Shorn

Monday we had received a notification about positive tests among Lydia's classmates last week. Tuesday, we got word of positive tests from classmates who were there yesterday. Lydia's test this evening was negative, though.

I haven't received nearly as many notifications from being in the office last week as I did for the first week back. But, it felt empty last week. It seemed like more people were there today.

Nicole spent the day at Hamilton again, and it was about as terrible as last time, with lots of unruly and disrespectful behavior, including students who didn't belong in the class. I think she's going to take tomorrow off.

After work, before dinner, there was an outdoor event at Coe celebrating diversity. Colin and I arrived just in time to hear a story about Raven from a mother who is Tsimshian. Nicole and the other kids were already there. (Rachel declined.) She also told a story about the origins of Holi. Her husband is from India.

Colin had a field trip today to release salmon fry at Carkeek Park. His teacher is one of the two in charge of the salmon aquarium at the school. He personally transferred five fish into the pool there, and then they did a scavenger hunt for beads.

I came home with the kids and worked on spaghetti noodles for dinner while waiting for Nicole to return. She had found several people to talk to.

My French reading this evening brought me the word tôle, meaning sheet metal, and a reference to the La Fontaine fable about the milk maid. I pulled out my copy and read through that one. It's about counting your chickens before they hatch, but without any mention of chickens, just everything else you find on a farm.

Oh, I nearly forgot. I took a different way home, around the north end of the cemetery (what I think of as the bottom), and discovered they had pruned all the cherry (English) laurels down below waist height. The difference is quite dramatic. I snapped this photo of the gate we used to sometimes enter by.