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I thought they might have been at school, but I think they were picked up and back at the restaurant by the time it happened. I'll see them tomorrow, so we can talk about it then. I was worried no one from the restaurant could get out in a car to pick them up, but Bill said they were there already when he called me to tell me about it.
Wow, what an amazing accident, sandysu.
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I just read some updates on the accident. The one person who died was the bartender at Simeon's, and she was the mother of a very young child. Also, no one was home in the apartments upstairs. Onlookers said they didn't hear the screech of brakes nor the horn when the truck collided with the building.
Bill didn't hear any crash, because he was about a block away at the bagel place. He said he saw everyone out on the street running, and his first thought was the Godzilla movie, how all the people were running. Then everyone in the bagel place came outside to see what was happening. He said the kids were eating at the Chinese restaurant, but they seemed unaffected. They are used to hearing sirens because of fire alarms all the time, and you couldn't see much from the restaurant. He thinks the kids don't know how serious it was.
The block the Chinese restaurant is on was closed down, but Bill wonders if the restaurant will be open tomorrow, if they can use the back entrance. I have a feeling that may still be shut down, too. We'll find out in the morning if he gets the day off.
Bill didn't hear any crash, because he was about a block away at the bagel place. He said he saw everyone out on the street running, and his first thought was the Godzilla movie, how all the people were running. Then everyone in the bagel place came outside to see what was happening. He said the kids were eating at the Chinese restaurant, but they seemed unaffected. They are used to hearing sirens because of fire alarms all the time, and you couldn't see much from the restaurant. He thinks the kids don't know how serious it was.
The block the Chinese restaurant is on was closed down, but Bill wonders if the restaurant will be open tomorrow, if they can use the back entrance. I have a feeling that may still be shut down, too. We'll find out in the morning if he gets the day off.
It made the local Philly news this morning, Sandy. Can anyone one say "driving too fast?" Physics is a killer!
I just looked online for an update on the accident in Ithaca yesterday. Nothing new, but here -- Simeon's on Commons crash: 1 dead, 4 injured, city grievesThe Ithaca Voice -- there's a photo, the last one, where you can see the Chinese restaurant to the right, the low green building almost obscured by trees. So you can see how close it is to Simeon's.
Wow Sandy I hope when you see the kids they weren't traumatized by it. So sad about the young mother who died.
Good morning, peeps. Of course there is plenty to do around here. I have fruit trees to weed under and de-sucker, Hubby wants to weld some extra struts onto the front of the shade cover, there's snap peas and pea pods to pick and a bunch of little projects. I want to organize the rake and wheel barrow for easier pen clean up. Laundry is starting to pile up a bit.
How you feeling, Evie?
SandySu, hope the kids are okay.
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Here is a photo of the gopher snake that was in the yard last week. That was one feisty snake.
How you feeling, Evie?
SandySu, hope the kids are okay.
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Lizzie, I was having difficulty making sense of that picture before I got closer to it and read your caption. To me, it looked like a picture of the surface of the moon, with the tracks of an exploratory vehicle. Tells you what I think of your part of the country. 
Lizzie, I was having difficulty making sense of that picture before I got closer to it and read your caption. To me, it looked like a picture of the surface of the moon, with the tracks of an exploratory vehicle. Tells you what I think of your part of the country.
LOL
It is a lot like a moonscape out here
LOL
It is a lot like a moonscape out here
I could live there just fine. As you have demonstrated very well it can be nice.
Good morning, peeps. Of course there is plenty to do around here. I have fruit trees to weed under and de-sucker, Hubby wants to weld some extra struts onto the front of the shade cover, there's snap peas and pea pods to pick and a bunch of little projects. I want to organize the rake and wheel barrow for easier pen clean up. Laundry is starting to pile up a bit.
How you feeling, Evie?
SandySu, hope the kids are okay.
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Here is a photo of the gopher snake that was in the yard last week. That was one feisty snake.
I'm doing okay. Some days I think I'm going to cruise by the next 3 months and other days I feel like it's going to be a long journey. Today is a long journey kind of day.
Snakes are bad here this year for some reason, especially the Copperheads.
Snakes in the South kind of scare me Our desert rattlers don't scare me so much but copperheads and giant Texas sized rattle snakes do scare me
Our desert rattlers don't scare me so much but copperheads and giant Texas sized rattle snakes do scare me
Speaking of copperheads...
Last summer, before the desolation of the woods, Fiance was walking Bruno down the trail when he stepped on something squishy. He thought 'Great! I stepped in crap!' but in the split second the snake whipped up and snagged itself onto his jeans!!!
Well he reached down without thinking, grabbed the snake, ripped it off of his pants and threw it. Now Bruno was barking at it and backing away from it and the snake was trying to go after Bruno. Fiance did the only think he could... He tap/river danced on it. He brought the snake up so his dad could 'see' it. His dad has Macular Degeneration so he thought it was a rat/chicken snake. And I, as much as I like snakes, never paid much attention to what a copperhead looked like so I went along with it.
Fast forward to this spring when a pic showing what poisonous snakes look like showed up on my FB. I said "Precious, you remember that snake from last summer? Well it wasn't a rat snake!" We were pretty shocked... and thankful that fiance was wearing PJ's under his jeans. We even have video of that really dead snake. Fiance stomped its head into oblivion!
Reminder folks: ALWAYS look where you step when you are outdoors, in a cellar, or in the crawl space under your house!!!!
Last summer, before the desolation of the woods, Fiance was walking Bruno down the trail when he stepped on something squishy. He thought 'Great! I stepped in crap!' but in the split second the snake whipped up and snagged itself onto his jeans!!!
Well he reached down without thinking, grabbed the snake, ripped it off of his pants and threw it. Now Bruno was barking at it and backing away from it and the snake was trying to go after Bruno. Fiance did the only think he could... He tap/river danced on it. He brought the snake up so his dad could 'see' it. His dad has Macular Degeneration so he thought it was a rat/chicken snake. And I, as much as I like snakes, never paid much attention to what a copperhead looked like so I went along with it. Fast forward to this spring when a pic showing what poisonous snakes look like showed up on my FB. I said "Precious, you remember that snake from last summer? Well it wasn't a rat snake!" We were pretty shocked... and thankful that fiance was wearing PJ's under his jeans. We even have video of that really dead snake. Fiance stomped its head into oblivion!
Reminder folks: ALWAYS look where you step when you are outdoors, in a cellar, or in the crawl space under your house!!!!
No worries around here, just black snakes and garter snakes, nothing poisonous, I don't think. Famous last words, I know. LOL
I think in Michigan we only have 16 or 17 kinds of snakes. One is venomous, the massasauga rattlesnake. Those are dangerous to kids, pets, and smaller animals, but I don't think it would be too pleasant to get bit. We most often see garter snakes, but we occasionally see a blue racer, they are small but scary, they will pop up and hiss at you if you get too close. We walked up on one that must have felt threatened, he did that "stand up like a cobra" thing, I left immediately!
I'm not sure how many specie we have here but it's a great plenty lol. Eastern Diamondback, Cottonmouth Moccasin, Pigmy Rattlesnake and Coral are about the only venomous ones I can think of. Puff Adder, Grass snakes, Rat snakes, Blacksnakes (my favorite) and now the Everglades are home to a few exotic specie. Burmese Python, Green Anaconda. Of all of them the only one that really bothers me and has aggressively tried to attack me is the Moccasin. The rest just want to be left alone and I do my best to accommodate them.
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Accident update & tutoring report.
This morning, I drove Bill in to work, since they wouldn't let him take his car out of the lot behind the restaurant yesterday afternoon, when the restaurant closed. So I tutored the kids while I was down there. Of course, I drove past the corner where the accident occurred, so I saw the wreckage to the building. The truck carrying cars was gone. Here -- http://www.pressconnects.com/articl...aurant-crash-had-inadequate-brakes-tried-turn -- there's a picture of the building as it looked when I drove past. In fact, there was someone there with a big, professional-looking camera, and I think he might have been taking the picture as I drove past. They also released the name of the bartender who was killed, and I think Bill knows her, since yesterday, he kept asking me if her name was Amanda. It is.
When I got to the kids' house, we discussed the accident. They knew a lady was killed, but they heard it was a pregnant lady. No, there was a pregnant lady among the injured, but she wasn't killed. But the lady who was had a small child, I told them, and now that child doesn't have a mother. The boy also said he heard one of the cars on the carrier was actually undamaged! I said that was a miracle.
The kids didn't seem upset, more excited and full of news of the accident. They'll be fine. I had a feeling that'd be the case.
So I started with the girl. She takes a long time to complete her worksheets. She takes a long time to do everything, I think. I know she takes forever to eat. I had to keep calling her attention back to the work at hand. She did well, though. She got the Don't / Doesn't worksheet all right, so we'll stop doing those, but in answering a question to the reading, she used "don't" when it should have been "doesn't," so she needs to learn to use those words correctly still. She also used "her" instead of "him," a problem she used to have but I thought was over. I guess not. She read a few short pieces (reading comprehension) and answered the questions. Now, she has to use complete sentences to answer, and she's not clear what's a complete sentence and what's not. That's the next main project. I'm wondering if I should get into grammar and explain the subject and predicate, or if I should just point out incomplete sentences until she gets the idea by instinct. What do you all think? Maybe I'll try teaching subject and predicate.
The boy did his fill-in-the blanks, two of the 5-sentence ones instead of the 10-sentence one. Interestingly, the girl opted to do one 10-sentence sheet instead of 2 shorter ones. Then he finally read about zombie ants. That has been sitting around for a long time, waiting to be read. Rave, do you remember when you suggested it? It was months ago!
This morning, I drove Bill in to work, since they wouldn't let him take his car out of the lot behind the restaurant yesterday afternoon, when the restaurant closed. So I tutored the kids while I was down there. Of course, I drove past the corner where the accident occurred, so I saw the wreckage to the building. The truck carrying cars was gone. Here -- http://www.pressconnects.com/articl...aurant-crash-had-inadequate-brakes-tried-turn -- there's a picture of the building as it looked when I drove past. In fact, there was someone there with a big, professional-looking camera, and I think he might have been taking the picture as I drove past. They also released the name of the bartender who was killed, and I think Bill knows her, since yesterday, he kept asking me if her name was Amanda. It is.
When I got to the kids' house, we discussed the accident. They knew a lady was killed, but they heard it was a pregnant lady. No, there was a pregnant lady among the injured, but she wasn't killed. But the lady who was had a small child, I told them, and now that child doesn't have a mother. The boy also said he heard one of the cars on the carrier was actually undamaged! I said that was a miracle.
The kids didn't seem upset, more excited and full of news of the accident. They'll be fine. I had a feeling that'd be the case.
So I started with the girl. She takes a long time to complete her worksheets. She takes a long time to do everything, I think. I know she takes forever to eat. I had to keep calling her attention back to the work at hand. She did well, though. She got the Don't / Doesn't worksheet all right, so we'll stop doing those, but in answering a question to the reading, she used "don't" when it should have been "doesn't," so she needs to learn to use those words correctly still. She also used "her" instead of "him," a problem she used to have but I thought was over. I guess not. She read a few short pieces (reading comprehension) and answered the questions. Now, she has to use complete sentences to answer, and she's not clear what's a complete sentence and what's not. That's the next main project. I'm wondering if I should get into grammar and explain the subject and predicate, or if I should just point out incomplete sentences until she gets the idea by instinct. What do you all think? Maybe I'll try teaching subject and predicate.
The boy did his fill-in-the blanks, two of the 5-sentence ones instead of the 10-sentence one. Interestingly, the girl opted to do one 10-sentence sheet instead of 2 shorter ones. Then he finally read about zombie ants. That has been sitting around for a long time, waiting to be read. Rave, do you remember when you suggested it? It was months ago!
At her level, I think it would be better to show her sentences and non-sentences, and ask her to recognize them as one or the other. When discussing her work, you can then underline and double-underline the subject and predicate. But don't expect her to do that yet.
Time for bed. I have to get up early tomorrow to help out at a horse show. Daisies tonight.
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