Yesterday, I went for a walk down to the creek behind the orchards. It looks like this in the spring time:


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Tuesdays are my busiest teaching days with 7 students. 5 of them canceled today. One called on Sunday and rescheduled her lesson for yesterday. My 3pm flaked. My 4:30 called to reschedule for Thursday. My 6:30 called to say the little one came home ill from school and has been diagnosed with a mild strain of pneumonia. So that left 5:30 and 6 ( Read more... )

It's my dad's birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!! :D

This morning I did some laundry and baked some cookies.

I also stalked a butterfly.


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I went outside to move the sprinkler about on the lawn and saw a giant spider in it's giant web just under the porch eave!!


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Last weekend, I took a walk along the creek that is in the back of our orchard. I hadn't been down there in ages. When I was a child, I used to play there with friends. In the spring, the grass would grow tall along the banks and there was a path that we used to call "the squirrel trail." We let our imaginations run wild and play. In the summer we' ( Read more... )

Monday, Day 6: Sight seeing around Vancouver! Outing to Simon Frasure University (Tolan homeworld), Horizon’s Restaurant (O’Mally’s from the episode "Upgrades"), and Stanley Park.

Breakfast at Tim Horton’s again. Jynjyr joined me for breakfast this morning. We took it to go. When we got to the lobby and I’d unwrapped my breakfast, I discovered I’d ( Read more... )