The Great Egg Disaster

Ok. It really isn't that much of a disaster, unless it is me.  The disaster reminded me I needed to put up a blog post.

Capturing giant grasshopper for bug collection

Last Sunday morning I was making Sidney scrambled eggs.  I had the eggs beaten up and ready to go in the skillet, some bacon and hash browns going for me and a cup of coffee to keep me alive while I cooked.  The coffee clearly wasn't working when instead of grabbing it to take a drink I grabbed the beaten eggs and took a healthy mouth full.  It was very nearly the end of me.  I wouldn't eat cooked eggs unless they were all that was left on the face of the planet.  It took me hours to get over it......

San Antonio was subject to two or so weeks of Snout Nose Butterfly migration.  I have never seen so many butterflies in my life.  All flying generally in the same direction.  It has happened before but not for several years.  The rain events this year were timed just perfectly for them to migrate through.  It was a royal mess.  Cars covered in bodies and goo.  My work truck grill couldn't be seen for all the butterflies plastered to it.

Seventh grade seems to be the year of the project.  It started with the summer reading project and summer history project.  There was another history project and most recently a science project.  The science project was build a cell in a box.  The box was green with a bubble wrap cell membrane.  The vacuole was a balloon with beads in it.  The mitochondria were batteries and the nucleus was a remote control. The chloroplasts were fuzz balls on toothpicks and the cytoplasm was plastic airbags.

Cat thinks owl rug is her bed

The parts had to resemble the function of the parts of a plant cell.

Since the last post we have been our usual level of busy.  Work, school, piano and swimming of course consume most of our time.  I was however able to extend an offer to someone to fill the vacant position on my team and I am anxious to get help.  During the last week of September we had the EPA on site for a week.  Those were some really long days.  I was leaving the house at 5:30 am and getting home at about 7:30 pm. Bless Sidney's sweet heart along with some folks who helped me get her to where she needed to go for keeping it together that week.

Tired

We did our monthly volunteering in early October at the SA Food Bank.  We helped fill 1200 senior boxes again.  It is a fun but tiring job.  We always fill fulfilled after doing it though.  WE are hoping to schedule some time volunteering in the 30 plus acre garden next time.  They grow fresh vegetables there to distribute with other donated food.  And last Friday my team along with another small team from work packed several thousand breakfast packs for local area school kids.  We put waffles and sausages into trays that are heat sealed and labels before being frozen to distribute.  The child has to put a small hole in the plastic on top and warm it up.

Sidney also spent the night with some friends a couple of weeks ago and went to the Witte Museum yesterday with some other friends.  I use this time as quiet time to take care of a few chores as well as myself.  I also catch a little football or golf.....

Our teeth got a clean bill of health from the dentist.  Sidney still needs to loose several baby teeth and many of those are held in by suction only.  They fall out in the most random places.

Sidney had a swim meet this weekend at our home pool.  It was a huge meet.  Over 600 kids competed over three days.  Sidney had 4 events each on Saturday and Sunday.  The meet had two pools running with even heats competing in one pool and odd heats in another.  It was fairly well coordinated chaos.  She also had a piano recital today where she both played and sang.  This mom was super proud.  I also might have bought a digital piano....  Sidney really liked it and has already named it Digit.  I need to decide where to put it and will get it delivered in about two weeks.  It is slightly smaller than an upright piano but feels and sounds like a very high quality piano.  It does all sorts of things and we are looking forward to learning about it and how to use it.

Desert Squid by Sidney

I earned my Africa badge with my FitBit.  That means I have walked over 5000 miles since I have had the FitBit for just over two years.  After I did the math I decided I was crazy.

This next weekend is the last Spartan Race.  I am doing the Beast near Dallas.  12-14 plus miles with 30 to 35 obstacles.  To be honest I am terrified and wondering what I was thinking.  I haven't been able to train as much as I would like in part due to time but also pain in so many joints.  My hip still hurts most but other joints are joining the party.  My sole goal is to finish.  Even if it is slow.  I want that third piece to my Trifecta medal.  After Saturday I am taking a few days off of the gym, etc.  And trying to slow down a bit more in general.