Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Well, Tuesday was a confusing day also. Nanaw decided to drive the Escape to Schnuck's to buy her daily Post-Dispatch newspaper and discovered that the new battery from Dobbs was dead. So she knew something was wrong somewhere. She called Uncle Mike for his advice, and he said something in the Escape must be draining the battery. Nanaw said it might be the motor to the rear window wiper because the car needed a new one and maybe it was causing the problem. Today was cleaning lady day so Nanaw decided to get the battery jumped before the cleaning lady arrived, if possible. She called Triple A and the same great guy who came yesterday came again today. He said he thought maybe there hadn't been time yesterday to get a new battery but Nanaw told him that she'd gotten a new battery from Dobbs. She told him Uncle Mike's theory about something in the car draining the battery and her theory about the wiper motor. At the end of the day, Nanaw and Chase took the Escape to Dobbs, and Mama took them home. During the afternoon, Chase and Nanaw went downstairs while the cleaning lady was there. They had school downstairs, and it went well. They read in the new Gordon Korman book, Slugfest, that Nanaw bought from Kindle and set up for Alexa to read to them instead of Kidnapped. To Nanaw's surprise, Chase said maybe later they could read Kidnapped; she didn't think Chase had much liked that book but evidently he did. Chase sort of resisted doing the math, only wanting to do half of it. Then Nanaw had the idea that they would do the problems together, rather than having chase do them by himself. And it worked wonderfully. That's the way they'll do the math in summer school and the way that Nanaw will help Chase during the school year when he's having trouble with math. They did the five state capitals and a couple of reading paragraphs. Nanaw was surprised that Chase didn't complain about all the reading paragraphs and questions but he seems to like them all right.The picture below is a selfie Chase took