After quizzing each student for possible allergies, many of my students got their first taste of fruit cake.
This was a very rich "heavy" fruit cake with candied cherries and pineapple and a little lime for the fruit. Many pecans and walnuts were in the body of the cake. It was sweet. I bought two for 9 dollars each.. my nuts have gone up in price.
It was a good day overall. I helped them storyboard back from the ending of the movie. For each block there was a "why" and then a "what happened next". I hope that they give me some good writing on Wednesday.
Sue won a bid on 14 readers digest condensed books. 14 for 7 dollars plus 9 dollars shipping. Bring it on E-bay. What an invention.
We actually saw the sun today.. for about 3 hours.. how delightful. Hopefully there will be enough light to work the security gates at the school. I am always parked on the outside since my arrival is about 11:30 each day.
Have a good one
Pat
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Fruit Cake
One of things that the character Will did in the movie. Iron Will was survive on his mother's fruitcake.
This was kind of a wonder to my students because they did not know what fruitcake is. So tomorrow I have bought a couple of small loaves of fruitcake to share with the students that would like to try it.
Will used fruitcake so that he would not have to carry so much on his winter journey. He did not have to stop and make a fire and all of the stuff that goes with winter survival and cooking for yourself in the winter.
Just like the real thing sometimes sugar bound proteins "pooh out" and don't give you the endurance that you would like. So true with Will. Near the end he has nothing more to give and almost loses the race. Thank goodness for that leader dog, Gus.. to pull him through.
A small loaf of fruit cake is on sale at Raley's for 9.99. This loaf is about the size of your hand in length and about three inches tall. I guess the price of nuts has really gone up when I wasn't looking. Let alone candied fruit.
The Italian panitone is less expensive and have more bread with it. Every time I eat it I think of having lunch at the off ramp restaurant in Italy on the road to Orvieto. Francisco was driving and we had a scoop or two of lasagna and the restaurant was passing out free panatone to each customer. It was fresh and delightful. The lasagna was really good too.
Happy thoughts
Pat
This was kind of a wonder to my students because they did not know what fruitcake is. So tomorrow I have bought a couple of small loaves of fruitcake to share with the students that would like to try it.
Will used fruitcake so that he would not have to carry so much on his winter journey. He did not have to stop and make a fire and all of the stuff that goes with winter survival and cooking for yourself in the winter.
Just like the real thing sometimes sugar bound proteins "pooh out" and don't give you the endurance that you would like. So true with Will. Near the end he has nothing more to give and almost loses the race. Thank goodness for that leader dog, Gus.. to pull him through.
A small loaf of fruit cake is on sale at Raley's for 9.99. This loaf is about the size of your hand in length and about three inches tall. I guess the price of nuts has really gone up when I wasn't looking. Let alone candied fruit.
The Italian panitone is less expensive and have more bread with it. Every time I eat it I think of having lunch at the off ramp restaurant in Italy on the road to Orvieto. Francisco was driving and we had a scoop or two of lasagna and the restaurant was passing out free panatone to each customer. It was fresh and delightful. The lasagna was really good too.
Happy thoughts
Pat
Disney's Iron Will
Today we are finishing up a movie started a week ago.
It is captivating the classroom audience. One of the paras that helps one of the students in my class was particularly interested in me finishing up this movie today.
She is going to be gone tomorrow and certainly wants to know what happened. One of my students thought about not coming today.. but remembered that we were finishing up the movie and decided to come.. there you go
Its one of those classics that was created by Disney in 1994. It stars Mr. Kevin Spacey, the same actor that plays the teacher in the last class movie, "Pay it Forward." In this movie he plays the reporter reporting on a dog sled race in 1917 from Winnipeg, Canada, to St. Paul Minnesota. This is a distance of over 500 miles.
There is some dramatic action sequences which results in some situations. Some critics on line call it a sappy Disney melodrama.. but it introduces students to a different way of life in a different era than there own. It promotes some good "stick to it" kind of morals and the hero barely wins at the end.
There are lots of things to talk about in this movie, so there is plenty to stimulate predictive thinking and choices to be made. Most adults that have seen this movie walk away pretty uplifted. The students love the dogs. The are fascinated by the big white dog that is the dog leader,Gus. He was his dad's dog, and has first loyalty to Will's dad who dies unceremoniously at the beginning of the movie. Will must then overcome his fear of the frozen river that took his father. He finally does this in the final scenes of the movie.
There are many scenes of the rich following the race from the comforts of the train. There is some attempted bribery. Will hangs tough with his principles.
Will initally is in to get money to go to college and pay off the debt on his family farm. The prize for winning is 10,000 dollars. In the process he helps others and learns to keep a straight keel and in the end wins.
So tomorrow its fruitcake to try, and hopefully a look at my experience with sled dogs in Alaska. We will also talk about what they may write about on Wednesday.. writing day of course.
Finals for the first semester are next week.
Love
Pat
It is captivating the classroom audience. One of the paras that helps one of the students in my class was particularly interested in me finishing up this movie today.
She is going to be gone tomorrow and certainly wants to know what happened. One of my students thought about not coming today.. but remembered that we were finishing up the movie and decided to come.. there you go
Its one of those classics that was created by Disney in 1994. It stars Mr. Kevin Spacey, the same actor that plays the teacher in the last class movie, "Pay it Forward." In this movie he plays the reporter reporting on a dog sled race in 1917 from Winnipeg, Canada, to St. Paul Minnesota. This is a distance of over 500 miles.
There is some dramatic action sequences which results in some situations. Some critics on line call it a sappy Disney melodrama.. but it introduces students to a different way of life in a different era than there own. It promotes some good "stick to it" kind of morals and the hero barely wins at the end.
There are lots of things to talk about in this movie, so there is plenty to stimulate predictive thinking and choices to be made. Most adults that have seen this movie walk away pretty uplifted. The students love the dogs. The are fascinated by the big white dog that is the dog leader,Gus. He was his dad's dog, and has first loyalty to Will's dad who dies unceremoniously at the beginning of the movie. Will must then overcome his fear of the frozen river that took his father. He finally does this in the final scenes of the movie.
There are many scenes of the rich following the race from the comforts of the train. There is some attempted bribery. Will hangs tough with his principles.
Will initally is in to get money to go to college and pay off the debt on his family farm. The prize for winning is 10,000 dollars. In the process he helps others and learns to keep a straight keel and in the end wins.
So tomorrow its fruitcake to try, and hopefully a look at my experience with sled dogs in Alaska. We will also talk about what they may write about on Wednesday.. writing day of course.
Finals for the first semester are next week.
Love
Pat
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Saga of Lost Keys
The keys to our little Escape have been lost.. or rather the one key that we have for our little Escape has been lost for more than three months.
I had some serious fears that I had left them outside on the chair lift and that we had driven away and they were living a comfortable life in Timbuktu or Dos Palos.
But no, they were found yesterday, sadly in a chair that I usually sit upon. In the night, the cats had pulled the seat cushion away from the seat I normally sit upon and son of a gun, the keys were there exposed on the side of the chair.
We had scoured the house. We had offered 100 dollar finder fees but no keys were found.
Finally I had the car towed to the Ford dealer, using my trusty AAA. They told me that it would not be a big problem and the issue could be solved in a day.
WEll.. no
The vin numbers did not match the lock. So the locksmith had to be called to make tumblers that worked.
WEll..
The ignition column had to be removed and housings had to be replaced as well as any other keyed part of the car.
6 hours of labor later.. they are only going to charge me for 2, The car is fixed with new keys...
And then I found the old ones..
Sometimes the only luck you get is bad luck.
The internal optimist in me says.. you didn't have to replace the other keys that were on the ring.. so that is good.
Oh well..
Pat
I had some serious fears that I had left them outside on the chair lift and that we had driven away and they were living a comfortable life in Timbuktu or Dos Palos.
But no, they were found yesterday, sadly in a chair that I usually sit upon. In the night, the cats had pulled the seat cushion away from the seat I normally sit upon and son of a gun, the keys were there exposed on the side of the chair.
We had scoured the house. We had offered 100 dollar finder fees but no keys were found.
Finally I had the car towed to the Ford dealer, using my trusty AAA. They told me that it would not be a big problem and the issue could be solved in a day.
WEll.. no
The vin numbers did not match the lock. So the locksmith had to be called to make tumblers that worked.
WEll..
The ignition column had to be removed and housings had to be replaced as well as any other keyed part of the car.
6 hours of labor later.. they are only going to charge me for 2, The car is fixed with new keys...
And then I found the old ones..
Sometimes the only luck you get is bad luck.
The internal optimist in me says.. you didn't have to replace the other keys that were on the ring.. so that is good.
Oh well..
Pat
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Poor Oakland
Tonight the Oakland Raiders played on the NFL network.
The NFL network broadcasts games that are played on Thursday night. So with
games on Sunday, Fox and CBS, Sunday night on NBC, Monday ESPN and Thursday night NFL network it would seem that there is plenty of NFL on TV. More than enough if you are asking my mom.
It seems that if you don't have cable or a satellite connection you could be missing out on some really important games.. well no..
The Oakland Raiders are showing what a dysfunctional family they are. They only scored a touchdown on a run back. Their number one draft pick of a couple years ago is throwing interceptions and in the 3rd quarter twisted his ankle and is out for the game.
The team the Raiders are playing, the San Diego Charges have only one 4 games this year. They look like a tier one team. Sure, the aren't running down the field in wild abandon, but they are consistently scoring on their hapless California brothers from up north,
So goes the NFL on this Thursday night.
Pat
The NFL network broadcasts games that are played on Thursday night. So with
games on Sunday, Fox and CBS, Sunday night on NBC, Monday ESPN and Thursday night NFL network it would seem that there is plenty of NFL on TV. More than enough if you are asking my mom.
It seems that if you don't have cable or a satellite connection you could be missing out on some really important games.. well no..
The Oakland Raiders are showing what a dysfunctional family they are. They only scored a touchdown on a run back. Their number one draft pick of a couple years ago is throwing interceptions and in the 3rd quarter twisted his ankle and is out for the game.
The team the Raiders are playing, the San Diego Charges have only one 4 games this year. They look like a tier one team. Sure, the aren't running down the field in wild abandon, but they are consistently scoring on their hapless California brothers from up north,
So goes the NFL on this Thursday night.
Pat
Sick Doctor
What happens when your doctor gets sick?
If you in Kaiser..not much.. they are replaced by doctors who are not sick.
If your doctor is in private practice.. the office shuts down and you can forget getting drug refills or authorizations.
So what is the economic costs of a day of no billing? A doctor let slip to one of my friends.. 4000 dollars.
We have a doctor that was sick this week when Sue needed a "patch" refill. Luckily she had an out of date refill on one of her patches that game her three day grace period.
Pretty serious.
Tonight I am going down to pick up the refill for the month. I always check to see that they have the medication on their shelves before I leave the pharmacy. Sometimes they don't and I have to take the paper to the cross town pharmacy and hope they have it on the shelf. Its one of those triplicate meds. The patient must request it nearly the same time that it is due. Then the pharmacist must fill it and it must be picked up right a way.
So today I did the delicate dance to get this to happen.
Have a good one
Pat
If you in Kaiser..not much.. they are replaced by doctors who are not sick.
If your doctor is in private practice.. the office shuts down and you can forget getting drug refills or authorizations.
So what is the economic costs of a day of no billing? A doctor let slip to one of my friends.. 4000 dollars.
We have a doctor that was sick this week when Sue needed a "patch" refill. Luckily she had an out of date refill on one of her patches that game her three day grace period.
Pretty serious.
Tonight I am going down to pick up the refill for the month. I always check to see that they have the medication on their shelves before I leave the pharmacy. Sometimes they don't and I have to take the paper to the cross town pharmacy and hope they have it on the shelf. Its one of those triplicate meds. The patient must request it nearly the same time that it is due. Then the pharmacist must fill it and it must be picked up right a way.
So today I did the delicate dance to get this to happen.
Have a good one
Pat
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Fog Fog and More Fog
Fog has hit the valley,
In town our travel is not impeded however. The heat of the city allows for clearer drives.
I have started to prune the trees. The trees in the front (my front orchard) is now 8 years old and in the prime of its bearing. I have a few trees that were planted later that are yet to produce.
It was colder yesterday than today. The fog belt seems to get cooler as the day wears on. It certainly makes for a darker day overall. These are the days that drive the Colorado folks crazy.
One time when Lin and Candy stayed with us for a couple of weeks there were only 6 hours of visible sun.
At least it isn't bitterly cold or even cold by East coast standards. You would not go to work with just a fleece in Colorado either. I had a nice walk today with just a fleece jacket.
Today is the second day that I have yard duty. I will only have it once this year. So I am off to school.
Have a great day!
Pat
In town our travel is not impeded however. The heat of the city allows for clearer drives.
I have started to prune the trees. The trees in the front (my front orchard) is now 8 years old and in the prime of its bearing. I have a few trees that were planted later that are yet to produce.
It was colder yesterday than today. The fog belt seems to get cooler as the day wears on. It certainly makes for a darker day overall. These are the days that drive the Colorado folks crazy.
One time when Lin and Candy stayed with us for a couple of weeks there were only 6 hours of visible sun.
At least it isn't bitterly cold or even cold by East coast standards. You would not go to work with just a fleece in Colorado either. I had a nice walk today with just a fleece jacket.
Today is the second day that I have yard duty. I will only have it once this year. So I am off to school.
Have a great day!
Pat
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