Hen23's Journal~Goodbye

[Farmfresh]

I feel your pain. I have been having to buy eggs for about two months!!

Old hens went to D1's house and she was collecting their eggs and my new poults hadn't started to lay yet. The good news is my famine is finally over! Soon yours will be too. Another good thing is that unless we are forced to buy eggs occasionally we seem to forget that even cage free organic eggs at $4.00 a box, pale in comparison to the amazing eggs we get to eat from our own backyard.

 

[Henrietta23]

I feel your pain. I have been having to buy eggs for about two months!!

Old hens went to D1's house and she was collecting their eggs and my new poults hadn't started to lay yet. The good news is my famine is finally over! Soon yours will be too. Another good thing is that unless we are forced to buy eggs occasionally we seem to forget that even cage free organic eggs at $4.00 a box, pale in comparison to the amazing eggs we get to eat from our own backyard.

No kidding, huh? I will be buying from the food co-op, free range fertile eggs from local people at least. Last time I had to buy they were charging $3.25 a dozen. I'll have more in a few days. We're getting 2-4 a day, but they ALL took the day off today. DH just took my last dozen to his parents. Sigh..... no chickens here this year. I'll never let myself have so many again. Too many freeloading beaks to feed!

 

[Farmfresh]

The $4.00 a box eggs are supposed to be from Amish farms to the north of us, but really who knows. At the Health Food store I even saw eggs higher priced that that one time!! I wish we had a Coop or local supplier to buy from in lean times.

 

[kcsunshine]

What's with our crazy chickens? I have 13 hens in 1 coop and got 1 egg today. Looks like the old KFC bucket needs to come out of retirement while I sit them down and have a tough talk with them.

 

[Farmfresh]

Fall molt is most of the problem. That and failing light.

 

[Henrietta23]

Fall molt is most of the problem. That and failing light.

Yup, mostly molting here. We have a light in the barn to extend their day some but there are feathers everywhere! I got 5 today, the best in weeks.
Full day of professional development today, no students. It actually wasn't a total waste of time. Lots of info about the neuropsychology behind reading and writing disorders... okay, so I'm weird that I find that interesting I suppose, but I do! Back to work with students tomorrow. It was a nice break having 3 days and then no students today. The weather has been beautiful. I'm not going to know what day it is all day tomorrow since it will feel like Monday but I'll be in my Wednesday school..... whatever!
I've got the ingredients ready to go into the crockpot in the morning for GF low carb chicken minestrone. I changed the recipe a bit since it called for canned black soybeans. I wouldn't even know where to find one if I wanted to add them!

 

[Farmfresh]

Part of the reason that I enjoy working with kids with learning disabilities and autism is that I love to see all of the different ways a human mind works. It is very exciting and fulfilling to me to study the way a person thinks and learns and then figure out the very best way to teach that particular person.

My hubby is dyslexic and two of my children are also to lesser degrees. My son is dysgraphic, which is like backwards dyslexia, reading is easy - writing is very hard. I learned a lot about brain differences and learning differences just being around all of them. It is also interesting to note that they are ALL considered "gifted". Many people never consider that you can be "gifted" AND Learning Disabled!

Hubby in particular has taught me a bunch and really peeked my interest. He had been through a lot of very specialized tutoring for his learning disability at a university hospital when he was young. He was able to articulate to me how he thinks, and how they trained him to compensate.

Little things are fascinating. For example when I think I basically have a little voice going through my head. They say most people think like this. Hubby says when he thinks he "sees" things being acted out - like running a video without sounds. This just astounded me at first. I never considered that other people thought differently than I did.

 

[FarmerDenise]

My brother is dyslexic and SO is also. They were both made to feel stupid because they couldn't read. They both have special abilities to make up for it.

SO reads now and writes. I told him not to worry about the spelling, that I am good at figuring it out. He will even read to me. He used to have other people sign his name to thins, even gift cards. Now he is confident enough to write notes to me and his son.

I have worked with lots of dyslexic people. You are right, their thinking is different. I happen to be one of those people who thinks many different ways, so I can understand other's pathways of thinking. I didn't know that everyone didn't have the ability to think in different ways until way into adulthood.
Guess that is why I like teaching and am good at it

 

[Farmfresh]

Hubby also tells of a certain second grade teacher who did a LOT of damage.

My whole family are now wonderful and avid readers. Hubby DOES read slower than I do, but he actually retains more and has a far better understanding of detailed "long hair" books that I ever could. He loves books on sociology, anthropology, psychology and theology that make MY little soft head simply hurt.

It is all about teaching a person in a way that they can learn it.

 

[freemotion]

I can't tell you how many massage students report back to me each semester to report their progress. These are the ones who thought they were too dumb to learn, then were shocked to find out that they needed to memorize anatomy and physiology. Yikes. If I can convince them that they are NOT dumb, that they were not taught to study in the way that THEIR brain works, and that is not their fault, but the educational system's fault....they can make huge amounts of progress and begin to excel.

I just had this conversation with a lady who told me she flunked her first exam on muscles in her A&P class. I was stunned. It is obvious to me that she is highly intelligent. So I asked her what hobbies she enjoys, figured out her strongest intelligence, and gave her some suggestions as to how to "translate" what she needs to memorize into a format that is compatible with how her brain functions.

She left that room VERY excited.

Sigh. These are the moments that make it all worthwhile.