A New Experience

I survived my first night of a brand new teaching experience for me: teaching technical writing to  Harley Davidson tech students at the Harley Davidson tech center in Frontenac. I think I'm going to like it. I know technical writing isn't the most exciting subject for these students. It's a requirement and they just want to pass the class, so I promised I'd make the class as painless as possible and still teach them something useful. Now the challenge is keeping my promise, especially the part about teaching them something useful. Seventeen students showed up out of  23 that were on my roster; pretty good class size. Two of the students are female and two are older than I am (I think they are anyway). One young man is not a Harley student. He's in the military and doesn't get deployed until January, so he is taking the class to get some college credits before he possibly goes to Afghanistan in January. He's not sure exactly where he will be sent yet. The rest are, of course, 18-21 year old boys, (enough said!!) It ought to be interesting. One thing for sure though, it's not going to be be boring. 

Marshall's First Day of Kindergarten

Jarvis Augustus Avila

Born: August 6, 2008, 3:32 P.M.
201/2 " 7# 6 oz
Here's a few photo's of our new grandbaby.The Avilas

Grandma Bonnie

I think Izzy likes here new brother!

Check out this photo I took on the 4th of July!

I'm pretty proud of this. Neighbor's fireworks were better than the city's

Rolling Dough Tip!!!!

Our gourmet group got together Saturday night to try a new recipe from the food network.
I made the dough which had to be rolled into a rectangle. Always in the past my rectangle of dough looked more like a splat than a rectangle. Accidentally, I discovered the best way to roll the dough into a near perfect rectangle is to chill it first in the refrigerator.

I made my dough a little too early so I put it in the refrigerator to slow the rising. When I took it out after two hours in the 'fridge and rolled it a few times, I noticed how easily it was taking the shape of the rectangle. I will do this from now on!!!! Great Tip, I think. I can't wait to try it again.

Here's pictures to prove my story.
And here's what the dough looked like after it was stuffed with ham, mozzarella cheese, and fresh spinach.Wish I'd remembered to take a picture of it when it came out of the oven. It was delicious.
Good going Ginger.