Red Mosquito

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

July?!

spike wrote:

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

July?!

I knew Tennessee was pretty backwards, but this is unreal.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Orlando in the summer? Wtf B

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

July?!

I knew Tennessee was pretty backwards, but this is unreal.

I guess it’s a humanitarian effort to get kids back into air conditioned buildings.

B wrote:Off to Disney World tomorrow. Weep for me.

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

July?!

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

July?!

Yeah, that seems absurd.

wease wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

July?!

Yeah, that seems absurd.

They go for 9 weeks, then off 2. Then go for 9 weeks, then off 2. Then 9 on, 2 off. Then, the final 9 weeks, then out for 9 weeks.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

wease wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Bammer wrote:

wease wrote:Damn. That’s how it was back in the day.

We’ve been out for a month but start back the third week of July.

July?!

Yeah, that seems absurd.

They go for 9 weeks, then off 2. Then go for 9 weeks, then off 2. Then 9 on, 2 off. Then, the final 9 weeks, then out for 9 weeks.

Do they have an all day before/after school program for those weeks they are off? That seems like a nightmare for parents.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:Potty training commences Sunday.

Our experience was about three months of non-activity (she was vaguely interested in the potty, it was basically a toy). Then one day we started the real process and six weeks later it was completely mastered.

Good luck!

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:Potty training commences Sunday.

Our experience was about three months of non-activity (she was vaguely interested in the potty, it was basically a toy). Then one day we started the real process and six weeks later it was completely mastered.

Good luck!

Bammer wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:Potty training commences Sunday.

Our experience was about three months of non-activity (she was vaguely interested in the potty, it was basically a toy). Then one day we started the real process and six weeks later it was completely mastered.

Good luck!

My boss watched our kids when we came out to RMpalooza In Missoula, and when we got home they were potty trained.