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Monday, January 5, 2026

Monday, January 5

4:51 a.m. - It's back to school today, as today is an institute day for teachers and staff to get up-and-running for second semester.  That two weeks of the holiday break went quickly - too quickly.  At least since last Thursday, we did get a few days of lazy down-time days.  That doesn't mean I'm excited about returning to the office and the building, but we can't get to the end of second semester without starting second semester.  

Yesterday was sort of a weird day.  We had a nice morning with the Southwell grandchildren, and they got picked up by dad around 9:30.  I then did a little exercise and jumped in the hot tub and paid a visit to mom and dad.  While there I helped get some hay down.

Then Amber made plans with Shawn and Mary to go to Texas Roadhouse for supper.  We had gotten Shawn a gift certificate in return for him loaning us his trailer for Karrigan and Michael's wedding.  He insisted it was too much and decided we would go out to supper sometime with him and Mary.  To me that defeated the idea of a gift certificate, but Shawn wasn't going to change his mind.  Chloe was there too, and we had a nice visit and nice supper.  Then before heading home, we went to Orion to see the Lees family.  Little Kollyns is growing up and walking a lot now with lots of smiles and hugs.  And then I spent the rest of the night at home watching a little football before going to bed.

And today's highlight is to spend a bunch of money on a an old SUV that I hope works out for me.  I just need it to be a reliable vehicle for a few more years while I work on paying off the truck.  This morning on the way to school, I think I'm going to head to Aledo and pick up some doughnuts from Mercer Market to have for the staff this morning as they arrive back to school.  At school I'll make my list of things to do to start working on today and throughout the week as students head back to the building tomorrow.

A rough look at the upcoming officiating schedule has what I think is 47 games over the next 43 days (including varsity and fresh-soph) from now until mid-February, and then there will hopefully be some post-season games too.  That makes for a busy stretch, and this is often the most challenging time of the school year, even though it looks like this week we are getting some warmer than normal temperatures, which will help a little by allowing students to be outside for breaks rather than inside.  

Things to do for School 

  • get bus physical Tuesday, January 6 - 10:30 a.m. - photo ID, medications, and bus form
  • update attendance each week in SDS
  • Jan. 28 - PTO meeting at Andalusia 6 p.m.
  • Feb. 25 -  PTO meeting at TRE at 6 p.m.
  • Mar 25 - PTO meeting at ICE at 6 p.m.
  • Apr 22 - PTO meeting at Andalusia 6 p.m.

OTHER THINGS


    Things To Do for History Page
    • What/Where is South Buffalo Prairie School and for that matter West Buffalo School and East Taylor Ridge School?  ugh.
    • Friday Tidbit on the RR History Network Page


    6 - at United girls vs. RW (Tony and Marcus) 6 :00

    • (40 min. from Aledo)

    • Jay drives

    • Pick up Marcus at his office at 4:10; pick up Tony at 4:30

    7 - at MerCo boys vs. West Hancock (Tony and Marcus) 5:30

    • Marcus drives 

    • Pick up Jay at Jay’s house at 4:15; pick up Tony at his house about 4:40

    8 - at MonRose boys vs. Farmington (Tony and Brian Sullivan) 5:30

    • (40 min. from Aledo)

    • Jay drives

    • Jay picks up Tony at Tony’s house at 4:00

    9 - at Riverdale boys vs. MerCo (Tony and Marcus) 5:30

    • (50 min. from Edgington)

    • Tony drives

    • Tony picks up Jay at Jay’s house at 4 p.m., pick up Marcus at Marcus’s house about 4:15

    10 - at AlWood girls vs. MonRose (Tony and Marcus) 1 p.m.

    • (30 min. from Aledo)

    • Marcus drives

    • Marcus picks up Jay at Jay’s house at 11:00; picks up Tony at Tony’s house at 11:30


    January

    6 - at United girls vs. RW (Tony and Marcus) 6 :00

    7 - at MerCo boys vs. West Hancock (Tony and Marcus) 5:30

    8 - at MonRose boys vs. Farmington (Tony and Brian Sullivan) 5:30

    9 - at Riverdale boys vs. MerCo (Tony and Marcus) 5:30

    10 - at AlWood girls vs. MonRose (Tony and Marcus) 1 p.m.

    11 - SUNDAY'

    12 - BLOCKED

    13 - at Rockridge boys vs. West Prairie (Marcus and Kraig McPeek) 5:30

    14 - OPEN

    15 - at Orion girls vs. MerCo (Marcus and Josh Temple) 5:30

    16 - at AlWood boys vs. Wethersfield (Marcus and Tony) 6:00

    17 - at Orion girls  (Marcus and Josh) 8:30 a.m.; at Moline (Marcus and Tony) 3:00 p.m.

    18 - SUNDAY

    19 - BLOCKED

    20 - at Geneseo boys vs. Rochelle (Marcus and Tony) 7:30

    21 - OPEN

    22 - at MonRose girls vs. MerCo (Marcus and Tony) 5:30

    23 - at MonRose boys vs. Riverdale (Marcus and Tony) 5:30

    24 - at West Central girls vs. Danville (Marcus and Tony) 4:30

    25 - SUNDAY

    26 - OPEN

    27 - at United boys vs. Knoxville (Marcus and Josh) 6:00

    28 - OPEN

    29 - BLOCKED

    30 - at West Central boys vs. Annawan (Marcus and Josh) 6:00

    31 - at Sherrard girls vs. Princeton (Marcus and Todd Hoffstater) 1:00

    February

    1 - SUNDAY

    2 - BLOCKED

    3 - at East Moline Christian vs. Quad Cities Christian (Marcus and Tony) 5:30

    4 - at Orion girls vs. Kewanee (Tony and Teel) 5:30

    5 - at MonRose girls vs. Sherrard (Marcus and Tony) 5:30

    6 - at ROWVA boys vs. Annawan (Marcus and Tony) 6:00

    7 - at Sterling boys vs. Mendota (Marcus and Tony) 4:30

    8 - SUNDAY

    9 - BLOCKED - BOE Meeting

    10 - at MerCo boys vs. Morrison (Tony and Molly Doughty) 5:30

    11 - at ATown girls LTC 3rd-4th place game (Marcus and Tony) 6 p.m.

    12 - at Rock Island girls vs. Galesburg (Marcus and Tony) 7:00

    13 - at Orion boys vs. Rockridge (Marcus and John Hippen)

    14 - at AlWood boys (LTC trny game) (Marcus and Tony) 3 p.m.

    15 - SUNDAY

    16 - OPEN

    17 - at AlWood boys (MS gym) (LTC trny game) Marcus and Tony 6 p.m.




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