Happy Birthday Angeles, Eagle Scout project, museum class, and pottery

First off, Angeles had a birthday last week. Happy Birthday, Angeles! Wish we could have been there to celebrate with you. (I stole this picture from facebook--facebook is great for that)

Alex will be 18 in 10 days. In scouting that means he has 9 more days to finish everything he needs to become an Eagle Scout. He has all the required merit badges, so he just has to complete his Eagle Scout service project--which was started yesterday.

A mile from our home is the old Harmon School, which my father-in-law had attended as a child (which has long since not been used as a school and is owned by the Harmon School Preservation Association). It sits vacant 99% of the time and has been the target of vandals quite often...as often as Friday night. Saturday some of us gathered to handle the weed situation around the school. We hope to be able to go in and paint a few rooms and well as over some graffiti this week.

Every year our local museum has a lecture series in the fall that is open to the public and that teachers can take for 1 credit, helping them to earn credits to renew their teaching licenses. Glen has been taking this class for years (every year is a different theme with different lectures so it is not considered repeating a class--which would have meant Glen could only take it once to earn credit for his license renewal).

Anyway, this is the first time I've taken the class with him. The topic this go-round is the Roaring Twenties: Booze, Brawlers, and Broads (yeah, not a topic I would typically be interested in). Last week we had our first class. Our guest lecturer came up from Vegas where he is a director at the Mob Museum. His topic was "Nevada's Rocky Relationship with Prohibition." It really was quite fascinating. Next week's guest lecturer will speak on "Tonopah's Soft Drink Parlors and the Rise of the Reno Gamblers."

Friday night the weather was absolutely gorgeous, and Glen, Eric, and I attended the homecoming football game. Well, at least the first half. It was a blow-out. We scored in the first play. Final score was 55-0. Our star quarterback as well as other football players and members of the Homecoming Royal Court are also in the marching band. I loved seeing them during half-time in their football uniforms, formal dresses, and band uniforms performing. Too much fun.


And, my pottery class is in full swing. We learned to throw pots on the wheel 2 weeks ago. I have 5 drying and 3 that had to scrapped. Last week we were taught how to make a coil pot. I am having such a blast!

my coil pot...still needs to finish drying then be fired and glazed