Friday Fun: Sometimes you have to explain things - VERY SIMPLY.

I have kids, I love being involved in their school projects and as a parent , I know that I need a wealth of knowledge to be able to explain many things at the drop of a hat.  Being a community association manager means that sometimes you need to call on those basic parenting skills, like explaining things simply.

For example somewhere in about 3^rd grade my little one learned about photosynthesis and we had so much fun putting together a poster board all about “Leaves are the trees food factory". 

Plants take water from the ground through their roots, and carbon dioxide from the air and using sunshine, it makes, oxygen and a glucose.   Oxygen is in the air that we need to breathe. Trees use glucose as food for energy and as a building block for growing.

As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter.

During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.   (That’s the story of photosynthesis in 150 words or less) .

Meanwhile back at my office:   Sometimes all grace and diplomacy escapes me when I get phone calls like this: 

“You have to do something quick all the trees are dying….”

“Can you tell me what is happening?”

“The leaves are turning yellow and gold and brown and then they fall on the ground….”

“Uhhhhh,   that’s why they call it fall.”

(She was from L.A.)