Wheres Toto Posted Tuesday at 08:44 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:44 PM (edited) I tried Trello but didn't like it. I found it didn't do what I really needed it to and found it awkward. ETA: A trello booya. Edited Tuesday at 08:49 PM by Wheres Toto 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted Tuesday at 08:49 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:49 PM So I managed to pull the muscle in my back again. Not bad, but enough to be aware of it. Then something I ate upset my stomach so I was trying to sleep propped up and that didn't help. I did get up and sit in the living room for a while which helped, before heading back to bed. Despite tired and sore back, I did go into work and do some reorganizing/rearranging today. No camps this week due to the holiday so I'm hoping to get a bunch of stuff done. Tomorrow ds has school so dh will have my car so I'll be stuck at home, so I'm vacuuming and mopping the kids floors. Evidently dh saw something that prompted that request. I can't wait to see it for myself. 🙄 Then Thursday and Friday, I'll probably do more at work. Next week's camp is small and in addition to my teacher, dd will be working as a helper so I really shouldn't be needed. I'm going to work in my upstairs space because I have to get it cleaned up and organized so I can call Verizon to get my internet switched over and run upstairs, and I think it may be easier to do it upstairs, then run it downstairs than the reverse. But it needs to be cleaned up enough for them to come in and look. My admin is starting in a few weeks and I need to have a workspace and the internet functioning upstairs before she starts. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted Tuesday at 08:55 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:55 PM I'm concerned at this point that it was not the ice cream. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted Wednesday at 10:25 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 10:25 AM Good Wednesday morning to you! 🌻 I've decided to try Wednesdays as my Big Reading Days for a few weeks. Take care. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted Wednesday at 04:05 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:05 PM Good Afternoon! Happy Wednesday! Had a good physical therapy appointment. Ready for lunch and a nap. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted Wednesday at 04:54 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:54 PM Good morning! Guess what I found at Aldi?!?! RAINIER CHERRIES!! I got the last three bags which needed some serious culling, but there's enough for Independence Day at least. Then a quick stop at Kroger, home, groceries away, and a quick lunch of leftover rice and vegetables and some cherries. Now trying to finish my coffee before heading out to string quartet. Coffee! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted Wednesday at 07:26 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:26 PM (edited) Book report/EdPo: I skimmed How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor, liked it, and will buy a copy or re-borrow to assign to DS between fall break and Christmas. We need to finish How to Read a Book first. I skimmed Move Fast and Fix Things and appreciated seeing a written overview of the ideas from the podcast, but have little room to apply corporate problem-solving in daily life. I did appreciate this Peter Drucker quote: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." I read Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning and took notes. It was nothing new to me, but good reminders about the value of spaced repetition. I found, bookmarked, and pointed a task on our Trello board back to online flashcards that will align with one of DS's courses this year. I also found a reference that enumerates a bunch of Aristotle's topoi to share with DS as we work through WWS. (Headline: Lazy Homeschool Mom Refuses to Spend a Summer Month Wading through Aristotle.) Edited Wednesday at 07:27 PM by 73349 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted Wednesday at 10:05 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 10:05 PM (edited) String quartet was good. I seriously love driving a small car. Plus it gets much better gas milage than the 12-passenger van! Last night I really enjoyed the Old Time Jam. I only knew about 2 of the tunes that we did (out of 25 maybe?), but I am getting better at figuring out the chords and could usually at least chunk out a few chords with the tunes. But they are super welcoming of new people and anyone who is interested in learning or just sitting and listening so there's not any stress or awkwardness if you don't know the music. Edited Wednesday at 11:14 PM by Susan in TN 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted Wednesday at 11:17 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 11:17 PM On 7/2/2024 at 3:55 PM, Slache said: I'm concerned at this point that it was not the ice cream. We need another ice cream party / intervention. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted yesterday at 01:31 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:31 AM 3 hours ago, Susan in TN said: I seriously love driving a small car. Plus it gets much better gas milage than the 12-passenger van! Yes and amen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago Good morning! 🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸 Coffee! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago THE FOURTH by Shel Silverstein Oh CRASH! my BASH! it's BANG! the ZANG! Fourth WHOOSH! of BAROOOM! July WHEW! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago Good Afternoon! Happy Thursday! Happy Fourth of July! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Georgia Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton North Carolina William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn South Carolina Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton Massachusetts John Hancock Maryland Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Pennsylvania Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George Taylor James Wilson George Ross Delaware Caesar Rodney George Read Thomas McKean New York William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris New Jersey Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Massachusetts Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire Matthew Thornton 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Happy Independence Day! I slept until 10. Matt's taking all of the kids out to breakfast as he's taking a few days off for the first time in faevs. First kid: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Happy Independence Day! I slept until 10. Matt's taking all of the kids out to breakfast as he's taking a few days off for the first time in faevs. First kid: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago How odd. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago 1 hour ago, Slache said: How odd. We're all a bit odd around here. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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