Grading mid terms for 4 classes, including essay questions which I refuse not to give them, because they need to learn to WRITE, and write CLEARLY. I give the last one Monday night. Almost done grading the other 3.
Took a long walk around the pond today, saw something I had never seen. Somehow the sun was so bright, the air so still, I could view the fish, large and small, swimming near the bank, clear as a bell. The large fish just “sit” very still, in the water. Maybe they wait for a small fish to go by their mouth and just grab it. Didn’t see any frogs, though I heard just a few over at the one end where the water doesn’t move at all. Didn’t see any turtles. The water level is quite low, there is mud all around. Appreciate the sun still brightly shining and warming the day up to about 80 degrees in October….. Still love where I live.
A few kids were fishing off the dock at the picnic table area. Our neighbors’ two dogs both barked at different times today, irritating the hell out of Al and I. (If we had a screened-in porch, we couldn’t sit out back and enjoy it. Neighbors leave their dogs out there and let them bark at every fly that comes around.)
Our son seems to have perhaps risen above a quite low point he was in the other night. I hope it lasts. Life is hard. Always a challenge, always a mystery.
Doctor Grandma 
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