ScrapHappy Saturday - Wrapping it Up with a Bow

With the holidays right around the corner, the end of this disater of a year is near. I can not say that I will be sad to see this one go. At this point I am amazed that we have any kids left at school. We are marching them out for quarantine at an alarming rate. The first round has started to return though, so maybe we will reach some sort of equillibrium? I had 0 in person learners in my first period class yesterday. There is a post quarantine kid scheduled to return on Monday though, so I won't be all alone for long. I've been in to cover for other teachers and there are quite a few tiny classes out there. I am wondering how many will just decide to switch to e-learning after the holiday? I know of several students who have been quarantined 3 times. The kids are pretty good natured about it though, even though we have some pretty irate parents demanding for thier kid be allowed to come back. Glad I get handle the happy kids and not the grumpy adults! And truly, the less crowded the classrooms are, the safer it is for everyone. I have another top to quilt for a friend from work. It is adorable with machine applique cats. She has only ever done stitch in the ditch which she was afraid would mess up the design. I accidentally left it in my classroom on Wednesday night and had a nightmare that my room got quarantined and I couldn't get the quilt out which was making me frantic. Another of my coworkers had a dream the same night that all of her kids refused to wear masks and were hiding under desks taunting her. I guess we are all starting to feel it. Only two of my own students have been positive so far that I know of, but I'm scheduled for another COVID test this morning just to be sure that I'm OK. Obviously we are not travelling for Thanksgiving, but Ryan is coming home from UF. All of his classes are online, but he is able to spend time with his friends in clubs and such, so he still wants to stay on campus. Anna is home with us right now, her campus at New College is pretty empty right now and few of her friends are around. We will see what happens next semester. She might do a hybrid and just stay on campus a few days a week for lab classes. I don't want to be all doom and gloom though, plenty of good things happened this week.

There were a couple of rocket launches, including this night launch which was manned with astronauts headed to the ISS.   There were quite a few people out on the beach for that one. 

I saw a beautiful double rainbow on the way to work Thursday.   Ironically, Kurt also saw took a photo of a different rainbow the same morning.   

Then there was this group of chatty little birds in the grass at school with the one little oddball happily amongst them.   

Plenty or reasons to smile.   I am going to keep looking for more of those,