Schuyler Waynforth's Waffle Breakfast

Okay, Schuyler wasn't there. And she didn't know she had waffle makers, and she still doesn't have them, but they're still Schuyler's! (Schuyler click that first one for a close-up. One makes two regular square waffles, but the other does something like alphabet blocks, with numbers on one side and letters on the other.)

Images of the conference room

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This was the teen/young-adult panel. From left, Holly and Kirby Dodd, Roxana, Roya and Rosie Sorooshian, Kathryn Fetteroll and Marty Dodd (kinda ghosted out; sorry), and then listening on the side, Marty's girlfriend Ashlee, and Cyrus Sorooshian, the father of those three middle girls.

The art on the walls was Joyce's demonstration of how words are translated (not so well), and the cards were from the Blizzard poker set Kirby got for Christmas, at work (his show and tell).

Outside and inside

This first video was the day we all checked in, the view from the balcony of #48 where Kirby and Marty and Roya lived. You can see Carl, Joyce and Kathryn, and you can hear me and Marty.
"https://sandradodd.com/albums/c111/SandraDodd/New%20Mexico/SantaFe/SUSS2010/kdk_2120.mp4"> This is from Sunday morning, the good-bye get-together planned by people other than me (and I'm very glad they did). It's fuzzy; sorry. There was another wave of people a little later, with Pam and Joyce.



Another brief video of Holly, me and Keith playing recorder badly (confusion): http://zamunzo.blogspot.com/2010/01/suss-recorder-playing.html (Chris Sanders' blog)

Santa Fe (images on December 30)

Keith and I went to Santa Fe today to scout some stuff out and do last minute things. We took a map of where to put the firewood to a little town called La Cienega, and the guy wasn't home so we gave it to his brother next door. The guy's wife called on the way home and all is set. A cord of wood, delivered outside the Fetterolls' condo, 1:00 January 6.

Here's the airport where I'll be picking Joyce, Carl and Kathryn up Wednesday just before noon:



There were three planes there. Real passenger jets. That's new. It's been little local things until this year.

Although this is subject to change if someone who is in there decides not to check out, here are some of the particular units and views:

This is #49, where Joyce will be, and that's Keith up on the road, near where the firewood will be dumped, figuring out what to do next (next Wednesday).



This is #55, a few doors away, where Pam will be, and then the view on the other side of it (with some distortion and my van):





These are the two new units. Not the same architecture; newer, fastened to the main room where we'll be, but the open to the outside. To the left is #100 which will be Robin Bentley's, and on the right Julie Daniel's. There were people staying in both so we couldn't see. I didn't get to see inside the one we'll have (Keith and Holly and I) which is up the hill a little to the right. Unless they have to move us because the people there now (who are staying until January 3) decide not to leave.



Jill Parmer and family, here! (ugly chairs, but cute table, on the porch, and there's a wood rack on the porch to the left that we'll fill up for you).



This is the view to the west from in front of Jill's. Behind and closer is the parking lot, on the same level.



The Sanders of Iowa will be here.

Tumbleweed Runners-Up

I have "get a tumbleweed" on my list. Two have come into the neighborhood. One was on the street outside our cul-de-sac. It was Too Big:



One came into the yard and hid by the trailer, but it is Too Small:



(It's broken, too.)

For the benefit of those who don't live around here and who are flying in, I will continue the quest (and press Marty to look, as he drives more than anyone else) for a Just Right tumbleweed.

Weather, late arrivals

Pretty much it's expected to be cold and still and sunny.

Santa Fe Intellicast: http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Weather.aspx?location=USNM0292

The cold is why we can get these condos for so little, this time of year, so good for that!

This morning I worked on kindling for the fireplaces. As you arrive, if you have a fireplace and you want to use it (two units don't and the occupants opted "newer and fancy and no fireplace" over "funky 70's but has a fireplace")... get a basket of kindling when you check in or from me directly if it's not too late. I'll confirm my room number when I know for absolute sure, and the people at the desk will know where I am.

Anyone who arrives after the desk closes and who had a paid reservation for that night can still get the key from a place with a code. That will all come clear if it's necessary to know. It's a system they've used successfully for a long time, and there's someone not far from there with keys all the time, but it's not a hotel so the front desk isn't open 24 hours a day or anything.

Meeting Joyce!

Joyce posted one of her crystal-clear comments on Always Learning, and I responded effusively. I figured I should share it here. The first part is another participant's comment, but the important part was Joyce's clarification.


" I would proudly declare that if I had girls they would not wear pink and would not play with Barbies."

Yep, I've heard people say that.

And can you imagine the reaction if some mom had proudly declared her
daughter would not wear blue and would not play with trucks!

Joyce

Isn't Joyce clear and solid in her understanding of the logic behind why unschooling and mindful parenting work?
I'm stunned and glad when Joyce writes something as clear as she's written above.

It's likely that now that Joyce's daughter Kathryn is grown, Joyce might well gradually wander away from unschooling discussions. She might not, but her website will endure somewhere between "for a while" and "for a long time."

Still, what if you could look at her writings with her voice and her face in your mind? What if you'd get a chance to just hang out with her and eat, and maybe meet her husband and daughter?

That's one of the things this upcoming symposium in Santa Fe is about.
There's only one three-bedroom condo left in our set, but there are several one- and two-bedrooms left. Those are $79 or $99 a night, if you register before the end of November, and they're real dwelling places you could live in. Full kitchen, living room, fireplace, and my husband Keith and I will make sure you have some firewood and kindling and matches for those fireplaces.

The conference fee is $100 for one person, $150 for two, $180 for three, and $20 additional per family member after that. We will evening meals together. One will be a potluck. One night we'll play Apples to Apples and another night we'll have Show and Tell (potentially like a talent show, but no one needs literally to sing or dance).

More information is here:
http://sandradodd.com/suss
and that has links to a blog with photos and to a registration page

I'm really looking forward to seeing Joyce again myself, but I promise not to hog her attention, so others can hang out with her.

Sandra