October 15, 2017. Quiz Results - Everybody Wins!

October 15, 2017.  Quiz Results - Everybody Wins!  My quizzes don't test for intelligence or even knowledge.  They test for perseverance.  My grandchildren are both intelligent and knowledgeable and those are important characteristics for young people to have.  But as important, if not more important, is perseverance.  Intelligence and knowledge without perseverance are pretty meaningless.  What good is intelligence if you give up on a problem before it is solved?  What good is knowledge if you aren't willing to use it until the problem is solved?  Perseverance is keeping on until you achieve the desired result.  It means keeping on when you are tired and distracted.  It means finishing what you start.

To do well on my quizzes, you just have to persevere.  You have to look at scores of pictures until you match a cut-out with the original picture.  If you look at enough pictures, you will find the match.  But, you have to stay with it, you have to keep on when you are tired or distracted.

I am proud to announce that my grandchildren are tough kids.  They looked at more than 100 pictures and matched them perfectly to the originals.  All three sets of grandchildren matched all the cut-outs perfectly.  It makes a grandparent proud.

So, kids, don't let me forget that I owe you money.  Since it was a three-way tie for first, each family gets $30.  That is a small price to pay for the affirmation that my grandchildren are a persevering lot.

We drove to Weston, VT, today to the Vermont Country Store.  The store sells just about anything you need or want.  We spent a few dollars on candy but ate about twice the amount we spent on free samples of various goodies on display.  I have a daughter who would go to one of the big box stores late on a Saturday morning and circle the sample circuit several times.  She explained it by saying that it was her lunch.  Even after circling the sample circuit at the Country Store, we ate lunch anyway.

Tomorrow, we will travel about 40 miles to Manchester.  We have been there several times since 2011.  Some of the photos I will take will probably look familiar to you.

That's it for today.  Goodnight.