We had Time to

take down the tree that got hit by lightening last fall.

And have a little fun with it

We've been watching the How to Train Your Dragon movies.  These are his Viking horns.

There's more sticks to build forts out of in the burn pile too.

Quarantine Attire

I've accepted leggings as pants-but ONLY in my own home.  I will.not.leave.the.house in them.

We have vetoed this leaving the house as well

and the new...high?  low?  I'm not sure what... in quarantine attire.

I Discovered

my camera has a fun setting where it takes a burst of pictures and applies various and random edits to them.  Some turn out cool and some I just trash.  I haven't figured out if there's a way I can choose what gets applied other than the normal editing afterward.

The boys were playing football in the yard so I had fun experimenting.

If the Weather would Cooperate

it sure would help.  Snow in April does little for morale.

 They decided to make snow cones with real snow.

The consensus was it was not tasty. 

Julia had a tick on her after she came in from playing outside.  Seriously?  A tick and snow on the same day.  Make up your mind weather.

Thankfully the snow was all gone by the next day!

Alternately Great and Oppressive

is how quarantine feels to this extroverted introvert.  My introverted self was pretty content for a month but now that little bit of extrovert, that usually spends itself in the classroom, is yelling to get out.  Playing with new technology has run out of fun.  Also turns out teaching to a virtual audience takes out a lot of the enjoyment.  Especially because it's time consuming to make all those tutorials that your students may or may not be watching and correct the huge pile of papers you get once a week.

Our question of the day at dinner the other night was: On a scale of 1-10 how close are you to exploding because of quarantine?
Jeremy:  6
Lisa: 7
Samuel:  6.5
Thomas:  5
Julia:10
Philip:  5
Nicholas:  9
Those are fairly accurate by my judgement.  If I didn't have to cook every time I turn around I could be a solid 6.  And without papers to grade probably a 5.  But it is what it is.  I lowered my number by having a long chat with a friend one night and having a Zoom, complete with Boggle, with my old roomies the next.  But then it was time to figure out what everyone was eating again....

We have been playing a few games and doing some puzzles

 and enjoying the nice weather 

Nick had lunch in the fire truck

We played a game of life size Clue.

I did some retail therapy with the credit card points I'd never used and got this nice knife set.

in between doing lots of school work and fussing about being bored.  The warmer weather helps a lot with lowering numbers!

Thomas's homework for Foods is to make a breakfast, lunch and dinner.  For breakfast he made donuts in the air fryer, his favorite appliance.

 They were very dense but still tasty.

Working outside helps some with the complaining from this one.