Not like all the other Mondays of the year, today is President's Day. That translates into a day of no work --a bonus day-- a freebee --extra late wake up - - a walk in the yard --a car wash in the driveway --playing with the remote controlled helo --followed by a four day week. It's good all over!!
John John and Margeaux spent the weekend with us - - Friday to Sunday Night. They were lots of fun, but I think they thought we were a bit too boring. Oh, well. I took my sewing machine to the shop for its annual spa treatment. That means I was prowling around looking for something to do. I started knitting a scarf for Don. Briana, Margeaux, and I made alligator shaped cookies. We make paper flowers and I cooked and cooked and cooked! BTW, Briana and Margeaux made a cookie soap opera - - check out Briana's facebook if you want to see it. Nuts!!
In the last seven days Don has purchased 2 RC Helicopters. The first one was $200. It has been in the air about one minute, and Don has been to the hobby shop three times. This last trip to the hobby shop netted another smaller copter that one can crash without breaking rotors, main shafts, landing gears, or rocker bits ( whatever). There is something fundamentally eerie about an entity floating around the living room not connected to anything. It looks like a large flying beetle that has a flashing red light in its head. Spooky little bugger!! He's happy!
School! What can I say. I've been introducing poetry to my advanced students. I thought they would have a better handle on some poetic basics - - I was wrong. I had them write ballads with all the main characteristics. You know, quatrains with ABCB rhyme, a repeated line, 6 to 8 syllables in iambic rhythm. Tears in your beer stories!! They had no idea what to do with it. We got there, though, and some were actually respectable ballads. Next is the sonnet!! Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter-- hahahahahaha! Those little know-it-alls don't know anything!!
Well, I off to the downstairs to fold a ton of clothes and watch Antiques Roadshow. The perfect end to a perfect, free, bonus, extra, unexpected, all up to me day!!
DOT
