Alex and the weather

On Wednesday night, the school board recognized the math students for their performance in the math competition. There was an article in the newspaper this week that talked about it:

 Churchill County High School math students grab first-place awards for northern Nevada

Aly Lawson / LVN |

The Churchill County School District Board of Trustees met Wednesday and recognized high school students who competed in the Northern Nevada Math Contest in Reno on Jan. 28.

Churchill County High School students included Ian Blodgett, Shelby Chitren, Thomas Jamieson, Alex Perazzo and John Solomon. Competing against several high schools, the students came away with first place wins in Algebra 1, Algebra 2, team and comprehensive higher math competitions.

One student [John Solomon] said Blodgett and Perazzo specifically deserved another shoutout: Perazzo scored a 17 in one competition with the next highest score being 14 — far surpassing the competition....


The weather is still crazy. Hannah was subbing at Bordertown on north 395 last Thursday. The wind was so bad that the buses couldn't come up the hill and get the students. They had to wait for all the parents to come and sign their kids out. That took a few hours. She then spent that night at a friend's house who lived just 10 minutes away so that she didn't have to drive on that windy hill. School wound up being cancelled the next day.

I took a few photos of a rainbow in Fallon the other day.

looking west to Rattlesnake Hill 7 February 2017

I'm making some progress in my family history by finding 3 unknown marriages, and that's always exciting to find new stuff...especially when you didn't know it was there to find. The RootsTech Conference was amazing and I learned several things that should prove helpful.

We are enjoying a few days on "dry" weather...there's still plenty of mud around and rain is due again on Thursday. The flooding in surrounding areas is astounding, but we haven't had that problem here.

Ham radio class, our first fitbit reward, and RootsTech

Last Sunday at church there was a notice in the bulletin that a ham radio class was starting up that Wednesday. After the meeting, I told Glen I was interested in attending. He said he wanted to, too, so Wednesday evening found us attending our first class. We knew several of the people there. I don't know that we will spend time just chatting with others once we have our licenses (and radios), but it's an emergency preparation kind of thing and it might be fun just to listen on the world.

And in other news, we had our first drawing for our family fitbit challenge. Each person was represented by one color die and we held a drawing for nominal cash prizes. Andrew had 4 dice since he had the highest number of average daily steps for the last 28 days, Ryan came in 2nd so had 3 dice, I was 3rd so I had 2 dice, and everyone else had 1 dice in the bag.

Alex drew my dice first, so I get the $5 (and I feel a bit guilty about that, but it was fair and square).

Alex drew his own die next. He gets the $3.

He drew Andrew's last. Andrew will get the $2.

Alex and I swear the drawing wasn't rigged.

The breakdown:

1st place: Andrew (blue dice) had 15,085 average steps/day over the last 28 days
2nd place: Ryan (orange) had 11,854
3rd place: I (purple) had 11,582

Rusty (yellow) was next with 9,597

Heather (pink) with 8,717

Eric (white) with 8,100

Alex (red)with 7,582

Glen (black) with 7,306

Hannah (green) with 1,372 (she forgot her fitbit in Fallon when she went to Reno)

So, we will see if our rules change for the month of February, but good luck everyone on getting your steps in this month.

I've been working on family history again. The RootsTech Conference will be going on this week in Salt Lake from the 8th-11th. I'm excited to listen in to some of the lectures that will be streamed live. Go to RootsTech.org to check it out.

The special guests this year are:
The Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott will speak Thursday at 7:30 am Nevada time.

LeVar Burton (of Roots fame) will be speaking Friday morning at 7:30.

Buddy "Cake Boss' Valastro, and CeCe Moore (from "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.") will speak Saturday morning at 7:30.

Pres. Russell M. Nelson and his wife Wendy are speaking at 12:00 noon on Saturday at the Family Discovery Day session.

Can't wait!

Live stream schedule can be found at https://www.rootstech.org/live-stream-schedule?__prclt=pJLj7SCr