On engagement and email

I realized yesterday that I haven't posted in a week. Eep! Time for some Tuesday Morning Bullet Posting...

• First, thanks to the people who emailed to check up on me. Nice to know that people notice when you disappear. :o)



• We are rapidly approaching the end of the semester and that has been keeping me very busy. This is most of the reason for last week's radio silence.



• The weekend silence was due to the fact that we went away for a couple of days and the laptop did not.



• Our weekend was blessed with very pleasant weather and Neatnik became "engaged".



• He let her carry his brand-new, just purchased stuffed alligator and they had both a lunch date and a pool date on Saturday.



• The happy couple has already started discussing having children and are making plans to purchase a home together.



• It will be a very loooooooong engagement.



Engagement photo for local paper.


• Very long.



• At least until the groom graduates college.



• Which can't be less than fifteen years from now.



• He's the same age as she is but is a grade behind due to cut-off dates in his district.



• While that is the most exciting news of the weekend, the other really exciting bit is Neatnik went on her first trail rides.



• She is old enough now and her feet reach the stirrups.



• In further exciting news, I cast on for a washcloth on Friday evening. It isn't done, but it is knitting.



• This is good since the knitting club meets today and I will have something to show the children.



• Last Thursday, when I was helping with hot lunch, one of the girls called out to me, "Knitting teacher! Which are better: the double pointed needles or the circle ones with the string connecting them?"



• :: sniff ::



• So proud.



• Then there was the email I received from one of my college students today...


From: Hopeful Student
To: professor trek
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prof trek,

On my project assigment, I did extra work on page xyz. Hopefully I can get extra credit for it as I practice for the test.


# # #
Um, that would be, no.
# # #


• Just one more shred of evidence that there is balance in the universe.

There you have it: the extremely abridged version of last week. I know I am missing lots of stuff but the most important thing we are missing here at chez trek is groceries and I must remedy that situation post-haste.