1 Comment Socialize This! View blog reactionsA retired member of the U.S. military aged about 70 put suspect Warner Segura in a head lock and broke his clavicle after the 20-year-old and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus, Luis Hernandez, the police chief of Limon, 80 miles east of San Jose, said Thursday. Segura was later declared dead, apparently from asphyxiation.
The two other men fled when the 12 senior citizens started defending themselves during the Wednesday attack. Afterward, the tourists drove Segura to the Red Cross where he was declared dead. The Red Cross also treated one of the tourists for an anxiety attack, Hernandez said.
The tourists left on their Carnival cruise ship after the incident and Hernandez said authorities do not plan to press any charges against them.
“They were in their right to defend themselves after being held up,” he said.
Hernandez said Segura had previous charges against him for assaults.
In a media statement, Miami, Fla.-based Carnival Cruise Lines said the Wednesday incident occurred during an outing at a Limon beach which a group of a dozen passengers had arranged on their own.
“According to witnesses, while sightseeing at a local beach, the group of guests were approached by three assailants, one of whom was armed,” the statement said.
“The victims struggled with the armed perpetrator, and were able to disarm him. During this process, the gunman’s two accomplices fled the scene. In the course of disarming and restraining the assailant, he died from apparent asphyxiation.”
Neither the Costa Rican police nor Carnival identified the man involved in the struggle with the mugger.
The cruise line said the guests were questioned by local law enforcement and then returned to the ship. The ship’s departure from Limon was slightly delayed to await their return.
“All of the guests involved, who had booked the cruise together as a group, have opted to continue with their vacation plans. Carnival is providing full support and assistance to the guests,” according to the statement.
The ship, The Carnival Liberty, continued on its scheduled itinerary, with a port call scheduled in Colon, Panama.
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Don’t mess with us senior citizens! 70-year old kills armed mugger with bare hands
Published by February 23rd, 2007 in Headlines/Current Events.Nashville Star - Angela Hacker? Zac Hacker? David St. Romaine?
Published by February 22nd, 2007 in Television/Movies.
Who should win Nashville Star this season? I have to say that Zac Hacker should win based on his original song. “If I Wasn’t For The Whiskey - Daddy Would Have Been a Good Man.” What an incredible song! He’s got a raspy voice and he put his whole soul into his singing. David has a nice voice. He sings well, but he just doesn’t have that unique quality that makes a star. Angela may win - she has a great voice AND a unique voice. However, my money is on Zac.
Appetizer
Where on your body do you have a scar, and what caused it?
On my nose where I fainted and fell face first onto a concrete floor about 8 years ago. It didn’t break my nose, amazingly enough, but I got a bad cut on the bridge of my hose - and the scar is still there.
Soup
What is something that has happened to you that you would consider a miracle?
Two pregnancies resulting in two healthy babies. And now those two healthy babies are two healthy and well-adjusted adults. In today’s world, that’s a miracle.
Salad
Name a television personality who really gets on your nerves.
Soledad O’Brien. She’s just plain annoying. I have no clue how she got that job because she is awful at it. I also have no clue how she keeps that job. I would never watch her, but RT loves CNN, and so I’m stuck with her when RT has the remote.
Main Course
What was a funny word you said as a child (such as “pasketti” for “spaghetti”)?
Other than calling “afgans” “Africans”, I can’t think of any.
Dessert
Fill in the blank: I have always thought _______ was ______.
I have always thought that dancing was the best way to get me in a good mood.
9 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsThe “Lost Boys” of the Warren Jeffs Cult of Mormons
Published by February 22nd, 2007 in Religion and Headlines/Current Events.The Warren Jeffs’ story that has been in the news off and on lately gets stranger. Apparently young girls weren’t the only ones who were treated as objects to be used, abused and disposed of by the sicko leaders. Now we have 18-year old Johnny Jessop suing Jeffs for information about Jessop’s mother. There are a lot of sick adults in the world, and they seem driven to draw children into their worlds of darkness.
SALT LAKE CITY (Feb. 21) - Saying he was
kicked out of his home and his fundamentalist church, an 18-year-old man sued Tuesday to force polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to help him reconnect with his family.
Attorneys for Johnny Jessop, 18, asked a state judge to order Jeffs, head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to tell Jessop how to find his 62-year-old mother, Elsie. Jessop has not spoken to his mother in more than 18 months, attorney Roger Hoole said.
Jessop is among what may be dozens of so-called “Lost Boys” who say they were kicked out of the FLDS church in the past four years by Jeffs for being disobedient or because they were seen as competition to older men seeking young brides.
The FLDS practices polygamy and arranged marriages. The faith has an estimated 10,000 members, mostly in the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. Jessop grew up in Hildale, Hoole said.
FLDS members consider themselves “fundamentalist Mormons,” although the mainstream church disavows any connection. They also consider Jeffs a prophet of God with dominion over their salvation.
Jeffs, 51, is in jail on two felony counts of rape as an accomplice for his suspected role in a 2001 marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her older cousin. On the run for nearly two years, Jeffs was arrested last year in a traffic stop in Nevada.
He has led the church since 2004, and dissidents describe him as a heartless ruler who has fractured dozens of families, sending fathers and husbands away and reassigning their wives and children to other men.
Now living in Salt Lake, Jessop was forced out of his family five years ago, Hoole said. Essentially homeless, the youth ran into some minor legal trouble and was ordered several times by courts to return home.
Under threat of church punishment, though, his family turned him away, and Jessop ended up in Salt Lake City as a ward of a nonprofit organization that helps boys who say they were pushed out of the church, Hoole said.
For several years, Jessop maintained telephone contact with his mother, but that ended nearly two years ago, Hoole said.
Jessop believes that Jeffs ordered his mother to cut ties with him and that the leader knows where Jessop can find his mother, Hoole said. The young man says that he has written two letter to Jeffs, begging him to allow the family to reconnect, but that Jeffs has not responded.
Jeffs’ attorney Wally Bugden also has not responded to requests for help, Hoole said.
A message left by The Associated Press after business hours at Bugden’s office was not immediately returned Tuesday.
“The child/parent relationship is a protected relationship under the law,” said Hoole. “We need a court order that will force Warren Jeffs to tell Johnny where Elsie is. Then the lawsuit can go away.”
It was unclear whether Jessop might have sought help from other authorities in finding his mother.
Jessop is not seeking damages, Hoole said. No court date has been set.
Jessop tells us that he was “kicked out” of the Jeffs’ group 5 years ago. That means he was only 13 years old at the time. A child. Whether he was kicked out for misbehavior or because Jeffs saw boys his age as “threats” to his acquisition of the young girls as wives for older men, it is simply WRONG.
However, Jessop’s mother is also WRONG. What mother would kick out her own son because some whack-job like Jeffs told her to? Just looking at a photo of the man is enough to give me the heebie-jeebies. And where is Jessop’s father?
It seems that anybody can come up with any kind of perversion, call it a religion, and there are people who will join in. There are way too many sheep in this world - blindly following whoever has their attention at the moment.
2 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsThursday Thirteen - Edition #48 - Thirteen Things I’d Like to Write in the Sand & a Quotation for Each
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Thursday Thirteen and Quotes.
Thirteen Things I’d Like To Write in the Sand
Once when I was getting over a heartbreak I went to the beach for a few days by myself, and I wrote the name of the person who had broken my heart in the sand. Then I watched as the waves washed away the letters - symbolically washing that experience from my mind. I liked the symbolism of it. So this week I have listed thirteen things I’d like to write in the sand and then have the waves wash them away. I’ve also included quotes about each hurtful habit or attitude.
(1) Unkindness (Be kind to unkind people — they need it the most. ~anonymous)
(2) War (War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice — is often the means of their regeneration. ~Mill, John Stuart)
(3) Selfishness (Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out. ~Richardson, Nick)
(4) Foolish Pride (The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. ~Proverb)
(5) Gluttony (Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet. ~Burton)
(6) Regret (A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~ Barrymore, John)
(7) Worry (Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson)
(8) Impatience (A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. ~Burke, Edmund)
(9) Unloving attitude (Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. ~Chesterton, Gilbert K.)
(10) Terrorism (In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God. ~James Agee)
(11) Disorganization (The fact is, the old clichés work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clichés are clean and tidy. ~Hugh Macleod)
(12) Clutter (Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow. ~Og Mandino)
(13) Superficiality (Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. ~Edward Chapin)
24 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsAccording to this story, a poor patient who was in the operating room for an appendectomy was left mid-surgery while his surgeon and another doctor duked it out:
BELGRADE (Feb. 21) - A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theater to settle their dispute outside, the daily Politika reported Wednesday.
Surgeon Spasoje Radulovic was operating when his colleague Dragan Vukanic entered and made a remark that started a quarrel, said the anesthesiologist on duty.
“At one moment Vukanic pulled the ear of the operating doctor, slapped him in the face and walked out,” she said.
Radulovic followed and an all-out fight ensued, resulting in bruises, a split lip, loose teeth and a fractured finger.
The operation was completed successfully by the attending assistant doctor.
This is one case where I would be 100% behind a medical lawsuit. How ridiculous!
1 Comment Socialize This! View blog reactionsAsh Wednesday - Giving Up Something For Lent
Published by February 20th, 2007 in That's My Life and Religion.February 21st is Ash Wednesday. It begins the season of Lent - the 40 days preceding Jesus’ crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. I found a website that offered some good information about Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent.
We don’t know much about how the first-century Christians treated the forty days before Resurrection Sunday. But by the second century, the church was starting to use that season as a time for training new believers about how to rightly think, live, and believe as Christians. . . . This was done, in part, by reliving the Scriptural accounts of Christ’s final time before He was killed. It was done with the whole church community as they, too, relived it. The end of that period was Holy Week, and Easter would be the day that the new believers would be baptized into the Church. As the Roman world became mostly Christian and more people had already been baptized as children, the season . . . began to take on a different meaning, one that would be of great value for new and long-time Christians alike. It would become a time for looking at the depth of one’s own sin, and turning away from them. A time for learning what it means to follow Christ, and to listen to the Spirit. A time for actually going about changing one’s ways to be more as Christ would have them be. . . .
And for that reason many Christians decide to “give up” something for the 40 days of Lent. I remember once - probably about 20 years ago - when I was very much addicted to the soap opera “All My Children”, I gave up the show for forty days. After Easter, when I finally watched the show again, the storyline had moved forward very little. It wasn’t too much longer before I gave up watching it entirely. I learned quickly through my 40 days of going without it - just how little substance there was to it.
When we deny ourselves things we enjoy, we strenghten our own will so we do not become slaves to the things we like. This exercise helps strengthen us spiritually. It makes us sacrifice. By giving up something that isn’t sinful helps us give up things or not do things that are. It also helps us to keep our priorties straight.
Most of what is done and learned in Lent is true for the rest of the year, too, but with a different feel. Most people couldn’t even dream of keeping their intense focus all year on what Jesus did and what we’re to do with that. Forty days is long enough not to be short-term, but too short to be thought of as a substitute for year-round Christian living. A short burst, such as forty days, can go a long way. But only for those who make some hard decisions.
Lent starts on Ash Wednesday (in 2007, that’s 21 February). The tone of worship and church life changes starting with the worship services of that day, all the way to Palm Sunday, and then again to Easter. Gone are exuberant praise (even “Glory!” and “Alleluia”), loud music, and sermons about joy, pride, politics, authority, evangelism, fund-raising, or building programs. The feeling is subdued, with a pensive hush, in awe of God, in sharp awareness of how each of us — and all of us together — are not as God calls us to be, and because of that, will eventually die. We are not masters of our lives but are instead subject to the tides of life and are thus much less than God. It’s good practice to wear simple clothing in subdued colors and grays, without frills or jewelry (though perhaps we should resist going over-the-top, such as going to Sunday services wearing the real clothing of Lent : ash-covered sackcloth). In liturgical churches, and more of other churches each year, Ash Wednesday is marked by the ancient rite of the imposition of ashes (dating back at least 1000 to 1200 years). At the start of the Ash Wednesday service, the believers are asked to come forward to the altar. The minister dips his/her thumb into a small tin of ashes (burnt from last year’s Palm Sunday palms, with a drop of olive oil), and with it marks onto each person’s forehead the sign of the cross, saying the words “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return” (from Ecclesiastes 3:20). . . . It is the season to be focused on turning from wrong-doing and dedicating anew to the kind of life Jesus taught us to live.
RT and I had planned on attending the Ash Wednesday service at our church tomorrow evening. However, we will be babysitting the grandgirls since their daddy will be having minor surgery early the next morning. So we will spend the evening being Grandma Carol and PawPaw instead. And that is good.
What to give up for Lent. I know what I am planning to do for the next 40 days as my personal “sacrifice.” In our world today, there are few things that are truly sacrifices that we can make.
0 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsMan dead for over a year - sitting in a chair - TV still on
Published by February 20th, 2007 in Headlines/Current Events and Random Stuff.I read the following story which is sad beyond measure - that a person could be dead for over a year and NO ONE missed him or checked on him:
NEW YORK (Feb. 19) - Police called to a Long Island man’s house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.
The 70-year-old Hampton Bays, New York, resident, identified as Vincenzo Ricardo, appeared to have died of natural causes. Police said Saturday his body was discovered Thursday when they were called to the house over a burst water pipe.
“You could see his face. He still had hair on his head,” Newsday quoted morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus as saying. The home’s low humidity had preserved the body.
Officials could not explain why the electricity had not been turned off, considering Ricardo had not been heard from since December 2005.
Neighbors said when they had not seen Ricardo, who was diabetic and had been blind for years, they assumed he was in the hospital or a long-term care facility.
And if the water pipe had not burst, how much longer would the body have remained in that chair - I wonder.
1 Comment Socialize This! View blog reactionsIs There a Voice of Reason and Common Sense in the Democratic Party?
Published by February 20th, 2007 in Politics, Liberal Insanity and Our Military.Joan at Daddy’s Roses has written a post quoting a Democratic Representative who was one of only two Democrats who voted against the non-binding resolution.
I didn’t realize that there was actually a voice of reason and common sense in the Democratic party, but apparently there is at least one. Here is part of what Representative Jim Marshall (D, GA) said when he spoke before the Assembly. The emphasis is Joan’s:
We’re debating a nonbinding resolution to disapprove of the Iraqi/American military surge in Baghdad…. we do so hoping our debate and vote will not discourage those called upon to execute the surge…but we also do so knowing that it might. That’s enough for me to oppose the resolution……..This anti-surge resolution is akin to sitting in the stands and booing in the middle of our own team’s play because we don’t like the coach’s call. I cannot join midplay nay-saying that might discourage even one of those engaged in this current military effort in Baghdad.
Click over to Daddy’s Roses to read what he said directly to the troops about the resolution.
What Democrats fail to understand is that, like it or not, President George W. Bush is THEIR president as much as he is president for the Republicans. In the long run, the Democrats’ words and actions against President Bush are actions against themselves. Sure, they have the right to say and do what they’re doing. However, they’re too short-sighted and self-involved to realize that they’re hurting themselves in the process.
1 Comment Socialize This! View blog reactionsToday is my mother’s birthday. My mother is a blogger - Ruthlace. Last year I wrote a rather detailed post for her birthday. Last year I wrote eighty-three things about my mother. I won’t give away her age, but this year I could have written eight-four things about her. Here is a photo of my mother and me - probably around 1952.
This next photo is of my mother as a young woman.
And this next photo was taken a few years ago - my mother with my siblings and me.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOTHER!
3 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsThe presentation I had to give this morning is over! YEA!!!!!!!! Words cannot express how happy I am that it is over - it turned out good - but most of all, it’s over. Whew! Public speaking is definitely NOT my strong suit. But I did okay.
Today was Presidents’ Day. Kids were out of school, but teachers weren’t so lucky. Teachers had all-day professional development meetings. All the kindergarten teachers in the school system went to one school, all the first grade teachers went to another, etc. My presentation was to the third grade teachers. There were probably around 50-60 teachers in the session that I led. Two of the third grade teachers at my school helped with the presentation. There were six sections of the presentation - I had four sections, and they each had one section. Our topic was on working with high readers in third grade.
A bonus: The third grade teachers just happened to be at the school that Sweet Stuff (my 5-year old granddaughter) attends. So I got to see her classroom and all her artwork and school work that was displayed in the hallway outside her classroom.
Oh yes - it was the first time I’ve done a PowerPoint presentation. Everything worked out just fine. But the most important thing: It’s OVER!
0 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsAn Open Letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi - from Charlie Daniels
Published by February 18th, 2007 in Politics, Liberal Insanity, Our Military and Life's Absurdities.An Open Letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi
Dear Sir and Madam:
You have said often enough that you don’t believe in the war in Iraq and that you want to bring the troops home. Yet all you do is talk and sign non-binding resolutions which only goes to show that you really don’t mean what you say about ending the war or that you’re just playing political games and in doing so giving aid and comfort to a dedicated enemy.
Now if you’re serious about ending the war you have the means and the votes to do just that. Simply cut off the funding for the troops, bring them all home and the American people can transfer the deed to this war and the ramifications of what you do to the Democrat party and you can live with the results.
You say you support the troops, but that has to be a lie. If you supported them and you truly think the war is wrong, you’d bring them home or either dispense with the poisonous rhetoric and get in behind them and help them get the job done.
You can’t have it both ways. If you support the troops do something. Your party won a majority in both houses, so you have control so take the responsibility.
Of course, I think you should remember that when the terrorists follow us home from Iraq and start their attacks on American soil it’s too late, so you’d better have a plan to deal with it. Do you have a plan?
And if Iran goes into Iraq and makes it a staging ground for Al Qaida to plan and carry out attacks all over the western world you’ll need to deal with that. Do you have a plan?
And if Iran decides to go into Kuwait and cut off the oil flow from the Persian Gulf, you’ll need a way to make up for the shortfall. Do you have a plan?
The world would look at us as a country that has not finished a commitment to war since 1945. Do you have a plan for dealing with that?
The purpose of this letter is to call your bluff. I don’t believe you have the guts to do anything but talk and talk is cheap. Oh you have no shortage of words but I seriously doubt the amount of backbone you have.
Do you really think that signing a non binding resolution is really fooling anybody into thinking you’re anything less than career politicians trying to tip the scales of the O08 Presidential Election.
What you’re doing is silly and dangerous. If you really don’t like what’s going on, change it, do something about it. You’ve got the power but have you got the guts?
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
February 16, 2007
Wow! That says exactly what I believe. With the dems it’s all about politics, politics and politics. They back-stab and fill the airwaves with hateful rhetoric to try to ensure that the Bush plan will fail while still making themselves look politically good. You can’t “support the troops” while spewing crap that makes the terrorists bolder and more confident and ends up getting more of our troops killed. The troops don’t need THAT kind of suppport. Dems, you can’t have it both ways.
Tiara-tip to Linda at Something …and Half of Something. Also at A Mom and Her Blog and Blue Star Chronicles.
2 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsSaturday Photographs: Tripper, Ceilings, and Snow
Published by February 17th, 2007 in Photography and New House.Just some random photos to share. This first one is of our cat, Tripper.
Actually, I’m stretching the truth to say that Tripper is our cat. I think Tripper rotates living with several families in our general neighborhood. He’ll stay here for a week or two and then disappear for weeks or months. Then he’ll show up and stay here another few weeks. We feed him whenever he shows up. Not long ago, RT saw him at a house about a 1/4 mile down the road from us.
Tripper got his name from his habit of walking right in front of us. I’ve come close to falling as a result of his tripping me up several times. He does it to everybody. This photo is of Tripper on the rafters of the porch - his favorite place now because it is safely out of Jake’s reach.
The next two photos are ceiling photos. I love the ceilings in several rooms in our new house. Two of the upstairs bedrooms have modified cathedral ceilings. Then the master bedroom and the master bath both have double octogonal tray ceilings. Here’s the framing for them:
This is in the master bedroom.
This is the ceiling in the master bath.
And I’m including this next photo because it shows our picnic table which is in the side/back yard of our house and the photo shows the snow on the ground and the house - and on the picnic table. That picnic table is very special to us.
Great recipe for a no-mess, individualized omelet.
Omelets in a Bag
For each omelet: Crack 2 eggs into a quart-size Ziplock bag. Shake to combine. Add other ingredients as desired: shredded cheese, chopped ham, onion, green pepper, tomato, hash browns, salsa. Salt/pepper to taste.
Each person prepares his/her bag with his/her favorite ingredients. If you’re making several, you can write the person’s name on the outside of the bag with a permanent marker.
Shake each bag well. Make sure to get the air out of the bag and zip it up. Place the bags into rapidly boiling water for exactly 13 minutes. If it’s a large pot, you can cook 4-6 omelets at a time.
After 13 minutes, remove the bags carefully from the water, open the bags, and the omelets will roll out easily.
I’ve tried these a couple times, and they’re really good. Serve with some fresh fruit or pastry - and you’ve got a great breakfast. It would be rather cool to do this with guests, too.
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Seven Things I’m Thankful For This Week
(1) Wednesday evening (Valentine’s Day), RT and I visited our daughter, son-in-law and the grandgirls for a little while. We took the girls balloons and valentines and stickers. We were only there for about 20 minutes, but it was so much fun. It is enormously satisfying to have the girls be so thrilled to see us and to shower us with hugs and kisses and excitement.
(2) We had a snow day on Thursday, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I had so much I needed to do, and the snow day gave me the time to take care of a few non-school related chores. As a bonus, it was a total surprise.
(3) I have my PowerPoint presentation finished for the meeting on Monday. I’m not nearly as nervous about doing that presentation as I thought I would be. Speaking in front of a large group is definitely NOT in my comfort zone. However, I also KNOW that one of the things I’ll be thankful for next week is having that presentation behind me. It’ll be one of those experiences that is not enjoyable but will be good to have done.
(4) I’m thankful the house is coming along so well. The plumbing is almost finished, and the electrician will start next week with the wiring inside the house. The electric company should put up the lines next week, too.
(5) RT gave me a bouquet of beautiful red roses for Valentine’s Day. They’re so pretty - and they smell wonderful.
(6) Tuesday evening we went to the sushi place I mentioned in an earlier post, and it was really good. I’m still surprised that I found a type of sushi that I like.
(7) My mother’s birthday is Monday. I am so thankful for my mother because she is the rock of our family and an inspiration for my siblings and me. I hope to visit her within a few weeks.
6 Comments Socialize This! View blog reactionsWasted Snow: If we can’t get a “snow day” from it, why bother with snow?
Published by February 17th, 2007 in Teaching/Education.It snowed early this morning - enough to cover the ground - enough to make the roads a tad iffy. If it were a school day, we’d have a snow day. It’s supposed to snow more during the day which means that if tomorrow were a school day, there’d be a good chance we would have a snow day tomorrow, too.
However, it is Saturday morning, and tomorrow is Sunday - which means the two possible snow days are wasted. By Monday the weather will warm up - no snow in sight.
From my perspective as a teacher, snow is totally wasted on weekends. What good is snow if it doesn’t bring a snow holiday from school?
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