Are you serious? Between weather, the kidneys, and the virus, I’m so glad our year traveling the state as Grand Master is over!!!Well shoot. I'm supposed to go to Casper for a doctor appointment on Wednesday. Now the forecast is calling for 4" of snow in Casper and over 2" here. Guess I'll be rescheduling that appointment.
I don’t know if you guys remember what I went through putting on our 4 day Grand Lodge celebration, but it was a ton of work and no small chunk of change. Ken just got an email from one of our good friends who is finishing up his year as Grand a Master of New Mexico. They’ve had to cancel their Grand Lodge! All the contracts for the venue, all the meals ordered, all the table decorations and arrangements for group rates at the hotel.....all of the stuff I did for ours, all the travel arrangements for visiting dignitaries. Cancelled as of last night, and their Grand Lodge was supposed to start this Thursday. What a mess for Ralph and Tisch! Ken says there’s nothing in the Code book to cover this - a Grand Master’s term is exactly one year, although in some jurisdictions back East the GM serves for 3. During the Grand Lodge, the new GM and Grand Line officers are elected and installed. So Ralph can’t “stop” being Grand Master and the new one can’t begin his year. I hate this virus and the disruptions, but is it okay if a little part of me is grateful that it wasn’t during our year?
Also last night at 9:00 we were notified that the schools are closed through April 3 and return Monday, April 6th. That works out well for Tam because she’ll have Evan there to help with her puppy this week. But for Jenny it stinks because she still has to work at the school. They’ll still be providing meals - the kids who need that will either walk or be bussed to the school, fed, and then go home. The staff will still be at the school to teach the online classes so they also need to be fed. Keesha can’t watch Kendra because she also has to be at the school as an online instructor. So now I have the girls too. The school districts have been prepared to hold classes online for a few years now, since the new superintendent took over, because we have a special program for kids who can’t learn in a school environment. They did it in such a way that if needed the program simply expands to take in all students. So today Jenny will grab Katie’s Chromebook and online class times. Other students can go to the school between 7:45 and 3:00 and pick theirs up. Tam will have to take Evan to his school to get his. He’s in School District 2, Kendra and Katie are in SD 1. What a mess, but at least our schools aren’t scrambling for a plan and our kids won’t have the lost time to make up. We’re well covered, but it sure makes it hard for parents who started scrambling at 9:00 last night for child care.
I‘d forgotten how noisy puppies are. Oh, MAN! Two of them screaming off and on all night, windy, temperature down to 15 degrees, and we worked in shifts getting out of our warm beds to take them outside so they could chase blowing leaves and each other! Geeze, go potty already, will ya?? Finally Ken told me to get to bed, lay on my good ear so my deaf ear was exposed, and get some sleep. He “slept” on the couch. So at 6 we swapped. He’s in bed, but the poor guy doesn’t have a deaf side so I have to be quick to grab the little monsters. Poor Fee....if she could find a way to cover her ears she’d do it. I’ll wake Ken up about 10 to take over, just before I leave for Lovell. I have a doctor’s appointment and a renal ultrasound and Doppler this morning at 10:30 and 11:30. Jenny doesn’t have to bring the girls over until 9:30 this morning.
it’s gonna be a looooooong March!
Good morning Blooie, try to have a great day
