Once more you're stuck with me on Friday :). I haven't done a just update diary in the recent past, and with staying up to see Caedy off last night at 1 am I'm just a bit sleepy today, too sleepy to write something really educational. So update it is :). Enjoy.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday:
BadKitties
Tuesday:
ejoanna
Wednesday:
Caedy
Thursday:
art ah zen
Friday:
FloridaSNMOM
Saturday:
Most Awesome Nana
Sunday:
loggersbrat
It's been a beautiful week in Florida. During the night the temps drop down to the low sixties, then rise into the eighties during the day (sometimes, sometimes they even stay in the 70's). So we've been able to leave our windows open for most of the day, my electric bill thanks the weather.
This is our front yard.
The dogs love it because we go for walks pretty much every day. Not always in the afternoons, because sometimes the road is too hot then for puppy paws, but at least in the morning and lunchtime. I've been slowly working on my breathing stamina and I can now walk up to the cemetery, turn the corner, go an equal distance down that road, turn around and come back without having to stop and catch my breath! At least barring extenuating circumstances, like a cold or smoke in the air. That's about 3/4 again as far as I was managing last year. I'm almost ready to try walking to the bread store, then maybe I may make it to the library on really good days!
We walk up and around that corner to past where you can see in the pic now! Last year I was only getting to the cemetery gate at the end of that little road.
The dogs have readjusted to being just three again, now that Sweety found her forever home (and is renamed Rosie). She was a great dog and I loved her, but I just didn't have the spoons to keep up with a puppy that age, and the landlord never would have let us keep her. She and Dori (the cat) got along well, but I think Dori is glad to have some peace in the house again.
These two are friends and both glad they aren't being slobbered on or pawed off the window sill because Sweety wanted to get up too. Peace at last!
Caedy is off to her step-brother's wedding in Ohio, which makes it a bit odd here at times. I have to plan meals even more carefully in case I'm seizing or can't get out of bed to cook. That means things have to be available that Bit and Draco can make on their own. Luckily, Bit has been expanding her repetoir greatly so that leaves us more options than just eggs and chicken nuggets LOL. We have flounder filets that we found on sale for one night though. Caedy hates fish.
Ok, mine won't look that nice, but still....
We're into the last few weeks of school work. We have two more weeks of math left, we have to finish up the muscles which will be the end of Anatomy. Bit wants to do Psychology next year. I've already dug my college text book out for that. I'll use that as the basis for my lesson plans, though it's too advanced for her and the print is WAY too small for her to see. Spanish we're not going to end, we're going to keep going with that through the summer so she doesn't forget words going into the new school year. And reading, well that's a constant anyway, she reads about a novel a month or so on her own, in audio.
This is one of her favorite anatomy teachers online!
April and May always feel like the end of the year to me instead of the middle of it. Probably because we schedule life around the kids school so much. Soon I'll have more time for things I want to do, I won't have to worry about getting up in time to get her started (though I still have early meds, so there's that). We'll do many things together over the summer. We'll take walks, explore, watch movies and documentaries, read, go to the library (she has teen library programs she goes to as well), cook and clean, play with the animals and do art projects. And of course continue with Spanish (lately we've been naming colors of things in Spanish everywhere we go). And then in August we'll start planning for grade 7.
Morgaine has taken to trying to steal Bit's chair outside before Bit can get in it. This day she was successful... and gloating.
I hope you all have a great week to come, and that you enjoy the spring. Time is moving forward way too fast to suit me of late.