Partly cloudy, the sun has plays hide and seek with the clouds most of the day. It was cloudy this morning, then about 9:00 it started the game of hide and seek. Not much of a breeze, and not much activity around here today. The time is 5:06 p.m. and the temperature is 83 degrees. We are getting closer to the 12 hour daylight and 12 hour darkness. Fall arrives Sunday morning. The leaves are already starting to turn. However, due to the cloud cover we have missed seeing the harvest moon.

Dinner this evening is going to be hamburgers and a green tossed salad. That is simple enough and fits in with Tina’s diet nicely. This will be an easy dinner with an easy cleanup afterwards. I love the Ninja Grill as it is so easy to clean after grilling, and grills beautifully. I did steaks the other night and they came out perfect.

The topic, according to the local news, is kids and cell phones in school. Some think that they should have them in class in case they need to call their parents. Some think they should be banned from class rooms. Collected at the door and returned after school. Then the thought of A1 being used by the students without guidelines, rules, is another topic. Is the child doing the work> Is A1 doing the work for the child? is the child learning? The thought from the teachers and board members is that A1 could be beneficial if used properly, with rules and guidelines. Those have to be set in place prior to the kids using A1. Some parents say that their children are using A1 now, but as research and with the parent their with them. I am so thankful that I don’t have a child in school.

Quote of the day: “God who is Goodness and Truth is also Beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and enjoy and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.” Roberta Bondi, Contemporary American Educator, Writer.

Have a great rest of your Thursday. Make it a thrifty, productive, cheerful, positive, and fun day.

Blessings