First!!!! You have to get up pretty early in Central Time Zone to be first.
I didn’t sleep well last night AND I am doing an online coaching program so I try to set at least 30 minutes to an hour of that in before I have to go. in to the office.
Rise and Shine Peeps!!! Up and at ’em! You’re burning daylight! (Well not quite yet here but the dogs have been out, fed, and out again)
Good morning! We had a reddish tinged sky at 6:30 a.m. Wonder what that means? We’ve had enough damaging storms already this week. It was 66°, and that we can be happy about!
Do people still invest in class rings for seniors in high school or those graduating from college? I still have both those rings which I did not use for long but since Wes homeschooled we never even thought about that. Just curious.
Good morning all. My dad was up at four thirty. And at two. And at ten thirty. I don’t know how many times he went out to the living room but he was there when I got up at five twenty, just sitting in the dark. Probably a good idea to start locking the door. We don’t want him tumbling off the deck in the dark.
One of my cameras picked up some interesting video last night. A cute little mouse was running back and forth on the side of the sandbox around midnight. That went on for maybe fifteen minutes. Suddenly, the flurry of owl feathers and no more pictures of the mouse.
The other night I got several of bats clearing out the insects. I like to be in my bed at night.
Went out to do the morning dog pickup duty in the backyard and we got a short smattering of rain. Sweet! We don’t get summer rain out here.
My high school class ring — and my roommate’s, they were kind of the only ‘real’ jewelry we had back then — was stolen in an apartment break-in.
I think I still have one from college (somewhere), but I never wore it much — and I just went to a (working-class) “state” U so it wasn’t a prestigious ivy-league memento. Not sure if it’s still a “thing” to buy the rings or not, but back then it’s just something you did, I guess.
Back in the day we were so much into conformity for the sake of conformity like with ordering the rings our senior year. Now I think, “What a racket or monopoly that one ring company had going. School pictures were similar with the package deals for parents to buy. That is one thing that has changed for the good, I expect but did not know if tradition on class rings is still important.
In my life, class rings were like the prom, only for a certain set. The only person I knew who got a class ring was my first son from Pensacola Christian college. They later banned him.
That is an interesting thought, Mumsee, “for a certain set.” At my school I knew of no one who did not order one in high school. There must have been some, but no one I knew. My parents did not splurge on name brand clothes and accessories for me so I could fit in,but there was no question or resistence in getting the class ring. Maybe because my father had a Masonic ring, that might have made rings somehow on a different level with his thinking.
I have been mowing and the mower gave out of gas before I did.😀 I still have a small patch left.
Haha, I was hardly part of a “certain set,” but I’ll take it. From what I remember we all pretty much bought the class rings, especially in high school.
I suspect some of us also had parents or other relatives who may or may not have had the opportunity to graduate from high school, let alone college. Our parents would have come up during the Depression era, then going into WWII when they were a bit older.
Oh, yes, DJ. Good point. My dad only went through the 8th grade so that is probably why. My mother finished high school and went to business school to learn office work.
I find myself even at almost seventy truing to figure out why my parents did certain things.
Banned: no, he toed the line while there and graduated very well with a job working for the Olympics but afterwards he went on a PCC bashing website and said something.
Ah, yes, I remember the huge (guy-sized) class rings a couple of my girlfriends were chosen to wear, wrapped with yarn so they’d fit, by their older (junior!) boyfriends who also had …. !cars!
I guess the rings must have been available when we were sophomores or juniors in that case? Can’t remember.
I bought a class ring, but none of my brothers did. Not sure about my sister. I gave mine to my fiance/husband to wear and he lost it at work. A bit later, he looked down and there it was in the rock parking lot at work. It has a very scratched up stone in it.
I haven’t heard of any of my grandchildren getting those. Yearbooks and lettermen jackets are still around, however.
We may have gotten the rings at the end of junior year. If a guy let a girl wear his ring, that meant ‘going steady.’We melted wax and dripped it inside the ring and let it firm up in layers until the ring fit. I did ‘go steady’ with one guy who went to Stone Mountain High for a short while. I did the wax thing with his ring. I really liked him but we broke up. He was friends with a guy who lived in my neighborhood.
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First!!!! You have to get up pretty early in Central Time Zone to be first.
I didn’t sleep well last night AND I am doing an online coaching program so I try to set at least 30 minutes to an hour of that in before I have to go. in to the office.
Rise and Shine Peeps!!! Up and at ’em! You’re burning daylight! (Well not quite yet here but the dogs have been out, fed, and out again)
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Good morning all. it’s midweek already.
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Good morning! We had a reddish tinged sky at 6:30 a.m. Wonder what that means? We’ve had enough damaging storms already this week. It was 66°, and that we can be happy about!
Do people still invest in class rings for seniors in high school or those graduating from college? I still have both those rings which I did not use for long but since Wes homeschooled we never even thought about that. Just curious.
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Morning!
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Good morning all. My dad was up at four thirty. And at two. And at ten thirty. I don’t know how many times he went out to the living room but he was there when I got up at five twenty, just sitting in the dark. Probably a good idea to start locking the door. We don’t want him tumbling off the deck in the dark.
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One of my cameras picked up some interesting video last night. A cute little mouse was running back and forth on the side of the sandbox around midnight. That went on for maybe fifteen minutes. Suddenly, the flurry of owl feathers and no more pictures of the mouse.
The other night I got several of bats clearing out the insects. I like to be in my bed at night.
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Just so that’s all happening “outdoors,” mumsee.
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Indeed.
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Art and I knocked down the Joro spider web for Round Two. Got the web but not Mr. Spider.
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No more mice, Mumsee!
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Outside, Jo, outside.
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There’s a smiley-face in the water right under that top orange fish.
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Went out to do the morning dog pickup duty in the backyard and we got a short smattering of rain. Sweet! We don’t get summer rain out here.
My high school class ring — and my roommate’s, they were kind of the only ‘real’ jewelry we had back then — was stolen in an apartment break-in.
I think I still have one from college (somewhere), but I never wore it much — and I just went to a (working-class) “state” U so it wasn’t a prestigious ivy-league memento. Not sure if it’s still a “thing” to buy the rings or not, but back then it’s just something you did, I guess.
I was sorry the high school ring was stolen.
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Who was that yelling at us to “Rise and Shine!” so early?
I may rise but I rarely shine in the mornings.
Not a morning person.
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More mooches.
The white ones are kinda creepy.
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Back in the day we were so much into conformity for the sake of conformity like with ordering the rings our senior year. Now I think, “What a racket or monopoly that one ring company had going. School pictures were similar with the package deals for parents to buy. That is one thing that has changed for the good, I expect but did not know if tradition on class rings is still important.
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I do like the header photo today.
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In my life, class rings were like the prom, only for a certain set. The only person I knew who got a class ring was my first son from Pensacola Christian college. They later banned him.
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That is an interesting thought, Mumsee, “for a certain set.” At my school I knew of no one who did not order one in high school. There must have been some, but no one I knew. My parents did not splurge on name brand clothes and accessories for me so I could fit in,but there was no question or resistence in getting the class ring. Maybe because my father had a Masonic ring, that might have made rings somehow on a different level with his thinking.
I have been mowing and the mower gave out of gas before I did.😀 I still have a small patch left.
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Haha, I was hardly part of a “certain set,” but I’ll take it. From what I remember we all pretty much bought the class rings, especially in high school.
I suspect some of us also had parents or other relatives who may or may not have had the opportunity to graduate from high school, let alone college. Our parents would have come up during the Depression era, then going into WWII when they were a bit older.
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What did he do to get banned? Not wear a tie to class?
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Oh, yes, DJ. Good point. My dad only went through the 8th grade so that is probably why. My mother finished high school and went to business school to learn office work.
I find myself even at almost seventy truing to figure out why my parents did certain things.
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Banned: no, he toed the line while there and graduated very well with a job working for the Olympics but afterwards he went on a PCC bashing website and said something.
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Where I taught the students got their class rings as sophomores. Then they would give them to their sweethearts if they had one.
I never got mine, as it was too expensive for me.
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Ah, yes, I remember the huge (guy-sized) class rings a couple of my girlfriends were chosen to wear, wrapped with yarn so they’d fit, by their older (junior!) boyfriends who also had …. !cars!
I guess the rings must have been available when we were sophomores or juniors in that case? Can’t remember.
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I bought a class ring, but none of my brothers did. Not sure about my sister. I gave mine to my fiance/husband to wear and he lost it at work. A bit later, he looked down and there it was in the rock parking lot at work. It has a very scratched up stone in it.
I haven’t heard of any of my grandchildren getting those. Yearbooks and lettermen jackets are still around, however.
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I got the letters but never got the jacket. I thought those were just for that certain set.
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We may have gotten the rings at the end of junior year. If a guy let a girl wear his ring, that meant ‘going steady.’We melted wax and dripped it inside the ring and let it firm up in layers until the ring fit. I did ‘go steady’ with one guy who went to Stone Mountain High for a short while. I did the wax thing with his ring. I really liked him but we broke up. He was friends with a guy who lived in my neighborhood.
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Sounds like a good reason to break up.
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🙂 mumsee
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