School is out!

School was over for me on the 23rd of May...the very last day was May 26th...got to work quite a bit, most of it at the primary school...the Kindergarten, First and Second grades.....love those great little kiddos, even the ones that have "problems".... Some of it is actual behavior disorders..other is from poor or no parenting at home. Looking forward to school starting again on August 15th. The year after next it can start no earlier than the last Monday in August...a new law effective in 2007.  When I was in school in the '50's and my kids, too, in the '70s and '80's, school started the first Monday after Labor Day, in September..usually about the 8th....in the '50's there was no air conditioning......it was not as humid as now and did not feel as hot as the same temperature feels now. I am sticking close to home for the next few weeks as Esmeralda (Esmo), my palomino mare by Mighty and out of Peanut, my old long-dead barrel mare, is due to foal in that time frame. Have been cleaning at the barn....last week, was bitten on the left hand between thumb and wrist by a brown recluse spider....will have to tell you about it in the next post....doing well, thanks to, I believe, my quick thinking to soak it in Tide Detergent..the washing powder...to pull out the spider venom that can cause the tissue to rot from the bite. Whatever caused the great improvment, it is doing very, very well. Forty years ago, a renowned doctor told me to soak all punctures wounds in Tide....kids stepping on a nail, horses stepping on something and causing a puncture wound to the hoof, a hoof abcess, etc. have all been treated successfully with the Tide treatment. When I saw the two punctures and realized they were fang marks and then read on the web about how venomous the bite could be, I thought about the Tide treatment. I will write more about the spider bite incident later. Going to the barn to let out the old mare, and then to bed. Good mid-summer night to all! Oh, wait, it is not mid-summer with all the attendant heat yet, Thank Goodness, though it is still plenty hot!