Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[pollitos2013]

 

[Alaskan]

How are your plowing troubles? did you get it to work well for you?

 

[chickadoodles]

I am still hoping my youngest son will go to college.

 

[chickadoodles]

Pollitos I love that snowman! heheehe

 

[perchie.girl]

Keep throwing me tips on things like on line books, okay?
I do not know how we are going to pull this off, I just know it will happen. One way or another.

My son is a senior at San Diego State.... Good grades in Community college and a non existant income got him Grants that have so far paid for everything.... he was 21 by the time he started San Diego state and I was not claiming him on my income tax.

He lives at home.... Grandma pays any other expenses through money she set aside for his education. But the grant is enough to cover his books an any equipment he might need.

He is an Astronomy major... though he is opting out maybe this year and changing majors... The math got too hard... High high level Physics and Caluclus....

Please look into Grants and scholorships.... Grants dont have to be payed back.

good luck.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Well I mean its not impossible, but most colleges are more geared for the fresh out of school kid...or at least it seems so where I live. It may be different based on the location.

yep.... I also find the community college teachers to be more beneficial because they are usually working in their field... My son Agrees.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

 

[ocap]

I like to think backwards sometimes or possibly turn it upside down, but...... I think that the U.S. government made a mistake when they started making student loans for college, the costs for college skyrocket and the ones that took out loans now pay extra taxes in the form of interest payments on the loans.

switched coffee brands today, time will tell

 

[3goodeggs]

Quote: Grants are usually specific to a project though aren't they?
For, equipment or hiring work?

 

[pollitos2013]

My oldest got a lot of little grants and scholarships - a good high school advisor will have books, lists, and websites full of them for you to look through. They always have a separate application and usually an essay but they add up! $1000 here, $400 there and so on. And some are once and some are renewable year by year if you are making good progress.

@Alaskan - still plowing snow here and fussing with my tractor. 4wd with big new tires (rear loaded) and a front end loader. Problem was that the dump hydraulics didn't work in the cold. Guy said there was condensation in a tube and short of finding a trailer and towing it 75 miles to be repaired I could pour a jug of hot water over it. That works like a charm. It starts right up even in 0 degrees and after it warms up for 5 minutes i drive it down as close to the house as i can get and run in for a jug of hot water. Problem now is I keep getting stuck in the snow... I have a long dirt driveway with little hills and I try carefully scraping it backward (without digging holes in the frozen drive) or carefully scooping and pushing it forward. After several hours I got about half the drive in good shape but the deeper drifting snow keeps mucking out the lower part... So I'm going to try snow chains on the front tires and weights for the back. But I am a little worried that it will be harder to rock out of a snow drift if it is any heavier... I was doing OK until we got 15 inches in one day. I drive over it with my big F150 truck and that helps to pack it down some.

Suggestions would be most welcome!

And boots - any idea for the warmest most waterproof but not too heavy boots for a hard working new farmer from the city?