Busy Summer

Wow, I have been awful about posting this summer. I'm really dissapointed about this because I really wanted to keep up with the blog, last summer I did pretty good with this. It has just been so busy around here. Anyways, I have lots of photos from the last month or so that I will try to get up here sometime. The strawberries that grow wild by the pond were really prolific this year. They are tiny little things but taste really great. I picked a bunch planning to make jam, but a month later have not gotten to it. They are waiting in the freezer. The wild blueberries are just about at their peak, so hopefully we will have some blueberry jam as well. Then in about 3 more weeks the blackerries should be ripe. We have tons of those this year as well.

Strawberries and wild flowers (picture from June 23rd)

Coming Up for Air

All of my work for my Special Ed graduate class was due tonight. From this past Wednesday to tonight (monday) I wrote three 2-3 page reading reviews, on 8 page cumulative paper on disabilities in the media, one 21 page website review paper, and one 24 page IEP Case Study paper. 62 pages worth of Special Education papers written in 5 days. My brain is fried. Time for bed.

Still trying to figure out wedding ideas

Sorry, Sorry

I have been really bad about posting lately. Things have just been so busy.

Work with the kids ended this past Thursday (thank God). We have bad days with them right up to the very last minute. We had one major restraint on Monday (took 3 of us to try to retsrain a kid and after 12 minutes of his fighting back, we had to release him). Then on the very last day of school there was a fight on the bus when one kid decided to squirt soy sasuce on another kid. The kid who got sauced jumped out of the back of the bus (emergency exit) and we had to have people go out and try to pick him up.

My graduate class ends this Thurday and holy crap do I have a ton of work to finish. I will be happy to have finished this class as it was one of the requirements I needed to finish my secondary science certificate, but I will be even more happy to finish so I don't have anymore papers to write.

Tony started a new job on Moanday (that was a typo but i think it should be the new monday, moan-day.). Unlike the old job (he was excavating and then building spec houses) this job is lots of finish work. They install cabinets in schools, banks, hospitals and also so finish work such as trim and mouldings. The pay is also a little bit better and he will have full benefits in a little over a month. The crappy part of the job (at least for me) is that a number of the jobs are far away. His current location is 2 hours away. His boss puts him up in a hotel so I have no Tony here on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. He comes home Thursday night after putting in 4 10 hour days.

My summer cleaning job officially started yesterday. It took me 27 hours of cleaning to get their houses in shape for their summer stay. I will be working there twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Summer school starts July 7th for the kids. My coworkers who didn't sign up to work it keep telling me how crazy I am for doing it. It is only 3 days a week for 6 weeks. I think I will survive, plus our administrator pays us and additional $3 an hour in the summer.

Well after a week straight of rain and thunderstorms the sun is finally out. I need need need to get the rest of the 'seedlings gone mad' out of my sunroom and into the gardens.Time to get busy in the yard. I will post more later with pictures.

Patience Young Grasshopper

In Bloom

Sorry for the lack of posts. Been really busy around here with end of the year stuff at work, getting the summer house I clean ready for the people who own it, taking my first graduate level course in special education, and getting the gardens all planted, among procrastinating about planning my wedding.

Anyways here are a few pics of what is in bloom and a bit of the side veggie garden.

Getting big girl feathers

Gold Speckled Wyandotte:

The chicks are growing fast now. In a week or so we are going to have to move them out of thier current cage and into a bigger enclosure. We are also expecting to get another hal dozen or so day old chicks that will be moving into their cage once the older girls move out.

Buff Orpington:

Golden Comet:Guinea Hen, Silver Speckeled Wyandotte, Buff Orpington, Rhode Island Red (L to R)Light Brahma (the yellow one):Guinea Hen, Rhode Island Red (Red is the friendliest and the 2 guineas are the most skittish)

Fishin in the Pond

My sister came up for the weekend. She had a fishing pole with her so we all went fishing in our pond for the first time. Everyone caught a fish. Our pond was stocked with large mouth bass and we now have a breeding poplulation.

My fish:

T's fish:
My sister's fish (she dropped it on accident):

Ckick Day!

I picked up our chicks after work today. We got 8 babies today and are probably ordering a few more with our friends up the road sometime soon. I have them set up in our former lizards cage in the garage.

We have 2 guinea keets, 1 rhode island red, 1 buff oprington, 1 light brahma, 1 golden laced wyandotte, 1 silver laced wyandotte, and 1 golden comet. I will post more pictures with the breeds listed another time.

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