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SoTW – puns

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It’s been a busy week. But all of my weeks during the school year are pretty busy.

It’s fall and cooler weather has finally arrived. Fall arrived late last week when we could open the windows and sleep through the night with temperatures diving down into the upper 40s.

It started raining Wednesday morning and it didn’t stop until early Friday morning. We got almost 3 inches of rain over the two days. It was great for the grass seed that I had planted in the backyard, but it put a damper on outdoor activities. Even the dog spent less time outside.

Yesterday, I stayed late after school and entered grades for the last couple of weeks. It felt good to get that off my list.

I took my Friday night detour on the way home so I could check out the real estate sign on Roosevelt Road. I was NOT disappointed.

Friday evening humor #dadjokes

I’m not a pumpkin spice person so I found this week sign hilarious.

I do like my coffee, but I can do without the pumpkin spice.

Speaking of pumpkins, the family and the grandies are headed west this afternoon to our pumpkin farm in the country. It’s always a relaxing afternoon and I look forward to it. A photo from last year.. to prime the pumpkin hunt. I think we’ll find them.

the farmhouse and a large tree surrounded by all sorts of pumpkins

I’m gonna try not to be spicy today and just enjoy the day. So I better get started and jump up, jump in, and seize the day. Making the Days COUNT one day at a time, looking for good things and sometimes finding them.

How do you like your coffee?

Last on the card – May 2026

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I read my friend Margaret’s post of her amazing sunset photograph from her bedroom and I knew I had to share my last on the card photo.

I had thought this might be a funny sign of the week, but I think I might find one more appropriate for making my days count.

Thanks to Bushboy’s Last on the Card to enable the photo to find a use. I’ll be keeping my eyes open for another sign of the week.

In the meantime, I am going to make the days count, one day a t time.

What is the last photo you took? 

Sign of the Week – detours

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I am little behind on my Signs of the Week posts, but school is back in session and it seems I am busier than ever. Sometimes I worry too much about posting when I should be focused on being my best self.

I found these gems on a sign back to back in front of the First baptist Church along  M55 in Prudenville, Michigan over the Labor Day weekend a few weeks back. I found a couple more that’ll have to wait for another week or so, depending on what I find in my travels this coming week.

This is the other side of the sign, it was on the sunny side, facing west.

I was reminded that detours can be good, even if they don’t seem to be at the time.

Yesterday, while volunteering at Loaves and Fishes on my normal Saturday morning shift I got to talking with a fellow volunteer whom I have worked with many times before – at east the past couple of years…..the conversation went like this…….

Me: “What do you do when you are not volunteering at Loaves?”

KS: “I work in IT.” What do you do?

Me: “I teach middle school science?

KS: “Really, where?

Me: “Scullen Middle School…”

KS: “Really, I have 6th grader at Scullen…..”

Yep, and she’s in my class, my tenth period class which is my last of the day and a great way to finish every day.

It’s a small world and sometimes our detours are really good things.

I am wrapping up my sixth year of volunteering at Loaves and Fishes. I started volunteering because I wanted to be a positive example for my son, who’d landed in a tight spot and needed some community service hours. He volunteered and served the hours he needed, but has since moved on to other things. Things he should be focused on – marriage, parenthood, building his career, and other things a late twenty-something should be paying attention to.

And me a sixty-somethings? I am doing what I should be doing with the detour, practicing for retirement and staying active in the community.  I get as much if not more from my time helping others get what they need to thrive.

I have a few more years before I hang up the chalk for good, but I am always learning, always thinking, and always being curious. Making the Days Count, one day at a time, and trying to look at things differently, even detours.

Have you ever  had a detour that turned into a blessing?

And by the way, if you missed my post about my visit to the Netherlands, check out Operation Market Garden…