Stalingrad In Summer

Life at our house...

There is an old saw that the three best things about teaching are June, July and August.  Today, I mowed the lawn, did some laundry and did my single favorite thing in the world.  Read a little.  Fall asleep.  Wake up.  Read a little.  Fall back almost asleep.  Start awake and read a bit more.

Paradise.

(And also, according to neuroscientists, the best way to remember what you read.)

Of course, it is all punctuated by the Civil War re-enactors known hereabouts as Thing One and Thing Two.  Today, they were re-enacting Bull Run, probably Second Bull Run, with Thing Two as Pope and Thing One as Stonewall Jackson.

The next two and half months will witness a low level of combat during all waking hours.

June, July and August...