Immediately upon our return from dropping Ava off at school this morning, we found some men and machines very busy on West Drive. They were doing the leaf collection that the early snow kept them from doing last autumn. I was pleased for them that today is relatively nice, as we are expecting more snow tomorrow. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
We didn't even to into the house but went thru the side gate and out to the front to get a good view of the situation. The little blue tractor was hustling up and down the street- he had a device in the front that looked like a gate with a brush on the bottom- he was collecting and pushing the leaves to the end of the block. Then the scooper would come in, pick them up, and put them into the dumper. The street sweeper thingie collected the remaining leaves into the rear of his vehicle, which would also get put into the back of the dumper. They were very busy, which kept James and Steve very busy for a while, going from living room window to dining room window depending on where the action was, and constantly apprising me of the goings on. I would occasionally pop out to take a picture, and James would be waiting in case one of us missed something. Now the streets are cleanish, although we still have plenty of leaves in our yard. Once the spring has sprung and we go without snow for a while we will get out there and bag it. Probably will have to do the next door neighbors house too, unless we want to continue to deal with the leaves in her yard for the remainder of the summer. Boo hoo.
On a bright note, I confirmed with Mrs. Lundt that James is indeed in the 2 year old playdate class starting in the fall. We even got to meet his "teacher", Mrs. Ehle. She seems really nice. Upbeat and chipper. Has at least 3 kids from what I could gather. She's cute and fun, and James gave her the total poker face the whole time she was trying to charm him. She is probably scared. Mrs. Lundt asked if Steve was going to be attending, and I replied that would depend on if he would get charged tuition. Hahaha. Polite laughter ensued. I did find out that not THAT many kids are continuing from the preschool to the day school. A reasonable number though, if you consider that not that many kids in Ava's class are members. She mentioned a couple of kids who moved that will just finish out the year here then move to closer schools. (I know one little girl is in Ava's class in that situation). Also she mentioned something I hadn't considered, that some of the kids go to churchs with no preschool but they do have a dayschool. So there you go. I had forgotten about that- we narrowed down our selection to only ones with preschools, so that wasn't an issue for us as it is for other parents. Ava is quite excited about attending the Kindergarten, and I am hoping James becomes more excited about attending his "class" too. He didn't say a word the whole time-I explained that we were hoping the vocabulary explosion would happen any day now. Mrs. Ehle said she had quite a few who started out not saying but one or two words but by the end of the year they were chatty. I told her I was hoping him being around more speaking people his size might inspire him too.
So that's really all the news from Indiana. PJ's game is at 11 p.m. tonight. The only good thing about that is that it seems all the guys are too tired to fight if there's any trouble. Plus their goalie will be back this week, and he's a big fella, so that will help too. Right now they have not lost any games, and if they make it through tonight, they will have a "bye" week before playoffs. Hoping we can take the kids again to see Daddy play. It was fun last time. Go '79 Lincolns!!!
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