Tucson Sidewinders

Minor league baseball on a Thursday night?  Staying out past 9 pm?  Well...the school year must be over!  We watched the Tucson Sidewinders out-hustle, out-play, and out-class the Las Vegas 51s in a 4-1 stomping. 


Our friends, Heather and Noah, couldn't resist the siren song of AAA baseball.


Disclaimer: Liddy hates the last photo. I'm posting it despite strong protest at home.

Hmmm

Liddy doesn't think this is worth posting...or she thought posting it would make me look crazy. These feet were next to us during the ball game. Seriously...look at the disparity in toe length! The tip of the pinky toe compared to the others?! I'm not crazy....I don't have a weird fetish...how could someone not notice those toes?

How could I forget?

Office Depot had a booth outside the ballpark with the Guinness World Record holding rubber band ball. We passed on the opportunity to have our picture taken with it. I'll live with regret for the rest of my life. However, as a consolation, the good folks of Office Depot passed around small rubber band balls to just about everyone in attendance.

Liddy was pretty excited.

Noah? Not so much.

Update on the mosaics

We've finished the grout work on our mosaic/planter. Well, we actually finished slopping the grout all over the tile. The work of actually buffing all the excess off of the surface isn't quite "there" yet. But, not too bad for a bunch of seventh graders.

 

I swear this thing jumped at me!@!1!!!!!

I hate spiders. Hate hate hate with the burning passion of a million suns. Hate hate hate. I discovered this horror while grading essays at the kitchen table. It was on the wall across from me. After taking the photos I went to swat it with a flip-flop. I would have used a 16 foot 2x4 if one had been available. Anyway, when the sandal was about an inch over this monster it JUMPED (NOT "FELL"--LITERALLY JUMPED!!!!!!) off the wall in an attempt to evade death. I have no doubt that it was a last ditch attempt to jump on my face and kill me. Hate hate hate

Rome Day

Not much news to report, but I'm trying to stay in a routine. So, I'm forced to report on events at school. Not too exciting.
     We (the Latin and History classes) celebrated Rome Day last week to commemorate the 2,761st birthday of Rome's founding by Romulus. In celebration, my students planted a Roman garden near the Latin and History classrooms. Also, they covered a concrete planter with mosaics. Here's the progress:

Here's Acestes the archer and the wolfhead.  Below are the mosaics of the Colosseum and Trojan Horse.