Pretty Patterns......

A divided glass dish that we had taken from the buffet to use of olives and pickles.  I was amazed at seeing the fancy classical patterns on the dish.

From the back view it has a completely different look.  I really don't know where this dish originated but it could have been my mom's.

Patterns of light and color can be seen in the large tree of ours.  We were late getting things completely up so we will probably wait for a couple of weeks into January before we start taking things down again.  We will start by doing it a tree at a time and spread it out for a few days.

I am back at school as a teacher today.  I inspected power emergency lights yesterday at school.  The batteries need to be replaced in them.  The emergency lights need to be working when the power goes out. In rooms without windows or hallways with low light they turn on with power failure. It was amazing how many were out there and where they are located.  I had to check each one and map it location for the head janitor. One really doesn't notice them on a daily basis but they are everywhere.

I also did an afternoon of painting above some lockers in a hallway.  Shorter lockers were installed and the paint had not been completely done behind them.  There was a band of unpainted wall behind them and it wasn't an easy job to do.  When I painted the unpainted band, I found out they gave me the wrong color of paint.  When it dried it was grayer in color than the rest of the wall.  So I was required to get out a paint roller and paint everything to match.  I wasn't a real happy camper as the job became a three hour job instead of a 20 minute touch up job.  I ended up getting paint on some bluejeans that I really didn't want ruined.  I actually had a lot of paint on them so I will have to replace them at Wally mart.

It is a two day school week and I just had a two day janitor week so I will be glad for Friday to come. Thanks for stopping by today.