Thursday Tidbits

          ~~  To Nat, for giving me a mention in her journal yesterday.  She mentioned Dusty Pages as a good story-telling journal.  I appreciate the compliment but feel a little guilty about receiving it, as I don't feel I have written any good family stories lately.  I'll try to rectify that as soon as I can.

 

           Today was another bad one, as expected.  I stayed inside in the A/C most of the day.  We are all feeling better, and Eler Beth had her school lessons.  Across the river in Louisville, as reported on the National News, parents and children did not take the heat advisory seriously, and several people, mostly children, became ill or fainted while at some sort of back-to-school-supplies bash, taking place outside.  

                Local schools had their first day back to school today.  It was a half-day, which is probably unprecedented for a first day, due to the high temps.  Eler Beth, of course, was already up early this morning, and she rode her bike around the block saying hello to her friends who were waiting for their school buses.  I must say, I did not miss either having to put her on a bus or driving her to school.

     She followed the high school bus around on it's drive around the block (not actually followed it, mind you, but rode along on the sidewalk), and then she did the same with the elementary bus.  Every year the bus stops get all messed up.  Either the parents are told incorrectly which stop is their child's or the bus driver has a list of stops that has not been updated.  I don't know which happened today, but the elementary bus passed right by some neighbors' down the street and went on to the next stop.  So Eler Beth, already riding along anyway, said to the kids who had been passed by (new in the neighborhood and to the school), "That was your bus!"  Then she rode to the bus' next stop, flagged down the driver and told her that she missed a stop.  (That's my girl!)

     The driver said, "Well, my sheet says house #920."  Eler Beth said, "Yeah, that was it, but you missed it."  The driver said, "They weren't out there."  Then Eler Beth said, "Yes, they were!  And they're still there.  Will you wait a minute for them to get here?"  Then before the bus driver could say anything, she motioned down the street to the neighbor kids and said, "Come on!  Hurry up!"  They made their bus!

     Then she visited with her friends while they were waiting for their middle school bus to pick them up.   During all that riding she had Lucy (the gray cockatiel) riding along on the handlebars of her bike!  Also during those rides, she stopped frequently and drank gatorade, finishing a half gallon by the time she came in to breakfast.  I did NOT walk along this morning.  I just couldn't face it today.  Maybe tomorrow.