Monday, August 23, 2010

School Time!

Every year I look forward to summer vacation; swimming, getting up late, not looking for socks in the morning....
And every year, I look forward again to the first day of school; quiet mornings, getting my housework done, fall...  I love fall!  I can't wait for the weather to turn cooler and the leaves to start dropping.  I really enjoy taking walks in our beautiful neighborhood and even more so when the weather is cooler! 
   That being said, when it came to the kids this morning, we weren't all on the same sheet of paper.  Some were really excited and some ...not so much..  First day of high school is Definitely not the same as the first day of middle school!  However, I am sure by the end of the week, things will have calmed down a little and everyone will be used to the new schedule.
     As for me, I am putting an ad up today to teach some of my skills. I sew, crochet, quilt and design, and most recently, I knit.  I love creating!  The things that I make are mostly my own design.  I get some of my ideas from nature and some are part of someone else's design that I have changed to suit my own creative whimsy or to best serve a need.  I am an analyst so that means my mind is always thinking of the best way to do something; or even just a better way to do something..   This year, however, I have decided that I need to pass these skills along.  There are so many people out there that long to know how to do these things and have no idea how to learn or even who to go to.  I don't know how many times someone has admired something I have made and said "I wish I knew how to do that!"   A whole generation of people out there never learned from parents or grandparents, the skills that most of the baby boomer generation were able to learn from family and friends.  So I am going to start changing that!

    Next stop, the class room!

Happy School Season everyone!!

Saturday, August 21, 2010

At the Beach

         We haven't spent that much time at the beach this year due to BP.  We actually didn't think we would be able to go back for a long time, but thanks to some big machinary and lots of workers, we were able to go yesterday afternoon and stay till dusk!
         Although it was not as fun to swim there this summer due to tar balls, we did get some swimming time in and even got to joke around a little..: )
Those are my husband and kids doing the dead man's float, not bodies found at the beach...  Of course, we weren't the only ones there!  These gulls looked as if they were posing for me and Craig was later able to get this awesome pic of a Heron!

 You can see the beach is clean again. The workers come out every night and sift/clean the sand so that we can all enjoy it again.  We were all saddened at the state of the beach earlier in the summer and even though the sand is looking better, we know that there are veins of oil running underneath. We all wonder how long it will take for the water to get back to a healthier state.