Posts Tagged ‘Cottage Grove’
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
As of tomorrow, five years ago, I stumbled into, accidentally found and blindly wandered into where I belong. Absurd as it may be to find delight in marking a half a decade at a job, there are some sappy feelings and a whole lot of gratitude to be spread around for where I am now, [...]
Tags: Cottage Grove, grove, teaching
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Cottage Grove to Brooks: 1.5 hours. The last 8 miles from Aurora to Woodburn: 4 hours. Averaged miles per hour: 20, which is misleadinglyspeedy.
Worst drive… EVER.
Tags: Cottage Grove, drive, ice, woodbur
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
The 2008 Football season came to a close for the Cottage Grove Lions in Sisters on Halloween night. Our team pulled through and sealed a victory over the Outlaws 30-26. It was a stereotypical ‘nail-biter’ and a defensive struggle. Despite the win over the once great Outlaws, we were relegated to finishing [...]
Tags: CG Lions, coaching, Cottage Grove, football
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
About a month before the school year started, I was informed by a text message that I had been drafted into the Staff Mustache Race. As Knutson said, “there are no winners in a mustache contest”; here they were on the last day of ’stashness:
Yes, that is a month’s worth of lip hair growth on my [...]
Tags: CGHS, contest, Cottage Grove, mustache, school, stach, stach off, staff
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