Freedom field

Tonight we took Josh by the Freedom Field. It has one flag for each person killed in the September 11th attacks.

Afterwards we went mini-golfing since Josh just finished up his first golf lessons.

 

Blood moon

As if this year didn't have enough going on. Here's a blood moon. The west (California, Oregon, Washington, and even Utah) is on fire. So we get smokey polluted air in the day and blood moons at night.

 

Homecoming?

School dances are canceled this year. Big bummer for this Senior year girl who loves socials. Kids are now just organizing their own events in the community. McKinley and a couple friends went to one put together by kids at Mountain Ridge. Turned out to have hundreds of unmasked kids there, which was not corona smart, but she had a fun night and didn't get infected.

 

Fire pit

Fire pit 

After living here for 7 years, my fire pit plan is finally going into action. It's my "pandemic project".

 

Cotton candy

 My friend hosted a cotton candy truck at her house. 

We got a penguin

an Octopus

a baby yoda

and a narwahl!

And finally...

It's Josh's turn to go back to school. I finally remembered to take a picture of one of the kids in their masks. School this year looks a bit different. They have to wear masks all day. Their is increased attention to hand washing. Teacher's have put up plexiglass around their desks to guard from germs. The desks are all facing forward and spaced as much as possible. No mixing with other classes. "Rotation" consist of the specialist coming to the individual classroom and working their instead of kids moving around. No volunteers in the classroom. No sharing supplies. Morning line ups are marked out and distanced from each other.

Josh chose this shirt especially to remind others to stay 6 feet apart from him.

 

The Next first day

Today Hayden gets to go back to school!

He's a big 8th grader now. Literally. He's getting so tall!