Making today’s starter word really random, I decided to grab something from my twitter feed. Which is why today’s word is merde

Happy Birthday to all those leap year babes out there!

Hope you’re enjoying yourselves, since your birthdays now come less frequently than the Olympics!

Yeah, I needed oreos. I know I haven’t made a new tasty Tuesday post in ages. But this is what you get.

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As if I needed further proof this was an incredibly mild winter…

Last year’s crocus post was March 13th. And I discovered that not only did the rosemary survive the winter–so did the parsley.

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It was another gorgeous Sunday. Only saw one other person with a camera, however.

While looking for items for the scavenger hunt, we came across a couple of these:

Yeah. Maybe repainting signs doesn’t work as well as they thought it would.
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Found my items on our walk around town today.

Ten turned out to be more difficult than I had expected.

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So, for this week, things relating to my blogiversary…

ten
code
faith
education
remodel

Yeah, sorry. I’m not sure those are going to be any easier than last week’s.

Today’s random (but not) word is: decade

I realized that it’s been ten years since I started keeping a blog. (Obviously, I realized this in the past, and am writing it for the future, but not too far in the past.)

I can’t claim that I’ve been diligent and written every day, but I do believe that for the most part (once I really started it) I’ve posted at least once a week for the entire time.

Yeah, some of the most recent posts are pictures and not writing, which is perhaps not quite right for what was supposed to be a writing exercise, but this turned into something very different from how it started, which was simply for a place to me to record my thoughts.

The first post I wrote was primarily about the courses I was taking at the time: The Faiths of Abraham and Women in Islam. Both classes were fantastic and also educational in many different ways.

At this point, Michael and I had been home owners for about six months, and were regularly doing a lot of work on the house. It had been almost three years since my Dad’s cancer diagnosis, and Grandmom was still in Baltimore.

Please note that when I started, I was simply writing in basic HTML, and adding new thoughts to the top of the page as they came to me. No indexes or even individual posts at that point.

Obviously, this changed within a year or so.

February to April 2002
May to June 2002

This is the scenery for part of the walk I made to and from school:

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This is gonna be in a couple parts, because 1) I took a lot of pictures and 2) I have a lot of memories.

As I mentioned previously, every school I attended in Morgantown is gone, at least as a school. The first school I went to, Second Ward, is now an apartment complex (I have three pictures of it in my Flickr set) but the school for which I have the fondest memories was Second Ward Annex. It opened in 1939 as the Second Ward Negro school, but after desegregation, shifted to an annex to the main school.

I went to second and third grade there, and walked there and back every day.

This is the first view of the school, if you’re walking down White from Wilson (which I did).

Here is the second flight of steps up to the school.
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Robot: This was a gift from some members of the UCF.

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Oddly, although I have a dinosaur on my desk at work, I forgot to take a picture of it.

Square, triangle AND circle!

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Yeah, so now I am a week behind. Go figure.

robot
law
tentacle
magnetic
ethics

Those are inside-y things, right?