It’s Friday!
And tomorrow is the first day of Fall!
Expected to be over 90 degrees here today! We will probably have a drastic drop in temp tomorrow since it will be the autumnal equinox. Get our the pumpkin spice!
Here’s some Fall color from Homosassa….
Have a great weekend!
Kathy
The rain continues. In the middle of the night, in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening. Bam! Thunder! Lightning! Deluge!
Anyhow…..
The crazy weird summer weather does make for a pretty picture!
This was earlier in the week.
And then a couple of evenings ago.
The crazy weird summer weather also makes a nice green yard! (the weeds are also having a wonderful growth spurt.) Our irrigation system has been down since the beginning of May. My friends have blamed me for all the rain since I live in Perfect and Perfect must have a beautiful yard. Well. As of yesterday, the irrigation system has been replaced. I can now use “city” water to keep my grass green. No longer my fault that we have at least one HUGE storm every 24 hours. (As I write this the thunder and lighting is having a party in my back yard)
Life is getting busy here. I’m at the Learning Center almost every week day now. Got stuff to do!
Started a “Dance Enrichment Program” on Monday and then free ukulele and guitar lessons for the kids on Wednesday. The dance class was fun. After sitting in school for an entire day, the kids enjoyed stretching and dancing.
The guitar teacher is doing great. This is our third year. The kids have to be in at least 4th grade. And they do want to learn.
We offer uke classes to anyone 6 and older. That’s a hot mess. This week we had four kids. And four volunteers. At that age, they just can’t sit for very long nor do they have an attention span that will last more than 10 minutes. Gotta figure out how to make it fun!
The Homosassa Arts, Crafts, and Seafood Festival is starting to gear up. Right now I’m doing the websites and social media. Also gotta order t-shirts. Meanwhile the Arts and Crafts Team is receiving dozens of applications every day! The festival is a lot of fun and the money goes to the community. But there’s a lot of stuff to pull together before the actual event!
And did anyone see Terry in the local newspaper?
Of course you did! I shared it all over Facebook!
Okay. Gotta go! Gotta meet people! It’s an outdoor event. And I’m pretty sure it’s going to rain!
Have a great weekend!
Kathy
I’m back!
It’s the last day of August! Zowie, the summer has flown by!
No soap box this week.
Although……
Terry’s been in the paper a bit recently. The Sheriff’s office raised the security rate by 40% for the Homosassa Arts, Crafts, and Seafood Festival. (Terry’s the chairperson of the festival) So he was on the front page of the Chronicle. He was also part of the whole park debacle that was discussed in the paper. There was an editorial this week about the park and the writer did not have his facts right. The basic premise was correct and the writer agreed that Old Homosassa needs a waterfront park. And said that it would help tourism.
But that’s not soap box stuff. Hey it was in the newspaper!
Primary elections are over. Yay! But now we get to enjoy all the political nonsense for the general election.
Monday is Labor Day! The unofficial start of Fall. Or I like to call it the REAL beginning of Hurricane Season. And stop wearing white! Except for your underwear. That’s okay!
Old Homosassa Learning Center Update!!!!
The local paper, Citrus County Chronicle, published the adult schedule. Not for the first time—but this time it made an impact!
Zumba Gold is REALLY popular. Women came out in the rain Wednesday night to join in. Old Homosassa gets serious floods when we have a minor rainstorm so I’m sure they had to wade in! I’m not going yet. Still waiting for a few more weeks for my foot to heal.
Yoga continues and is WONDERFUL!
But the ukulele class. The schedule said that we had “beginning uke” at 10:30. CRAZY CAKES! So many of our community want to learn ukulele! And we have our volunteer Anita that wants to bring them along.
The Sew Cool Workshop brings new people in every week. But not from Old Homosassa. The coach and I are the only members that actually live here. We have women from Sugarmill Woods, Crystal River, Citrus Hills, and Beverly Hills. Even an occasional tourist pops in to sew. That’s okay. Meeting fun new people that share a craft.
We are working on the kid schedule for the learning center. Already have the Girl Scouts meeting in there on Thursdays and have two other enrichment programs starting the week of September 10th. Very excited about our new format. I’ll tell you more in weeks to come!
Okay. Now I’m going to talk about deep stuff. (Not on a soapbox,just deep thoughts)
For the last two years, the whole after school program has been difficult. My personal mission is to help the kids. But it’s not that easy. I don’t want the learning center to be an after school free daycare center. And that’s what it has been since it started.
And I have worked very hard to reach out to people to make the after school program work. But it didn’t. And it won’t. It was a difficult lesson for me.
Time for a reboot. And time for me to listen to the universe.
What we were doing is not working. Stay calm. Just wait for the answer. It will come.
I continue to make kids my own personal mission. And the mission of the Learning Center.
It. Will. Come.
Actually. It. Is. Here.
More info in the weeks to come!!!!
Have a great weekend and holiday!
Kathy