New Year!

28 January 2011

Hard to believe it is almost the end of January. Time sure has been flying by.

Completed all my degree requirements and got my BA degree in the mail last week. Now I am waiting for my transcripts to get here so I can send off for my teachers certification. That will be fun. Because I went thru WGU on-line and Missouri won’t accept it directly from them, I have to apply to North Carolina for certification. Then I can take my NC certification and submit it to Missouri and they will give me a Missouri certification. Guess if that’s what it takes. Just seems like extra money somewhere and a lot more work. Should have gotten used to that in the Navy though.

So we have 3 small turkeys and 4 baby chickens in boxes in the living room. Wasn’t going to do that this year. But when the turkeys started laying in December, I just had to try to hatch them. The first ones did pretty good, but the last ones had very few fertile ones. As a result, I threw out over a dozen turkey eggs and had one hatch each week, for three weeks. Then the next week I had the 4 chickens hatch. They were supposed to be with some more turkeys, but none of them were fertile and I had to toss them, too. So now I’m trying to figure out how to deal with 7 growing birds in late January. Another 6 weeks and they should have enough feathers to put out side, the question will just be where? Also thinking about plans for new pens and such for this year’s birds.

The second week of February we are driving to Utah for graduation. Leave here Wednesday, stop and see Erin that night, then drive to Utah Thursday. Spend time at Angela’s and go to graduation Saturday. Then Sunday leave and head home getting here Monday evening. That is the plan anyway.