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| Flowerfairy136 |
Posted - Nov 18 2012 : 12:55:28 AM
Most of the ladies I see on here seem a lot older than me, talking about their kids and grandkids. I saw a thread for over 50s and thought it'd be nice to start one to see how many people there were around my age.
A little about me-
My name is Mary. I'm 20 years old and just moved out of the suburbs into the country, to a house smaller than the one we lived in (I live with my parents). I love it here, we're right on the lakefront and its beautiful. I've started going to a small baptist church down the road. (a bit of a culture shock from my Assembly of God background) I also took over the library there too, no one else seemed to be taking care of it. Anyway, I love to read, sew, play video games, fish, ect. I love animals, I have an English bulldog named Delilah, a cockatoo named Hugo, and four cats Oliver, Myrtle, Rupert, and Winifred who is only about 8 or 9 weeks old. (We just adopted her on Halloween day. She's a black cat and named after a witch on one of my favorite movies Hocus Pocus) And I'm not in college yet, but I do plan on studying to become a nurse.
Farmgirl Sister #4195
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| KatyDid |
Posted - Jul 06 2013 : 05:54:20 AM
Mary, the storm sounds like a blessing in disguise! I am sure the kids who need the library will be inspired by your enthusiasm. There are so many great kids' books out there now that I am sure you will have no trouble ordering any! Let me know if you need any help reviewing certain titles :)
It has been stormy here as well, and this weekend has been hot, hot, hot! I think I will try relaxing in the house today to stay cool.
Farmgirl Sister #4527
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West |
| Flowerfairy136 |
Posted - Jul 05 2013 : 10:29:20 PM
-Library Update-
Things took a turn for the worse a couple of weeks ago. A ferocious thunder/lightning storm came through and the church got hit by lightning and burned up completely. The only thing left are the brick outer walls. Nobody got hurt, it was between services on a sunday so nobody was there. The only other church is a methodist church about 2 miles down the road from it and they are being kind enough to let us use their building after they hold their services. Right now we're just trying to work out insurance and trying to aquire a rental office trailer for our temporary location until they can rebuild. They say that all the bricks and everything are going to be bulldozed over and we're going to build a completely new structure. I've been told that we still have all the original money in the library fund and also insurance money for what was lost. The nice part is that I can start with a brand new slate. All new books that people will actually be interested in. No more books from the 60's. I've already ordered a few but I'll just have to keep them at my house until I have somewhere else to put them. I'm especially going to try to cater to the children out here. There are tons of them out here and about 90 percent of them don't have parents that attend, we pick them up on the church bus. Lots of them are on government assistance and are visibly hungry and lacking in clothing. They're way behind in their grade levels, my mother teaches 1st through 4th grade sunday school but only uses the 1st and 2nd grade teaching materials. They don't have anyone at home to help them study. I really want to use this library to help them, to show that reading isn't some chore, that it can open entire new worlds. So it's going to be a while before we get there but everyone is really excited. This sure hasn't put a damper on anyones spirits. Like my preacher said when someone mentioned that it must have really put the brakes on, he said " No honey, we just changed lanes."
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| HolidayJunkie |
Posted - Mar 25 2013 : 11:51:59 PM
I think a 20 something group would be awesome. I'm not in my wee 20's anymore, but my daughter should be on anytime and she's 18. She'd fit right in with yall too.
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| Flowerfairy136 |
Posted - Mar 25 2013 : 8:28:23 PM
I'm SO ready for it to warm up. It's was great for several days the past week, highs in the 70's. Sat alot on the back porch admired the lake and just soaked up the sunshine and Vitamin D! I had a terrible cold, the kind where you don't even feel hungry and just have to force yourself to eat a little bit because you haven't eaten anything all day. I didn't eat a full meal for probably like 5 days and even then only soft-ish stuff cause my throat hurt. But it felt great to just sit in the warm sun with my dogs (Oh by the way, we adopted a lab mix puppy about a month ago. Her name is Eleanor.) Hugo even sat out there with me a little, all fluffed up and watching the birds, boats, squirrels, ect. But now it's cold again and we've all retreated back indoors.
I've started some bell pepper, basil, chives and spinach seeds. The peppers were doing good but then one of my cats got to them and pulled up/ate all but one of them so I had to replant some seeds so they're a little behind on size. And the spinach was alright but now it's about dead :P Don't know what I did wrong with it so I guess I'll just plant the peppers where it was going.
Anyway, Hope all yall are doing good! Ttyl
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| AliciaNak |
Posted - Mar 12 2013 : 1:30:04 PM
Mary,
I haven't forgotten about the books!
We got busy with wrestling season. Just had our State tournament, 3 days, whew! I'm glad that's over! It was fun, but it's nice to have a break, have my evenings and Sundays free again. Not that Hubbs does, he's still coaching the Jr. High team, and then will go into serious training himself for a tournament in Las Vegas that he will compete in.
I'm sooooo glad to be done with the super cold winter we had! (now I've jinxed myself and it will storm and snow next week, hahahaha)The rest of this week calls for days in the mid 50's and nights around 32. I might start watering the lawn and pasture some. I'd love love love to see some green, and I know the cows and horses will too.
Plus it will get me out of the house some more. I'd rather muck pens and dig in the dirt than clean house! It feels like the things I get done outside stay done longer, than say vacuming or dishes.
Hope everyone is doing well!
It's almost spring! :)
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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| Flowerfairy136 |
Posted - Jan 04 2013 : 8:44:24 PM
Alicia,
Thank you, It is very much appreciated. I do know that when mailing books its cheaper if you use "Media Mail".
Are any of yall on facebook? If so you can send me a friend request. https://www.facebook.com/flowerfairy136
Farmgirl Sister #4195
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| AliciaNak |
Posted - Dec 28 2012 : 9:21:52 PM
Mary,
All my cows are halter trained, even April the 7 month old calf, tie nicely, load into the trailer, and Sunny Belle will even walk herself to the milking parlor. They are almost better at it than the horses! The cows *DO* get handled at least once a day, every day, LOL.
I'm working on better hoof handling (that's one thing the horses definitely have down better than the cows), so I can do some trimming myself. Cow hoof trimmers are few and far between around here.
I've got a box of books started for you. The boys are going to help me go through the rest before school starts again.
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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| AliciaNak |
Posted - Dec 28 2012 : 9:15:45 PM
Brrrrr!! It's been snowing and snowing here (yay! We sooo need the snow pack for water!) and then temps dipped down to ten and below. We've had plenty of much colder nights, and days that didn't get above 10, in years past. But I wasn't milking 3 cows then! The cold sure does make chores take longer, and much less pleasant.
Kat, Natalie, I too have years where I just don't feel like lugging all the decorations out of the barn, into the house, to set them all up and then get em all put away before Easter! I was better this year and decorated quite a bit more than I did last year. ;)
Cinnamon is doing great. Finished all her Oxytocin shots and it looks like the rest of the infection was pushed out. (fingers and hooves crossed!) Now just waiting for her to start showing heat cycles again. Not that I plan on breeding her until about April (looking at a long lactation for her this year!)
Glad to hear the ducks are doing good Natalie. How have they settled in?
We finally convinced my son's banty chickens to try sleeping in the coop (they had a few nights of snow storm in the trees tho). They would much rather roost in our trees. I had to get a big net to nab em before they could fly over to the trees and shove them in the coop a few nights in a row. With our nasty temps and snow the birds haven't been coming out of the coop much, and the banties have finally decided they like the chicken house.
Happy new year ladies! Here's to a great 2013!
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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| KatTylee |
Posted - Dec 28 2012 : 8:52:01 PM
Natalie,
I do miss W. Montana. We lived just N. of Missoula for 4 years and for a couple in the Zoo. :) It is a nice place but we needed the job for my husband so here we are in Nebraska.
I had mutt ducks. They were Muscovy and Blue Swedish cross. I thought it was odd that they took off too. I was hoping to have them free range (as much as my in town fenced yard would allow). The only reason I was going to clip was that I'd had trouble with them flying over the fence a couple days prior to them leaving.
You aren't terrible for not getting excited about Christmas. I usually only have the tree and maybe one other string of lights along with the stockings. Probably why it felt so sparse this year without a tree. Otherwise I like a couple candles and some pine bows. Beyond that, I'm like you and don't care for the extra electric bill. Plus, if I get decorations up I know they aren't coming down until about Easter. :)
Hope your ducks are doing well and getting out of quarantine soon. Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
~"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde~
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| YakLady |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 8:14:08 PM
I think I got the video working now... http://youtu.be/6IAV6dp_bTw
It's really nice here. They call it "The Banana Belt of Montana" because we're West of the Divide, so we don't get the feet and feet of snow like Eastern MT :)
What kind of ducks did you have??? Do I need to clip the wings on these guys? My Muscovies fly, but they know to stay put. I never clip wings normally because I free-range everyone and don't want them falling prey due to inability to flee. Now I'm wondering, though...
I am one of those terrible people who doesn't really get all that excited for Christmas... partly because I firmly believe that Jesus was born in the warmer months, and partly because the put up/take down is a lot of work and I'm just not that dedicated for a few weeks of higher electricity bills... I was never really into the decorating though. I like simple stuff, but not so much on the seasonal/holiday decor that has to be changed every few weeks. I know that's sad, but that's just how I am =/ I figure I get to spend more time with the animals this way.
I have thought of getting those shotgun shell covered Christmas lights of different colors to put up on my barns for fun, though! Does that count? They're kinda expensive though...
No more snow today, and the ducks are doing well in quarantine (everything new has to be watched for signs of illness). They're eating a LOT and I think they're going to be a good addition around here :)
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising up a small ranch using natural resources.
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| KatTylee |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 6:36:06 PM
I'm jealous Natalie. I saw another person's picture from the Missoula area of beautiful snow. We finally got a couple inches but after mid-40s today it is disappearing quickly.
Christmas update: We aren't moving so I got a little tree. It is a little live one so I don't have to worry about what to do with the old dead one and I just can't do the fake trees. It is so little and cute. No lights but it is decorated by my 4 year old with colored ornaments (a project for while he's had the flu) and a couple he made at school. It makes it a lot more festive around here.
I love ducks but mine flew away before I could get their wings clipped. I had plans of doing it that weekend and they took off for parts unknown. I can't wait to get our own place again so I can start my critter collection. ;)
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all get to spend it with family of some sort.
~"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde~
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| YakLady |
Posted - Dec 20 2012 : 09:53:15 AM
We've got about 5 inches of snow out there. Not too shabby :) I haven't checked in here for a bit... what's new, hmmm
Yesterday my friend who works for Parks and Rec in town brought me two pair of Buff Ducks who had been dumped at a public park in the warmer months. They're cute! I'll have to do a post in the Barnyard Buddies area.
I took my Highland cow, Barbie, over to that same friend's place last week to be bred to her Highland bull (my yak bull can't recognize her heat because it's so different from the yak ladies!) So hoping I'll have a pure calf in September! Also hoping my older yak ladies are bred! We'll see :)
We got our Christmas cards out, and our pic is our little family with our tractor (talk about redneck- but all the city-folk love it!). I just typed up a family/ranch update instead of handwriting 50 notes. I wanted to have time for some other things :)
I'm getting two new Muscovy hens on Saturday- a chocolate and a lavender- will get pics of them when they get here!
Ty is 23 lbs now! A year and 3 weeks old, he really is incredible.
How is everyone else?
~Hen 4316~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana.
Starting a family and raising up a small ranch using natural resources.
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| KatTylee |
Posted - Dec 16 2012 : 4:37:08 PM
I'm missing really cold and wintery weather. It just hasn't hit so far this year. Although at this point I'd rather it didn't for a couple of weeks so we can do our Christmas travelling. I'm pretty much done with Christmas other than getting a box shipped. Lots of people are getting homemade little treats this year. I just don't have the money to go crazy buying and shipping things. We aren't setting up a tree this year since we are travelling and we are moving. We have lights and our cards but that's it.
I am WAY behind on my Christmas card writing and sending though. Haven't even gotten one done. Guess I'd better get crackin' and hope that I can get them out by Easter. ;)
Funny how the time passes so quickly. Both for our aging and the holidays.
Have a Merry Christmas everyone!
Kat
~"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde~
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| KatyDid |
Posted - Dec 13 2012 : 1:51:18 PM
Haha, a heated perch! That must feel nice...kind of like when people use heated towel bars after a shower :) My parents are installing one in their bathroom!
Yule prep hasn't really happened yet, besides the wreath on my door. And hubby and his family are Jewish, so we lit the Menorah the other night but failed to buy a new box of candles this year, so I guess we'll reserve the rest for tonight or tomorrow! (As you can tell he's not very observant! This year we're being pretty half-assed with everything.) Maybe we'll get our tree this weekend - it's supposed to be warmer (and actually it has been in the 40's-50's most days up here, which is unusual for this time of year). Cold tonight!!! It was 25 degrees when I was driving to work this morning at 7:30 a.m....
As for gifts, I am passing on shopping this year in favor of homemade gifts. I figured it would be less stressful, just as personal (if not more) to give homemade peach butter and orange cranberry bread, and my family is psyched about getting those! Luckily they appreciate gifts that are handmade and do not expect anything expensive. They know we kids have no money! :) What is everyone else doing for presents/holiday prep?
Farmgirl Sister #4527
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| Flowerfairy136 |
Posted - Dec 10 2012 : 10:27:58 PM
Hi Ashley and Katrina, great to meet yall!
Alicia, I am so glad that Cinnamon is getting better! That sounds very unpleasant. I hope she comes to a full recovery soon. Also, I don't think I've ever heard of a cow that was halter trained and traveled so nicely in a trailer, She sounds really sweet. And I would greatly appreciate any books that you'd be willing to send, as long as it wouldn't too much trouble for you.
Kate- Thanks so much for all the info! I really need to look into it more.
Is it cold were everyone else is? It rained ALL last night and now it's freezing! (I had to buy Hugo a heated perch for his cage and wouldn't you know it, he chewed the wires exposed within a couple of hours! *Sigh* It's a wonder that he didn't get electrocuted! Good thing Pop's an electrician. He fixed it up and I had to run the entire cord through PVC piping that I then had to lash to his cage.) Of course it's probably not as bad to those of you who live farther north, you're probably used to much colder weather than we are. The weird thing down here is that it'll warm back up in a few days. It never seems to stay cold over a week maybe, but usually less. If it does its a freak of nature it seems like. I've gone Christmas shopping in a t-shirt before. By the way, how's all of yall's Christmas preparations going? We've got all our decorations up and the tree too. Kinda short on money, so not giving much this year. Just a few "happies" for the immediate family (And the animals hehe).
*Update on the library* it's still going kind of slow. Worked a little on Sunday, moving out more stuff like crafting items for the kids classes which made it look MUCH less cluttered. Found more stuff in there that wasn't there last time, so someone is actively putting things in there. I figure that either they don't know that being cleaned up and that it's not a storeroom any more (which is unlikely because its a tiny church and everyone seems to know about it and keep asking me how it's going, which is slightly stressful) or they think that the library is the appropriate place to store excess junk, so I put a note on the door saying "Library under renovation. Please only put library associated items in it." Then said thanks for your understanding and that if they have any questions feel free to ask. Then signed my name and wrote "Librarian" under it which made me feel fancy ^_^
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| KatyDid |
Posted - Dec 10 2012 : 05:15:01 AM
Alicia, I'm glad everything worked out with Cinnamon - I guess some monitoring over the next couple of months will determine the rest!
Hi, Katrina! You know, you expect to feel different when you turn that "one year older," but year to year I never feel any different, or older! I'm sure the numbers sneak up on you that way :) I think the odd years always sound older than the even ones, personally. I'm 29 now, so that will sound older to me than when I turn 30!
Farmgirl Sister #4527
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West |
| AliciaNak |
Posted - Dec 08 2012 : 12:51:54 PM
Welcome Katrina! I'm right there with you, 31 looks a lot older than I feel!
Happy Hunting for the perfect piece of property =)
I love staying home with my kids. I thought "once they are all in school I'll take an outside job" but that just didn't work out! A dairy cow, boys who were used to me being able to sign up for all the class parties and field trips, and having to call in when someone was sick with a tummy bug....That J-O-B made life miserable! LOL
So back home I am...gotta finish that batch of ice cream and start more mozarella...
Have a great weekend ladies!
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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| KatTylee |
Posted - Dec 08 2012 : 11:22:19 AM
Hello ladies,
I'm not in my 20s anymore. :( Not sure how that happened. I'm 32. Wow, that looks much older than I feel when I write it. :) Oh well. I'm actually enjoying my 30s more than my 20s so maybe it isn't so bad after all. My husband and I were living in a small town in Western Montana on a little city lot but have since moved to Western Nebraska. We are looking for that chunk of property while we rent so right now I'm garden poor and don't dare have any critters other than my aging Border Collie. I have a 4 year old boy and an almost 2 year old girl. With our recent move I'm getting to stay at home with them and will hopefully be able to get my vegetable and herb garden going again once we find a place to buy.
Thanks for starting this thread. I was beginning to think that there weren't other gals close to my age interested in the same things as me. Although I'm kinda used to that. My spinning group is all quiet a bit older than me. :)
~"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde~
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| AliciaNak |
Posted - Dec 07 2012 : 5:52:09 PM
Hi Ashley! I've always wanted to try a little lemon tree, how fun! 7 lemons, sounds like the lil guy did good!
I had a grapefruit tree once, from a seed that had sprouted in a grapefruit I was eating, but the cat kept curling up in the pot around it. It only got to be about a foot tall, even at 6 years old. And that is all my fruit tree experience, hahaha.
Cinnamon did good. She seems much better now.
But I was quite peeved at her appointment....
I arrived 15 minutes early, no small feat in itself, loading a cow by yourself that had only ever been hauled once in her life (she did great, it was I who was nervous about getting her in, she walked right in like an old pro).
Anyhow...I arrive early, check in, wait about 25 minutes (now past appointment time), only to be told that they thought I was a walk in and Dr. P didn't realize it was a COW he was seeing. Can I leave her and they will call me when she is done? Ok fine, but I made that appointment 6 days prior for a time I was told Dr. P would have plenty of time to see her and answer questions!
UUUGGHHHH! Very frustrating!
Granted, the vets here aren't used to seeing halter-trained, load in the trailer like a horse, type cows. And Dr. P wasn't the same vet that had seen her the first time, so he didn't know just how much of a "puppy-dog" of a cow she is.
She was flushed twice, lots of pus expelled, her whole reproductive tract checked and some hormone shots to get a heat cycle going. Basically inducing cramps and uterine contractions to help flush the junk out. There were lots of yucky puddles in the pasture for two or three days after (a good sign, the meds were doing their job), and now she looks to be cleared up. Although I am still keeping a very close eye on her, this infection has too hard to kick to just assume that it's gone now!
My biggest worry is her conception rates when we decide it's time to try to breed her again. I'd like to try around the end of Jan, beginning of Feb., that will space out the calving dates enough. But having that infection in her uterus for 2-3 months may have damaged things to much for her to actually conceive.
Fingers crossed, prayers said for when the time comes!
She is turning out to be a nice little girl, but I can't afford to keep her around if she can't contribute! Cows eat too much!!
Are all you ladies ready for Christmas? We just got our tree up last night, decorating will happen this weekend. Shopping is mostly done. I'd rather keep it smaller, my boys don't need a bunch more toys!
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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| KatyDid |
Posted - Dec 02 2012 : 1:40:59 PM
Hi Ashley! It's nice to meet you. That is very exciting to be in the planning stages of a move. I'm sure it's a little scary, too, leaving your current jobs and the things that you know work well for you in the city. But it certainly sounds worth it :)
Alicia, how did Cinnamon do???
Farmgirl Sister #4527
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West |
| Lady in Pearls |
Posted - Dec 02 2012 : 09:33:25 AM
Thank you for starting a 20s-something thread, Mary! I love all of the sagely advice from our other sisters, but have felt a bit lonely on here :)
I'm a 23 year old city Farmgirl right now, who teaches middle school French, but my husband I have our hearts set on moving further out to the country next year. To satiate my need for growing things, I've created a little oasis on our apartment balcony with herbs, mosquito-repelling plants, and a small Meyer lemon tree. I live near Dallas, TX, so the tree was happy with the heat in a container, but needed constant watering during the triple-digit temps. We've had our first freeze recently, so I've moved it inside since, and it's been a little droopy with less access to sunlight, but ended up flowering again! I stuck it back outside to see if it would get pollinated again, and I'm waiting to see if any bugs made it to the blooms, but from the spring pollination, we had 7 lemons this fall (from a tree that is a whole 2 feet high).
The only animal we have currently is one very spoiled min-pin named Missy. We had chickens, rabbits, and a small garden when I was growing up, as well as being avid hunters, but after moving to a rural-ish development with deed restrictions (to protect the woodsy look of the neighborhood) our urban homesteading stopped.
My husband and I plan to have a jersey cow, some chickens, goats, and maybe some axis deer or black buck when we finally get settled. I'm curious about all of your stories! How did you get started? What were your biggest challenges?
The closest we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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| KatyDid |
Posted - Nov 27 2012 : 09:11:50 AM
Hi Alicia! Thanks :) I will be taking an Introduction to Information Science and Technology class, so hopefully that will give me a good overview of the field and I can judge whether it is a career I'd be interested in pursuing.
Nice wrestling pun, too, about being floored ;) Good luck with your weekend warrior camp preparations! That is indeed a very impressive guest you will be having, and certainly a testament to your husband's coaching abilities! Congratulations to him for attracting so much positive attention for his program. And I hope Cinnamon's procedure goes well for her - I am keeping my fingers crossed! It sounds like something the vets do regularly, though, so I am sure she will get through it just fine.
Farmgirl Sister #4527
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West |
| AliciaNak |
Posted - Nov 27 2012 : 08:35:11 AM
Mary, so glad to hear you are working on that library! I love our little local library, and have quite the home collection too. I was just thinking it's time to weed out some of the books that my boys have out grown or don't read anymore. I would gladly send them your way!!
One thing our library has that I LOVE is a magazine sharing rack. I hate throwing away magazines just because I'm done reading them, so I save em to take down there every few weeks. And cross my fingers that I don't come home with just as many!
Kate, Good for you on the classes! You're right, there might not ever be a "best time" or " right time". Congrats! And what is your area of study?
Hubs is the Head Coach for our local youth wrestling program and we are hosting a big "weekend warrior camp" THIS weekend. Ken Chertow is the clinician that puts these on, we had him here last year too. This year he is bringing in Rulon Gardner!! (Rulon was on biggest looser if any of you watch that) Rulon is a Gold medal Olympic wrestler, and I'm still just floored that he will be HERE.
Still lots to do to get ready for Friday.
And on top of that I've got to take Cinnamon, my #2 cow, into the vet on Thursday. She has pyometra (or a massive uterine infection) that we can't seem to get rid of. They want to do a uterine flush. Sounds good, but there's so much that has the potential to go wrong! I just want the poor girl to get better!
Have a great Tuesday ladies!
Alicia
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.~Ralph Waldo Emmerson
www.blondenak.blogspot.com
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| KatyDid |
Posted - Nov 27 2012 : 08:21:26 AM
Oh, and Mary, the American Library Association (ALA) has a good page of foundations that support libraries as well: http://www.ala.org/offices/wo/woissues/washfunding/grants/grants
Farmgirl Sister #4527
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
- Mae West |
| KatyDid |
Posted - Nov 27 2012 : 08:16:47 AM
Mary, I have not read the book about Dewey, but I saw it once while working at a local library and thought it looked cute! I'll have to try it out. That is such a great effort you are making with the books! I used to help out with grant writing and development efforts at a few non-profits, and if you are looking for funding for equipment, books, programming, etc., or anything that would help the library to get back up and running again, it is worth a look through www.foundationcenter.org. You can look up funders by any area, and it looks like there are a few local to Vicksburg that might be able to help you if you write a proposal. The Morrison Foundation and Golding Foundation don't accept unsolicited proposals, but in those cases sometimes you can write a brief letter (letter of inquiry) asking if they would be interested in requesting one from you. Foundationcenter.org lets you look at the 990's of all of the funders, and if you can find any that have supported literacy (children's literacy would probably be most likely) or community programming causes in the past, they may be receptive to a proposal for what this library needs. Lots to think about! I'm sure it is a lot to juggle along with your own move. Let me know if I can make any recommendations for you!
Nicole, what Master's degree is your mister working toward? I just enrolled in a graduate class yesterday, for spring of 2013, and am nervous that I'm out of practice with the whole attending classes thing! It's an online program, so not a traditional "class," but still...I haven't been in college for 7 years now (got my B.A. in 2005), so I hope I'm not in for a surprise once this thing gets going! My husband is "self-employed" and does a whole variety of types of work, but our income is slightly spotty since I am the only one who really receives a steady weekly paycheck. It wasn't really convenient for me to sign up to do classes now, but I figured there never will be a "best time" and that if I didn't take the plunge now, I'd miss a good opportunity.
Farmgirl Sister #4527
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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