August 20, 2011

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Saturday 20~~~~~The weather today is very warm, I am teaching my rock painting class today with the help of my co-workers Pat and Khrystyl. I have so many rocks gathered and washed for the kids to paint. The biggest job will be hauling them over to the Educational Center and covering the tables with newspaper to make clean up easier from the painters. Tress and Cory and the kids pulled into the park about noon, while I was setting up for the rock painting class. The paint class was very successful, we had almost more kids than we had room to paint. A lot of the parents like to bring the little ones who are way too young to be in the class and they take up space holding them, trying to help them. We try to discourage them, but some mothers are very determined that their little one should make something. LOL All of the rocks were good and some of the rocks that were painted were very good, some kids are just a natural at painting. One boy painted and self portrait of himself and it was very good. The only thing that was different was his weight, he was a rather heavy set boy and his portrait was a skinny boy, I guess that is what he sees in himself. LOL I sprayed all the rocks for the kids with acrylic paint and I took their pictures of them holding their rock. They had so much fun and some of them painted 3 rocks. After the class was over and everything cleaned up and hauled home, we went over to the West's campsite and visited. We went to Mass and picked up broasted chicken after Mass for our dinner, as we didn't feel like cooking after such a busy day. Then we went over to the West campsite and sat around the camp fire until bedtime. The Maddens will be here tomorrow morning, so we will be busy with so much company and work. It will be lots of fun.