.

Noelle is very sweet and had learned new things just from last Saturday when we left to Tuesday when I went back!  She stays awake for a while now, really studies things with her eyes and really, really listens when you talk.  She knew it was not Laura when I was talking to her and she would get very still if you sang to her.

When I got home Thursday I was able to spend an hour with Charley.  He looks big compared to Noelle!  He is talking up a storm and giggles at about everything.  I got to stay with him this morning as well, they were supposed to raise the roof on the garage, but the rain cancelled that.  I stayed with Charley and Greg went back to sleep.  When he got up I went to the shop and got a haircut.  I missed my appointment when Noelle was born.

School year has begun

I'm all settled into my new "new" room and feel pretty important to have a separate office. Of course, it's only because my desk wouldn't fit in my classroom :). We had open house/meet your teacher night last night. I had several of my families stop in. The building was very busy. That is a good omen for the coming year. Today we have professional development and tomorrow the kiddos arrive for the first official day. Part of my day today will be CPR training. I haven't been certified in several years and I have a student with a seizure disorder, so I need to be certified. Hopefully I will never have to put practice into reality.
Also yesterday I got to have coffee with an old teaching buddy who was in town. She lives near Branson now, for 12 years or so. I tried to fit in a visit between meetings and open house and also got to watch Charley while we were having coffee. He was a perfect gentleman, but he put my arm to sleep while he napped. I felt young, all the others at the table were retired.
The rain hasn't affected us personally, but we know plenty of people with serious water in their basements. Highway 92 east of town has been closed for days and the way the pictures look, some serious reconstruction may need to happen on the road. I don't know how this will affect the start of school. There are other routes, but buses will certainly have to backtrack a bunch.

Lynne or Laura

Can you tell me how to move things in my blog so you can see the title? Be detailed, please.

Another opportunity

I got called to the office again today, and again, just as I was walking out the door. It seems since the president signed a bill giving some education money back, our district can hire some teachers. Our fifth grade teachers won't have to have 31 students in their class, but they will get to have my room. I have two days before school starts to move (again, sigh) and this time to a teacher's lounge, not a classroom. I will need to be creative! Plus side is I'll be close to my best school friend again. And, BTW, it is dry at school, although parts of Oskaloosa are pretty soggy. I heard Ames has a boil water order, I bet we will too in a day or two since the water treatment plant is sure to be under if all that water comes downstream. Never a dull moment.

end of summer as I know it

I still have pictures to publish but they are on the MACbook and when they updated, they put blogspot on a list of firewalled items ( no social networks are allowed on school computers during school hours so kids can't be off task) so I will have to figure out how to transfer so I can post them here.

I have spent several hours at school trying to do what I can ahead. Got to babysit with Charley several times as well. He changes every time I see him, has learned many new things. It sure is fun to watch him talk to the toys! Only one more band concert for the season as well, then I can start babysitting Thursday nights.

Sweetcorn Serenade went well. Last year and this we have had the Celebration Iowa Jazz band and Singers perform. We used to know them as the State Fair Jazz band and Singers. It brings a good crowd as does the rest of the celebration (corn, pork burgers, vendors, kids' games, crafts, etc)The night ends with our band concert - our biggest audience of the year but also the noisiest, I'm not really here for the music audience. MUSCO lighting donated new lighting for the park and the bandstand, state of the art LED lights. Now I don't have to have a secret stash of light bulbs for when the teenagers steal the light bulbs just before the concert!

Nothing else happening here.