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[jbear]

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He's thinking - is that a Flower?

i meant to say when I saw this pic that it made me laugh.. chickens are so goofy.


Sadie--so glad your girlie made it home!

CR~you talk to T anymore? We are leaving in the AM, but am hoping that the ducktopolis got fixed up for her..?

AAAND~~just in case I don't get online whilst we are out~~

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of ya!!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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He's thinking - is that a Flower?

i meant to say when I saw this pic that it made me laugh.. chickens are so goofy.


Sadie--so glad your girlie made it home!

CR~you talk to T anymore? We are leaving in the AM, but am hoping that the ducktopolis got fixed up for her..?

AAAND~~just in case I don't get online whilst we are out~~

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all of ya!!!

No I haven't talked to her any more and my cell is dead AGAIN SIM card now. gonna try to get it taken care of tomorrow.
Are ya dune bound?? Where ever ya are going have a good turkey day.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

Every night I hope my fire will not burn out so that I have easy embers to start a new fire with in the morning.
Alas, no such luck.
Am I burning the wrong kind of wood.
I think I have mostly fir.
I understand maple is longer burning.
Is that right?

 

[Ogress]

Just dropping in to say HELLO to everyone! I have about 160 pages I need to catch up on, but I've been working my buns off making jewelry for a couple of shows I'm going to ... need cash for holiday shopping!

I was a bad chicken mommy today - it has been squalling non-stop here since Monday afternoon (snowing up till then), so heavy all the snow is gone except for a 3 foot diameter snowball that the kids made and parked under the eaves to keep it out of the rain. I need to get that thing back out on the lawn; they rolled it in the up from the part of the yard the chickens liked to hang out in, so there is almost as much chicken poop as there is snow in that snowball! At least the lawn is poop free now -hmm, maybe I can get them to make a snowball in the dog yard? Ewwwww

Anyway, I forgot to open the pop doors this morning. I opened them at noon. The chickens were MAD! Even Penny cussed me out in chicken language. None of the chickens bothered to go out in the yard, they just hung out in the runs and inside the coop. They give me dirty looks like I can control the weather too.

Speaking of cussing out, that is what I felt like doing to both my kids after parent-teacher conferences yesterday and today. Both kids got good grades in school only because the grades are very heavily weighted toward test scores and not HW. They did far better than I was expecting with both having better than 3.0 averages, but they are both missing massive amounts of homework and classwork. all their teachers told me that neither of my kids bother to do any assignments during class time and rarely turn in their homework. Olivia scored an average of 94% on all her math quizes and tests, and nothing lower than 85%, but of the 40 math homework assignments, she only turned in 17!!!and even worse, 13 of the 17 were turned in late, after she had already taken the tests! I went through her desk and found about 60 assignments that she had not completed (often not even started). I know how she will be spending her Thanksgiving break. I don't care if the trimester is over. There is no reward for being lazy.

I don't think they score things the same as they did when we were kids. Olivia's spelling is atrocious, and her penmanship so sloppy that it is very hard to read, but because of the prevalence of word processors, they no longer teach and correct these at school. Olivia is in 5th grade and they say she is at grade level for spelling and grammar and at a 12th grade level for comprehension. I think that is a bunch of B.S. I don't see it; and if that is true, then maybe she is not doing the work because she's bored with the busy work and they need to put her in more challenging classes. Or maybe I need to homeschool her. Neither of the kids should have had decent grades in some of their classes with the amount of work they had missing. It's like an award for being mediocre, like celebrating kindergarten graduation.

Or maybe it is all just me and menopause and I'm cynnical. I'll never be satisfied with anything for the next few years.

 

[Ogress]

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I'm with you Sadie, his post came out of the blue and haven't a clue who or what he was referring to? Rustler? What made you say that?

Sadie, so glad your daughter made it home safe! Hope you have the best Turkey Day ever.

Lets just say I saw more about somebody's family than I wanted to.

I've heard of someone purchasing a used computer from a local store for their kids and it was full of porn!!!! You might expect that from Craigs List, but not a store! (Sorry, I almost typed CL there - I don't see her having the time no the will to watch that stuff!)

 

[RustyHen]

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I agree. You look great.

these are fab!! You are a beautiful bride!

X2

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

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You're a good momma with a steel backbone.
Good for you.
I'm with you all the way on this.
My kids are all blessed with high intelligence, too. One of them, in grade school, quit doing homework. She was just bored. Saw no reason to do eight rows of anything if she figured it out in row 1.
So I gave her an incentive to help her along.
By the time she got to junior high she had the self discipline.
Happy Thanksgiving! And if they don't improve, well, Happy Winter Break, too!
Hang in there!

 

[Ogress]

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Beautiful! Looks like the weather cooperated too.

 

[Ogress]

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You're a good momma with a steel backbone.
Good for you.
I'm with you all the way on this.
My kids are all blessed with high intelligence, too. One of them, in grade school, quit doing homework. She was just bored. Saw no reason to do eight rows of anything if she figured it out in row 1.
So I gave her an incentive to help her along.
By the time she got to junior high she had the self discipline.
Happy Thanksgiving! And if they don't improve, well, Happy Winter Break, too!
Hang in there!

I knew Olivia was good at math, but I thought she was just so-so in everything else until I saw her WASL and now the MSRP or whatever test scores they give. She just does what she wants to do. The lack of discipline, especially with Olivia, infuriates me. I would have felt much better had she scored all 2's but worked for them! I don't think she earned her grades; she's lazy and spends her time drawing. Her teacher showed me a math test she did today. She missed only one problem, because she neglected to do it. Instead she drew a puppy and a whale and some other animals all over her test page and did not notice she skipped over a problem. It was hidden in the puppy. Her desk was so messy and so full of crap that she could not even close it! I think that the teacher should take a peek in every desk once a week, and any messy desk should be flipped over and the kids with the flipped desks stay in at lunch to clean up the mess. That's how it was done when I was a kid. One flipped desk was enough to straighten me out! Her desk was full of snapped pencils, pencil shavings, old homework and classwork.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Yes maple burns longer but for real long it's oak or ash. but they MUST be very dry and even they leave more ash in the stove and creasote in the flue.