Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Back to Work We Go

Spring Break has flown by. I'm still trying to get my head around the reality of returning to work tomorrow, to all new students and a new term. I have a lesson plan for tomorrow, and I'll make more plans once I meet my students and get a sense of where they are at as writers. No doubt it will be the usual mixture of strong writers and students (seniors!!) who still struggle to write more than a paragraph in one sitting. Makes me sad, but at least they all show improvement by the time they finish my class.

I have lots of photos from spring break posted on my main blog, so I thought I'd revisit a few years in the past to finish out tonight's post.

Spring Break 2009 - I bought a new pair of hiking boots! I have yet to use them on a really long trip, but Mark and I sure had fun with them last summer, backpacking with the grandkids, and then on our trip by ourselves to Jefferson Park in August.

And tried to get the lawns under control...there's a never-ending story.

Spring Break 2008 I hiked to Tunnel Falls on the Eagle Creek trail (12 miles roundtrip) by myself. It gave me courage to tackle the Goat Mountain Gallop that year, and to pursue my dream of the 50-mile solo backpack trip later that summer.

It was a rainy hike, and I was wearing a stupid plastic poncho that ripped. After I got home, I bought a good poncho and light-weight rain jacket from REI - some of the good equipment I took with me on my 50-mile hike.

Spring Break 2007 Mark and I were tackling a bunch of landscaping projects - this was the start of our "shade/evergreen garden" out in the corner of the front yard.

And Spring Break 2006 Mark traveled to San Francisco to help Angela and Tim out with the new babies, while I stayed in Oregon City and did the scoring for the state writing test.

I'm sure glad I married this guy! Hope you have a wonderful week.