….thanks Cee for this challenge….I’m always taking pictures of my husband’s back because he’s always in front of me
Before you think that this is a cultural thing, it’s not. When we go on our walks I always stop to take pictures and he keeps going.
….same process as the grade 1s but we learned how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours
Thanks to Carla Sonheim’s free kids on-line classes for this terrific lesson.
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….happy birthday to my hubby
…..thanks Cee for more great questions
Which way does the toilet paper roll go? Over or under?
I used to think that it didn’t matter but recently I converted to the over method. I found that when I had the roll go under the roll would sometimes unroll itself. Does that make sense?
If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
If I were a crayon I would be red. It’s my favourite colour.
You are comfortable doing nothing? For long stretches of time?
There are stretches of time where I sit for a long time but I’m usually writing or reading on my computer or I’m watching TV. I can’t say that I’m comfortable doing nothing for long stretches of time. I become antsy and need to get out of the house.
Rather: Would you accept $5,000 to shave your head or die it bright lime green and continue your normal activities while not explaining the reason for your haircut or color?
I don’t think I would shave my head but I would colour it bright lime green. It would take a long time for my hair to grow back but I could recolour it soon after I dyed it.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I’m grateful for successfully participating in the Railpath Run on Saturday with my daughter, A and her partner, J. It’s a timed race where you run for 45 minutes and a device on your number clocks the time you run or walk at 1k intervals. I had planned on only walking this year because I hadn’t run since last year but I started to run right at the beginning and I didn’t stop for the entire run. I managed to ‘run’ 4.5 K in 45 minutes. I’m not fast but I have a steady and consistent pace. I’m also grateful that I didn’t hurt too much in the next few days. My leg muscles were a little sore but it didn’t stop me from my daily walking regime. For the last few weeks I’ve been averaging over 11 000 steps a day and I’ve reached my walking goal 11 days in a row.
I’m also grateful for spending time with friends from high school. Every time we meet someone new joins us. There were only five of us this time when we met for lunch but it was CM’s first visit and we had a lot of catching up to do. It was a lot of fun.
This week I’m looking forward to celebrating my husband’s birthday. We’re all going to my daughter’s house in Hamilton. Her baby is due any day now and she wanted to host the party at her place so that she would be close to her hospital in case the baby decided to make an appearance during the festivities. Most of all I’m looking forward to the birth of our first grandchild. I may be saying this again next week if she decides to be fashionably late.
Cheers!
…..another beauty in the neighbourhood
…..we had a little bit of rain today
….check out Becca Givens’ for more Sunday Trees
On the edge of the old psychiatric grounds there used to be a working farm which included an apple orchard. Some of the old trees are still there and I’d love to pick some of those apples but they’re so high up I’d need a tall ladder.
….this week I came across a couple of odd ball scenes while on my daily walks
I came across the first scenario after dark. This large doll was sitting on the edge of someone’s lawn next to the sidewalk as if waiting for a lift. In the second photo we noticed a vine growing from the roof of a garage but when we walked to the side of the garage we saw this huge pumpkin perched over the edge of the roof.
For more odd ball photos check out Cee’s Photography.
….thanks to Carla Sonheim’s free on-line kid’s art lessons for this idea
For my very first art lesson this year I introduced my grade one, two and three classes to Pablo Picasso. We looked at his traditional vs abstract paintings and explored some of his unusual portraits. Carla’s unique approach to drawing an abstract dog made the assignment fun and less intimidating than drawing a traditional human face.
After we practised drawing some dog features (snouts, eyes, ears, tails, paws) I gave each child a piece of watercolour paper and instructed them to draw an eye, turn the paper and draw a larger eye and continued like this until there were six or seven features on the paper. Then they had to turn the paper and find the layout they liked best and start joining the features to create a dog. They could change things around and add more features as they went along. This took up pretty much all the time we had in our first class. I collected the papers and stored them away for a week.
The following week we discussed what the primary colours are and I demonstrated how to hold a brush and apply paint to the paper. I returned their work from the week before and handed out the paints. For many in grade one it was a challenge to stay in the lines but for the most part they managed to keep the colours from blending into one another. We used tempera paint so it took a while to dry. I asked the homeroom teacher to give the students time to go over the pencil lines with a black Sharpie so that their dogs would reappear.
I loved their finished works of art. I’ve selected a few to share with you.
…..zinnia’s must be out of fashion because this is the first one I’ve seen on my walks
