Rain Day

As I have mentioned in an earlier post, my paying job is Supervisor of an Early Head Start program in Caddo Parish.  I  was hired to write the federal grant that landed the program for our area, and I have stayed on board to supervise the program.  It has been a challenging and rewarding experience. Our center serves low income children, 2 months to 3 years of age.   We have our share of adventures up on the Cooper Road, the location of our main center and my primary office.

Today is a rainy day in NW Louisiana, but it assumed "Rain Day" significance when our CEO called the Early Head Start Center and told us to have the parents pick up the children early because of the threatening weather all around us.  The students and staff had already been outside this morning to experience the rain before the weather got stormy, then they spent time seated in the hall during nap time because of the tornado threat, while the administrative staff looked at weather reports on TV, computers and listened to NOAA radio. 

It took a couple hours but all parents were finally contacted and showed up to pick up their little ones.
 

I love my Early Head Start office on MLK Drive.  Photo on left shows the area that one of our dads plowed in front of our storage building where we will plant our Early Head Start garden.  Last year we had a bumper crop of okra and cherry tomatoes.  This year we are expanding our selection.  We also have birds that build nests on the ledge outside one of our back doors every spring.  This year's nest is made of mud.

Bird's nest on the left and dancin' under the awning in the rain on the right.