I am hanging onto the tail end of summer.  I set out some six packs of peas & beans hoping to get one more crop this fall.  I only have a few days to  be unstructured so I am reveling in it.  

Back at school, I have arranged my twenty-four desks for my hypothetical students.  They are all behaving perfectly now because they haven't shown up!  I have them all in sets of four, desks cleaned, in a semi-circle facing into the front board.  The main boards are put up, and the classroom library sorted.  I am printing out the word cards.

We're in for a rough year - thin budget.  Good thing I've squirreled away some pencils from last year.  I've been shopping the dollar bins.  I found pocket charts for $1 so I bought enough for me and my teacher team too.

I hope to have time to write about my year in the classroom.  I suspect people ought to know what's coming up in their future, and that's what I have on my watch - I hold the future.  It's our hope for civilization so don't underestimate it.