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[Noonan]

But I never get enough :ftp:

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[Trekkin and Birdin]

bartrod wrote:

…..I received notice for hosting a Community Event but I just can’t get too excited about that and am not sure it’ll happen…same with the WGA’s fall picnic/campout. Sad times 🙁

We hear you, Rod.  We actually went camping for two days up north, our first time away overnight since we got back from Natchez.  We hope to get in one more camping trip in the Superior National Forest, but we stay away from gatherings and anything resembling such is our own family.  It’s tough to have to think each activity through with so much caution.

[JimandLinda]

FTP for Friday.

Stopped by Kohler-Andre State Park yesterday. Where’s the beach?! There used to be between 50 and 100 feet between the dune and the water. Now, the water is from 10 to 30 feet from them! We set our beach blanket right up to the side of the dune so beach walkers could socially distance! What a change in Lake Michigan water levels!

[BigJim]

I haven’t been to the east coast of Wisconsin this summer.

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[The Happy Hodag!]

BigJim wrote:

I haven’t been to the east coast of Wisconsin this summer.

 

You’re always welcome in Green Bay, you just gotta ditch the Chicago sports team apparel.  I don’t make the rules, I just enforce them.

The buck stops here. . .and gets entered into Where's George.

Where's George? Stimulating the economy one EMS'ed dollar at a time.

[BigJim]

I always wear Bears apparel when I go to Green Bay. Even wore a Bears tie tac when I went to a wedding reception at Lambeau.

 

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[JimandLinda]

FTP for the 22nd!

Headed to High Cliff today for a birthday party.

[amita17]

My hiking buddy has a state parks pass.  We had a trip planned to Governor Thompson State Park in July that got bumped to today.  Unfortunately, I had no reception at the park.  I had printed a trail map and had all the coordinates loaded, but I couldn’t see what caches were on which trails.  I found a couple caches, but we spent a lot of time wandering the wrong trails.

In the plus side, it didn’t rain and we got over 12,000 steps.

[BigJim]

amita17 wrote:

My hiking buddy has a state parks pass. We had a trip planned to Governor Thompson State Park in July that got bumped to today. Unfortunately, I had no reception at the park. I had printed a trail map and had all the coordinates loaded, but I couldn’t see what caches were on which trails. I found a couple caches, but we spent a lot of time wandering the wrong trails. In the plus side, it didn’t rain and we got over 12,000 steps.

I have 8 caches in that park. Sweetlife has most of the rest. I never had reception problems there. At least you made the most of your day.

 

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[amita17]

Yes, it was a good day.  My friend is a not a cacher, but tolerates it if we are on trails with caches.  I tried to get their whole family interested,  but it was momentary curiosity.  So we were left with my minimal technology and out-of-practice geocaching skills.

We saw a lot of itty bitty toads and frogs and chipmunks and garter snakes.  Not many birds, but we did hear an owl.

As for reception, does anyone know is it related to a carrier or a specific phone, or the weather, or location, or something else?  I have Verizon, which has always advertised broad coverage.  But I often get nothing in rural areas between Waupaca County and “up north”.

[JimandLinda]

FTP for Monday the 24th!

Will it be another hot one?

 

[BigJim]

Back to work. Currently waiting for the 8:00 staff meeting to start.

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[JimandLinda]

FTP during a Tuesday rain shower!

[BigJim]

10 – 6 day today. Parent/Teacher conferences from 3 – 6. It’s actually “Open House,” but it’s being structured more like conferences with 15 minute appointments, one student and parent at a time.

All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.

[Noonan]

Hope everyone got through last night’s storms in one piece. I sure seemed like if you got rain, you got hammered with thunder and lightning all night. We got enough to make a puddle here. That’s how it’s been all year: Adams gets rain; Plainsfield gets rain; we get nothing. When there’s big storms like last night, that’s great, but we really need water for our plants and lawn.

Got two FTF on 5/5s yesterday and I hold had to wade through swampy brush for an hour. Found both caches in their original iterations, but had to replace two new caches because the CO just republished ones that were archived. I was surprised because I told him one of them was just an empty coffee can with nothing in it and no lid – which led him to archive them in the first place. At least now there are actually caches there and the coffee can is gone.

School stuff:

This school year is going to be very different. I believe I will be teaching online classes through the company our school uses for kids that won’t be coming to school, but still be employed by AF. The school may also need me to teach my kids that are going to be in school a few minutes every day.

We’re on our third schedule already, this one really has me thinking about how to create material for the kids to work on. We have one 90-minute class and two 2-hour long classes each day. The long ones meet for six weeks, then two other classes meet for six weeks. (Our “normal” schedule is a 5 period day, classes 70 minutes long, and a trimester system of 12 weeks each.)

The original thought was we would be on a hybrid system with kids only in class 2 days each week, so I spent the summer working on material to meet that. Then, we were going to rotate through our five periods during the week with three classes each day.

To me, I morally can’t use our normal curriculum because it is centered around groups of 4 doing cooperative learning with shared materials, in-group and intra-group sharing of ideas. When that works, it’s great. Not that it happens often in a normal classroom setting. Now…no way I would do that. I made packets to cover the core ideas, but it’s not nearly enough to take 2 hours x 5 days a week.

I’m also the only one teaching Geometry, so nobody else to lean on for ideas. Of our 4-member department, I’m not physically there, one is on maternity leave, one is a couple years older than me and worried about getting sick during one of his last years before retiring, and the last one doesn’t think COVID is anything to really worry about (due to our sparse population density, not the potency of the virus). The last guy would be in the room next to me and he hasn’t been wearing a mask while working in the school during the summer, while the custodial staff has been disinfecting the school.

Enough venting. Maybe a chance to get a nap in before we have our first official inservice day. Optional days have been a real mess, leaving most of us less certain about our safety and the plans our District has for handling things. That’s a whole other rant, and I said I’m done.

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