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I ate breakfast at my favorite diner yesterday morning. They have a bunch of Norman Rockwell art on the walls. The one I was facing as I sat in my booth was this one:

It’s called “Family Tree”. It was so interesting. I found a clearer picture online:

Yesterday for handbells, we did lummi sticks. It was so fun! I used my original copy of the words and music from college. It’s like a hundred years old!

This group did a great job with the motion patterns. They even got to the 12-beat pattern. Good job, handbell group!

Side note here – the kids at my current school have found this site. Hi, everybody!

On my desk at school, I have a coffee mug and a water cup. I don’t wash either one of them. The coffee mug is blue, so the “seasoning” doesn’t show up as much as it might on a lighter color. The water cup is black. You would think that water wouldn’t leave any kind of residue behind, but it has. There are hard water deposits on my cup. So interesting…

Beth gave me a LEGO set for Christmas. It’s a chrysanthemum. I put it together yesterday.

It’s so pretty 🙂 There are other flower sets. I think I might be in trouble…

The fires continue to burn. Many schools were closed yesterday because of the smoke. My school was far enough away from things that the air was good enough for being inside. Still, we stayed inside for recess, and only went outside when necessary.

After school, the middle school teachers were meeting, when our phones all went off and displayed this message:

Evacuate? Gather your loved ones? Holy cats! But we were so far away from the fires! Was this real? We all started searching for more information…

About fifteen minutes later, another message came:

And a few minutes later, another:

It was a false alarm. Whew! It reminded me of the missile alert from when I was in Hawaii. I told my co-worker about it, and got a little emotional. I think this false alarm triggered me. How interesting…