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I love seeing the horse pics! My ealier ones didn't seem to transfer from the changover, but that's okay. Jeaux and I just got back from a big ride at Homochitto Park. Those hills there are about as good as we can get around here, lol. It was just beautiful and he did amazing. I'm the one in the green flannel shirt on the big sorrel/chestnut gelding
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A good math program with the appropriate supplies (compass, protractor, ruler, etc), paper, pencils, and a good library with internet access.
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Our dd turns 15 this week. We are debating between and Ipod nano or a kindle...other than that, I'm making her a cute birds nest necklace, a tshirt, and some button bobby pins. She'll also get a giftcard for our local chocolate shop and one from Amazon, socks, a new robe, a book she's wanted. Oh, I did order her a 2 yr subscription to Cooking Light magazine. I plan to put the issue I get first with a cute new apron. We've been trying to get her interested in cooking more as she loves reading the cooking magazines. Most of those items will be in her stocking.
As another poster lamented, it's my 13 yr old son that isn't really wanting much this Christmas...he's a bit harder to buy for this year.
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finally got the rest of the pics to upload...silly photobucket wasn't working the other night and my phone takes pics that are too big for the uploading here, lol. My friend took the two shown above.
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We are tiling the bathroom and closet floor today...yay us..then I have to prep for my meeting tomorrow with the girl I've been asked to homeschool. They better show up...
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Just got back from my first girls weekend with our horses. Had a great weekend at the cabin with my new friends. The weather was perfect! Took our horses up into the hills, blazed a few new trails (thankyou GPS!), broke my reins twice (zip ties will now be in my trail bag-thanks to my friend!), we talked a bunch and ate great food! Jeaux did really great considering he hasn't left the property without his pasture mates in a number of years. He really stuck with it out there through some hairy spots. He did manage to break his nice leather halter and almost rip the skin off the side of my finger after a little freakout in the trailer when loading up to go home. The halter will be repaired later and I've got my finger fixed up.
Chinese%20zodiac%20game%20black.pdfFinally got Photobucket to upload my pics...there are a lot more to be seen here :)
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Slightly off topic, but I thought it was illegal to homeschool anyone other than your own child.
:grouphug: It sounds like the family has a lot of struggles. You have a long road ahead.
Not where I live
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This is a preteen you're talking about? This just makes me so sad...
Yep
I would have a meeting/talk to find out what is important to her and ask her how she thinks you might contribute to her education and her personhood, etc. Find out her strengths and weaknesses and any holes in her education. Does she have goals, dreams for her future? Stuff like that.That's what I plan to do.
I want this to be successful for her. I think she wants to succeed, but I think she is confused at how to go about it properly. I am planning to draw up some papers this weekend covering a multitude of things. I plan to have all involved sign them. The mother only gets weekend visits and some holidays, but it's obviously enough to mess things up...if she can't make it here then shes going to an public/alternative school and that is not where she needs to be either...I want to push her in a positive direction...
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Why are some parents so 'out there'? I want to shake them and say "What is wrong with you?" :glare:
I rearranged my day to accommodate an appointment to meet with a girl I'm going to start homeschooling. This WILL NOT be an easy job. I know it, the dad and stepmother knows it, the mother lets the preteen do pretty much what she wants...pierce your nose, sure, put barrels in your ears, no problem, pierce your lip, why not. She has o'ded on some over the counter meds once recently. She was falling into the wrong crowd at school and soon going to be kicked out. She has missed way too much school; some of it due to sickness and some to the drug issue... At this point the school would fail her for the year anyways.
The mother decided to let the girl dictate the fact that she didn't want to come today...when asked to reschedule and it was denied (I won't be available), the mother decides to not even respond and just not come...there was nothing preventing the child from coming. The docs have cleared her. She also knows me and my kids. We are all friends. I am glad the child will be returning to her father this week. He and his wife will make sure she gets here...
Any tips for me to help a girl who I feel is looking for attention/validation, but just in the wrong ways? She's smart and has learned how to work things with her mom...I am not a pushover at all.
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DD was given some barbies, but never really got into them. She did receive some that we exchanged for more properly clothed barbies knowing our standards on that sort of thing.
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I'm going to be out Thu, Fri and Sat in the woods riding my horse with my friends, :D I'll be more worried about deer popping out than the boards, :tongue_smilie:
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I Love me some Gerard, lol!
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Our German shepherd will vomit or have diahhrea if he gets anything unusual. (Like compost, but I'm sure that isn't your problem.) :glare:
The breed tends to have SERIOUS issues with grains. They do exceptionally well with raw, but I understand if that isn't something you're interested in. (Leerburg site is an excellent raw site.)
Call of the Wild dog food is truly excellent. A less expensive grain free dogfood alternative is Costco's grain free food. The quality isn't quite as good as Call of the Wild but it is slightly less expensive.
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When Legend was a pup to keep his iron up and to keep his weight up, we fed both raw and Innova's Evo. That is awesome dogfood but it is insanely expensive.
Raw is the least expensive way to feed a G.S. puppy (though not once they hit 90 lbs) and it is the best for them.
As a perk, their stool is VERY tight, firm, and compact on raw food.
:iagree:. we feed raw and when we need people to feed for us, we use Taste of the Wild grain free. Their 'waste' on raw is minimal.
Feed 2% of your dogs weight. About 10% of that should be in organ meat each week (livers, heart, gizzards etc.) I only give them their organ's once/twice a week and normally it's a chunk of liver appropriately sized for each dog. Our dogs get the following: 75 lb GSD gets 2 1/2 large chicken leg quarters each day, 84lb Dane gets 3, 20 lb beagle 1 large thigh/leg or 1 small quarter, the 40lb Pitt mix 1 large or 1 1/2 small quarters, and the Fiest gets the same as the beagle. I also give turkey necks, beef, pork, deer, etc. Just weigh it out and toss it to them. You eventually get good at eyeballing it. If the dog is getting a little pudgy, cut back a bit, if it's looking a little thinner than you like, add a little more. It's not overly difficult.
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Ortho for both kids.
Grocery shop for a few things
Start side dishes for thanksgiving dinner at enrichment tonight.
Take kids to music
Pick up stuff from friend
Pick up cabinet doors (both on the way home)
Get pizza for hubby and son
Finish side dishes and then go
afterwards prepare seminary breakfast and lesson...teaching for my friend tomorrow.
I think I'm done then lol
W ait I forgot I still have to hook up the horse trailer to take it to have the tires checked
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Easy start would be to change the diet to one with no corn, no soy, no wheat....many dogs have issues with these. Royal Canin has atleast two of those. Treats need to be the same.
Bland smaller meals for now would be good and adding pumpkin. A yogurt could help as well since the gut flora is probably suffering
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Speak with the neighbors and let them know you were curious about their dogs. Ask if you could bring treats to share with them next time with the owners permission and supervision. Might help you both
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Prayers here :grouphug:
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We have three horses: 15 yr old Jeaux a 16.2hd Standardbred/QH/Arabian cross, 5 yr old Charmer a 14.2 QH, and heading into his mid 20's Napoleon a 12 hd QH/Welsh.
I mostly trial ride, but I may start looking into some english lessons with Jeaux.
Next weekend I'm heading out to the cabin with a few girlfriends to ride in the woods. I can't wait! This will be Jeaux's first time this far away from home. He'll do great.
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Running a million errands today, but mostly for me. No kids means I get to eat where I want without people complaining, I can take my time looking at whatever I want and I can crank my music up while I drive!
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Friend is here finishing the tiling of the bathroom...so excited because then I can work on the grouting, getting the floor tiled and grouted and then move on to the vanity and hardware.
Then I can head into the kitchen and start redoing it! I'm starting with the removal of all the wallpaper! Can't wait!
OTher than that, I'm working on my dd's schedule. Writing in all her history work...
Did go through dd's clothing and we are donating another bag of clothes that she can't wear.
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fostering comes with it's own challenges I'm sure and many times you don't often know the whole story behind a child's upbringin. She's a child and one that seems to have had a fairly solid upbringing being with family. Having her continue to stay within her family would be better than putting her into the system. My DH was adopted when he was 6. He will tell you that the foster system can be horrible. He was a heathen of a child (he admits and his mother laments, lol) but they loved him and raised him as their own. He is a well adjusted adult and has a great head on his sholders.
I would do it, in a heartbeat...
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a local tractor supply or farm supply store normally has chicks in the spring. That would be the best time to get them.
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awesome! DH has been comparing computers...he is looking for some certain specs and it's a toss up between the iMacPro and this other one that is coming out...funny thing is, if he ordered the either new, then it'd be till the end of Nov possibly before he'd get them...what a quandry, lol. Patience is not his thing when his computer is broke, but he really wants the top of the line graphics card in the next one...
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My kitchen needs a little help. I did manage to go through all the meds and got a little drawer unit labeled and organized for them and it's now in the bathroom.
I do have a couple of drawers that I'd like to tackle tomorrow, but otherwise I'm pretty good in there. I recently went through the pantry and did an overhaul. It looks rather good, though full, but I like it like that :D
I got rid of a big bag of clothes and picked up two magazine holders for my cross stitch mags and charts. Now they are off the floor and put away...the floss boxes are getting labeled tomorrow and put up in the closet.
Horse people---roll call
in General Education Discussion Board
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Thats an excellent way to start! I did that and recommend it to anyone who is looking to start into horses. They are quite a time commitment. I bought my first at 21 and have had up to four at one time. I have three now with one hopefully going to a small child as a lead line pony...but I may have another one coming in on a free lease for my husband and dd. I really need a nice calm horse for them.