Convection Oven Hot

It’s been pretty dang-durned hot the past couple of days. Ah, but it’s a dry heat. They used to say that when I lived in Arizona, too. I would always kind of laugh it off until I lived in Chicago and realized that it really is a dry heat here. There is nothing in the [...]

GRADEGATE KEEPS THE WEEK BUSY

My, my, my it’s been a busy week. I actually have the weekend off (the training manager is off and had a wedding to go to so she, no doubt, didn’t know what to do with me… we both win) and plan on finishing up a few gardening items. We’ve got baby gourd plants coming [...]

Who ARE you?

“I’ll have an iced, tall, vanilla, non-fat, mocha latte’”
Mmm…. K. I have to get the right cup (clear for iced and small for tall!), write in V, NF, and M on the cup. Then I have to remember how many “pumps” of vanilla, how many “pumps” of mocha, remember how many espresso shots to pour [...]

New Acronyms

I started the new job.
Things went well.
I have about 1700 new acronyms to learn.
Advice I should have listened to:
“Maybe you shouldn’t wear new shoes on your first day.”
Advice I’m listening to today:
“Wear thinner socks.”
Moleskin is a beautiful thing.

Father’s Day Distractions

  
 
 
That’s what we’ve been doing: distracting. Sure, we’ve talked about it and tried to reassure but what more can we do short of pretending? And we ain’t goin’ there… We do not pretend and we do not make excuses for someone else’s behaviors. We do not bad mouth their father. There’s no need to; the [...]

Penny

I have a short series of writings about my experiences with my first horse, Penny. Here’s the first in the series:
Penny
The drive along Price Canyon Road was dark and foggy at 4:30 in the morning. I headed toward Arroyo Grande but decided instead to take the back way off winding roads lined with stunted [...]

Atta Girl!

It’s no secret that I have a love for animals. I’ve got two bird-brained-dogs that keep me constantly amused. Not only are they goofy but I just love how excited they are when we all wake up in the morning. They act as if they haven’t seen us for days and jump around and lickity-lick-lick [...]

APS kinda creeps up onya

So, I keep ranting and carrying on about APS and the Board of Education on this blog and, well, if you don’t live here, although there’s lots of appalling and anecdotal blog-fodder, it’s just not very interesting to my more worldly blog readers. (All 14 of you.)
So, once again, I’ve created a blog solely about [...]

Well, Blow Me… Down

I was going to put in sod today. Fohgeddaboudit!
I was going to go to Wal-Mart today. Oh, hell no!
I was going to rake the dead grass out of the front yard, throw down some top soil and re-seed. Uh-uh. No way.
I am going to go to the Board of Education meeting because, well, I am [...]

Hang on, Teach…

Check out this news video from our local, KRQE TV station. I’ve been steaming about this for a couple of days now. When I heard this and then watched reporter Jessica Garate’s report, I just could not believe what was being said by Renee Rivera, a middle school teacher chaperone for New Mexico M.E.S.A. (Math, [...]