Monday, June 25, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Archaeology Field School is Over
Yesterday was the final day of the archaeology field school at Kingsley Plantation for this year. DH came home last night and asked me to download all the pictures on his camera. Now he's back at Kingsley all day today doing clean-up and I'm home with all these new videos and pictures to look at and share. Hmmmmm, let's see...
A nice shot of the gardens, benches, and the back of the house:
People digging holes:
People standing in holes:
A person demonstrating just how close to human-size the units are:
A demonstration of how easy it would be to turn the units into kiddy pools:
Storm damage:
Sad, wet DH on public archaeology day:
More sad, wet people:
An energetic approach to sifting dirt:
A more relaxed approach to sifting dirt:
There is always at least one silly, entertaining video of the students and this is it. It's the Kingsley Slide y'all!
A nice shot of the gardens, benches, and the back of the house:
People digging holes:
People standing in holes:
A person demonstrating just how close to human-size the units are:
A demonstration of how easy it would be to turn the units into kiddy pools:
Storm damage:
Sad, wet DH on public archaeology day:
More sad, wet people:
An energetic approach to sifting dirt:
A more relaxed approach to sifting dirt:
There is always at least one silly, entertaining video of the students and this is it. It's the Kingsley Slide y'all!
Friday, June 22, 2012
Bulletin Board Make-Over
This is the ugly, battered bulletin board I removed from the wall yesterday.
It turns out it was amazingly easy to put apart with my bare hands.
I already had an unfinished wood picture frame that I had purchased for a project long ago that had never been done. I used the same red mahogany wood stain that I've been using for all of Blaze's bedroom furniture. but the frame required more than one coat. It still looked dull until the polyurethane clear coat was added this morning.
The cork board had to be trimmed a little to fit the frame. Then I covered the cork with fabric, pulling it tight and stapling it in place.
Super glue was used to hold the fabric covered cork board to the frame.
The original board had large, colorful plastic tacks holding papers on. These also got a make-over.
I didn't want to paint the pin, only the plastic, so I came up with yet another use for old cereal boxes.
The tacks were sprayed with black Krylon fusion for plastic, which dries in about 15 minutes. Then, I did a very cliche steampunk thing and glued some gears on them.
The finished bulletin board for Blaze's room, complete with the tacks:
It turns out it was amazingly easy to put apart with my bare hands.
I already had an unfinished wood picture frame that I had purchased for a project long ago that had never been done. I used the same red mahogany wood stain that I've been using for all of Blaze's bedroom furniture. but the frame required more than one coat. It still looked dull until the polyurethane clear coat was added this morning.
The cork board had to be trimmed a little to fit the frame. Then I covered the cork with fabric, pulling it tight and stapling it in place.
Super glue was used to hold the fabric covered cork board to the frame.
The original board had large, colorful plastic tacks holding papers on. These also got a make-over.
I didn't want to paint the pin, only the plastic, so I came up with yet another use for old cereal boxes.
The tacks were sprayed with black Krylon fusion for plastic, which dries in about 15 minutes. Then, I did a very cliche steampunk thing and glued some gears on them.
The finished bulletin board for Blaze's room, complete with the tacks:
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Happy first day of summer!
Packing continues:
We still have one more month until we move, but I'm discovering how much stuff we have accumulated over the past eight years of living in Gainesville.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The World's Largest Swimming Lesson
This was the event we attended this morning:
The idea behind the event was to make people aware of how important swimming lesson are for children. It was free and the kids had a good time, I just wish more people had shown up.
The children were divided up by age for their lessons. Blaze was with this group of 10 and 11 year olds.
The local new was shooting footage of the children swimming, so we'll have to make a point of watching the channel 20 news tonight.
Here is the entire group together:
The Noah's Endeavor/Aquabilities swimmers and volunteers:
As the children were leaving the pool, they were each given a certificate of participation:
This was a great warm up for Aquabilities swimming lesson, which will be beginning soon.
Blaze is signed up for the first two week session, which begins June 25th, but there are two additional two week sessions after that.
The idea behind the event was to make people aware of how important swimming lesson are for children. It was free and the kids had a good time, I just wish more people had shown up.
The children were divided up by age for their lessons. Blaze was with this group of 10 and 11 year olds.
The local new was shooting footage of the children swimming, so we'll have to make a point of watching the channel 20 news tonight.
Here is the entire group together:
The Noah's Endeavor/Aquabilities swimmers and volunteers:
As the children were leaving the pool, they were each given a certificate of participation:
This was a great warm up for Aquabilities swimming lesson, which will be beginning soon.
Blaze is signed up for the first two week session, which begins June 25th, but there are two additional two week sessions after that.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Public Archaeology Day at Kingsley Plantation 2012
It was a very wet Public Archaeology Day at Kingsley Plantation. This was how the day began:
It then rained off and on all day.
There were moments when it seemed like the rain had moved on and the students would be able to set up demonstrations of the work they had been doing,
but then the rain would begin again.
Excerpts from the 1:00 p.m. talk in the barn.
During breaks in the rain, I was able to walk around reading new interpretive signs and trying out the new path from the barn area to the cabins.
Inside Anna's house:
I also encountered some of the wildlife.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
My Good-Bye Post to Trilogy School
Eight and a half years ago, my son and I moved to Gainesville, because my boyfriend wanted to work on his PHD at the University of Florida. I didn't know what to expect here and Florida took some getting used to. I really wasn't sure I wanted to stay. I'm a Midwestern girl and we didn't have fire ants, banana spiders, and giant flying cockroaches where I grew up. Having a good job can make all the difference when trying to fit into a new place and my first job in Gainesville was not a good fit for me.
Then I answered an ad for a teacher's aid position at Trilogy, a small private school in a little house with a white picket fence out front. I went for an interview with the younger elementary teacher, Kristen, and one of the principles,Terry, but I didn't have any childcare for my two year old son, so he had to come with me. The two women were completely unflustered, as we conducted our entire discussion while following my son from computer to computer all over the building. Afterwards, I was told that the flexibility I showed during that very active interview contributed greatly to me getting the job.
Starting work at Trilogy really changed my opinion of Gainesville. Once I was doing something I enjoyed, I was able to come to love this community.
During the eight years that I have worked at Trilogy, I have had many different jobs, teacher's aid for younger elementary, older elementary, and middle school, tutor, substitute, language arts teacher, history teacher, and keeper of the elementary blog. The consistent thing throughout all those positions, was that I enjoyed working with the Trilogy staff and children. It's a small school, even though it has grown out of that little house with the white picket fence. We really are all family.
I just found out a few days ago, that my husband has been offered a job in Tallahassee. Although he's not quite done with his PHD dissertation, he's very close, and that is something he can do while working. His new job will begin July 23, so I will not be returning to Trilogy in the fall.
I went through my photographs and put together a little good-bye slide show. I'm sorry it's a little light on older pictures. I didn't have a digital camera back then.
Please enjoy this and thank you all for being part of our lives.
Then I answered an ad for a teacher's aid position at Trilogy, a small private school in a little house with a white picket fence out front. I went for an interview with the younger elementary teacher, Kristen, and one of the principles,Terry, but I didn't have any childcare for my two year old son, so he had to come with me. The two women were completely unflustered, as we conducted our entire discussion while following my son from computer to computer all over the building. Afterwards, I was told that the flexibility I showed during that very active interview contributed greatly to me getting the job.
Starting work at Trilogy really changed my opinion of Gainesville. Once I was doing something I enjoyed, I was able to come to love this community.
During the eight years that I have worked at Trilogy, I have had many different jobs, teacher's aid for younger elementary, older elementary, and middle school, tutor, substitute, language arts teacher, history teacher, and keeper of the elementary blog. The consistent thing throughout all those positions, was that I enjoyed working with the Trilogy staff and children. It's a small school, even though it has grown out of that little house with the white picket fence. We really are all family.
I just found out a few days ago, that my husband has been offered a job in Tallahassee. Although he's not quite done with his PHD dissertation, he's very close, and that is something he can do while working. His new job will begin July 23, so I will not be returning to Trilogy in the fall.
I went through my photographs and put together a little good-bye slide show. I'm sorry it's a little light on older pictures. I didn't have a digital camera back then.
Please enjoy this and thank you all for being part of our lives.
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