Back to School

First day of school in front of the car (in true Strahl tradition). It is dark because it is frickin' early!
School is back in full swing and fall is moving in. Heater on the drive in to work; air conditioner on the way home! Jax has the same teacher this year (moved up with class) so no big transition issues into the 5th grade. My juniors are all good kids (so far)! I have a lot of football players so I throw the "Petro" card on the table early. Once they know Coach Petro is related and we communicate about students they are very well behaved. Appearently Danny makes them run and do extra drills if he finds they are misbehaving! They say he always has a good ("sometimes stupid") joke when they're done though!
Another week or two and we should have some aspen pictures as the leaves change and we make our annual pilgrimage to the hills to stand in front of clumps of trees with many other city dwellers taking photos!