@Cleopatra Beers they certainly do seek heat. I assume you guys are excited about upcoming holidays in your new home. Are you enjoying cooler weather now that you are out of the desert?
Hi Patti—we are really enjoying Fall weather in our new location. Although it got cold really fast-last Wednesday was 80 degrees and tonite is around 30-I am really glad to be out of the desert. We haven’t seen a single scorpion since we moved, much to Cleo’s disgust. The holidays will be fun to decorate for, and especially since I have time to decorate.
I am worried about Cleo a bit; she is showing a lot more allergy reactions. She is allergic to the topical flea meds, and she gets really itchy a lot. But we found a spray on the Internet that calms the itchies, and we are giving her salmon oil (which she is loving), which seems to be helping. Markie is healthy and just chugging along, being the lovable pest.
Glad to hear there are lots of spots to catch all the warms. You all look very sassy and happy in your new home. Julie, are you teaching? Do you like the new place? Glad to hear that Bob has so much help. Sphynx are very helpful. Many skills for many jobs.
Hi Nina—we are really loving the new place. Even with our adult son living with us for the time being, we have much more room in this house, and we love the fact that it isn’t a cookie-cutter house, like the ones we lived in in Nevada. I was going to be teaching, but the school district that hired me pulled a stunt that happens in districts across the nation. They wait until just before school starts and then pile on duties on top of the teachers’ regular duties. In this case, the administrators conviently forgot to tell me about duties that they expected me to do that I would not be able to do because of my disability. I have a visible disability-I walk with a cane, and struggle to climb stairs and get into trucks, vans and buses. But the administrators let 2 of my future colleagues tell me about the extra duties, 4 days into my contracted year. I immediately quit, because administrators were not available to talk to me, and I told the district rep that I wouldn’t have taken the job if I knew the entire scope.
A month later, the district billed me for $2000.00 for “liquidated damages.” I had to get our friend who is a judge in LA to write a letter outlining all the ways I could sue them, if they wanted to pursue their liquidated damages. I also got the Democratic candidate for Governor and the Republican State Senator for my district to both contact the school board.
3 long weeks later, the district sent me a very short letter stating that they had reconsidered, and I didn’t owe them anything. Now I am debating sueing them for damages under ADA.
So, long story short, no, I am not teaching at this time. I am waiting for a background check to go through so I can substitute at another school district. I am also knitting, weaving, sewing and spinning, when I am not a lap for Queen Cleo.
I sometimes wonder about how much I would get done if I didn’t have Sphynxie help, but then Cleo snuggles down a little deeper into my lap, and I grab some weaving. We are content.
