Back to school

Can't believe we have already been home nearly a month, but then again, Portland seems like ages ago.  We are getting back into the school routine. Sixth grade is much harder - well, more work anyway, not really that hard.  It has been a bit of an adjustment for Otto after a pretty easy year in 5th grade. He even went so far to say that he is mad at his 5th grade teacher for not giving more homework. He is now officially in middle school, so he gets homework in all of his classes pretty much every day.  He is also in band (not by choice...) and chose to play the trombone. he is pretty good - not as painful to listen to him play as i thought it might be!

Work has been more than its normal busy since i returned, because my nurse is on her vacation (for a month). i have been doing everything. some days it is hard to believe i was ever a nurse - but i guess it is like riding a bike. Still, I HATE giving injections - and of course our flu shot stock came in the week after i got back.

After nearly 6 months we finally got our consumables shipment (and after many, many emails...some showing my frustration). A couple of boxes worth of stuff had expired, or will very soon. Fortunately the shipping company is going to go out and purchase and then ship those items to me.  My beer arrived in good condition though and i have been enjoying my yummy IPA.  We also got our new camera, so hopefully i will be taking better photos to put on the blog.

My bike riding Sundays continue and now that we have had a whole new influx of people at post, there are about 30 people signed up and interested in doing the weekly ride. the only problem is we have needed to split into 2 groups, the gentle ride Saturday and the Sunday 'regular' ride (read: FAST and long). We have some good riders here (which i like because it pushes me), and it hard to manage all of us together with the different abilities.  So far it seems to be working - those of us in the regular group are taking turns going out with the Saturday group to show them some of the routes. I went out with the gentle group today to show them the ride we call the Brewery Tour.  And now i get to ride again tomorrow - what could be better.

Lets see if i have any pictures...

My best travel buddie

One of the consumables boxes i received. not bad considering it traveled all the way from Portland, got stuck on a broken ship in Amsterdam for nearly a month and then sat in Abidjan for a month. Even my bag of chocolate chips were in good condition on arrival. just would have been much nicer to get it in June as originally promised...