Kickin' back
Picnic todayPosted by Janice on May 22, 2009
Well, here I am, once again sitting at the computer, by the phone, waiting for it to ring with a substitute bus run! This gets to be a drag sometimes; I’d much rather be sleeping! From what I understand, between the morning run and the afternoon run the school board transportation department is throwing a [...]
Couch potatoesPosted by Janice on May 21, 2009
Sometimes I wonder what in the world most people did for amusement before television was invented! I can remember as a child, our first television was a small black and white television. Pretty much the only thing us kids watched was the Saturday morning cartoons. I don’t know why the parents watched back then. I remember [...]
Do you like the smell of lavender?Posted by Janice on
I don’t understand all the hype and fuss over how wonderful lavender (the scent of the flower of the lavender plant) is supposed to be. It is supposed to help people relax and go to sleep. Every time I get a whiff of it, I get nauseous and have to get away from the smell [...]
My Uncle’s building has cancerPosted by Janice on
My Uncle Fred and Aunt Winnie live in Silverwater. Uncle Fred has an old concrete building in which he repairs cars and trucks and just about any kind of mechanical engine that runs on fossil fuel. Over the past few years, he has noticed that the concrete is cracking and flaking. At first he thought [...]
Drove a Prius for the first timePosted by Janice on May 20, 2009
This afternoon I was given a special ed “bus run” that involved driving a Prius hybrid to a city about 50 miles away from town to pick up two “special” children and bring them home. This was the first time I have even driven a Prius. At first when they gave me the key, I [...]
