Okay, well now Granny is in a lot of pain so they kept her last night and the surgeon was supposed to come look at her shoulder this morning but I haven't heard anything from mama yet so I am assuming no news is good news. This one was a lot worse and they had to do a lot more to it when they got in there to remove some of the deposits and such from the arthritis damage so I guess it is to be expected that the pain on this one would be worse. She just couldn't get comfortable last night so the nurse gave her morphine after calling her surgeon and he was gonna take a look at it again today.
Chad's boss let him report to a different location and he has received much less confrontation there but is still getting phone calls both good and bad from the union workers that are picketing. The bad thing is that several employees have called and threatened to come to the sportsman's show this weekend and he is very worried that they will heckle him during his presentations over the weekend. We are going to videotape both of his seminars so that if anything happens we have evidence of defamation of character. They have also put his name on the union website as a "scab" for crossing the lines and working. The supervisors have assured him that they support his decision and most of the guys he works with daily are very understanding as well, it's the ones that he doesn't really work with normally that are calling and harrassing him. He played a message for one of his supervisors this morning and he was told to document it in case that person actually followed through with the threat once the strike was over.
This morning we have had a power outage (not long though), made pancakes (that was fun, I let Maddie crack all the eggs), read a book on Rocks and Minerals, caught and released a cicada, chased a butterfly, found a bluebird feather, watched some youtube music videos (Luke Bryan's Country Girl Shake it for Me with his son Bo dancing is hysterical!), read 6 chapters of Captain Underpants, discussed how airplanes fly and flown toy ones all over the living room "airport", played with the dogs and the goats, and used up 1/2 gallon of goat's milk. It's only 11:15 and I'm already tired.
I still have to work on planning the fall garden and I think I may go out and work on the raised beds tomorrow morning before the lady comes to buy the ducklings. Sadly, only 2 of the five appear to be females
. The two chocolates appear to be girls and the 3 blacks appear to be boys. She definitely wants the chocolates but she says she'll see what else she may want when she gets here and can get a look at everybody. I'm supposed to go to the beach this weekend but I'm not going cause of the strike issues/money issues/milking issues. Because Chad has to be at the showplace so early and so late every evening if I were to go out of town there would be no one to milk the goat cause my neighbor is going out of town today for the weekend too so we may try to go see MIL next weekend if everything is in line for it. Then I have to go back up to Granny's the following weekend cause the church is taking all the VBS kids to the waterpark as part of their reward for raising so much money for missions work.
I got started last night on the slide show and got all the pictures lined up and all the music files imputed on the program but still have to work out the fine points. It is really rough right now. I may work on it some this afternoon after lunch. The kids are taking a break now and wanted to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so I'm letting them. We haven't formally started our "school" schedule yet but I am trying to ease back into it gradually before I hit them with it every day. We have really picked up our reading time though and Tyler is doing much better reading aloud on his own but I'm not pushing it.
I may spend some time today looking at the SOLs for school and seeing if I can find some fun activities to do for later down the road. I'm trying to be much more organized this year and have started two file boxes for homeschool records and paperwork so that I can put together a portfolio for Tyler at the end of the year.
I also need to mow the grass but we got rain early this morning so I won't be able to do that until way later this afternoon if at all. Chad won't get home until at least 9pm tonight cause he has to go set up his booth for the show and meet with the other vendors. I think we'll go down there Sunday afternoon to watch him do his presentation and walk around.
I also have to make a feed run sometime soon. I figure I have about 1-2 week's worth of food for the goats and 4-5 days of food for the birds. I'm thinking beginning of next week I will be hitting TSC for a major food haul. Probably about $80 but that will last another month for the birds and around 2-3 months for the goats. I have to say my food bill for the animals isn't that bad. About $15 a month for the birds after I get rid of these extra ducks and the goats are about the same. I get a bag of alfalfa pellets, a bag of BOSS, and 2 bags of blue seal feed for them and that will last me around 3 months, sometimes more cause the pellets and the BOSS are just supplements. I figure I end up spending around $20-25 per month for them. The dogs are another $30 per month and the cat is $7 so my total monthly bill is around $75-100 if I buy treats or extras for the dogs. I don't figure in the cost of hay/straw cause I paid cash for a big trailer full and that should last me until winter at least. They eat about 1-1 1/2 square bales a month, sometimes more if they waste a lot but I bought 25 bales so I should be good to go. 3 goats are not that expensive. We have a lot of woods to cut stuff out of too so they supplemental roughage from that too and they have the pasture.
Well, gonna go catch up a bit and see what else I can get done today. I need to clean the house but I'm just not motivated to do it.
I hate to clean the house. I clean as I go when I do stuff so for me to stop and just clean the whole house is annoying. Mopping is killing my back and so is vacuuming and with the current sinus infection dusting is not high on my list right now either, but then again it never really is. Oh well....
for lots of girls. 
. Last night Maddie and I read Bread and Jam for Frances (one of my favorite books and it shows cause my 1964 version from my childhood needs to have half the pages taped back in where they are falling out) and she LOVED it. 
