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WEll the school, with their infinite wisdom, has decided to let me access my blog today so I thought I would use this time before the students get here to "ramble" a little about the happenings here in the land of snow. AND I do mean snow! We were out of school yesterday(Feb. 7) and last Friday too. It seems like the days they actually let us stay home, the sun shines and the wind is calm, but hey, who's complaining - NOT ME! Thomas and Alex used the time yesterday to shovel snow off the the Bake's and Stephen's roofs. They have been telling people to stay off their roofs due to the danger and that IF they need to get the snow removed, they should find someone with the proper equipment and skills. THOMAS AND ALEX???????? Well they both survived and I don't know what they actually did at Stephen's but they did an excellent piece of work for the Bake's and had some fun doing it. I used the time to get a little organization in my life, although you wouldn't know it by looking. Then I went to P&Z last night which always seems to get me stirred up, not matter how simple and straight forward the agenda items are, there are members of the commission that insist upon making them controversial, drawn out, and frustrating. Last night I took a new approach and shared my feelings about this and asked that we not belabor every point and the chairman actully made a big deal of thanking me for keeping us on track and reminding us that our personal biases have no place in our decision making process. Wow
Thomas and I attended the historic democratic caucus Tuesday night. I say "historic" because there were almost 200 people there, and in all the years I've attended these there has never been more than 30 people and they were mostly family members(Porter offspring) So imagine my surprise at finding Matt Zollinger there along with several of my former Gifted students and their parents. I don't know what that says about the connection between I.Q. and political affiliation but given the fact that I only work with the top 3% of the student population and the high representation they and their parents had at this gathering, I'm sure it means something. The other amazing thing was that we will be sending 1 delegate for Hillary Clinton. I think that will surprise many people, especially if they are aware of our official designation as the "Reddest" county in the United States.
Mom and Dad have had a pretty rough week. Mom fell and cracked her head open again and she has been in a lot of pain with her back which makes it difficult or impossible to stand. Dad has had trouble breathing and Jeff has got him using a nebulizer every four hours which seems to help with the breathing. Mom cannot figure out how to put the albuterol in the mechanism inspite of all the tutorials we have given her so one of us will have to be there, I'm afraid to keep it going. Mom's attitude is always positive and she laughs at herself without reservation. Dad's is not horrible all things considered, so we just do the best we can for them.
For those of you that don't know, Pearl Hepworth died the same day as President Hinckley, making dad the oldest living member of the 8th ward. He is sure that he can die now - as it is his turn.