Jog-a-thon

Danica's school did their jog-a-thon last Friday. They sure got lucky on the weather. It was a beautiful day! Each grade only jogs for 1/2 hour. Danica's time was 1:00-1:30. I got there just after they had started. She ended up completing the 14 laps that she needed in order to win her water bottle (she says that Mira has chewed her old water bottle so she needs a new one). Melissa ran a few laps with her, and I did a couple of laps too (at a very S-L-O-W jog, and I was not the one holding us up).

 She did actually *run* for a little bit.

Her principal is helping her get the bark mulch out of her shoes.

 Melissa did several laps with her.

Sometimes some "persuasion" and encouragement was needed.

 I did a couple of laps with her, too.  All three of us did the final lap, which is why there are no pictures.

That reminds me....I still need to pay up on the pledge I made!

Roadtrip 2010

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Good fences make good neighbors?

 

Clay said he wanted a picture of the dogwood tree in our neighbor's backyard AND the blossoming tree behind it AND a blue sky. That's a lot to ask for. But it finally all came together this afternoon when I got home from work. Trouble is...our neighbors are out of town. They have a low metal gate at the entrance of their backyard, which I could have climbed over, but I thought that would be kind of weird, so I got our ladder out of the garage and put it in our backyard near the fence, and climbed up on the ladder and took a couple of pictures looking out over our fence -- then I moved the ladder to another spot for a picture from a different angle.

And somehow I thought that would look less weird than simply climbing over their gate???

:-)