The Extra Day?

So what did I do with the "extra" day, February 29?

It started out a rather normal day. Jan made egg-in-a-nest for breakfast. I packed lunches. Mary tended to dog and chickens. Then, we all headed off to work.

I taught my first two classes followed by chapel, two more classes, hot lunch, and one more class. I had a former student visiting my classroom for periods 4 and 5 to observe as a part of her college training to be an English teacher. At lunch I received a friendly reminder note that I am responsible for the bulletin board in the hall for the month of March. At that point, my day changed.

Rather than studying my Sunday school lesson and reading Ben Hur this afternoon, I pulled a bulletin board out of the archives in my room and put it up. By 5 PM I was finished with that and ready to start on the tasks at hand. That's when Mary called and said she would be working another 2 hours because they had a job at the cabinet shop that was behind schedule.

So, here I am at 6:30 with my school work finished, a new bulletin board on the wall, my Sunday school lesson studied, and ready to begin reading Ben Hur. I am only about 25 chapters behind my students.

I need another extra day to catch up!

The Cat Comes Back . . . or Maybe Not!

P.S. I'll add this at the beginning. On Sunday the man I bought the Suzuki from stopped in and told us Tyler sold it on ebay and there was a truck coming in from Ohio to pick it up that day. I guess we won't be seeing it around anymore. Goodbye, Suzuki!

In August we sold all the Suzukis. Mine was purchased by a local college student. Apparently he tired of it in several months. It could be rather annoying especially when it rained and the passengers received an involuntary shower. I guess I understand why he tired of it.

This week we saw "the" Suzuki parked by the road with a for sale notice in the window. It gave us a chance to get pictures of it with the hardtop (somehow we had never taken any picture with that on while I owned the vehicle).

He is trying to sell it for twice what he paid for it six months ago. I don't think it will happen very quickly. We certainly have no intentions of buying it back.

Bible Quizzing

I spent Saturday at Lititz Area Mennonite School watching the MACSA Bible Quizzing. We had seven teams there quizzing all day. It started around 9:30 AM and was finally over about 5:20 PM. It was a long day of quizzing with stressful moments, funny moments, and a great time for meeting people I don't see very often. One of the funny moment was when Demetrius had no idea what the question was going to be except that it started with "what?" His answer: "What is this thou hast done?" The crowd packed into the too small classroom burst into laughter. It was the only verse in Genesis 1-11 that he could think of that started with "what."

Tyler concentrates on the passage during a quiz, comes up with the right verse,

but says the wrong question.

The "Babblers" won second place in the finals.