Taking a MLK break

I'm beginning to like this school schedule stuff! Last week I only worked one day and this week the schools were only open for three days due to the Martin Luther King holiday. I'm sure things will pick up though. Last week a friend and I spent a few more days in Mrs. Shannon's science class teaching kids how to fly rubber-powered model airplanes they just built. We would have had it done in one day, but a fire drill took up almost one full period so we had to go back. It was a lot of fun watching these 12 and 13 year-old kids put these small planes together. It was even more fun to watch them fly the models. There was a snag however. We planned to fly them outside on the grass when the wind was not blowing a gale. However it has snowed quite a few days this winter and the grass is solid snow getting deeper by the day. I got a call the morning we were to fly from Mrs. Shannon. She said the principal told her we could not take the kids outside if it was below freezing. I told her not to worry because we could fly them almost anywhere inside. Anyway we were told we could use the cafeteria. We no sooner got the planes out than the fire alarm went off. We all went outside even though it was below freezing. I guess it was not too cold for a fire drill. So that period was shot. However we marched the next period to the cafeteria and proceeded to fly the wings off the planes. After a few trimming errors we got them to fly all the way across the huge room and even bounced a few off the 20 foot+ ceiling. The kids loved it and the teacher did too. We also got cornered by a few more science teachers to bring the program to their classrooms. So it looks like we may be tied up teaching a whole school full of kids (1500 or so) how to build and fly planes . The cold weather has been driving me nuts trying to paint parts for my '57 Chevy in the garage. The black paint dries after while, but the Chevy orange engine paint wants to run like crazy. If it were in a can, a painter could just mix in some more thinner. But with a rattle can there is only so much you can do, like wait for spring or heat the parts up. While this may be fine for small parts, heating an entire engine could be a challenge. The can says to use it between 65 and 90 degrees. But the garage is often 20 to 35 degrees. I tried heating it with an electric heater, but I guess I'm going to have to break down and get some sort of a propane-type heater. I just talked with Bill Young, who was a realtor in Willows and now lives in Missoula, MT. He is living in an icy atmosphere also. However I think it actually snows more in Utah than it does in Montana. I know there are a few places were it is colder here. One is the town of Jensen near the Colorado border. Everyday the low is below zero and one day the high was -3 degrees. I'll bet paint never dries there in the winter. And I thinking I wouldn't be far off to assume they don't leave their prized brass monkeys outside either. Still no runs I can take with Associated Foods. My medical card is up in April so we will see whether or not they wish to pay for another physical. However this summer they will need extra drivers and I will need work with school being out. Only 16 months until I can start collecting Social Security, then I might want to even work less, who knows. However I will still need a few bucks to pay for feeding the Ford and Chevy, and let me tell you they get very hungry at the pump.