We enjoyed this!!

You see the little guys on the right??  They are there when you need them!

I don't post many movies but want to share this one!  It  was a fun movie - lots of dry humor and lots of great animation!  Definitely some laugh-out-loud moments!  (If you want some comparison - Greg would like this!)

It's funny - but there's still romance.

There's even a special guest appearance!

Here's the trailer! - Trailer #2 is a little bit of a spoiler.

Another old report card

A few weeks ago I posted a few school report cards of a couple ancestors. I discovered this one today and decided to post it.  It is my own second grade report card from 1948 - thanks mom! 

The top part is the front and back (it folds).  Notice that the handwritten part says that I had a "grade equivalent of 4.2"  - at the end of my second grade year.  I was pretty smart way back then!  Also - we were graded on nine traits of "Citizenship" - and, of course, I got the top mark in all of those.

In the other section the grading is interesting.  It shows how many kids in the class, how many got A's, how many got B's, etc. Then your own grade was circled in red.  That really gives some good information! (And you'll see all A's circled - but from the looks of things that really meant that I was not in the bottom quarter or so.)  The "Explanation of Marks" isn't exactly accurate - "C" was not "Average", in actuality, "C" (in most cases) was the lowest 5-10%!

The other interesting thing to me are the subjects - Arithmetic, Drawing, and then "Language & Grammar", "Reading", "Spelling & Phonics", and "Writing".  Also "Music" for which we were not graded.

This is where I went to school in grades 3-6.  The 2nd grade building was behind this one and in the 7th grade I moved to the building visible to the right.  In the 8th grade we moved to a new campus.

Zippin' in the heat!

I don't think I've seen anyone enjoy the ride down more then this little girl. She'd ridden it before and she made three trips down this time!

 

 

It was actually pretty nice yesterday morning.  In the shade with a breeze - so everyone had fun.  Daniel brought a family over last fall and when they had more family in town for a wedding and visit they wanted to bring them over to ride the zip line.  So now the guest book has entries from Florida and Washington. 

Alex at "Blues Monday" at ZAZUZ Pizza

Come on in!

Our new Monday dinner.  A good pizza at ZAZUZ's in Winnsboro and music.  Our A&E buds Gene and Suzanne make this a regular stop too!  Alex pretty well led this session!

Have you ever seen a "White-lined Sphinx Hummingbird Moth"?

They act like a hummingbird but they are a moth.  It does have a long proboscis and can feed deep into a flower (Mirabillis here).  They zip around like a silent hummingbird.  Never knew there was such a thing and when I ran to get the camera I thought I was going to be taking a picture of a strange, lost, little hummer!

Finished except for the shade cloth - and a few replacement boards

At this point, the pergola is a $300 project and I'm happy with what we have for that.  It is a bit like another room. We're at the stage where the little ideas for further improvement start popping up - a rug? - no two matching rugs, replace the existing one? - change out the furniture? - some of it has lumber from the way it was - replace some of that!! etc., etc.  I've got shade cloth on order now (part of the $300) but I found a big piece (but not big enough) in the garden shed, leftover from the greenhouse, and tacked it up to see what the change would be - nice! So, a little more wood tomorrow for replacements. 

Will finish the pergola tomorrow

But today it's just too hot to work out there in the afternoon!!  I have to rest and rehydrate every half hour or so - but that gives me more time to think about what I'm going to do next and the best way to do it.  It's turning out OK!  Here are some progress shots.  We've noticed already that it makes the deck gazebo more comfortable, particularly in the mornings and early afternoons.