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[ronott1]

You all inspired me to change my avatar!

-Kathy

Nice Avatar!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

dad used to work a peach orchard... it was his job to drill holes every so often to put in quarter sticks of dynamite... To crack the sub strata so the water would drain out of the orchard....

deb

Now that sounds like a job I would not be qualified for for safety sake.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Thanks, and thanks for inspiring me to change it!

-Kathy

 

[Puddin Fluff]

OOPS!!! I didn't mean for me!!! I meant for Ron's wife and the not so good on my vacationer!!!

(but thank you, Puddin', awww.)

No prob. Everyone needs hugs!!!

wow... those are scary "maybe the car will kill me" kind of things.... just sayin'

x2

Come take a walk, the weather's beautiful. And the snow's almost melted.



There's rocks everywhere.



Tonya Harding Chicken with a very dirty Jay Leno Rock and friend rocks, again just tossed into the yard:



Hope you enjoyed the Maine Rock Tour.

Loved the tour! Your rainbow flock is beautiful. I assume Tonya Harding received her name for obvious reasons.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yes, Miss Harding was named early on in life - we watched her take out another bird on the roost one night by the "kneecap" and a name was born.

Other than that roost incident, Miss Harding is a total sweetheart and lap hog. She loves belly rubs:

 

[casportpony]

She looks really sweet!

-Kathy

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Yes, Miss Harding was named early on in life - we watched her take out another bird on the roost one night by the "kneecap" and a name was born.

Other than that roost incident, Miss Harding is a total sweetheart and lap hog. She loves belly rubs:

OOOh, so sweet and pretty.

 

[Arielle]

We have saw a local school budget get voted down twice, they wanted to put in a multimillion dollar astro turf football field in to replace a regular one they put in with poor drainage less then ten years ago. We are a rural area, takes three towns to make up one school, use to have a elementary for each town, and then junior and senior high at the larger town. They spent millions in additions and improvements at two of the elementary schools fifteen years ago, and put a Olympic size swimming pool in the big high school, and then closed the smaller elementaries cause of low enrollement at the larger school. Now my five year old has a hour bus ride each way (takes awhile to pick up a buss load of kids).
Most bigger small city schools in our area don't have artificial turf fields. The argument for all this has always been it's 'free money' state grants mostly, and 'if we don't use it we lose it'. Well we are all taxpayers, and there is no 'free money' and the people are just sick of the waste. Like I said it was voted down twice, school district was mad!
Next vote was held during spring break after a Face Book campaign urging all former students going to college when they come home for break to vote 'it's for the school kids, you were there once'. Telling them to tell all their friends, family, urge them all to vote yes, let everyone you know to vote, they don't have to be taxpayers to vote, even renters that pay no school tax can vote on the school budget.

It passed, they got it, and their ratings as far as education goes is still towards the bottom of the list in the state.

More of the residents in my town are using Facebook to raise awareness of the problems with financing our schools. I live in a relatively small town and our tax rate is limited to "Prop 3 and a half" which translates to taxes cannot exceed 3 !/2 percents of the property value. IMO this was the result of short term thinking when the economy was booming. Our public school has been cutting back on offerings as the "grants" run out and cannnot fund the program anymore. Sadly we have TWO public school possibiliets for the upper performers of school, but litle support for the middle performers and the lower performers. Very crazy. This is because our technical school now skims the cream of the crop out of the surrounding public schools, when IMO a tech nical school should serve the students that like or want hands on service oriented training. Ironically these students test in the top 35 of all schools in Mass that take the state wide MCAS. ANd most of their students go on to college. Our town voting has been to cut the budget or keep at level; specific items like a boiler for $300,000 was voted down. ANd instead our roads got a few improvements. Hmmm, roads . . . or school . . . .

WIth the poor performance of our school on the MCAS and limited funding for the schools, I'm inclined to see a decrease in house values in the future. THe aged population likes that . . . but it seems to me they got a good education based on the generation ahead of them so it is time to pay up for the next generation. We are ALL going to pay in the future. . . .for a poorly educated work force.

 

[Cynthia12]

Kathy? Kathy? Is that you Kathy? I'm confused! I think it's Kathy, she says it's Kathy. A new avatar. I will have to keep looking. I've been sort of looking for a new one for this yr. Nice one Kathy.

 

[casportpony]

Kathy? Kathy? Is that you Kathy? I'm confused! I think it's Kathy, she says it's Kathy. A new avatar. I will have to keep looking. I've been sort of looking for a new one for this yr. Nice one Kathy.

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-Kathy