It was a late day at school because of Youth Group Night. I was tired when I got home. I sat on the couch and ate some pork rinds.
And then I went to bed.
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A while back, I got some plastic screening that is meant for outside applications, but I put one in the window. I’ve found a new use for another one:
It makes a great door blocker. Bruno won’t go over it or through it, so I can have the sliding door open, and there’s no risk of him running out. Nice!
My school is celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week this week. Someone had me fill out a paper that listed my favorites. It was fun. One of the questions was: “Favorite sports team?” Ha! It made me chuckle. I don’t really watch sports at all, so my answer was: “Star Wars”.
I think they tell the kids to bring a specific something each day. Today was “bring flowers” day. A bunch of kids brought me one stem each. One even brought my favorite: oriental lilies. By the time school started, I had a beautiful bouquet. AND a whole potted orchid! It was so sweet.
Yesterday was a Grading Day, so there isn’t much to say about that, except it was very sad. But I did finish, so that’s good.
I went grocery shopping in the evening. and saw a new Ice Breakers mints flavor. It’s called “sparkling”, and is “raspberry lemon seltzer” flavor. The raspberry lemon part was ok. The seltzer part was weird. It wasn’t a flavor, it was a… feeling? It sort of stung and burned my tongue. Did I like it? I’m not sure. It certainly was interesting though.
It was a Home Improvement Day yesterday. I figured out how to work around the weird metal box thingy in my kitchen ceiling, and now I have a light over the sink! Woo hoo! I predicted it would be a three-trips-to-Lowe’s project. It was only two!
I’ve had a new ceiling fan for… weeks? …months? The old fan in one of my bedrooms had stopped working properly – no light at all, and a fussy fan.
The new fan was a tricky installation as well. Two more trips to Lowe’s, and the fan was up. There’s light in the bedroom again!
The only drawback is that the new fan doesn’t have pull chains, it has a remote. The old fan used wooden pull-knobs I got in Wales. I’ve connected them to each other for now. Maybe I’ll hang them from the rear-view mirror of my car…
After I read this, I was curious…so I read this: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-are-pork-rinds/
I was pulled into the section on how they are made; more complicated than I would have thought. And no, my butcher father never offered these in the store.
Yeah. That’s a loooooooooong day. I respect your decision and hope that today is just a regular day. No – better than a regular day!
I purchased a big ol’ container of BBQ pork rinds a couple weeks ago, and gave them to middle schoolers. Many kids had never tried a pork rind. It was very interesting for the class and I to watch the reactions. I told them of my first experiences watching rinds being made at Silver Dollar City. A few of the kids visibly blanched when they found out what they had eaten. It was entertaining.
I saw them being made in Silver Dollar City too! I had eaten them before, but I think it was the first time I realized what they were made of.