November 6, 2012

• Election Day

  I voted.  I wish there was a "none of the above" choice.  

  The past 2 days have been very productive at work.  It is the beginning of the 2nd quarter and the teachers are keeping students in the class to learn. As a result, Brenda and I have been doing hearing & vision screenings on 1 or 2 classes of 6th graders every day...and today we hit the half-way mark.  She's subbing at the junior high tomorrow but hopefully we can continue Thurs & Friday.  If we can keep it up, we'll be done before Thanksgiving break. That would be a wonderful accomplishment.

  In order to stay focused and get things ready for Thanksgiving, I made a list of things that need to get done...and my goal is to get 3 of them crossed off the list each day.  Tonight I also baked biscuits and mixed up "molasses butter" to spread on them.  Tomorrow is the First Wednesday Club meeting and we are doing Breakfast for Supper.  I won't have time tomorrow, because right after school I have to get certified on the new AED (Automated External Defibrillator) that is going to be installed at the school.  It will be in the front "lobby" area, which will be visible and accessible.  Several teachers and staff are already certified, and 6 more of us will be after tomorrow. 

  It was another gloomy, damp, gray, cold fall day.  It's supposed to gradually clear off and warm up so we have 50's and maybe even 60's by the weekend.  I'm looking forward to that. The Almanac says Nov 6-11 "Sunny, cool, then mild".  We've got the cool but not the sunny...yet.  The first 5 days were mostly accurate with "showers & mild".  The true test will be the prediction of snow later this month...

  I've been listening to Nancy Sinatra on Spotify.  She has such an expressive voice.  I like her duets with Lee Hazelwood, especially "Summer Wine".  

  Dennis and I were talking about how long could we survive in our current home without electricity or gas.  With the New Madrid fault not too far SE of us, earthquake is a possibility.  Tornado is also possible.  We could get water for washing and flushing toilets from Lake Scioto.  If the water lines weren't broken, we'd have running water from the water towers (assuming the law of gravity still worked) for a while.   We have a kero-sun that could probably keep the kitchen & dining room and the small bathroom under the stairs above freezing.  We have 5 gallons of kerosene--which would last about 5 days.  We have oil lamps and candles.  We aren't very well prepared at all.  It would be hard to last a week during the winter.  We'd have to cook outside on the grill.  During the summer it would be more like camping and we'd last longer. Bottom line--I'm a sissy and want all my modern conveniences. 

   

   

   

   

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