Keeping up with my leaves

Okay, so I just finished posting all my grades into the electronic grade book!! Yea! That took about 1 1/2 hours. Now I still have 4 vocabulary quizzes and two sets of 5 paragraph essays to grade, but that's okay. I am still ahead of the game. Thank goodness for inservice and teacher work days. As far as household chores - - I'm as up to date as I can be. Briana and Don need to help a little to make this whole system work. I fell off my diet yesterday, mostly because I was totally frustrated with a particular boy. A twinkie, a coke, and a piece of chocolate pie later I still wasn't ready to get over my funk! SO I made a batch of Tollhouse cookies and some pecan pralines. I'm a little better now.
I have a pipe dream.
I'd like to live in Eastern Oregon some day. These are pics of bare land for sail. The property is between 3 and 40 acres with nothing but trees, rocks, creeks, and wildlife.




These are images of older homes and one newer home that are within our range. The are a little rough, but I think they would be cool to vacation in and eventually move to when we both retire. The neat thing about this are is that there are several places where one can dig for gold.





Sumpter is on the Powder River and the Crack Creek. Both of these pristine waterways have large known quantities of gold still in them. The Crack Creek had a 24/7 dredge in it for 50 years. The old dead thing is still in the middle of town. Look it up at
http://www.historicsumpter.com/sumpter-oregon-dredge-park.html

There is something so romantically western and cowboyish about Eastern Oregon. I absolutely love the big sky!

I'll keep dreaming!!