September already!!!!

What happened to August??  A busy month. 
Nancy got the truck and moved her teacher stuff to school.  The building is not quite ready, but they are working on it.  She started with 36 students and no teacher aide.  Now she only has 34.  One boy is physcotic, (spelling) another very a.d.h.d, and throws tantrums.  Yes, in third grade!  she has two white, 2 Hispanic and the rest African American.  Her fellow 3rd grade teacher with 35 students, has the students who have records of  ? well, trouble with the authorities,  and not just school personnel.  And He does not have an aide either.  I think they must console each other.  It is sad, and worse yet they are not getting the help they need.  The Teachers I mean.  Some of the parents do not care. A parent came in last spring and wanted to know why his child would not pass 3rd grade.  Nancy showed him 19 pages of where she had text him thru the year and he had responded positively to the messages.  OOPS  No other comment needed.  almost.  The cell phone has become a valuable tool for teachers.  They can text parents and get an answer sometime during the day.  It can be used also as a discipline tool.  Take a picture of the student being "naughty" and send it to Mother.  They do not want that, most of them anyway.

Alan came one Saturday and helped dear ole Dad work on the RV.  They re-wired the front lights and now we have bright lights at night that do not blink off and on.  Not good when it is raining and dark to have blinking lights.  And a good visit for them.

The 24th we drove the RV 35 miles to the Indianapolis State Fair Grounds, in Indianapolis, IN. for the
FMCA International Convention.  2100 coaches attending.  And this year it was ALL volunteer.  No paid people to set up parking, etc.   There were over 1000 volunteer jobs to be filled and our good chairman had more than that to sign up to volunteer wherever needed.  The "soothsayers" said it could not be done, no one would come, it would fall apart.  A good convention, good time.  I helped hand out the welcome bags on Saturday for 4 hours, and Mon. and Wed. was a seminar volunteer.  We have classes
4 days.  From fixing your Cat engine, genealogy, micro-wave-convection cooking, tire pressure and lots more.  The Hoosier Cruisers had 36 coaches there.  Yeah!  And our club's volunteer chairman had plenty so my actual volunteering was done under the National Great Lakers Club.  Our motor home is a National Brand.  No longer made, but the club still meets and has a good time.
Also checked out new RV's  Pretty,   from $68,900 to $1.3 million,   A Newell coach.  Beautiful coach .  Not my style.  Too much of everything.  We like our Tradewinds,  do not really want a new one,  maybe trade down to a smaller style.  This was our 17 FMCA convention.  We do enjoy them.

And then earlier in the month we made a trip to Syracuse.  Planning on selling the family home in 2013.  Stuff to clean out, books, pictures and then all the other household stuff.  HELP!!!

September brings a rally at Timberline Campground in Chesterfield.  About 10 miles from home.
It sounds like a fun rally.  Will keep you posted.   Have a good day.   jkc