Why I Married Jeff

     Jeff and I have a joke that I married him because he was funny.  Actually, there is a lot of truth to that.

     Earlier this week I worked until 3:45 a.m. trying to get MailChimp to forward my blog posts (and it still isn't the way I want it), and the next night I was painting with my son Joseph until almost 2 a.m.  Thus, I was really tired by Friday morning and asked Jeff to be in charge of the garage sale.  This is what happened.  

Stay-At-Home Video and a Wagner Opera Guy

Here is a fun little video the teachers at Shalom Mennonite School made for our students last week.  
Videography and editing was done by 7th grade homeroom teacher Mr. Caleb Martin, owner of Martins Snapshots.  Enjoy!    

https://martinssnapshots.com/

The Ghost of Christmas Past Participle

My students are amazing.  Sometimes, they've got so much history and English in their heads that they get a few concepts mixed up, or combined, or something like that.  So, here, I will share some of the novel concepts they have invented (accidentally), and shared with me in class or on tests.  



1.  That large body of water in Northwestern Canada is named 
Hudson Taylor Bay.  




2.  Three cases of pronouns are nominative, obsessive, and possessive.  

   
3. This one was even more funny because when this answer was spoken aloud (much to the amusement of the class), we had just finished our grammar review of verb tenses.  
The second spirit to visit Scrooge was the Ghost of Christmas Past Participle.  



4.  A substance which prevents infection is called an antiperspirant.  

Staff Orientation and the Vomit Kit

After the staff orientation meetings today I feel completely ready for school to start.  I know where everything is, and I know how to handle any situation from a concussion to a tornado and everything in between, and I know where to find the vomit kit (check out that puke scraper!)   All I need now is to finish decorating my room (since I spent days helping my hubby with his room -- pictures coming soon--), and to have a room full of students.  If you are interested in reading a story about a real student and real vomit, click here.  

Dogs Eat Free on Wednesdays

And here is another funny Alaskan sign.  On Wednesdays, bring your pet to this restaurant, and your pet gets to eat for free.  So. . . . Does your pet get a hamburger, or a salad, or . . . a dessert?  Does he get to choose what he wants?  What if he is gluten free?  If he doesn't eat it all, does he get to take the leftovers home in a "people" bag?
My husband says, "Hey, I know, if your dog likes Asian food, maybe his free meal could be chow mein.  Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."

Strange, Ominous Signs in Alaska

This sign was posted at the base of a cliff next to the waterfall at Mendenhall Glacier.  No explanation is needed.  

Okay, my husband just told me that it wasn't that obvious.  He says it could mean that if you are in Alaska and Bigfoot throws rocks down on you, then jump off the mountain.   

I don't think so.  

Menno Teachers Storm Disc Golf Course

During mini-term classes at Shalom Mennonite School,  my husband taught a class on disc golf, a fun little game where a frisbee-shaped disc is thrown into a metal basket.  

The teachers thought that disc golf looked like it would be fun, so to celebrate the end of the third quarter (albeit a little late), the teachers had a picnic and disc golf outing this past Friday night.  Only one disc ended up in the pond.  The rest of us decided to skip the hole by the pond since most of us were beginners we didn't want to lose nine discs in the pond.  We finished several holes before dark descended over the hills.  

It was a lovely evening, and I was especially impressed by these neat little wooden arrows which hung at the bottom of the baskets pointing the direction to the next tee.  

And thanks to our former students at Lott Mennonite School for 

creating the disc-golf-on-head photo idea.  We miss you!