The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

I remember reading about Hershey chocolate bars being 5 cents for the longest time. I know when I started trick or treating (maybe 8 or so) got a big haul of full size 5 cent
candy bars. I thought people must have been rich.

Of course I used to eat myself into a candy coma, my older sister too. My brother (the baby in family) was self disiplined and would decide how many he could have a day.
Of course we raided his haul. He was around 5 and I don't think he caught on until he got older. Sister and I figured a little kid didn't need that much candy. Of course my mom and father raided his too. What a family right?

Your Family was teaching him about tariffs!

We called it a toll fee with the daughters. It was especially appropriate when we had to go out with them in the rain to trick or treat

 

[ronott1]

Here's the mess, when they were taking out the old stuff.

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Nice upgrade

 

[ronott1]

Don't get me wrong, I love teachers, and sure wouldn't want their job, no way would I want to home school either,we love our kids, but we need a break from them
With five kids, 19-5yrs, I've had the conversation a few times through the yrs.
There is always some politician or 'education minister' whatever that brings up how other countries schools are better than ours, and our American kids should go longer days and year round. Year round cause they are not farm help anymore.
They use China as one example of better education system (ummm, only the elite's kids in China go to school, the rest of the peasants kids are in sweat shops, and making Apple Iphones for pennies per hr, seven days a week...)
Longer days? Wow, they must not take into account the rural school kids. Ours get on the bus at 7am, back home at 4pm, that's a pretty long day for the little one's.

I've brought up the year round school idea, think it would be good. Easier on parents that have to use a babysitter. Would be better for the dairy farmers, more stabilized milk industry. All that milk that goes to schools, comes to a screeching halt those summer months. Dairy plants either sell loads at a drastic loss, give it away even if they can find a place to take it, and sometimes just dump it, many trailer loads. Can't just shut the spigot off.

Bring up year round school to a teacher, they do not like that idea, say they need a break from those kids
They would get paid more I'm sure of that, higher year round salary, teachers union is pretty powerful. And I'm sure some teachers might like the idea, and I know some do teach year round already.
I guess if I could have a job with summer off (not a teacher) I would like it. Though I'd probably find another job for the summer, and I know some teachers do also.
I had to work ten years here before I had enough seniority to get one week off in the summer, deer season is worse. I can get a week in bow season, but 15yrs here now nothing available in regular rifle season.
We do get the first day of regular deer season off as a paid holiday Lol. Was put into the contract long before I started there, they gave up Columbus day for 'Deer day'.

There was a rule here that new schools had to go year round for a certain number of years after it was built. After that, there was a vote of the parents to decide to go year round or go back to traditional.

Every time there was a vote the parents opted for traditional. No more year round schools here...not because of teachers but because of parents. teachers get the same time off in a year round schedule it is just not all at once. Most teachers kind of like that

 

[ronott1]

Good morning everybody

Interesting conversations this morning.

Teaching is like nursing as a career. You really have to have a calling and be a bit of a masochist in order to fulfill your education and career choice. Both are underpaid and underappreciated.

When we were planning our retirement, DH looked into getting a young grad to take over the practice. One he talked to explained that he was looking for part time work and needed hours, lots of hours per week as he was anxious to pay off his student loans. He graduated from the same medical school that DH went to only his student loans were over 200,000 dollars that he had to pay off. We about passed out. My Nursing college costs for two years was something like 1800 dollars back in 75. I talked to a young woman 10 years later in the same college program and her education was over 10.000 dollars. Kids are coming out of college in dept. Deep dept. yet in order to make a decent living they have to have that college diploma in their hands.

I'm really wondering if the on line colleges aren't going to be the wave of the future.

Taking it easy today. I was on my feet too much yesterday and my back really let me know it. I do have to work on the brooder for my chicks are due to hatch early next week. My regular brooder is occupied by my two week olds and I don't want to put newly hatched tinies in with them so I found a tote that I need to start carving on for them so it is ready.

Online will never completely take over regular classes. It turns out that people learn better in classes with an instructor. Who knew! Computer screens are not the best way to learn stuff.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I will be gone all day having a sonogram to follow up on abnormal mammogram. Have a great day!

 

[drumstick diva]

A Tariff what a great premise - Remembered taking my son door to door, first time he was afraid and I had to say 'Trick or Treat," and "Thank you." He was very shy. Next year he was banging on their doors and saying things like "Are you home?" Think he discovered candy was worth the effort.

I didn't know I was collecting a tariff but, I did take whatever candy I decided was too much for a young child. He liked the "Smarties," so that's mainly what he had left. Ok I also let him have candy bars I didn't like.

 

[getaclue]

Here is my dishwasher. It is soooo nifty.

Instead of the usual 2 racks, this has a 3rd. rack. It's not very tall, and it's designed for silverware, and smaller items, including little tupperware lids, cooking utensils, etc. I really like this feature.

This is the top rack. The rack height is adjustable, and some of the tines fold down, so it's convenient.

The 3rd. rack, and this top rack are removable, in case you have something extra tall, like a restaurant sized big stock pot, to wash. Because the spray arms are removed when you take out the rack, there is a small sprayer gizmo that attaches to the upper side, to direct the water.

This is the bottom rack. It too, is fully adjustable. The silverware holder comes in two pieces that can be connected, to use as one, OR it can be separated giving the option to use each side separately, or just use one side, OR because of the 3rd. rack, the silverware holder really isn't necessary, so it's removable to give more room.

This is what the controls look like. There is a countdown timer, and quite a few settings. The controls lock, so the grandkids' curious fingers can't reset anything. It's so quiet, there is a little red led light that shines on the floor when it's running, and when the light goes out, you know it's finished.

 

[drumstick diva]

Getaclue looks like the fridge my son bought. Does yours have a special ice cream section that keeps it at it's peak? His doesn't.

 

[getaclue]

This is my oven, stove, and microwave.

The oven is a convection oven too.

This is the cooktop, and these burners are why I picked this exact model.

 

[getaclue]

Diva, the whole freezer section is a special ice cream section. I need to get it wiped down, and stuff loaded into it, but I didn't want anyone saying if there were no pics, it didn't happen. OHHHH, they were careful to preserve the boxes. My grandkids are going to have a blast with them.

I just read, it does have a rapid freeze, so when adding frozen things from the grocery store it brings them back down to freezing quickly, and it prevents ice cream already in it from getting soft.