Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Our Postie keeps chickens. She occasionally does a quick peek into our chook pen to see how our girls are doing. She's on another island so I've never seen her feathered flock. She says they're not as interesting as ours but she free ranges hers & we occasionally manage a quick catch up while she's sorting through parcels.
So, are your girls still laying? I enquired the other day. She stopped sorting to roll her eyes @ me.
Oh, yes. Her girls are laying all right ~ in everyone's yard but her own. She'll hear the escort call resounding down the road, announcing her girl has laid & wants escorting back to the flock.
We're suckers, my Postie announced. We're still feeding them!
Oh. Dear.

 

[Ribh]

It will be fine, just need to get moving on it all. Bees when we got life-threatening Bob's truck was in the shop and we had to use my jeep to bring them home some got loose inside and I just kept praying I wouldn't get stung.

Ours are Native Australian Bees & stingless. It helps.

 

[rjohns39]

I love this, Bob!!!! I know a number of homeschoolers who's children think differently & were doing poorly in school [partly why they got pulled. ] Most are super bright & school drives them crazy. My kinesthetic daughter drove me crazy. She left her schoolwork all round the house.

When I was doing remedial work I got one really, really bright but super difficult young man [eventually got himself expelled, no mean feat in today's educational system] who still couldn't read in grade 6. He had no interest whatsoever. What he was interested in was fast cars, fast bikes, fast boats & monster trucks. I told him he could bring his dad's bike manual in & then found every book I could on cars, bikes, boats, trucks. Eventually we moved on to sharks & fishing. Yes, it was one on one teaching & he was so difficult I was given a lot of leeway to teach however I saw fit [his teacher was just relieved to get him out of her classroom! ] but finding a key to spark his motivation to learn is what made the difference. I had him nearly up to grade level by the end of the year & I only got him for 20 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks a term ~ that's all our funding would run too.

Here was a kid who could take apart a non~working motor & put it back in working order yet was expected to sit still all day & do things that had no relevance to life as he knew it. We should be doing better. We have the information.

When we were in Louisiana, Sue and I would take on orphans, who were considered problem children. We quickly discovered that all they needed was a little love and respect and they could excel. I'll never forget the day I came home from Korea and one of those kids wanted to introduce his fiance to us and get "parental approval" of his marriage plans. We couldn't stay for the wedding, but boy that meant the world to us. Working with kids can be sooooo very rewarding. I'm thrilled that over the years we've been able to touch so many lives. Problem teens need to be understood and need a firm hand, but in the end, they are searching for something and if they find it, all is good.

 

[Shadrach]

I love this, Bob!!!! I know a number of homeschoolers who's children think differently & were doing poorly in school [partly why they got pulled. ] Most are super bright & school drives them crazy. My kinesthetic daughter drove me crazy. She left her schoolwork all round the house.

When I was doing remedial work I got one really, really bright but super difficult young man [eventually got himself expelled, no mean feat in today's educational system] who still couldn't read in grade 6. He had no interest whatsoever. What he was interested in was fast cars, fast bikes, fast boats & monster trucks. I told him he could bring his dad's bike manual in & then found every book I could on cars, bikes, boats, trucks. Eventually we moved on to sharks & fishing. Yes, it was one on one teaching & he was so difficult I was given a lot of leeway to teach however I saw fit [his teacher was just relieved to get him out of her classroom! ] but finding a key to spark his motivation to learn is what made the difference. I had him nearly up to grade level by the end of the year & I only got him for 20 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks a term ~ that's all our funding would run too.

Here was a kid who could take apart a non~working motor & put it back in working order yet was expected to sit still all day & do things that had no relevance to life as he knew it. We should be doing better. We have the information.

Skills have as the name implies always been separated from that academic tower called intelligence in the UK.
I've lurched from one extreme to the other in my life. I've got quite a few worthless bits of paper and the things that make me most proud are things like the lamps I make and of course my odd house which are both unconventional.

 

[Shadrach]

On their way to roost.

 

[Ribh]

Skills have as the name implies always been separated from that academic tower called intelligence in the UK.
I've lurched from one extreme to the other in my life. I've got quite a few worthless bits of paper and the things that make me most proud are things like the lamps I make and of course my odd house which are both unconventional.

Yep. My bits of paper are pretty worthless too. And my intelligence doesn't lie across the conventional math/science line either. I'm verbally adroit, good @ colour differentiation & know enough about archaeology/history to find our present political climate scary ~ which is why I have very deliberately chosen to opt as far out as possible & live a quiet, secluded life focusing on things that I actually consider important: the welfare of my animals & children & plants. The rest is beyond my control.

 

[Ribh]

On their way to roost.
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They look more like a bunch of teenagers heading out for a night on the town!

 

[BY Bob]

I just got an email from mine regarding their being open and what they are doing to help with distancing, transmission of Covid to pets, and the importance of not skipping some routine procedures like worming, medications, and testing. That skipping preventative pet health care can make things far worse in the long run, and encouraging people to maintain their apprehend possible.

I'm glad they are open. Hopefully people will still go.

 

[BY Bob]

I think we are all creatures of habit, Bob ~ it's just which habits. I, for example, rarely read a book from the beginning to the end [a habit that began in childhood & sends my B&W linear thinker into meltdown ]. I begin wherever I find something interesting & then read towards either end fairly randomly. I've done this all my life because for me a book is just like a jigsaw. It doesn't matter what order I acquire the pieces, it will all fit together to create the big picture. History works the same way but I think it is why I have always had so much trouble with math & some science. They are very much linear disciplines: line on line, precept on precept. That gets old very quickly for someone like me. The joke in our house was we had 5 kids because 5 is the only times tables I knew.I'm just glad there are linear thinkers around who invented things like calculators to make a linear world easier to cope with.

As a microbiologist I am a fairly linear thinker. I am also fairly anal. The thought of jumping in the middle of a book is giving me the heebie geebies just thinking about it.

The thing is that people who think like you are what make up my best friends. I have always sought out people who think differently than me. Mrs BY Bob is such a thinker. Her thought processes always keep me guessing. I love that.

 

[BY Bob]

I love this, Bob!!!! I know a number of homeschoolers who's children think differently & were doing poorly in school [partly why they got pulled. ] Most are super bright & school drives them crazy. My kinesthetic daughter drove me crazy. She left her schoolwork all round the house.

When I was doing remedial work I got one really, really bright but super difficult young man [eventually got himself expelled, no mean feat in today's educational system] who still couldn't read in grade 6. He had no interest whatsoever. What he was interested in was fast cars, fast bikes, fast boats & monster trucks. I told him he could bring his dad's bike manual in & then found every book I could on cars, bikes, boats, trucks. Eventually we moved on to sharks & fishing. Yes, it was one on one teaching & he was so difficult I was given a lot of leeway to teach however I saw fit [his teacher was just relieved to get him out of her classroom! ] but finding a key to spark his motivation to learn is what made the difference. I had him nearly up to grade level by the end of the year & I only got him for 20 minutes 3 times a week for 6 weeks a term ~ that's all our funding would run too.

Here was a kid who could take apart a non~working motor & put it back in working order yet was expected to sit still all day & do things that had no relevance to life as he knew it. We should be doing better. We have the information.

I agree. We can definately do better.