Yes That Is A Heart

This is my lab partner Arti and I, in our biology lab class as we dissect a sheep's heart.

Can't tell you how badly that formaldehyde smells! This time was my turn to cut and the texture was not fun; tough. All in all, we had a good time and I am glad we opted to do the dissection.

Well, My College is Open

Most of the people I know got their power back yesterday or last night (50,000 overnight). Wow, that was quite the storm.

The public schools are still closed but my college is open for the first time, today. Can't afford to miss any class time, there is so much material to cover. BUT, I am so sick. I really would have like to have the extra time to recover so that I don't pass my gross germs along (though I do believe my lab partner is the originator of this disease!) Miss one class and that's "Just ok". Miss two classes and she feels the student has missed too much material. I am not sure what the rest of the semester will hold so I must make the attempt to show today.

Well, hope everyone else is fairly well!

Thanks for dropping by!

My Daughters School Cancelled-AGAIN!

Things are so bad around here, the Amherst Middle School has been cancelled again, tomorrow.

Aaarg! I need to study for my own classes and it's hard with them home during the week.

Nor'Easter Dumped 12+"

(Taken evening of October 29th, before sun went down and the power went out.)

Lost some really nice landscaping and some well grown hydrangea branches. Sadly, a lot of branches fell around the yard from the huge pines and even took out some wires. Hearing the cracking in the woods all around, was a bit scary; allowing for little sleep.

AND THE SKY DURING THE HEIGHT.... wow, I have never seen anything like it and there's been no mention on the news; it was like the world was lit by a huge, flickering candle. The sky was brightly lit, making it seem more like the morning's early hours. (Transformers on the poles arcing?)

Went store trolling and nothing was open except Target. Gotta love them, 1/2 power and still rolling. All the freezers were taped off, but otherwise everything was "good to go"! So it was a Campbell's Soup night (everyone ate the crock pot fixings the night before).

Thankfully the power-outage wasn't too bad. Went out over-night and came back on in the late evening on October 30th. However, that caused a huge problem at the transformer that feeds us and not too long after it knocked out our power again (for the second night). What time we did spend without the power was spent with a generator; hooked up to run the whole house including internet and tv (aaahhhh!). No suffering like the old days, huh?

Thanks for checking in and seeing how we survived the weather (sadly better than the old days)!

Part of the One Percent and Unhappy With All The Unhappy?

Then why are you still the One Percent? Doesn't God help those whom help themselves? Give 65% of your percent and you will fell more than 1/2 better.

Snow Before Halloween

Unbelievable that we will have had 2 rounds of snow before my girls even Trick Or Treated around the village, for Halloween! Hopefully, there will be no snow drifts to hurtle in between houses.