My brother sent me this article yesterday.
Apparently there are some voracious oak killing beetles poised to ruin my childhood playground. 😦
It makes me so sad that the landscape of that amazing canyon may soon be changed forever. Darned beetles.
We used to slide down the hills above those oak trees.
A big piece of cardboard, a little bit of nerve and away we went.
My mom even did it a few times.
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Speaking of my mom…
I used her banana bread recipe the other day.
If you read this post, then you know I had very low resistance to the finished product.
I had forgotten what a good recipe it is.
With mom’s permission, I thought I’d share it with you.
Click here to see it on my new blog!
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In other baking news…
I made chocolate chip cookies for the teacher and the aides today.
It’s staff appreciation week at our school.
I wish my wallet allowed for something like restaurant gift cards for each of them, but it doesn’t.
Cookies will have to do.
Yesterday was a particularly bad day for everyone.
I talked to the teacher for a moment after school and also received this note on my son’s daily progress slip:
“Tantrum when asked to work in language arts. He threw the timer and it hit another student.”
The other student is okay, but the teacher looked drained.
I think one of my biggest fears is also one of hers – that his frustration will lead to a tantrum that seriously injures another child.
He would never harm another student on purpose of course, but the potential for accidents is there.
It makes my stomach hurt.
Maybe it makes her stomach hurt too.
I probably should have made more cookies.
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And now for something completely different…
and no, it’s not Monty Python.
About a year ago, one of my all-time favorite magazines bit the dust – Mary Engelbreit‘s Home Companion.
I still have every issue I ever owned and I look at them frequently.
One of my favorite parts of the magazine was a regular feature they ran on artist workshops.
I found it fascinating to peek into the creative spaces of artists from every end of the spectrum – sculptors, painters, paper collage artists, doll makers, stampers – you name it.
Their craft rooms and studios were as varied as their work and all of it was wonderful.
Well, today I found another magazine on the stand that is dedicated to that very thing.
Where Women Create is a quarterly magazine with amazing photos.
At $15 an issue, it’s out of my price range, but the website includes links to the artists featured in each issue.
Click the magazine name to check it out.
Enjoy!
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Happy Thursday!
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bockychoy 