RLEHS Sunday Social

The speakers were docents from the USS Hornet, located on Pier 3 in Alameda.We had a great volunteer turnout for the Throwdown.L-R: Lyn Pitts, Normajean Thornton, Norma Horrell, Catherine Green, Allie Brown, me. Congratulations, Catherine!

Thursday @ Merrilyn’s

One sign of a great hostess: our wine glasses were filled with the exact amount of ice each of us wanted.Happy Hour Mushrooms and Artichoke Nibbles – both yummy.For dessert, Walnut Date Cake crumbled over vanilla bean ice cream.Note: the cake had to be crumbled (instead of beautifully cut into thin slices like the picture that made me want to make this recipe) because when I took it out of the tube pan, this happened:Gasp! I pushed it back together as best I could. Oh well, it tasted great. It made a huge amount so I decided to save it for the Throwdown next Sunday. No last minute baking – yay.

Pi Day

St Ignatius has this grade-level competition. How many digits after the decimal point of pi can a student memorize?Sophia placed third in 2nd grade with 40. The school winner was an 8th grader who memorized 200! Each grade-level winner received a pie, of course.

Little League practice

Everyone raked the field at the endexcept for this player who was running VERY fast around the bases, fell and acquired a small scrape on the arm – much smaller than the bandage indicates.“Grandma, take a picture and show Mom what happened.”

SRTS in SJUSD

This spring I’m going to work a few days for the Safe Routes To School educational program in San Juan Unified School District. Today was my observation day at to watch Dan Allison do an in-class pedestrian lesson with 2nd grade and bicycle safety with 5th grade.