Miser family update: Doin' like grandpa

Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Family Household.  This week, we're particularly rich in celebratory remembrance and imitation.  In particular, we're celebrating my Dad's birthday.   Happy birthday dad!  

So the theme for this week is . . . doin' like grandpa. 

My sisters joined in this week a bit:  middle sister sent two pictures showing that youngest sister is standing like grandpa. (It's kinda uncanny).  My sister-in-law sent along her husband to be like Grandpa (oh-my-gosh, he even has a hat like my Dad!)  My husband says he's loving well-educated women, like Grandpa.  L1 is "Traveling like grandpa". (She's got my sister-in-law and her husband with her . . . my dad loves traveling with family, too!)

Which is a bit of a theme. K-daughter says she's "Traveling- like grandpa! Our (spontaneous) trip to Niagara falls three weeks ago."  I-daughter offers, "Here we have [her cousin] doing something *with* grandpa" And she herself is "Reading like grandpa!"

In the next line down, N-son does circular saws like Grandpa (and under his supervision); they were breaking down an old fiberglass pool that had seen better days as a turtle tank.  I have my own contribution:  "fixing things around the home like Grandpa! . . . (True story: my guy called me for help, because the basement toilet was making a terrible whining noise. It wasn't the toilet; it was the water pipes behind the toilet. I went outside and turned off the outside faucet, which was running for some reason I don't know. "Fixed" it!)"  And Y (who hasn't actually met my dad), says she's "Enjoying La Boheme by Puccini, like grandpa, or so they tell me :)"

In the fourth row, I-daughter says, "I'm dancing like grandpa . . . I'm the one in red and white (maybe even with him? Hard to tell in this crowd) . . ."   And L1 is "Cooking like grandpa"  (mmm . . . waffles). 

Oh, man, I have so many pictures that I realized I forgot to stick this one in the collage, so I'll add it now: my niece is doin' her thumb like Grandpa.   
 

Happy birthday, Dad!  

I continue to plug away at my teaching and also to re-sanguinate slowly, hoping that my hemoglobin levels will return to adequate by the time the snow melts, my classes end, and I can throw myself into training again.  I got to tell my students a very groan-worthy calculus joke (What's the antiderivative of 1 over cabin, d cabin?  It's "houseboat"!  Because it's log cabin + C . . . ).   I love that joke because it's so goofy, but it does remind my students about the "+C" that they so often otherwise forget.   I didn't give any quizzes this week, so I didn't have any cheating.  So, yay?!?

N-son is still down with L1, and my guy is still riding his bike all over the place, and so life is chugging along here.  Our campus has changed its Covid Alert level from "High" to "Moderate", so I brought Prewash to campus to say hello to a few students in m class who are actually on campus, and it was nice for everyone involved to meet (outdoors, masked) in person, although I guess technically Prewash was "on line".  

And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures.  May you and yours be similarly prosperous.