I'm sure bf will be glad that's out of the way.
Oh...there will be more that I'll only share with him.
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Oh...there will be more that I'll only share with him.
I have some REI ones like those but I don't like them tight. They are tight in the knees so it's uncomfortable to bend my legs. Small price to pay I guess.
Cool, I hope so.
I found a couple things at Walmart that I picked up. I know I said I'd stay out of the crafts stores but Walmart isn't a craft store.
I got a chamois and some blending stumps. Both are in my Blick order but I wanted them NOW! 
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Terry, I use tights and thermal underwear. Works like a charm
Yeah, I might have to start wearing my tight long johns under my sweats, under my thermals. Sheesh!!
When I went out to clear the snow the other day, I had on a body suit, tights, thermals, jeans, sweat shirt, two pairs of socks, boots, heavy jacket and ski gloves. I felt like Ralphie's little brother in "Christmas Story" but other than my fingers, I was toasty warm!
I got back from tutoring a while ago.
I started with the girl. She read The Big Brown Bear. See http://goldengems.blogspot.com/2008/02/big-brown-bear_13.html for the full text and illustrations. There were many words she didn't know, but she valiantly read it to the end, and I wrote down all the words she had trouble with so she could learn them. We went over her words from last week. She knew about half of them, so the other half and a few from the book were her words to study this week. She has come a long way! Back in Sept. when I started teaching the boy, we tried this book, and then, he was about as good at reading it as his little sister was today!
We did a Mad Libs, and the kids got a laugh over some of it. They really do like the Mad Libs! And it really helps them with the parts of speech. Today, there were adverbs they had to come up with, and I had to explain to both of them what an adverb was and give examples (which they weren't allowed to use -- they had to think up their own word).
Then the boy did a couple of crossword puzzles and a fairly large, hard word search. The girl helped and even found some words before we did. The rules are that if you are not the person doing the word search, you can't tell where the word is till the one doing it (the boy) asks for help. Then he can decide if he wants a hint or just have you point out where the word is. A few times the girl got mixed up about the rules and pointed out the word when he only asked for a hint. I told him to be clearer about which he wanted, and reminded the girl not to point to where the word was when she was supposed to just give a hint. She has some trouble knowing her left from her right, and once she told the boy to look for the word on the right when it was on the left. In disgust, he wrote "right" and "left" on the appropriate sides of the paper.
I got his vocab words from the crossword puzzles. He knew them, but he wasn't sure how to spell some. So he has to learn to spell a list of words, and I added a few that he needs to learn to say and know their meaning, too.
I was surprised that he didn't want to do another Choose Your Own Adventure story. I thought he seemed very interested in the concept last time. Oh well. You can't win them all. Meanwhile, I have the book, and Ill try again another day. I think once he gets into it, he'll like them. He just doesn't completely understand the idea yet.
Since he didn't do any reading this time, I'm going to have to come up with some reading for next time for him. However, the puzzles and word games are good, too, and he did a prodigious job reading about how not to spread cold germs last time. From the word searches, the one word he didn't know and seemed interested in finding out about was "telescope." He said to me that you could look at the stars and planets with a magnifying glass, and I explained how a telescope was a powerful magnifying glass that showed them better than an ordinary magnifying glass. I was impressed that he read off the names of the planets with no problems. I guess they studied them in school.
When I first arrived, I brought the kids small pastries flavored with cinnamon, since they were unfamiliar with that flavor. The boy gobbled his up, but the girl didn't. I didn't press her to eat it. She said she was saving it to share with her baby brother. Either she's very kind and thoughtful, or she didn't like the looks of the pastry and didn't want to say so. I think the former, since the kids aren't shy about saying they don't like something.
I started with the girl. She read The Big Brown Bear. See http://goldengems.blogspot.com/2008/02/big-brown-bear_13.html for the full text and illustrations. There were many words she didn't know, but she valiantly read it to the end, and I wrote down all the words she had trouble with so she could learn them. We went over her words from last week. She knew about half of them, so the other half and a few from the book were her words to study this week. She has come a long way! Back in Sept. when I started teaching the boy, we tried this book, and then, he was about as good at reading it as his little sister was today!
We did a Mad Libs, and the kids got a laugh over some of it. They really do like the Mad Libs! And it really helps them with the parts of speech. Today, there were adverbs they had to come up with, and I had to explain to both of them what an adverb was and give examples (which they weren't allowed to use -- they had to think up their own word).
Then the boy did a couple of crossword puzzles and a fairly large, hard word search. The girl helped and even found some words before we did. The rules are that if you are not the person doing the word search, you can't tell where the word is till the one doing it (the boy) asks for help. Then he can decide if he wants a hint or just have you point out where the word is. A few times the girl got mixed up about the rules and pointed out the word when he only asked for a hint. I told him to be clearer about which he wanted, and reminded the girl not to point to where the word was when she was supposed to just give a hint. She has some trouble knowing her left from her right, and once she told the boy to look for the word on the right when it was on the left. In disgust, he wrote "right" and "left" on the appropriate sides of the paper.
I got his vocab words from the crossword puzzles. He knew them, but he wasn't sure how to spell some. So he has to learn to spell a list of words, and I added a few that he needs to learn to say and know their meaning, too.
I was surprised that he didn't want to do another Choose Your Own Adventure story. I thought he seemed very interested in the concept last time. Oh well. You can't win them all. Meanwhile, I have the book, and Ill try again another day. I think once he gets into it, he'll like them. He just doesn't completely understand the idea yet.
Since he didn't do any reading this time, I'm going to have to come up with some reading for next time for him. However, the puzzles and word games are good, too, and he did a prodigious job reading about how not to spread cold germs last time. From the word searches, the one word he didn't know and seemed interested in finding out about was "telescope." He said to me that you could look at the stars and planets with a magnifying glass, and I explained how a telescope was a powerful magnifying glass that showed them better than an ordinary magnifying glass. I was impressed that he read off the names of the planets with no problems. I guess they studied them in school.
When I first arrived, I brought the kids small pastries flavored with cinnamon, since they were unfamiliar with that flavor. The boy gobbled his up, but the girl didn't. I didn't press her to eat it. She said she was saving it to share with her baby brother. Either she's very kind and thoughtful, or she didn't like the looks of the pastry and didn't want to say so. I think the former, since the kids aren't shy about saying they don't like something.
I need all that just to stay warm in my trailer.
Except I can't type with gloves on. I've tried with fingerless gloves but stumbled around the keyboard.
The Wickers ones are very stretchy, and I even use them under my riding pants, which are skintight. Maybe I'm just not as sensitive, or maybe the Wickers ones are more flexible. I don't know.
Maybe not, but it does have a craft store section, so you went to the craft store.Cool, I hope so.
I found a couple things at Walmart that I picked up. I know I said I'd stay out of the crafts stores but Walmart isn't a craft store.
Terry, here's a thought. If you are in your trailer all day long and are freezing, why not go to some heated public place like the library during the day? You could probably take your artwork there and do that, and I wonder if the library has wifi so you could even be on your computer or smart phone.
Maybe not, but it does have a craft store section, so you went to the craft store.
You're just twisting my words. I hear you do that a lot.
No I'm not, you said that you weren't going to the craft store, but you did go to Wally World's craft store section....same difference.You're just twisting my words. I hear you do that a lot.
Yes, I could do that. But I'm like Rave...I hate to leave home. I'm sorry I'm being so negative. I've just been really grumpy lately. I'll survive the winter but I don't know if I'll stay here for next winter. If BF hasn't built us a house by then I may have to move back into an apt that has free heat like my last one.
No I'm not, you said that you weren't going to the craft store, but you did go to Wally World's craft store section....same difference.
We don't have a Wally World's craft store in Walmart.
Yes, I could do that. But I'm like Rave...I hate to leave home. I'm sorry I'm being so negative. I've just been really grumpy lately. I'll survive the winter but I don't know if I'll stay here for next winter. If BF hasn't built us a house by then I may have to move back into an apt that has free heat like my last one.
I understand. You expected a house by winter and it's not happening. That can certainly make the discomfort more unbearable.
Could you get a woodstove? I mean, when/if the house is built, the woodstove could go into the house. I think you could heat with wood cheaper and just use the expensive heat as backup. Woodstoves are expensive, of course, but some sort of heating would have to go into the house, and that would cost money, too. You might as well heat the house with a woodstove, too.
Ok, I surrender !!!!!
LOL! Found out you couldn't win, huh, Jerry?
Yes, we definitely want a wood stove and supplement with electric furnace or radiator heaters. I wish I could put a wood stove in this trailer but there's nowhere to put it.
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