Spring Break 2021 Day #4- A Blog About Nothing

By Elizabeth Prata Remember the pitchline for the tv sitcom Seinfeld? "A show about nothing". Its focus was on the silly, small, mundane, forgettable happenings in a daily life that knit together, make a life. Well, that was my day yesterday. I wrote about stuff, I read, I surfed the web. I ate oatmeal for …

Spring Break day #3: It’s Curtains!

By Elizabeth Prata Yesterday was the third day of Spring Break week. I stayed in all day. I crossed a few things off my to-do list, including getting the curtains down and washing them. I have a god little stepladder to step up and grab the curtains, but it's still an intimidating thing to climb …

Spring Break 2021 Day 2: A Waterfall, a Park, and a Cardinal

By Elizabeth Prata On Spring Break Day #2, I took a jaunt down to the State Park yesterday. It was bright, warm, cloudless, and sunny. It is supposed to rain a lot the next few days so I thought I should take advantage of the nice weather. I can always do stuff inside. I can't …

Spring Break 2021: Day 1

Elizabeth Prata Spring Break is here and I have the week off. It began Friday at 3:00 but I don't start counting until Monday morning, because I have weekends off all the time but not Mondays off. So yesterday was the first time It felt like Spring Break. And what a sunny and wonderful day …

Spring Break 2021

By Elizabeth Prata School year 2020-21 has both been the longest and the shortest of the school years I've ever had. Covid meant that we crossed our fingers through the summer, started late, closed down once, wore masks every day, wiped desk after desk after desk after desk, changed our routines, taught the same AND …

Torrential rain, then peaceful puddles. And lamps

By Elizabeth Prata Lamps. I love lamps. That's because I love light. But the light has to be just right. That's why I'm picky about my lamps. I broke my reading lamp this week. In my dreams, I own a place large enough to have a floor to ceiling library with a ladder, a leather …

Things I’ve learned about Sully

By Elizabeth Prata In my now two-months long companionship with this new stray cat, I've learned a few things about the little guy. He is afraid of thunderstorms. He got a bit frantic last night when the storms blew through. I picked him up and he was trembling. Is there anything more heartbreaking than holding …

Frugal Cooking this week

By Elizabeth Prata I did not do any cooking last week, the battle with Sully and his food frenzy was too much for me to battle through. I don't want to discipline this little cat any more than I have to, but stay positive with positive reinforcers. But I missed my soup! So yesterday I …

Sully Update

By Elizabeth Prata On January 22, a skinny, scared, tail-mangled little kitten ran into my apartment and somehow I was adopted. I named him Sully. He was bleeding and skin and bones, so I brought him to the vet the next day and they had to amputate his tail. He was de-flea'd, de-wormed, given rabies …

Me ‘n Sully

By Elizabeth Prata Today was a Teacher Work Day. I submitted a request for a Personal Day, and it was granted. I spent the day not at work, but tending to Sully, my new stray cat. He has been de-flea'd a couple of times but it didn't stick. I deduced that they were in the …