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HA staff 06-07

today's staff pic

they don't make the white shirts anymore, so those of us new staff had to wear HA t-shirts instead. i used my camera and tripod instead of the office camera. it didn't come out very clear and i'm not sure why. i probably should have set it for a narrower aperture to make sure it all was in focus . . .

Today was regular registration and handshake. We have 119 students registered at this point, I think. That's 4 more than we budgeted for, so we're glad.

This is Don shaking the hands of some Collegedale boys. The ones to the left and right are guys I tutored in math at Spalding two years ago. They still can't do math. =)


I like this picture of Jan Rogers trying to tear off a student's hand. She's so funny! Don introduced her tonight as the official Highland hit-person. He said "if Ad Council can't get you, she will." She works in the cafe.





This is most of the student body, minus SA, who were up front at the time. It's also missing the people I cut out of the right side!

I had fun taking pictures of the fountain with the shutter speed set slow. It was set at 1/2 second for this shot and I just held the camera against me. It was still light enough that the rest of the picture wasn't that hard to keep in focus.

Olivia thought it would be funny to get in a locker. She didn't think, however, that shutting the locker would be very fun. She's not very terrible for a 2-year-old. She likes to steal my keys, call people with my cell phone, and push the shutter button on my camera.

splash!

After the 3:30 meeting this afternoon with the parents of new students, I went for a walk with some of the other staff and their dogs. Chadd & Nikie came, Steve & Janelle brought Marley, Andy brought Gracie, and Randy brought Abner. I'll explain who the 4th dog is further down.

There is a pond out in the field behind Don & JP's that we took the dogs to because they like retrieving sticks from the water. Andy claims there is still a racquetball out there somewhere too that Gracie wouldn't bring back from the last time. This first picture is Marley. She's a lab mix and used to live in my apartment with Steve & Janelle.

Andy and Randy's dogs are both Weimeraners (sp?). Gracie is Andy & Becky's dog and she is VERY loyal and always wants to know what Andy is doing. She's on anxiety medicine b/c she goes crazy when Andy leaves the house.

She definitely gets the "Best Jumper Award" for chasing sticks in the pond, as you can see in the picture (click to enlarge). She took a flying leap every single time. Andy said she's a lot of fun to throw things for off of a dock because she still jumps way out. She and Marley came back holding onto the same stick one time! Marley likes to be the pirate of the pond and steal the other dogs' sticks.

This is Abner. He's Randy Bishop's dog and is quite a bit larger than Gracie. He's not really this red looking, but was in the evening sunlight, so it masks his gray color in the picture. He doesn't take flying leaps, but charges right into the water after the sticks. When we walked through the woods, he would pick up small logs and want us to throw them for him.

We took a pretty good hike from the pond down into some of the trails on what they call the "Back 40." We walked until we got to a big rock/small waterfall thing in the stream. The dogs had fun running and jumping on it. Gracie likes bounding over the trees that have fallen over the trail. In this picture, she cleared a branch 3 feet high and then over a couple of other parts spread out over about 5 feet. She's crazy! I had to use flash b/c the woods were so dark.

And the last dog . . .

He's our resident stray dog. He has a collar on, but no tags. This is kind of funny because a student made a tag for him today that said "Take me home Carrie" that several people saw. He's still a puppy and likes to chase cars and bark a lot. I think Steve and Janelle might keep him to have a playmate for Marley, and will call him Harper. I'm not attached to him, but I did feed him 3 pieces of bread and part of a donut! ; )