Being April Fool’s Day, it seemed a good time to give away some fake poop – even though my kids get ahold of this every few months and think it’s hilarious all over again. I just left it on my desk at school and the first kid who asked about it, got it.  It was one of my 7th graders – a genuinely sweet-natured 7th grade boy (a rare find!).  He wanted to use the fake poop to surprise his mom (but he’ll find a sweet way to do it, I betcha!). Car Update: The car got towed to the…

I grew up thinking of myself as a non-athlete.  (I was an ARTIST, uninterested in throwing an inflated leather ball repeatedly through a hoop.)  Everyone assumed that because I was tall, I must love/play basketball, but I only ridiculed basketball (because I was no good at it!).  I was well into my adult years when I started running on a regular basis.  It was the year before I met Melissa.  I ran because I had a hyperactive dog and no fence around my yard.  She needed exercise and she dragged me along with her.  I still didn’t think of myself…

This may be premature, but my little car broke down today and I think it might be finished.  I had a lousy day at school, then play practice just made me anxious because opening night is just over a week away and students are still using their scripts as crutches (!!!), and then, driving home around 5:30 pm, my car radio stopped working.  The one thing that still functioned on that car!  But that was just foreshadowing.  The “Check Gear Box” light came on and I just wasn’t getting any acceleration.  I was just about to pull over and restart…

Found this styrofoam with some of my art supplies in a closet.  We might be able to use it in our production of “12 Angry Jurors”.  There’s a scene where a character is supposed to stab a switchblade into a door jamb.  Real switchblades are illegal – and I’m sure it would be against some school rule anyway – so we will be using plastic/medal switchblade combs!  A comb is not likely to stick into the wood like we need it to, so hopefully styrofoam will work.  The plan is to make the jamb out of styrofoam and then paint…

I think this is the first time I’m counting a food item as a Throw for the day (maybe not … I have a bad memory and I’m too lazy to go back and look!), but it’s been in the cabinet for quite a while – the sell date was last September (or I’d be tempted to give it to a food pantry or my mother-in-law, who apparently tolerates the stuff).  (But if I weren’t in the process of getting rid of stuff, it would have remained in the cabinet for several more years – I’m serious.  I keep picking…

Melissa suggested we give this candle back to her cousin, Angie, who gave it to us as a Christmas gift.  Melissa has a sensitive nose and easily riled allergies and the one time we lit this candle – it was when we lost power during the ice storm this winter! – it had Melissa sneezing her head off. Angie has already gladly accepted back a couple of her gifts over the past 135 days, so I’m sure she’ll like this one.  I bet she loved the scent and that’s why she bought it in the first place.  So here you go,…

Congratulations, Todd!  On other fronts: Today marks the 3,000th pageview for this blog!  Can you believe it?  You’re not the only one who reads this junk!  In fact, there’s a stats page here that I check frequently out of curiosity and it even identifies what countries are represented in those pageviews.  For instance, while our friend Beka was on her trip to Africa, I knew she was checking in with us here because all of a sudden Burundi, Mozambique and South Africa popped up in the stats over the course of the two weeks she was traveling.  But even before…