2nd Week of November, 2020

 This week, things slowed down a little bit.  Only to be picked up in others.  

On Monday, there was a track meeting after school.  This is where they were talking about some things that pertained to varsity runners only.  Kaitlyn and I waited after the meeting to talk with Coach Smith (I know!  Co-inky-dink that we have the same last names!).  We weren't sure how much of those things applied to Kaitlyn.  Coach Smith said that all of them did.  Kaitlyn was officially on the varsity team!  We didn't know it!  We thought she was just training with the team as kind of a probationary thing.  We were super happy and proud for her.

Tuesday, I didn't have my SPED class.  It was nice to have a little break.  Wednesday, nobody had school because it was Veteran's day.  It was strange to do it in the middle of the week, but I wasn't too upset about it.  

Thursday, morning, I got a notification from YouTube that they had put an age restriction on my video.  It made no sense for at least 2 reasons!  One, it was an unlisted video.  Therefore, no one can get to it unless they have the direct link.  In fact, I only upload them to YouTube because it makes posting them on the blog easier.  So, no one should have had the link to watch the video (and hence, report it) unless I gave it to them, or unless they came across it in my blog, which is also unlisted.  Secondly, the video in question didn't have any swear words, it didn't have any scandalous body parts, it didn't have any swear words.  It didn't have anything that I could think of that would be offensive to anyone!  It was a video of something blowing up from hubby's hog hunting trip the previous fall.  So I had no idea how it got flagged or who did it.  Still don't.  Unless it was some random screening. I appealed the decision, giving the above as evidence, and thankfully received this notification back later in the day.

On Thursday, we also made an appointment for Dylan at the Pediatric Clinic.  He had been coughing for a day or two, and it wasn't getting better.  What with the global crisis and pandemic and all, we had kept him home from school for a day, but knew that we couldn't send him back still coughing.  The cough was getting worse, and I knew we would need a doctors note to excuse him from school anyway.  So we went...  He was tested for COVID, but it came back negative (thank goodness).  They did, however, give him a breathing treatment to see if that could help calm down the cough.  And an inhaler to use at home.  They also gave him an excuse for the previous 2 days, and the next day, to help him get better.  The breathing treatment, apparently, caused him to feel pretty good.  I am not sure if it was the drugs themselves, or the relief of not having to cough.  But he looked pretty relaxed.

He was so "relaxed" that he sang to himself in the car.  Towards the end, he notices that I am recording, and starts to play it up a big.  But he was clearly feeling pretty good.  Sorry for the video quality.  It was dark in the car, and I wasn't really trying to video him, just get the audio.

Friday, Joe took off some time from work to help hubby work on installing a lift kit on his truck.  We were all planning on going out that evening to celebrate his birthday.  Unfortunately, the truck took longer to do than hubby thought it would (isn't that always the way?!?).  They broke a few tools, and had to go get some others to replace them and finish the job.  And there may or may not have been some dream tools purchased because...  why not?  And I was working late at school getting some planning done.  Amanda, Jade and I had been Marco Poloing about the plans during the day, but I couldn't watch them all that well because...  ya know...  students.  After school, hubby texted and told me that I needed to get home ASAP because we were going to be late for our reservations.  So, I left pretty much as soon as I got the message to head home.  Unfortunately, Amanda, who had planned the whole evening was pretty frustrated with some things (I am not 100% sure what all it included) and decided that we would have a better time if she went home.  We were sad she wasn't with us, but the reservation had been paid for already, so...  we went.  That night, we went out to Fuji for dinner.

And Ax throwing.  We did miss Amanda, especially because most of us felt pretty clueless to what led to her level of frustration.

But we did get a few good throws in still.

We had decent luck with the hatchets.  And we even threw some of the full size axes.  And, hubby, of course, tried a few different throwing techniques as well.

Saturday and Sunday we spent time working on hubby's truck lift (separate post).  

And Saturday, Kaitlyn went with the rest of varsity to compete in the State Competition.  Again, she did really well for only having run 1 other 5K.  And it was state!  All of the best people from around were there!  

At church on Sunday, the youth hung out for a few minutes after church, just to visit.  And there was a YW broadcast that evening to celebrate 150th Anniversary of the program being organized.

And, we'll end on a funny for the week.  The news was pretty sensationalized during the pandemic.  And everything was out to kill us.  Clearly we have survived, and things are slowing going back to the way they were.  But this is what it felt like sometimes.

Baby shark was a baby song that became virally popular.  It is one of those annoying songs that gets stuck in your head, and you can't get it out!

Also, I took this picture of the old table in the middle of the entry way.  It was no longer needed in the "school" room.  And someone had bought it off CraigsList and were coming to get it that weekend.  So, I wanted one last memory of it before it went away!