We've been busy putting windows in our chicken house [those hens better start laying soon or I'm gonna have me some YUMMY chicken and dumplings - I have a great recipe LOL!].
We have purchased 24 eggs and an incubator. Yes, maybe I am insane after all. ;) I had this $50 gift certificate left from my birthday [does anyone else ever do that? Like, get cool gift certificates for special occasions and then never have the time to spend them? I've actually had them expire I'm so bad about this....]. The kids wanted to hatch eggs. I thought "wow, that would be so fun. It even counts as homeschool". So, off we went to the feed store to buy a little incubator and there I went to eBay to buy some eggs. We shall see if nary an egg actually hatches...but we'll have fun trying!
We had quite the argument about what to do with any roosters that hatch from our eggs. [Cause you know, with eggs, you don't know what you are getting....]. I made the innocent comment that we could actually, um, eat them. My son was all on board with that "yeah mommy, I bet our own home grown chickens would taste GREAT! And with the way grocery prices keep going up, I think that's a really good idea!". [Yes, this is my son, no doubt about it LOL!] At that point, Monkey1 began *screeching* [yep, screeching!] that we were NOT going to eat the chickens we raised, that if we tried to eat one she would never touch chicken meat again in her life... etc etc etc. Peta would have been really proud of her. Maybe I should buy her a membership. LOL!
So, no idea what we will do with the extra roosters. [Can we stealth eat them? LOL!]
My email provider is being insane and I can receive email, I can read email, but I cannot SEND email half the time. I can post from the web to Yahoo groups - but answering private email is becoming quite the challenge. And I have so much else going on I don't even have time to call them to complain!
My work has become interesting as well - I teach Lamaze at a local hospital, a job I've loved since I started 9 years ago. But recently an "executive decision" was made that we would move to using "Powerpoint" presentations for the childbirth class [ I know, I know... how weird is that?!]. But hey, these people pay me good money to do what they say and my kids need me to have this job, so I am giving it my best shot. And Powerpoint isn't so bad... except that we are *plagued* with technical difficulties. I haven't taught a class yet [in 3 months now!] that hasn't been interrupted by some stupid techinical problem. It is NOT professional, and not how I like to present... so, my job is becoming actually amazingly stressful now, which is just so weird...
I have so many posts I want to post - so many things I'm thinking about right now... but I never seem to have time. Maybe I'll get a rant or two up this week regardless!
Hope you all are doing well and having a great week!
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