livin' on the funny farm- SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the funny farm6]

If you pronounced house hoose, you'd have a moose loose in your hoose!

You sound like dr. Suess!

Bandits poos are getting better. And he roming a little farther around the house when he is out. He is trying to run and jump a little! He likes the puppies and they seem to get along with him. With them growing up together they should be good with livestock. The little girl "wrinkles" came out to see me this morning.

It is raining yet again! Our yard is flooded. And our horse pasture is a muddy mess.

Had 10 bales of straw given to us yesterday. The held the civil war renactment over the weekend and they brought in a bunch of straw, we happened to know the guy picking up the park, and he gave us all the bales that weren't soaked. So I put 2 in the got pen and 1 in the dog pen and refilled all the straw in the dog houses. so the mud is a little better for them. The rain isn't supposed to stop till Saturday.

 

[Denim Deb]

Good score! Wish I could get someone to give me some hay. :/

 

[the funny farm6]

Bandit is going threw 1/2 to 3/4 of a 20 oz bottle. I am making him go 4 hrs instead of every 2. I was looking for him earlyer and found him behind the couch with the new puppies. All curled up sleeping.

I wish I could post pics from here. I have had 3 people swear that my pups are mastiffs. I wonder some also. They are 9 1/2 weeks old and weigh @ 15 lbs each. And they stand @ 8 inches tall and their feet are about 1 1/2 inch across. They are wrincly on their face and legs, but one of my friends has an english mastiff and she sent me puppy pics of her and other than hers is brindle they look a lot alike. They are finaly coming out of their shell. And boy are they rowdy! They LOVE shoes.

Got laundry and dishes done. Floors swept. (Didn't get round to mopping though) kitchen cleaned. And homework done! ( I thought that when I graduated I would never have to do homework again!) HA! Its like being in high school again. Grrr. But the drama is soooo much worse now. And our high school did the dumbest thing this year, they provided laptops for the students. You have to pay $80.00 each for insurence, for the student to bring them home and they give out all the assignments on the computers. But if you don't have wireless internet you can't do all your homework. And I am not going to give $70.00 a month for wireless internet. And my kids were bullied before, but these things have made it 100 times worse. My kids have had sexual harassment sent to them via email and regular harassment on a daily baises. I have informed the school that the police will be involved next time. I have informed them that next year I WILL NOT pay the fee and they better find a way for my kids to turn in their homework on paper. I will kill a tree I don't care!

I also took a bunch of jeans to a friend that does sewing. I am 5" tall IF I stand up real strait! (My. Great grandmother was 4' 8" tall) and was full blood seminole indian. But she had to tease me once again about how I am the only person she knows that has to have petet jeans hemed. (and how I only have a 24" inseam)

Hubby should be home soon. I hope he is not hungry tonight.

 

[the funny farm6]

Ok-explain this one, it was 54 as a high today and rain, rain, rain. Now it is 72 and I am sticking to my bed sweating!


Uuugggggggg! Mother nature is on crack or meth!!! I think she needs an intervention!

 

[Denim Deb]

That's horrible about your kids. And, I can't say I blame you. It doesn't sound fair to those children whose parents can't afford the money, or if wireless isn't available in their area.

As for the weather, I had to have a fire going just a couple of nights ago. Now, our nighttime lows are what the day time highs were. But, at least we're getting some rain.

 

[the funny farm6]

Our rain hassent stoped yet. Our yard has standing water in it. I know this is how it went last year...and when it finaly quit raining...it stoped for good! But a few days between showers would be nice.

Yes this school sucks! I will not pay for the insurence next year. It only serves as another way for the bullies to to bully. And with this school.. it is all about the familys with money! Those kids can do no wrong. The one doind the sexual harassment was a football player, and I will just say that I am not shy with my kids about sex, I am pritty open to talk with them. (With my mom you couldn't say the word sex or period or anything and I always said I wouldn't be that way with my kids!) But the things he was saying made ME blush!

This school is why my 2nd daughter moved when she turned 18 this past winter. She couldn't take it anymore. And she is doing great at her new school. One of her only friends dropped out shortly after she left. My daughter was lucky she had a place to go. Her friend didnt so she gave up. Sad. Central is getting a high drop-out rate.

The bad thing is that I talked to a lawyer and even though iowa has bully laws, you can't do anything about it. I could pay to retain a lawyer, pay to take them to court, and the chances of even getting my money back are slim. And it won't change anything. Unless my kid gets hurt, on their watch no less. I know why all these kids commit suiside! (Not that my kids are at that point) Nobody can do anything, and we keep giving the bullys the tools to take it "underground" so to speak. I would home school but I have a hard time helping with their homework now, let alone teach it to them.

The latest thing was: my niece wears high dollar name brand clothes and she is so skinny and petite that she gives my youngest a lot of clothes and shoes. Well my daughters current pair of shoes was getting ratty so she threw them out and started wearing a pair my niece gave her that were like new. Well a popular girl at school had the same pair and lord forbid that someone inferier to her wore something like her. So she said that my daughter stole her shoes. Well my niece even called the princable and said she gave those shoes to her. And when he finaly called the other girl in and asked the size and brand- she gave the wrong size (she was off by 2 sizes) and the wrong brand! I had 10 pages of hatefull emails printed off of my daughters computer! And he is "looking" into it. Ha...not! And my youngest 2 are only freshmen. We have 3 more years of this to look forward to.

 

[Avalon1984]

That is so sad to hear. We all had bullies in school but these days with social media and all, it has taken a turn for the worst. I hope your kids will make it through that time ok.

 

[Denim Deb]

I seem to recall that there are some type of videos that you can use for homeschooling on most subjects. That way, you don't have to do the actual schooling. And, I think that they even have support. Maybe look into something like that.

 

[the funny farm6]

YUCK!

my catahoulas just came home and they smell like skunk! They are soooo not coming in tonight.

Bandit is holding on. His poops are some better but still like toothpaist. He pees a lot so he isn't dehydrated. He is eating good, but I'm not sure if I should still give him the scours meds or not.

A friend asked if I would come haul off a bunch of junk for her. She is sick of looking at it. We have @ 200 pounds of alumanum and a large bucket of copper on the truck to go to the junk yard in the morning. And @ 2-3 loads of regular metal scrap. They have been such good friends, I would like to find a way to repay them for some of the things they do for us! She gave me 2 truckloads of all wire rabbit cages when we moved out here, they gave us hay for our horses when all the farmers were out last summer, they have offered to help us at the drop of a hat. And we have offered to pay and they refuse to let us. They do things all natural- for themselves and their animals.

 

[the funny farm6]

Hauled 2 big loads of scrap and made 500.00! I have money for the swap! (Don't tell my husband). The last load I had an s-10 on top of my full size truck don't tell the police.

My friend asked me if I could use a large peice of poultry netting, the kind the quail breeders use. She took it off her grand mothers old falling in coop where they raised quail and pheasent. But after she took it down she found a new 150' roll in the building! It has a few holes but... I can fix those. She is also giving me a 3 tier brooder system (needs some fixing) and some big feeders and waterers. So I am hatching her goose and duck eggs for her. Now those stupid owls can't have my chickens!

On the way home from town yesterday my youngest daughter was in the backseat and all of a sudden you herd the biggest, deepest belch. We turnd and looked at her and she smiled and said " dang! I scared myself!"

It rained some yesterday, and thunder storms and rain all night, and rain now! Does anyone need rain? I would love to send you some! A few days without would be lovely! I have a 5 " mote around my porch. And the ditches are full, and any low spot in the yard has turned into a lake.

Well off to clean the chick cages!