Tantrums, tempers, and dumpster diving....

Rocky out in the sun...

So this morning got away for an hour or two...

So what do I do?

Dumpster Dive!

Go to my favorite local trash and junk holes...

I dig .... I scrounge...I find!

Here are a few pics... its a messy job...

My hands are a mess at the end of this...

Clorox wipes... disinfect hand sanitizer... please.

You never know what might be at the bottom of these bins.

Today...
What did I find?

Not much.

I had a barrel of odd and end going...A pure collection of weird.

Game pieces, broken action figures, a few doll heads,
a purple wig, two shadow boxes,

and a 8X6 foot map of North America.

When I turned my back... a few kids got my barrel.

They seemed to be so happy with my lost treasures.

That I decided not to stir a fight with them.

Plus nothing like finding a grown man fighting
a group of six year olds for plastic

game pieces and broken doll pieces.

Once in awhile.. I might be up for this challenge... not today..

I had arrived this morning to a classroom hit by an "angry kid tornado".

Big kid... big temper.

He was upset about someone stealing his Nintendo game...

I came on to the scene to find that my young friend had

unleashed his rage on my classroom...

Turned over tables... bins across the floor... broken dolls....

It was a good tantrum...

I had to respect the damage he was able to do.

I was the clean up man..

Put out the rage.

Got him thinking ... then we cleaned the room together.

Anywho... no more kid tantrums.

I still have the afternoon to go back and finish...anything can happen..

I could deal with six more of these type issues today... or maybe?

A bead in the nose?

I had a kid yesterday cut his finger open with a pretzel.

I know ... a pretzel?

I thought he said "end of a pencil"...

Then he showed me the pretzel..

He said he gets pretzels and pencils confused sometimes...

Such is life....

Here are a few pics of my Irish dogs from a few weeks ago.

I know you might be damn sick of my dogs.

But I had to share a few of these with some friends.

Thanks for putting up with me...

Talk soon,

-Mike