The Front Porch Swing

[bruceh]

been reading up... ok i leave the babies to the women. give to me at 7 on. i raise go ethical kids who aren't afraid to work. cause if they wanted a new toy. they worked for it. i was not a student at all. infact i have very little education. i did not graduate high school. however im as honest as the day is long.

 

[lovingmyhens]

It's so refreshing to meet so many people who drink buttermilk! Outside a few in my family and old mountain folks I had as patients, I've never met anyone out in the world who drinks buttermilk....not only that, when you mention you love buttermilk they make the "ick" face and say it's rotten milk and how can you eat that stuff??

I have truly found my long lost kin!!!

buttermilk

 

[Blooie]

Time tor some brag shots...this time it's Little Diane. It's amazing to have her named after me, except that it means I have to be "Big Diane". She used to be "Baby Diane" but I put a stop to that when I then got stuck with "Old Diane."


Little Diane when she moved back in with us in 2012-2013


Look at those eyes! Sometimes they are so dark green they look brown.


See she did grow teeth!


Little Diane at the age of "Noah."

 

[Triple Willow]

@Perchie.Girl Deb... you and your son prove that those smarts are highly genetic! I sure wish I was a brainiac. You two ought to be very proud of each other.

 

[perchie.girl]

been reading up... ok i leave the babies to the women. give to me at 7 on. i raise go ethical kids who aren't afraid to work. cause if they wanted a new toy. they worked for it. i was not a student at all. infact i have very little education. i did not graduate high school. however im as honest as the day is long.

Welcome... Bruceh.... Pull up a chair or bucket or bench or rocking chair.... LOL

I have no degree neither did my dad. We worked hard to learn what we needed to be successfull in what we are doing. I did take classes On occasion. Dad had only a highschool diploma as well. I finally got my degree when I was 48 just to prove to myself i could do it.... Still didnt get me a job.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

@Perchie.Girl Deb... you and your son prove that those smarts are highly genetic! I sure wish I was a brainiac. You two ought to be very proud of each other.

LOL.... thanks.... Actually his biological father is pretty dang smart too so he added in his genes. Hes never seen Dean or spoken to him on the phone.... His choice. But hes a Circuit board designer somewhere in Washington state.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

been reading up... ok i leave the babies to the women. give to me at 7 on. i raise go ethical kids who aren't afraid to work. cause if they wanted a new toy. they worked for it. i was not a student at all. infact i have very little education. i did not graduate high school. however im as honest as the day is long.

Oh my Goodness I must have missed your intro.....

deb "who feels like a dweeb"

 

[lovingmyhens]

Yes, but since nobody here really knows me, I'm okay. "Hi everybody, my name is Caroline." 

Howdy!! I hope you're a fast reader! These ladies tell some really good stories but the thread goes fast! I have to catch up when I'm brushing my teeth, at red lights, and other very random places otherwise when I get home in the evenings and join them with a glass of tea I'm lost!!

 

[LindaB220]

Wow. Feather Quality. There is SO much I don't know about chickens. I can sense another spell of research coming on.

Wow I was just reading about this on the Plymouth Rock Breeding thread. Great Minds yada yada

 

[LindaB220]

My son was not a snuggler.... didnt want anything to do with a cuddle. Not for lack of trying on my part.... but he was a hot box... MY goodness just a few minutes of holding him as an infant and he would be red in the face. Breast feeding was something we were very unsuccessful with... come to find out after going to a Lactation nurse his jaw was kind of crooked so latching on was difficult for him. He was a Franks breach And we tried to turn him too with no success. But the nurse said sometimes Franks breaches have issues.... So we worked on techniques and i was able to breast feed him about two months...

But for the most part Every portion of his life I have loved.... Except those first few scary months. He is Kind and logical and very scientific... Even when he was a toddler I would watch him do experiments with his food or toys. I allowed him to watch anything he wanted on TV because what he wanted to watch were shows like Cosmos, and Discovery channel and the history channel... I am a voracious reader and of course he is too... By the time he hit the second grade he was reading at College level.

He would come home disgusted with grade school because He had wanted to learn something the teacher was going to teach only to have it all interrupted when the teacher had to discipline a few that were causing trouble. On several occasions he would correct a teacher when they got a fact wrong.... Needless to say this made him kind of stand out to the bullys..... Sigh He didnt tell me any of this till after he started highschool and started having panic attacks. I tried to get him into some classes where he would have a male teacher and small classroom... Like small machine repair.... He liked the class but still panicked.

We found a solution because home schooling wasnt an option and i couldnt afford to get him into a private school. Here in San Diego we have a program called Phoenix High. It runs through the school system but is an off campus class room. Primarily designed for students that have to work to help support their home. Dean was the first freshman ever allowed to enroll. Primarily due to his panic attacks and the bullying in his past. Phoneix is run wayy different than Highschool. Same classes but each class is taught one at a time. It takes 40 hours of class time to cover a subject. So he would go in Take a test get a lecture then reicive his class work for the next week. So essentially he went to school one day a week.

He would get his homework done in about three days.... then he was off reading or researching stuff that really interested him. He passed his California High School Proficiency Exam with flying colors. Yet he will claim he did horribly because he didnt get straight As. You Know I never required that of him. I always told him to do his best. Even when he had trouble in math. I know that math skills can come later..... they did for me. I explained that it will take a teacher you connect with or something you have to deal with and you will have an "Aha" moment and all the math will fall in place.

His Aha moment came after he got his Associate of Science degree. And he decided to switch from Marine Biology to Astronomy. Astronomy is all about math and physics. So he took a Pre Calculus class. Yep he was at that level and still thought he was bad in math. He had gaps.... and he felt since he was a good test taker he was "faking it". I felt he really knew the subject deep down but didn't recognize it. He made the connection in Pre Calculus because there are alot of word problems in there.... (same thing happened to me... go figure) We are both deeply into words and meanings.... He more so. Plus he had a good teacher.

Now hes finally transfered over to San Diego State into the Astronomy program. His next semester he will be taking Astrophysics. He is working on analyzing the data from the Kepler satellite. Looking for XO planets.... for Doctor Aros. He just got trained on how to operate the ancient planetarium at SDSU and now hes going to be operating it tomorrow for a group of visitors to the College. Hes never done this before.... and for a kid that was afraid of groups of people he has come a very long way.

When people in our family and even freinds admonisah me for allowing him to waste money on a degree program he could never use.... I simply say... "its his life and his choices he needs to do what will make him happy, because if you do what makes you happy the money will come.... " Then I point out the things he will learn, computers, Databases, Engineering, Physics, Optics, Programming. He will be able to choose any field he would ever want.... Though he hopes to get involved with the commercial space effort starting up in New Mexico.

Besides hes gotten every grant he ever applied for.... and so far his classes have been paid by them. Hes only had to pay for books.

He turns 25 in October.


deb

He who laughs last. They will learn. He will outstrip them paywise so much it ain't even funny. Keep going. Keep going.