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Having taught in my hometown for 20 years, I had many of those experiences, especially when I ran for assembly. Funny how many people were willing to cross party lines when they knew the candidate.
I miss being able to walk into a fast food joint and not order. The kids just know what I wanted. Walk in, say hello, and they wave me right to the register with my food ready. I even had a running joke with some boys that worked at Dairy Queen. I would tell the story about my friends from high school sitting in the same benches they sat in, discussing what the most disgusting type of Blizzard would be – this was just after they started making them. We eventually settled on either a braunschweiger blizzard, or a fish fry blizzard. They’d then start their own discussions. I’d make a point of going through the drive thru, asking if I could order something from the “secret menu”. The kid would laugh, say if they have it, I could have it – and I’d order a fish fry blizzard. The kid would agree, ask me to pull around, and have my cookie dough blizzard for me. Everybody else that heard it was gobsmacked.
My favorite one was during my first year there. A freshman girl exclaimed at the end of “meet the teacher night” at the beginning of the year that, “My mom was your babysitter, and she said you were the worst kid she ever had!” To which, without missing a beat, and in front of a room full of parents, I replied, “NO, ask her again. That was my brother. I hid behind the recliner all night because I was shy!” She came back the next day and confirmed my story. Her mom brought that up every time I saw her for the next four years. Years later, after she graduated, the girl even told her friends to vote for me, because I was the teacher that hid behind the recliner.
Hardest one to think about was the boy that came into my room after school one day. He’d graduated (maybe?) a few years prior. He started apologizing for his behavior, etc. After a few statements I realized he was going through the 12 Step process. He talked about how much he missed during school because of his addictions, but he remembers that I didn’t quit on him even after his parents did. What hit me in the gut was how he also said he had recently quit the white supremacist group he had joined. They recruited him right in front of school. He told me the recruiter started to recognize me when I would walk home and would hide in his car until I walked past. Eventually it dawned on the boy that if the people he was with were so proud of what they believed, they wouldn’t need to hide from a guy walking past them.
I have a lot of other ones that aren’t so happy. Not living in an area for very long, I catch myself dwelling on those too much. Glad I had a chance to read your experiences to bring back the happier ones.
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One big difference I see between the “you take risks every time you go caching” take (and I certainly took risks when I lived in Oregon) and the reality of COVID boils down to this:
- In Oregon, if I was caching along the edge of a butte, climbing a tree, crossing ice on a lake, etc. and something bad happens to me and I die – it’s just me that dies, (hopefully?) instantly.
- COVID – if I go somewhere, become infected, for two weeks I could be sick and spreading this to others, unknowingly. Those people include my family members, and we have an immunocompromised son. While we live a very isolated life as it is here at the grounds of the Sandland Travel Bug University, I would hate to think that I would be possibly spreading this to others during the few occasions we actually need to go shopping. While we take precautions, it’s painfully obvious that others do not. At all.
There’s more I could say, but I have students pinging me asking for help before they have to submit their homework to school (which I won’t see for another week because it will be in quarantine). Good way to avoid getting onto my soapbox too.
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Something else special!
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Final help session for basic trigonometry is going on right now, and nobody showed up to the session. Think I will record a video and post it online for those that get desperate between now and Tuesday, when the work is due.
But first, I’m going to record
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Happy Earth Day. Wish there was a CITO event around here … or anywhere.
You can always come down and help clean up the grounds of Sandland TB University! The people that lived here before us seem to have used the property as their own personal dump. I don’t think I’ve drank as much beer in my life to count for all the beer cans we have coming up out of the soil this Spring – and that’s not even thinking about the bags I picked up last year. So much broken glass, metal pieces, wood scraps, cinder blocks…and that’s just listing the “normal” things to find. Oh, and golf balls. Everywhere!
There is DNR land directly north of us across the trout stream that’s the property line. Maybe we could post the CITO there and just spend most of our time on the south side of the water?
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In the past few days I’ve had people discover at TB of ours that was lost at Aztalan years ago. The weird thing is that the logs make sense as someone that knows caching, and not just some spam bug.
I messaged the first person, their log said, that they had discovered it, but didn’t mention where they saw it. They said they had forgotten their password, but didn’t know anything about it – and that I wasn’t the only one messaging him. The second one was really puzzling.
The next one came from South Africa, saying they had discovered it while on lockdown in South Africa! By the time I got to their account to ask them about it, they had already had email and messaging locked down by GZ.
Checking my TB, both logs have already been scrubbed. Ideas?
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Just noticed there are several small patches of public land not too far from our house. May have to start working on some more puzzles.
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Starting our plant sale. We have about 600 tomato, pepper, etc. plants. We’ve sold enough to just about break even already!
Isn’t it kind of early for that?
You can get some and take them to your house. I’m not saying you should put them in the ground 🙂 Unless you want to, and then come back to buy more plants.
Just about ready to put eggs into the incubator tonight too. 22 chicks, or some number less than that, should be cheeping at the end of the month. Maybe some ducklings about that time too if mama duck is doing what she needs to do.
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Starting our plant sale. We have about 600 tomato, pepper, etc. plants. We’ve sold enough to just about break even already!
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The walleye spawn has started. I biked out to the breakwater boat landing yesterday…it was crazy! The parking lots were overloaded, trailers parked up and down Harbor Road and out on County Y. There were more than a dozen out-of-state license plates from as far away as South Dakota and Utah! So much for social distancing and travel restrictions…and all this for one walleye which is the limit now
From all the flood warnings I keep getting on my phone, I thought you’d be able to drop a line while sitting at Brothers Three!
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Gotta define boundaries better. Yesterday I had a student video-call me in Google Hangouts at 7:00 AM and I was helping students until 5:30 PM. This is NOT vacation, no matter what anyone says.
I haven’t tried Hangouts yet. Is it hard to set up?
Our little bird was found btw. She was broody on a nest of 14 tiny eggs she had laid up in a nest she made in our hayloft that is really a vinyl siding loft.
Working on clearing brush today along with answering emails from parents and kids in response to a message I sent out yesterday. Not sure how much learning is going on, but there sure is distance.
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Robins have been here almost two weeks. The day I saw my first robin, I also saw my first earthworm. The worm was surprising because it was snowing at the time. Nighthawks have been flying around almost as long as the robins. What do those things eat other than insects? I worry about them.
Today was a real kick in the teeth. Once they shut down schools, I still had my Census job to keep me busy but isolated. Well, my boss called today: no more work for at least two weeks. It will be interesting to see what happens with this, because the Census is required by the Constitution. I would say you can’t just ignore the Constitution, but…
Then one of our birds came up missing tonight. Our smallest hen, so small she fits in your hand (full grown) wasn’t perched in the barn rafters like she normally does. We trapped a ‘coon a week ago, and my wife saw a fox on our deck a few days ago, but it wasn’t even twilight when I went out to shut them up and she wasn’t there or anywhere we could see. Why is it always your favorite birds that get lost?
Can’t think of any good news except we don’t seem to be sick with anything scary. Just what seems to be normal Spring allergies. We hope.
Even if I’m not posting here much, you’re all on my mind, hoping you’re all safe.
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Got our census questionnaire in the mail yesterday. Filled it out before I logged on here. For my family of four, it took less than 5 minutes. Interesting that there wasn’t a paper questionnaire to fill out, they give you a website and code to access the form online.
Yesterday was my last day of census job training. If you don’t do the online form, someone will be paying you a visit in mid-April to get you a paper one to fill out. For now, we are going around and dropping off forms at places that either don’t have mailing addresses (PO box, I think) and other places. We went to the area around the golf course west of Green Lake yesterday. Lots of vacation homes & trailers, no people, naturally. So many families will be showing up to their cottage “up north” and finding forms hanging on them long after they filled out the one at their main home. We found out as we were leaving that we’re not supposed to approach people now, just hang stuff on doors and then leave. Reminds me of all the campaigning I did 10+ years ago!
Worst thing about yesterday, besides hanging forms where we know nobody lives, was having to drive past all the caches around the golf course.
I’m looking forward to my vacation from work starting on Thursday. That gives me plenty of opportunity to get 40 hours of Census work done each week! Plus work around the farmstead. Maybe some caching too.
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For the three years we lived in Oregon, we never saw a rattlesnake although they lived in our valley. We were on the southern side, so there wasn’t any decent sunning spots for them.
My father once told me that in his youth ( mid 1920’s) that he and his buddies used to hunt rattlesnakes in the area of Rattlesnake Bluff just South of Adams. Never said if they caught any.
Ok, now the name of all the caches in that area makes sense!
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