...after almost five months of August: May was August, June was August, July was August, August was August, most of September was August, and even some of October has been August.
We didn't have the air conditioning on at all this year, so fall weather is a reprieve and a chance to really get moving on projects again.
In particular, dealing with all the things that have piled up all over the house.
I don't even have a craft project going on at the moment, except that I delegated one experiment to some bored children by having them draw on fabric with scraps of soap. I will iron the fabric, wash it, and see if any grease stains from the soap survive the washing. I'm looking for a way to give plain fabric a subtle pattern.
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Myquillyn Smith, "The Nester", is putting up transcripts with her podcasts now; an example.
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Locally, I'm watching the school board election and the referendums for funding that they have on the ballot. The school board candidates are unimpressive. The information from the school board on the referendums managed to outdo our last school district, by putting a lie on the first page instead of the second: "This publication is not circulated on behalf of any candidate or ballot question." That was at the bottom of the page, but it says "IT'S TIME TO RENEW" at the top, in much larger letters, and then they go on to do everything but fill in the "YES" ovals in the sample ballot questions.
They're trying to push through a big increase in their operating levy and have it increase with inflation. Also, they're trying to trying to renew the technology levy, which is actually larger than the current operating levy.
A school district in one of the Twin Cities inner-ring suburbs recently called off in-person school for a day for the upper grades with only two hours notice, after some sort of threat. I expect there will be much more of that in the future.
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