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Some of the boys in the eighth grade are in a community flag football league, and they invited me to see a game yesterday after school. It was just down the hill from our campus at a very large public field.
It was fun to watch the game. There are a LOT of rules for flag football.
The boys played well. And they won! Woo hoo! Good job, boys!
There are crows that hang out at my school. I see them picking around the lunch area outside, but I don’t really know what they like to eat. I’ve tried tossing things to them, but they fly away.
On Wednesday, someone had spilled trail mix on the floor outside my classroom. There was a crow in the courtyard, and I threw a peanut to it. It ate it! Then I threw a cashew. It flew away. Dang.
Then yesterday morning when I walked past the pile of trail mix, it looked like this:
Ha! The crows had found it and eaten all the peanuts and cashews, but left the raisins. So I have learned a little bit about what crows eat – not raisins.
Our church had youth group night last night. After I got home, I wanted a snack. I decided on cranberry sauce. I still have some cans left from my bonanza over the summer.
It was delicious and refreshing, and was the perfect thing before going to bed.
Today is a half day because of parent/teacher conferences. I don’t have many conferences, so I hope to get some work done. Wish me luck!
I have been fighting fungus gnats in my houseplants. They’re these tiny flying insects that lay eggs in the soil, then hatch and eat fungus, then grow into more tiny flying insects. They are completely harmless, but really annoying.
I had previously gotten some sticky traps. They sort of worked, but not really.
Then I read about nematodes. Nematodes are tiny creatures that also live in the soil and eat the fungus gnat younglings. The gnat cycle is broken, and the gnats disappear. I ordered some.
They were in a pouch and looked like powder
I mixed them with a gallon of water, then transferred them to my watering can and watered all my houseplants.
It worked! I can’t believe it! I have NO fungus gnats! Good job, nematodes!
There was another partial eclipse here yesterday. The last one was in October. The October one was on a Saturday. This time, it was a school day. All the kids had eclipse glasses, and we went out at the height of our coverage, which was only about maybe a third(?) of the sun.
I took a picture like last time, and like last time, you can’t see the actual eclipse, but you can see the shape in the lens “ghost”.
Here’s a zoomed in image:
I kept telling the kids they should remember the day. The next eclipse that touches North America is twenty years from now.
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Now that’s what we old folks call Common Sense Football – good for them!! None of that “wear 40 lbs of gear and run headlong into the opponent, rendering him unconscious” nonsense. š
You are a good teacher, and Iām impressed that you went. It actually looks chilly there!