Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Nice Kitty...


"There is nothing like living in a place where you can be eaten in your own backyard."
This is a picture of a mountain lion that our friends Mitch and Kaatje came across on a horse ride last week. Their dog scared it and chased it up a tree. It has been hanging around the ranch this summer/fall, but we haven't had any problems with it so far. We just try not to be out walking around after dark. It was somewhat comforting to know that it was scared by the dog.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Not much going on...

Every time I post on here, I think how I need to get better about posting more often. I tell myself that I will do it every week or so. Then next thing I know its been a month again and I still haven't posted. I guess I just can't come up with anything interesting to post about. So this time, I don't really have much exciting that's been going on. Unlike our summer, filled with adventures, our fall has been pretty routine. We have been extremely busy at school and we just can't seem to figure out what we can do differently. I guess that's what being a teacher is all about.
John is teaching a new elective this year- Geography. We decided it was something our kids were really lacking in, so he agreed to teach it. Its a lot of work. He has to spend a lot of extra time planning and grading, but I think he enjoys the class. Its fun to actually be able to teach a whole class every once in a while. I am teaching computers again as my elective. The older kids class is not fun at all. I really don't enjoy it. The younger kids class is a new curriculum I picked out last year, and it is going really well.
We are really excited about getting to visit Indiana this month. We haven't been there since August 2007, and we are ready to see everyone and just have a little bit of a vacation from school. (I know- its only the 6th week of school, but you can always use vacation from school.) We're making all of our plans of what we are going to do while we are there and we are just really excited.

And just for fun, here is picture from the Bison Range last week. Its a little fuzzy because our camera only takes good pictures in good lighting.