Jul 20 2009
WHERE IS SUMMER GOING?
Summer. As a teacher, I usually look forward to this season. Ten or eleven weeks to get everything done in the house and the yard that I have been too busy to get to. True to form, life’s speed bumps have once again slowed my progress.
Although the season is only half over, I can already sense the things that will not get done OR things that got done that could probably have been postponed.
1. The airconditioner that was electrified in a lightening has been replaced, but the temperature has yet to warrant it turned on. However, I did turn it on to dry the floors and carpets. Watch out, though. When the start of the school year creeps closer, the temperatures will finally rise and I will have to turn the air on; unfortuantely, there is no air at work.
2. The vegetable garden got planted, but at this time I have harvested 18 of the long green vegetables and made 4 recipes of zucchini bread. My kitchen is home to so many of the green squash that my son called me at work and wanted to know what was up with the stuff in the kitchen.
3. My almost 80 year old mother is working to “simplify” her life and we have already run two garage sale weekends.
4. Did I mention that I had the brainy idea that I should teach summer school to cover some of the extraneous bills we have? I didn’t. No sleeping in until 7:00, I’m up at 5:20 to leave by 6:20 and school starts at 7:30. Two sessions that last two hours and thirty minutes for six weeks.
As summer is half over, I don’t think I have accomplished much.
