Did I ever tell you that Wakana used to live in the Sahara Forest? What's that? You say it's the Sahara Desert? Well, it is NOW!

We bought a house with lots of trees and ground. The trees needed trimming (in her opinion) and the ground needed mowing. I should have known what to expect. The first time she saw this place she looked like a dog eying a piece of steak. Since we moved in she has been looking at the trees and considering and then she started trimming, and trimming, and trimming...

This morning we burned three pickup loads of limbs and leaves. The pile of ashes is still smoldering out there. She is delighted. As we worked she was picking out other limbs to take down. Sigh.

I am all finished with classes. I just need to finish up some paperwork and clean the junk out of my room and I am done for the summer. I am going back in the fall but the school wouldn't commit to what I would be teaching. The world history teacher is cutting back to part time and the U. S. History and Government teacher is leaving. That would seem to open up an opportunity in the social studies department. Unfortunately the English Department is losing the department head so there will be an opening for some one in Literature and Composition. I have no idea what August will bring to me.