Remember when you were a kid and the summer seemed to go on forever and the school year was even longer? Well I have always heard that the older you get, the faster time seems to go by. Right about now, I’m feeling old because I don’t know where the past 4 months have gone. When you’re a kid, you don’t have to worry about anything but going to school, playing outside and trying to keep your parents from yelling at you. Maybe that’s why time doesn’t seem to go so fast.
Once you are a ‘grown-up’, there are deadlines to meet, too many things to do in one day and you never seem to get caught up so the days just run together. Maybe that’s why as you get older time seems to go by so fast. We don’t have the time or don’t take the time to savor even one day a week. What a shame too. Everyone needs one day a week to recuperate from the week so take the time, even if it’s just half of a day, to relax and do something you enjoy away from your house, your computer and even from your kids maybe. That’s just my opinion but it sounds like a pretty good one and maybe I need to read this to myself too!!!
This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones.
This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa — farm equipment!
It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was WELL worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.
Well everyone thinks that the state pays for all of the school supplies in the classrooms. The parents get angry when they send home fund raisers and when they get the supply list their children need when the school year starts. They don’t realize just how much of what is bought for our classrooms comes right out of the teachers pockets. Especially now that there are so many school budget cuts.
Sure they do get to take that expense off on their taxes but the tax break is not anything close to what they spend. Add that to low wages and sometimes I wonder why my grandmother still teaches. I’ll tell you why, because she loves teaching. She loves spending the time with the children and hopefully touching one of them in a way that will make a difference in their lives.
See, I had this wonderful teacher that helped me learn to ‘reach for the stars’ but make sure my feet stayed on the ground. I never forgot Mrs. Flinker for all she taught me because it was much more than just ABC and 123. She taught me how important my education was.
So the next time you want to gripe about a fundraiser sent home or complain about all the supplies you have to buy for your child, think about the teacher. She doesn’t only have a couple of children. She typically has between 25 and 32 children that she makes sure have all they need to succeed not only in school but hopefully in life.
Well here it is again, tax time. I guess I should have said the tax deadline is here. I sure hope you didn’t do like a lot of other people and wait until the last minute to try and get your taxes done. I hate to have to search all over the house at the last minute to make sure I have everything I need to do my taxes so I have a plastic bin I keep anything and everything that has to do with my taxes. That way, I can just pick it up, sort the papers out (which does take time but not as much as trying to find the stuff does most people) and then it’s easy to get them done early. I do mind online instead of taking them to someone.
I live out in the country, well okay, out in the boonies and there’s a little store up the road from me called ‘Just One Stop’. It’s one of those little stores that charge an arm and a leg for the things they sell but it’s pretty far to town so sometimes you just have to go there when you run out of something you really need right then.
The main problem with this store is they don’t accept credit cards or even debit cards. I’m sure if he would at least accept debit cards, he would get more business. That’s one of the reasons I hate to go there because I prefer not to carry money and pay with my debit card usually. Sometimes I might use a credit card but not usually. He says it costs too much for the terminals to accept credit cards.
That’s not the problem at all. He’s one of those people that’s afraid of change. It’s that plain and simple because I tried to tell him that he can get the terminal free, and if he would just check around, he would find that the fees are not that much anymore. All he has to do is check on the Internet and he’ll find great offers.
He’s just too much of a tight wad to consider anything but cash. He won’t even accept checks unless he has known you for years. Oh well, it’s his loss and not mine. I tried to help him but some people you just can’t help.
