Learning experience for Gramcracker

Several weeks ago, I was interviewed by my oldest granddaughter for a heritage project in her English class. The interview was only one part of the total project. Today was the culmination of the project and I was invited to see it. It was really nice to see each student's project. I was very much impressed by what the teacher had to say. She wanted the students to know where their ancestors came from and to have pride in their struggles. She feels that her generation and those younger are not learning about their families as they should. Each student made a poster of their families. The poster had pictures, maps, customs, types of foods; just a lot of good information on them. They had to stand tell their name and two things that they learned from the project. Of course Val's was absolutely the best as far as I was concerned. She did a fabulous job. When they finished with the poster's, some brought a food that was indicative of the country of origin, introduced their guest and then we all got to enjoy the food. It was a very interesting combination of flavors. I was impressed by all of the kids, but besides Val, there was a girl that was from Russia, who was adopted from there, I enjoyed her story. The second person was a boy who's grandfather was from Vietnam. His grandfather was in the Vietnam military and was a prisoner of the Vietcong before he made his way to the USA. I was amazed and very impressed by all the stories. You just never know.....do you? OH BY THE WAY, Missy got 38 out of 40 possible points. YOU DONE GOOD VAL!! I hope you enjoyed what you discovered and learned as much as I enjoyed helping you, and thank you for inviting me.

Simply Amazing

The weather man says that the polar express is coming to our neck of the woods tomorrow. I can't say that I am totally sorry, because I am tired of the mowing and trimming. As I was mowing today, I hopefully thought, maybe this is the last time for this season. The sad part is that all of the beautiful, colorful flowers will sadly go away also. In April I received the mum plant you see above. After a few weeks, I planted it in my front flower garden. As you can see in the next picture, it took off and is a big plant. I haven't measured it, but it has to be at least 3 to 4 feet in diameter. The picture does not do justice to it. It is not in full bloom, the flowers are just starting to open up. I took this picture today because of the impending cold that is coming. It may not have the chance to bloom fully this year.

I take no credit for the plant, it's all Miracle Grow. I have used the stuff on the plant every 10 days since I planted it. I guess you could say it works.

I hope that you enjoy the pictures of my one success of the summer.