Rose was accepted into the National Honor Society (Adastra) and attended the ceremony to receive her certificate on May 9th. She was one of 50 students at Washington HS accepted into Adastra. Go Rose!
She's to the right of the tall kid in the gray shirt:
And we got a new cat. Emily's best friend Cora gave Emily an 8-week old calico named Alice. Alice alternates between tearing the house apart and climbing all over us with her sharp claws... and sleeping peacefully.
Seriously, when she's awake she doesn't sit still for two seconds:
But eventually she conks out again:
With all the rain we've had this spring I haven't been able to ride my bicycle as much as I usually do by now. I've also had to change my normal route on the Cedar Valley Trail because all the flooding has washed out the bridge I cross as I head north toward Center Point. It's great to be out riding again, though.
