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Monday 15 November 2010

Finished up my student teaching last week so I’m trying to get my life back. Well, I finished the classroom portion of it, now all I have to do is complete all the paper work and other little things that go with it to get the degree. And then after I get the degree need to apply for the actual teaching certification. And even that is going to be fun. Missouri won’t accept my transcripts directly from the college, so I have to apply to North Carolina to get my certification. Then I can take that paper work and give it to Missouri and they will give me a Missouri Teaching certification. And while they are at it, I’ll get certification in both middle school science and high school biology. When this all gets figured out and everything, I’ll try to add middle school math to it. Hopefully with those I’ll be able to get a decent job somewhere close.

In other areas, Thanksgiving will be here next week, and that means it is time to start butchering the turkeys. I lost count of how many I successfully hatched this summer, but it was a lot. I figure it was right at 50. Of them, I think I have about 30 left. Lost some to the owl that lives out back, and wouldn’t be surprised if a few other animals made meals of my birds. I also lost about 6-8 of them to drowning in the goose pond. Not sure how that happened because they should have been able to get out. Figure either they got knocked in and suffered from hypothermia or the geese actually knocked them down. Or maybe they just panicked and freaked when they couldn’t get out easily. Not sure, but either way, at one point I was taking one a day out, and one day I took 2 out of it. They pond was also a major source of water for all the animals, but it was bigger than the others. So at one point I stopped using it and just used the 2 other little ones. Never found any drowned in them.

So today I sold 12 birds to a 12 year old boy that does it as a hobby. Was originally going to charge $20 each, and meant to give him one for free, and ended up giving him 12 for $200. Still, since I hatched them all, and now I don’t have to feed them any more, not a bad deal. Think I have the mean Black Tom sold, and a few others. That should just about take me down to the breeders I plan to keep for next spring.

Some of you may know may know by now that I met someone new, and we are planning on getting married next spring. She went with me for Veterans Day, and I realized that is the first picture that has been taken of us together. So I have decided to share it. Her name is Jeanne, she is younger than me, and shorter, has 2 wonderful kids and we make each other very happy. And yes, this is the EXACT uniform I wore 15 years ago!

So now that all my time isn’t taken up with school and school work, I’m hoping to have a life again and be able to write on here about all the things that happen. And be able to include all the people in my life, too.