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  1. SandySu

    Chit Chat in VOLTVILLE Thread #2 :)

    Hi, all. I't's been a while since I checked in. ... but it's been longer for Rave. Where is she? So I tutored today. My schedule has changed since school started, and now it's late afternoon to evening, rather than late morning to afternoon. I confess I liked summer hours better. Today, I met...
  2. SandySu

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    During the winter, when there's school and often unpredictable weather, we haven't been going on field trips. Last time I gave them a choice, they chose places to go, but the girl wanted to walk in a local park, and the boy said he didn't. He wanted to go to the ScienceCenter, and the girl...
  3. SandySu

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    They get those bright stones in their jar we discussed some time ago. That's the immediate reward, though they seem less enthusiastic about it lately. I decided they each need to have their own jar for the stones, and when I reward them with an outing --which the girl specifically asked for...
  4. SandySu

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    I tutored today. With the additional child making 4, it's a long day, but not, actually, any longer than a schoolteacher does every day. No lunch break, though. I went to the first kids at 11 am and got out from the last, the new girl, at about 4 pm. Next week, since school will be starting...
  5. SandySu

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    I tutored the kids again today. It was all pretty normal, but at reading time, I gave The Jungle Books a try with the girl reading a section aloud. There were some words she didn't know, but she's determined to read it so she can find out what happened. Music to my ears! She may be a reader yet...
  6. SandySu

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    I have to drive into Ithaca, so I don't want to go on separate days, but the kids do get individual lessons. It's only for the weekly reading I do aloud that I was combining them, but their tastes are getting so different that I'll do that separately, too. The older boy said he wants me to read...
  7. SandySu

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    Thanks, Uncle! Now I know what POP means. I've done my best to consider their culture, though I'm feeling my way along. I've thought about the "firstborn boy" thing, and that may be part of it, but still, he could be more charitable toward his sister. Everyone admires her so much, and she's so...
  8. SandySu

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    Hi, all. Lizzie, I'm glad your party was successful, with lots of great food. All you folks who want to give away overflowing produce, I wish you lived near me! I tutored today, including the new little girl. First, the girl I've been tutoring and her older brother. I read them the beginning...
  9. SandySu

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    Happy un-birthday, Uncle.
  10. SandySu

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    I gave up on the lease on Maija. The boy is back, and I tutored them all today. The boy was fresh and ready to go, but his little sister was sort of restless and distracted. The little one is always ready to go, and today, I read to him: The house that Jack built. I doubt he understood much...
  11. SandySu

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    Remember back when Bill & I went to the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant in Syracuse? I couldn't get the picture from my camera into the computer, but today, I saw my brother, and he showed me how to insert the memory card right into the computer, not use the wire to hook them together, and that...
  12. SandySu

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    Happy vapeversary, Rave. Enjoy your celebrations.
  13. SandySu

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    Today, I tutored the girl and the younger boy. The older boy is still away visiting his aunt. I think he's supposed to come back next weekend. And the girl asked me a "Where do babies come from?" question. We were reading about mummies around the world, both natural and man-made, and they...
  14. SandySu

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    I'm thinking of all you wood-chopping women, Lizzie, Terry, Rave, Celtic. The axe-wielding women of competitive wood chopping | New York Post
  15. SandySu

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    Wow! I never realized how bad this is. I know, Trit, that you climb towers for this kind of work. Do you have the proper safety equipment? Is it new enough not to fail? Do you always attach your safety harness, even if it takes longer to go up and down? $10 an hour is really low pay for a...
  16. SandySu

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    OK, here's an interesting photo, which was hanging over our booth at a restaurant where Bill & I ate dinner this evening. What made me wonder was, first, how if the man was being towed by a car, wouldn't he slip off the blocks of ice? Then I thought maybe he wore crampons for ice climbing on...
  17. SandySu

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    I started wondering something this morning: why some animals have slits for eye pupils while others are round. I was thinking about drawing, and how a dog I drew some time ago had its eyes obscured by the flash used to take the photo I was using. Luckily, they had sent me another photo of the...
  18. SandySu

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    If you want to see the jewelry Rave has made, go to AWoodNymphsTreasures on Etsy
  19. SandySu

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    I wished him a happy birthday from all of us on his Facebook page.
  20. SandySu

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    Just what I wanted to know and what I suspected.
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