School and the waters running again..

Its amazing how many of you commented on the fact that school is starting tomorrow.....  And with that in mind, I thought I would make some observations on how the school years seems to work here.

I think the first thing that changed the school year here is that all of the school buildings are air conditioned...  They could go all year round if they wanted....  And the second thing is that they all finished last year in mid May....

Back in my day, we had to go until the first few days in June, so yes we did not restart until after labor day... And even then, the buildings were old, and didn't have any AC at all, so the windows were wide open....  Bugs!!!  Us boys paid more attention to the flies than we did the teachers, and if your class was on the afternoon sunny side of the building you fried!!

Our old school had a long row of classes on the South side of the building and my 2nd grade class was let out early on many afternoons because no one could stand to stay in the building in early September.......

Also the principal's office was in the center on that South side, and when he couldn't stand it any more, we all got to go home....  His office was small and back in the back behind the main office.......  Now what was I doing in the principal's office?  Uh, some things need to be kept under the hat so to speak...!

I was up early this morning and off to the Kansas University Hospital...  First to see the vampire, and then to the X-Ray department, and then to the surgeon's  office to help him fund his retirement...  I got a clean bill of health, for this quarter, other than some ongoing infection, which landed me some more pills to take......

Oh, I emailed the Arizona caretaker lady, and she stopped over to see if the landscaper's took my calls seriously yesterday..  Seems that part of the irrigation pipes had been dug back out of the ground with some of the pipe replaced....  And most of the trees had been returned to upright and staked into that position....

She also thinks that the watering system had been shut down in order for the yard to dry out....  Something in their system must have broken...  Darned good thing I found the House Management Service lady!!!!  Otherwise we would have had a flood right off the bat...

So I'm two for two on irrigation systems, they were both broken within a week...  I'm scared what two broken pipes will cost us in water, in the same month.....  Ouch...

Retired Rod