Coming Weekend

Lava beds trip was awesome. It never ceases to amaze me how in awe these kids are after getting into these caves for the first time in their life. These caves are truly awesome. It was hot and I think I got a little heat cus I had a splitting headache when I got home and slept most of the way home. Probably just too much driving. Lava Beds is about another 45 minutes out Ang's way. I've been doing so much driving out that way over the last week and a half that I'm burned out. Gonna do nothing this weekend except for one contract I wanted to get done.

Ang's crew has been working mop up on their control burn from the other day. They were also on lightning alert since we had some pretty gnarly storms go through today.

I got home today where it was like 90 all day and muggy. Then the storm clouds roll over and let loose with marble-sized hail for like 30 minutes followed by a torrential downpour for another 45 minutes. It was crazy. Garden probably loved it. Checked my grades so far. All 'B's so far especially in my math course which was Statistics. Hard-ass course and I showed up rarely, only when an assignment was due. And yet I kept scoring higher than all the college kids who were in class every day. I thought for sure I'd be fighting for a C but I ended up getting a strong B and like 4th highest grade in the class. What's up with that?! I'm beat so even though I could write for another hour........goodnight.

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