Lesson 687: Away

 Good morning, Readers.

It is a windy February morning!

I thought I'd show you how I appear to my students.

I teach virtual enrichment on Fridays 

and I took a shot of myself to see how I appear to them

while we are away from in-person enrichment 

for a little while longer.

I missed my typical Friday night post.

I fell asleep watching this Netflix original--

Away with Hilary Swank.

It's good!

My students and I have been talking about

the successful landing of the Mars rover Perseverance

so I'm into NASA lately.

Below is the NASA released video--

the audio is very clear and it is explained well in 3 minutes.

My favorite part is 3:16 when the NASA astronauts 

burst into cheers and shouts of accomplishment.

I forgot they are distanced, too,

behind plexiglass,

fist and elbow bumping in celebration.

Touchdown Mars! CLICK HERE

We celebrated the arrival of this fat lady--

Grandma spied a 

robin out her window!`

At the beginning of the week,

this was the scene out my window!

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We had ourselves one treacherous driveway!

The ice was thick and shiny

but it wasn't enough to turn the steady stream

of delivery drivers away.

The ice at the school was really pretty yesterday evening.

We walked the dogs for well over an hour.

They love the big snow piles.

We were waiting to pick up Sam

 from his last basketball game

of the season. 

It was away at North East.

The Pickers grape jellied us twice this week.

Sam got to see his friend Willie

who we have now named Hop Along.

His little sister cracks me up.

She has four big brothers,

as big or bigger than this kid!

While walking at the school for Sam,

I realized I forgot my camera

and missed this spectacular moon.

I'm kind of happy with the iPhone shots

because they show the evening sky pastels nicely.

I'm at peace with my forgetfulness

because I got some beauties of her 

in her full glory at night.

I got my 10,000 steps in for the day.

I got the Pacer walking app.

I was using another one that I didn't like that much.

I did all the Zombie's Run and got sick of Zombies after 8 years.

I highly recommend The Walk--and I did that one twice.

This one seems perfect.

I just completed the Grand Canyon route this week.

I'm feeling pretty lucky

writing my last blog post in my 40's decade.

I turn 50 next week

on a midweek-in-suburbia-kind-of-day-

school

bowling

housework

homework.

Seems ho-hum for a zero birthday

but I'm really looking forward to it.

I already have all that I want

I'll end with this image this week.

I think they are singing me a birthday song.

Eloise

Lesson 685: Light at the end of the Tunnel

February greetings from snowy little Harborcreek.

The cold and snow are still hanging around.

 Donkey has had enough.

I dug him out and gave him a pep talk,

February is more than half over.
There is light at the end of the tunnel.

While we are pounding out the back side of winter

we find things to do that we enjoy

even from a spectator's point of view.

There's light at the end of my big book tunnel.

I'm going to finish Pachinko this weekend.

It's a four generation saga.

It's a long, sad story,

but very good.

I'm going to read this one next

and after that,

The Tattooist of Auschwicz

based on friends' recommendations.

I really need to read

How to Stop the Begging Cycle.

You can see I tried that Tik Tok recipe

with the tomatoes and feta.

I used gluten free pasta and added some chicken.

It was very good.
Penny and Hazel approved!

I was on a late night pee session with the pups

and I realized my 50th birthday is in less than two weeks,

on a Wednesday,

during a pandemic.

A year and a half ago I had some more grand plans in mind,

but the 50 year milestone reached in any circumstance

is an accomplishment just the same.

I've decided double number birthdays 

should really be given more attention.

Zero birthdays have become predictable.

I'm looking forward to Double Number Celebrations

of 55

66

77

88

and 99.

I consulted a very official website--

mybirthday.ninja

Click here to find your birthday

Not only do I turn 50 on a Wednesday,

but birthday ninja told me I was born on a Wednesday, too!

What day was my birthday Mar 3, 1971?

March 3, 1971 was a Wednesday and it was the 62nd day of the year 1971. It was the 9th Wednesday of that year. The next time you can reuse your old 1971 calendar will be in 2021. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a lunisolar calendar.

Birthday Ninja also told me that I will be 240 years old in dog years,

and that birthdate in Roman Numerals looks like this:

III.III.MCMLXXI

I did learn that if I was a girl born in 1971 my name could very likely have been Jennifer--the popular girls' name of the year.

Eloise is very happy to let this birthday be in the low key keeping of pandemic style birthdays.  I'll think of something more clever for the Double 5's.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Eloise

Lesson 684: Frosty

   

Hello, Readers.

It's a frosty weekend here at the Lamp Post.

Erieites find homey comfort in the seemingly inhospitable.

Mr. Lamp Post finds his cozy on the couch.

The kids have finished sorting the David Dobrick puzzle.

You scan the code after completion

and you will find out if you won $100,000!

We really enjoyed the Super Bowl this year.

I could have told you by the Pop Luck purchases 

that the Buccaneers would win.

They had the way better mix.

The best one was this one!

No bleachers to clean for this years masketball season.

Natalie gets her exercise every night.
Her artist of choice, as of late ,

is Lady GaGa.

The funny of the week goes to this mask reminder sign.

I accomplished my January diet related goal 

for my commit 30 goal planner

with an 87% B.

It's how I measure progress best--

I convert everything to a letter grade.

 For February I made a different promise to myself, 

in keeping with my word of the year theme.

During the month of love,

I promised the words "I hate..."

would not cross my lips.

I've got to be near perfect the rest of the month

to pull an A.

Eloise spoke some slurs during the first week

while trying to form my new habit of restraint.

The tin foil toothy thing that rips the foil cut my finger,

and I lost the interent in the middle of something I was working on.

Apparently I h@+e those things.

The fewer times you speak hate,

the more room you have to find love.

Many of the Lamp Post readers loved the personality quiz

I posted last week.

I assigned it to my students this week.

If you missed it,

check out My Creative Type CLICK HERE

The results of a short quiz will reveal

your Creative type.

Yes, everyone is creative!

I decided to sort your responses as I would my students.

I used padlet.  
If you are an educator and haven't made use of your free account,

contact me and I'll help you.

There were 8 columns so use the bottom bar to slide horizontally.

Dreamers and Visionaries dominated my responses.

When looking at those columns,

look for a vertical bar to the right of the lists of names.

It's shadowed and hard to see.  

Slide it up and down to see the complete

list of the Readers who are most like me.

Who is the most like you?

Link to the Padlet CLICK HERE

Eloise