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Nojo on Passion

Yes, the topic is "passion".  I'm reading a book that I heard about on Today Show.  Hoda told author, "Your book is really good!"  I listened and went to Border's that day and ordered the book--THE KOSHER SUTRA, by Shmuley Boteach.  He is new to me, but he has been around in print with other titles, radio, and TV--Oprah!  [Subtitle for book is "8 Sacred Secrets for Reigniting Desire and Restoring Passion for Life".]

Volcanoes--science project for our third grade girl.  She gets excited about volcanoes--Mt. Rainier in Washington.  Mt. Vesuvius's in Pompeii.  This weekend, if I can get her attention, she will build a few models and do some experiments.  Third graders cannot participate in the regional science fair (new rule this year); therefore, models and an understanding of the topic are what we are aiming for.  Each participant gets either Outstanding or First Place.  Students are not required to do a science project.

I've been following Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska that is about to erupt.  It changed from yellow to orange about a week ago.  I'm learning much.  Look at "Ring of Fire" (if available On Demand).  It is an 18-minute movie that makes me think the kids need to move from Seattle!  A tsunami is what we have to be concerned about...if there is a volcanic eruption or an earthquake in the area.

I bought a Mac computer.  I started taking one-to-one weekly classes, but I still haven't done much on the computer.  Good thing:  All pictures and "whatever" I have scanned or taken with digital cameras over the past six or seven years are now in one place.  I wish I were further along and had my many photo albums from 1969 onward on the computer instead of the albums taking up far too much space in closets and on shelves in several rooms.

I think I should plant a vegetable garden in the spring.  I think that we probably want to grow some of our own food.  ("We" is YOU and I and OTHERS!)  I also want a "new, little house", but WHERE?  Any suggestions.  

As January ends, I do have to tell you that I am not getting married in May!  The last couple of months--December and January--have been such that I can say definitively that "It isn't going to happen!"  Sorry, if you were saving the weekend.  Someone suggested I take a really nice vacation during time that honeymoon would have occurred.  I won't rule that out.  Anyone free to travel someplace exotic in May-June?

Be blessed!  Baffled

Nojotalks Opens up to You

Three kids at home today.  I am told it is because of SNOW!  I agree with President Obama...Children need to be in school on a school day.  This could be the fifth or sixth day of "No School" since mid-December.  I use the word "wimpy" to describe the school district's decision to not have school.

I am told that too many children need to walk distances to catch their buses; buses have trouble negotiating the snow; children are screaming on the buses.  I think that parents would take many children to their buses or even to school if school would have been held today.  I think that streets should be plowed on bus routes and bus drivers should be better drivers.  I think children screaming on the bus would not be an issue IF the other two suggestions were followed.

I need the children to be at school on school days.  There isn't much studying done at our house, and the kids here don't need to be at home on a school day.  Today's big event was the breaking of a 70 year old doll crib that just sits in the great room.  The five year older did it.

Additionally he wrote on a piece of wood furniture with pink or red chalk.   The fifteen year older was sent to clean off his grandfather's Cadillac.  I drove up and saw him shoveling the vehicle--snow shovel on the Cadillac.  Can you believe it?  That is why I am Baffled!

And it goes on and on...We can't find the remote control to my oldest sister's TV.  Things get lost in our world.  

I went outside with the five and nine year old children.  They had played alone yesterday.  They were "slurfing"--something they made up last year when eight and four.  What is it?  Standing up on the sled and going down the hill on the side of our house.  That is the same hill that my mother broke her wrist on years ago when she got out of the car and walked around the house as the caregiver came to ring the front doorbell.  Grandmother saw slurfing yesterday while viewing children from kitchen window.  She put a halt on the really fun (and disastrous) sport!  So, I spent an hour plus (until my feet got cold) building a snow fort--while shoveling the garage driveway apron.  I had already shoveled to get my little car out and to allow caregiver and cleaning lady to access house easily this morning.

Only thing tonight of consequence was fifteen year older's attempting to prepare frozen pizzas with cardboard still under pizza.  When questioned by his grandfather, he said that his mother does it that way.  Well, Mom is ABSENT...dropping in periodically since September, but gone for a week...with no one knowing anything.  Baffled