Monthly Archives: July 2007

Blooming flowers on a hot weekend

It’s Magic The Magic of my Flowers: A flower in process of blooming But the Heat is Killing my Lawn Our back lawn is dying from all the 100+ degree days. I have to take drastic measures and hand water on the days when the automatic sprinklers are not running. I think this all started [...]

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Employee Appreciation

Employee Appreciation Award Tuesday morning, Chuck Wight (VP over AOCE), his secretary, and my boss stormed into my office saying, “You are in trouble.”

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My Flowers Growing in Extreme Heat

Flower Blooming and Happy at 100+ degree days? It is so cool to grow native flowering perennials. As usual, I spent time in my garden yesterday taking pictures of my garden, and close-ups of perennial flowers, vegetable flower, and herb flowers. Take a look for yourself. It is amazing that such beauty can come from [...]

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Preparation for Doing Research

The IRB The Institutional Review Board, which protects the rights and welfare of Human Subjects in Research, has a training that you must go through in order to start the IRB approval process for any human subject research.Both of my pending research projects require IRB approval, so I am jumping through the hoops.So I have [...]

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July 4th Festivities

Happy Independence Day! My house on Independence Day My July 4th Adventures I started out the day by sleeping in, but we had wanted to leave early because it is so hot. Oh well. Weather forecast from ksl.com So we started off at 11 AM. We went on a little different route by going mainly [...]

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Academic Writing

Academic Writing Workshop On Saturday, July 1 2007, I took a free, all-day workshop on professional writing in academic settings. This course was taught by the Ed Psych’s department and Dr. Christina Rodriguez. This course was geared toward educational psychology, the speciality of my graduate work. However, the instructor and all the students but 2 [...]

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