Friday, Sept. 25

5:17 a.m. -  I woke up this morning and opened the door to let the cats outside, and a bad noise was coming from the pool motor.  That was definitely not a good sign and not a good way to start a Friday.  As I approached in the dark to shut off the power, a burning smell lingered, so I shut it off.  I'll wait until daylight to assess the damage, but I'm pretty sure it's just burnt out, which isn't a good thing.  We won't be doing any swimming for the rest of the season, but I still need the motor to drain out the water in order to winterize the lines, which we would be doing soon anyway.  And a new motor will be a nice little chunk of change that I will have to shell out for next pool season - cha ching.  Maybe I'll just concentrate my thinking on that it's Friday. 

Things to do for Mrs. Mitola/Ms. Kapraun

Things to do for school

- get Association new enrollment forms collected and sent with updated roster

- check intro to textbook assignments and enter scores start Wed, 9/23 after school day 

    - 1st is scored in classroom, still need to enter - nothing done with 3,4 yet

- check for Tuesday's blog entries (forms) start Thurs, 9/24 - DONE

    - I checked...only 17 form entries....grrrrr - will now have a lot of emails to sort through

- check for Wednesday's FRW (forms) start Fri. 9/25 - DONE

- check students' emails to me

Things I Could Do or Need to Do In the Future

• 3 games at USSSA Muscatine tomorrow 5 p.m.
• lunch with Carmen and Mitola's Saturday
• 5 games at USSSA Muscatine beginning at 10:40 a.m.
• Paint the shed.
• Continue working on restoring the channel of the ditch.
• Replace seals and gaskets in the pool motor. - AFTER POOL CLOSING

Things that I NOW think about with the coronavirus. (9/25)

There was a bigger number of reported cases in Rock Island County than I've seen in awhile.  Hospitalizations were up as well.  

• Stats
• February 29 was the first reported positive case in Illinois. 
• March 20, there were 585 reported positive cases.
• As of May 29 (3 months), there were 120,260 positive cases and 5,390 deaths.
• As of June 29 (4 months), there were 142, 461 positive cases and 6,902 deaths.
• As of July 31 (5 months), there were 178,837 positive cases and 7,495 deaths.
• As of August 29 (6 months), there were 231,363 positive cases and 8,008 deaths.

• ILLINOIS PREVIOUS DAY
• hospitalizations - 367
• ILLINOIS YESTERDAY
• hospitalizations - 351
• ILLINOIS TODAY
• hospitalizations - 371

• ROCK ISLAND COUNTY
• YESTERDAY - 2,869 positive cases; 74 deaths
• TODAY - 2,935 positive cases; 75 deaths

Prayer for My Heart

Holy Spirit...

Help me have... 

    a pure heart, that I may see;
    a humble heart, that I may hear;
    a heart of love, that I may serve;
    a heart of faith, that I may abide in the spirit. 

                                                                     Amen