Glad we got our yard work done early this weekend before the rain came. Tom spent Friday cutting the front lawn-I got the back. He finished putting down all our mulch and I spent Saturday afternoon edging our long sidewalk along the side of our house. I bought myself an old fashioned edger-I can't quite handle the power edger, and Tom thinks that expending energy to put square edges on the perimeter of the lawn is a waste of time! I had lots of encouragement from the neighborhood while I labored away and I think it looks great. I think I filled an entire trash can with grass and dirt! Then Allison and I had to go hunt down a spider web and capture it for her science fair project. She and Tom are looking at the web under a microscope he got from work and they are analyzing the web-why do bugs stick but spiders do not. We are short on time though-the Science Fair is this week. Scott needs his poster put together with all his data from last weeks experiment.

Probably good that it is going to be another wet day. We just keep getting rain showers this month of May-which is probably a good thing for the plants and lawn and our water supply, but makes it hard to plan outdoor activities. Our cub scout camping trip was completely canceled for this Spring. And I completely missed getting Scott to his last Cub Scout pack meeting-he was supposed to move up to a Weebelo I. He will still move up, he just missed all the hoopla. At least I got his new patch put on his shirt. Even though he is getting a new shirt next year. I still have a girl scout camping trip scheduled the first weekend in June. Should be fun from the list of activities scheduled. I had to attend an orientation meeting last week and I am amazed at the number of activities scheduled for one weekend. And all for GS from kindergarten through high school. Amazing. I can't even imagine the planning. This particular GS unit is run by our Choir Leader, Dr Pat. Not only is she a physician, but she has her own troop, she is the manager of her service unit, and her daughter is getting married in a few weeks! But that hasn't slowed her down from scheduling a million activities for the girls. I don't know how she does it. I don't think Allison and I will be marching in the Annapolis Memorial Day parade this year. I plan on working that day. (extra cash). But we probably will be participating in the Flag ceremony with the boy scouts at the cemetery(when we place flags on all the veteran's graves). And Allison is busy writing an article about Memorial Day. Apparently the holiday was all but forgotten until the Boy and Girl Scouts started placing the flags at the grave sites. I even tried to schedule a trip to the airport this past week so we could pass out our Girl Scout cookie donations to arriving US Troops. Sadly, the flight was bumped up to 515 and I just couldn't get home and pick up all the girls and the cookies and get there at that time. I will have to keep an eye out for future flights. It is hard to find a time that works for everyone.

I thought I would have time since I went to a class that day and got out a bit early. But I also had a doctor's appt and couldn't get to the airport early. And my co-leader had to get her daughter to a dance class.
I did enjoy my shoulder class though, but it would have been nicer if the hotel and instructor had scheduled a better room for us ahead of time. We had to sit in a closet, all 53 of us, for 2 1/2 hours before they had our room set up. No overheads, and the instructors book was in transport with Fed Ex. Bad planning. But I learned that I have been doing the right treatment for those rotator cuff shoulder injuries and laser will be the next upcoming tx. Right now the laser unit costs 25,000 so I don't think our company will be providing any laser tx any time soon.
I think the hotels were packed this week with horse racing fans. Maryland hosts the second race in the Triple Crown. And Baltimore gets busy. I caught the end of the race on Saturday-a filly named Rachel Alexandra took the prize. Guess it was a big surprise. But the fate of horse racing in Baltimore is sketchy. The Canadian owners of the race track filed for bankruptcy. Not sure who will buy it, but the owners of Under Armour(Baltimore company) was looking at the possibility of taking over the track.
We had an early start to our weekend since the kids had a half day on Thursday and then Friday off. The kids participated in sports day at school on Thursday-we notice they cut it down to half a day, and the 8th graders did not get to participate(we don't know why). They also stopped providing the free lunch. Instead they sent the kids home. Our very nice neighbor picked up Allison and Scott and took them and her kids to see the Disney Earth movie(they all enjoyed it). On Friday, I mistakenly went in to work(figured I make up some time for missing last week with my infected eye). I got stuck working later than planned and was late getting Allison to her earlier scheduled piano lesson. Tom was out with Scott-he decided to take him to see Star Trek. My son has a new hero, Scotty the Star Trek Engineer. Scott went out and bought the transporter with Scotty action figure figure at Target with a Christmas gift card he was holding onto. And Tom and Scott have been visiting Burger King a lot picking up all the Star Trek toys. Now Tom wants the Enterprise model from Target. Scott even put together a "power rocket scooter" for a Social Studies project he is completing this coming week. His class had to come up with a product and then make a magazine ad for the product, plus this week they will be filming a commercial in school.
These last few weeks of school seem to be dedicated to projects and papers. Allison has about 3 or 4 papers to write, and her finals coming up next week-a language arts final and math final. Allison will be graduating on June 1st, so they have a lot to cram in. The week before they will be headed to Hershey Park for a day, and also a day spent on a religious retreat. Not much time left! She has been busy with her homework, and preparing for her piano recital next weekend. And she wants to play pomp and circumstance for her class graduation ceremony. She did find time this weekend to do some babysitting(yeah income). And she attended an overnight birthday party, besides getting to karate. We have been so busy running around, we forgot to take Scott to his karate class on Friday. I think we are a bit too busy. Oh well, just wait until next week! Hope you are all enjoying your spring! Kathleen and Family