I'm currently teaching
The Canterbury Tales
in Eng. IV Honors.
The seniors are actually
surprised to find out that
human nature is
basically the same now
as it was back in
the Middle Ages!

one of our favorite places to eat....

and favorite things to get....

FRIED GREEN TOMATOES!!!

...and the last was about 15 minutes. Then I had to get ready for work and cut the apron strings!

Found another monarch cocoon and brought it inside overnight. Before I could get another picture of it, the next
morning it was already translucent and changing before my eyes. By the time I got my camera it was as in the
first picture. The time that elapsed between this first shot.....

1. judy & deb as divas 2. little cuties plus snowgeisha
3. too sexy for our shirts

Judy...

looking

like

both

of her

twins,

Carson

and

Brady!

"Pop Pop"

(Raymond W.)

Betty & Kathleen

Tried to upload the spring concert where Ben played
sax, but my computer is eight years old, and it was
taking over an a hour and half before I gave up and
went to bed! I'll try again when I have more time to
dedicate to it...although the memory on my digital
camera ran out before he did his actual solo piece. ha
Now for a quote I ran across: "Paradise is here or
nowhere: You must take your joy with you, or you
will never find it." O.S. Marden

Our school website is updated now, by a colleague of mine and mother of one of my students. The student used to go to school with Ben, but a year behind. An interesting note that was recently brought to my attention by Karen B. is that Ben's English teacher used to go to high school with Erika, and that she lived next door to Grandpa and Grandma in Schroon Lake! As the cliche` goes, it's a small world! Another thing I will "admit" is that Ben's soccer team played the school in Ft. Meyers last week where Diane teaches and her girls go to. (Ben's team lost :-( that's why I "admitted" it.) Anyway, at my school we are done with final exams, and I have only one student who has to make up the final next week out of 151 students. Two recently left to attend the private school that Ben goes to.

Some views of my classroom. I have 28 desks and 30 Honors students in some of the classes! I had to add 4 extra computers for the Intensive Reading classes. Some of the work on the walls (including the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) reflects books that the students read for their Independent Reading project. Christmas decorations have been taken down now, and we'll be wrapping up the first semester, and preparing for final exams. Julius Caesar season is almost done, and next we'll read The Count of Monte Cristo and Fahrenheit 451.

my angel wing begonia...grew from a slip Mother gave me last time I was up with them

HAPPY

NEW

YEAR!

*2008*

Changing horses in the middle of a stream
Gets you wet and sometimes cold
Changing faces in the middle of a dream
Gets you old
Oh, gets you old.
Looking farther than you'll ever hope to see
Takes you places you don't know
Search for someone you can't ever hope to be
And still you go, Oh, still you go.
Don't you think it's kind of sad to say,
Don't you think it's gonna change?
Makes you think you'll have to stay inside
For a while.
Changing horses in the middle of a stream
Gets you wet and sometimes cold
Changing faces in the middle of a dream
Gets you old. ~Dan Fogelberg (Died: 12/16/07)

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Every appearance in nature corresponds to some
state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only
be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

ben in forward position with a

show, followed by a pass on

the carpet

Happy Birthday to Deb, Jude, & Gin! (Remembering our wonderful Maine days...)

sweet little snake on cactus (baby southern black racer--good to have in your garden)

brown widow spider

outside my door ,

behind watering can