On Friday, my grandson needed to go to his school and pick up his assigned Chromebook for when classes start up again next week. My sunrise walk came out to 2.5 miles; with the trip to the school, which works out to 1.5 miles round-trip, I got a fair amount of walking in that day. The woman who checked the thing out to him called him by name and referred to him as the school mayor. My grandson is really popular with people at that school.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, 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 PM 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!
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Bronze Age children’s toys?
Up to half the world’s water supply is stolen each year.
Leonardo da Vinci sketched these heart muscles. Research is finally illuminating their purpose.
A paleontologist running the beach of Eigg Island to meet her team found an unexpected dinosaur fossil.
The Old Apple Tree, apparently the most ancient in the Pacific Northwest, has died of extreme old age — 194 years.
It appears that Hurricane Laura hit land at low tide, which is why the storm surge was lower than predicted.
For anyone who enjoys the Phryne Fisher stories, this is the Phryne her drunken father accidentally named her for.
Margaret and Helen are back! Make that twice!
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My daughter is deciding against having my grandson join what they are calling “pods” to study with other kids while things are online to begin the school year. She says too many of the other parents are making too many demands, so she will just continue with the playdates that have been happening with a few of his classmates. And can I help him with his schoolwork if he needs it? I said of course I could, but he would have to come over to my place to avoid distractions, which she seemed to think was reasonable — though how he will like that idea, I don’t know.
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I don’t much like sweet corn, actually. But occasionally in the summer, I get a yen for some on the cob. A week or so ago, somebody posted on Facebook that baking it in the husks at 350F for half an hour would cook it perfectly and make the silk easy to remove, so I tried it. It worked as advertised; it was good; and I can go another year or two before I do it again.
The Dragons Love Tacos site doesn’t sell T-shirts, which is a pity; but other places use the line, so I bought the grandkids one each from a different vendor. They’d have prefered the authors’ site get the business, as would I — but still, …..
Duck soup and bread with sage in it was dinner for several days this past week. Very tasty, if I do say so myself.
I have discovered that my taste for high adventure mixed with low comedy is sanity saving — Friday’s snippet of the novel due out in January was titled: PUT DOWN THAT COW. Apparently one of the heroine’s cousins was busy getting himself in trouble while his father was trying to talk to her. I ended up telling my grandkids about it all the way to the school to get my grandson’s Chromebook, because I laughed so hard.
A huge honking for an hour or thereabouts in Portland early Saturday evening. Apparently in response to something the police did downtown.
I need to do laundry. Damned if I know when I actually will.
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