Winter Thaw?

50s today- Wow! Not quite yet though.
All week will be upper 30s-40s..... and then back to the 20s and maybe a bit of snow.
My mind moves to the gardens. I need to focus this year: What is important and what is not in the yard. Too much to do otherwise.
I have to PLAN this year; not just work.
(Who knows if we will be here anyway.- So why bother, eh?)

Still, so much to do, so much to do.

Rollercoaster week at school:
HS students have been predictably worrisome (and troublesome as well). Some days I just wish I could kick a few of them in the pants- perhaps a stroke of reality cause-and-effect will allow them to see their error of ways. Thus, I have decided that this class is going to be 'content only' with no extras. It is not worth the inner-toil, really, and so many of them are so lazy that they do not have the experiences I wish them to have because they CHOOSE not to do the work. So, it will be as much in-class as I can fit. I may go 'assessment only' with weekly participation and homework for this class as well- again, they do not do the work anyway. I do not know yet.
JHS students have been a mixed-bag this week.... Ups and downs all over the place.
So many Ds and Fs right now I am beside myself.
It is time for a reevaluation and reconnection to the subject and students.
What is really important and what is not for the demonstration of the objectives? Perhaps I need to throw out all of the extras for all classes.
And then I am WAY BEHIND on grading, which looks very bad.

Another very busy weekend.

Other things....
A general uneasiness, really. Nothing major, just a lot of little things.