Things I did yesterday for the first time:
- Cleaned the honeycomb blinds in our loft and bedroom
- Vacuumed the window valances in our bedroom (they’re velour, so they don’t wash easily)
- Tried a new way to make pork (it turned out decent…tasted fine, could’ve been much worse)
- Made a pie.
Yep! I was trying all sorts of new things yesterday. And Eric thought the pie was really good. It was apple, by the way, so I even got to use the pie filling I canned in the fall! Anyway, he ate a piece with ice cream, and then another small slice before bed. He’s so funny! I used the leftover pie dough to make a fake peach cobbler (peach stuff inside, pie crust on top).
Other than my adventuring, I did get my papers read. I got bored with that job part-way through, so I was glad when Karen called to chat. That provided a nice break, and then I finished them. I also did laundry. I finished it all (even put it away!). I do still have to iron, but maybe I’ll do that tonight while Eric’s at orchestra. Eric and I watched a bit of television last night, too (Dirty Jobs) before heading to bed. So, all in all, it was a good day!
Today is pretty typical. I do have a meeting at 10, but that should be a good one. Then classes and such to follow. Today will be a grammar day. Lucky for them, I limit attention in their papers primarily to 8 very common errors (mostly commas and pronouns). But I still have to tell them how to fix the things I’ve now marked in their first papers. Yah…they’ll be a bit bored today, I bet. Oh well, I can’t win them all, huh?
Anyway, Happy Wednesday!
^We roll that pie crust out in strips, butter it, cinnamon and sugar, then roll into pinwheels. Voila, my great-grandma’s famous “Knots.”
^Terri, I did that with the scraps I couldn’t otherwise use. That is my favorite use of pie dough!!^
I HATE grammar mistakes. Especially apostrophes. While training a bunch of teachers in S.C. once, I actually jumped up and down and stomped my foot as they argued that you DID use apostrophes for plurals! AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Mom used to sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on left-over pie crust scraps and bake them for us. Long ago and far away.
^i was just thinking that about the pie!^
now i have a huge pie craving!
I think that class sounds great! And those errors are things that bother me VERY much, so they should learn them!!
PERFECT that you have leftover pie for today!
Wow! You were VERY productive – I am extremely impressed!
Mmm, your pie sounds yummy! Hey, you can’t show movie clips every day (unless they are interested in Schoolhouse Rock’s Grammar Rocks–good stuff). They got their entertainment yesterday.
Happy Grammar Day!