Let’s see, where to start? My digital camera isn’t working; it thinks it’s still hooked up to the computer. I may have to use my cell phone for a photo, so you can see my back fence. The fence is wooden like the gate here:
But it doesn’t have the metal stays. It had a piece of wood toward the top and toward the bottom. But there were chunks missing. So I get home yesterday to find a note on my door saying that when they were pulling the neighbor’s fence down to fix it, mine came down too. They’d put it back up today. In the meantime, everything I have in the yard is vulnerable. But hey, they’ll fix the fence, right?
I REALLY have to get a photo. They put up three metal poles. Great start. I get home and there are two wooden sideways beams. Cool. AND THEN THEY ATTACHED THE CRAPPY OLD FENCE TO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! What the heck?? Now it just looks stupid!
In other news, Monday and Wednesday were both dentist days. Monday began my root canal. “Began” because part of the root tried to close itself, so the dentist could only get so far. He put meds in it to open them back up. Did I care? Not so much. I was busy inhaling nitrous oxide. Great stuff! My last two dentists didn’t use it. 
So when they offered on Monday, my answer was “of course!”
Today was a cleaning. My dental hygienist reminded me of my sister-in-law Lisa! She was really nice and a lot of fun. I’m not fond of actually going to the dentist’s office, but that place is really awesome! And today they gave me headphones and tuned a radio to the station of my choice. That helped offset the fact that my mouth was being poked and scraped.
Wednesday I went to the folks’ for Jaeden’s birthday party. He’s three now! Time sure flies! He’s into trucks, especially from the movie Cars. He loves blowing out birthday candles and got to do that a few times! But my camera doesn’t work, so we’ll have to wait until Dottie gets her pictures developed.
Apparently I’m keeping all 27 students. There was talk of moving some to some of the teachers who have only 20, but apparently the office has been getting a lot of requests to move students, so the principal decided no one moves, period. On the plus side, Monday starts SFA (the reading program where the students go to the class that matches their reading level). This means we will get a break from each other, because only one of my students is in my class. My reading group will be 4th and 5th graders who are in level 3.1 (first half of third grade).
In my group for my university class, it’s my job to submit group assignments. We had one due Sunday, but I submitted it Saturday. So on Tuesday we get a note saying that since it hasn’t been turned in yet it’ll be a 20% penalty! WHAT???? So I write back that I submitted it on Saturday, and also put a note in the group forum since they all got the same message. Then I took a screen shot of my personal forum that shows it was submitted on time, and sent that to both the group and the teacher. But I still haven’t heard back yet. I was not happy to get that message yesterday, though, as you can imagine!
I have not been able to swim in my pool since I got back from Wisconsin. It’s been closed because of some nastiness in the water. They tried to clean it a couple of times, but mostly by dumping chemicals in, not by anything else like scrubbing. So this week they simply emptied the pool. It looks like they did clean it before they started refilling it this time.
Oh — today when they said that the temp was currently 100 degrees, it was just like “oh, that’s nice.” No big deal. Summer number two back in the Old Pueblo — and 100 is just a number!
