Friday, July 27, 2012

The Lord is laying out my path.  I praise him everyday. I have won a scholarship, I am blessed and grateful and I'm in hopes the year will bless me with more. Every little bit helps.
    I'm on a new schedule to follow up with the volunteer of my Saturdays to taking care of Wilburville's newly planted douglas fir forest. Also I will continue my shadow hours with Dr Erin Anderson OD, who has provided me with her leadership as a mentor, along with 9 hours a week of tutoring students on CCC campus.
    My new project is to make time to work with the idea of bringing an Alzheimer's walk into the town where I live. This will require that I meet with the Mayor, so this will be on my list of things to do before the end of summer. In addition to that I need to work with the international program on campus and complete my application for a Costa Rica and Nicaragua trip which will commence in Spring and Summer of 2013.  To make that possible I have to dig further for and apply for funding by scholarships that encourages an increased international curriculum base in my education.
   If anyone reading this can offer suggestions on how to make adding abroad semesters financially feasible, please share on my blog I would love to hear of success stories.

    Here is a great picture of my son and of course the one in the front is Foghorn....:)
   As far as my path of continued success with "No Smoking" and my Restless Hens girls that make it possible, I'm golden on that commitment to myself my children and the Lord. By the way my girls (Hens) are doing fabulous, with the exception that I am concerned one of my Rhode Island Red's is overweight namely, Mohawk.  I love her, she is so sweet gentle and is always willing to get close with me and let me snuggle her.  She is the loner and is always last, in the back and least skid-dish, but extremely large.  She has a sort of waddle in her gait  more so than a regular chicken.  Super cute, but I shouldn't continue to give her so many snacks :)

Friday, July 20, 2012

I just loved this book....


  Still Life with Chickens, starting over in a house by the sea. A memoir by Catherine Goldhammer.

Sunday, July 8, 2012


Pet Chicken Sites


Chicken Magazines:

Urban Farm                    www.urbanfarmonline.com
Backyard Poultry           www.backyardpoultrymagazine.com
Poultry Press                www.poultrypress.com
Fancy Fowl                   www.fancyfowlusa.com
Countryside                  www.countrysidemag.com
Mother Earth News   www.MotherEarthNews.com
Practical Poultry          www.practicalpoultry.co.uk
Home Grown Poultry  www.homegrownpoultry.com
The Coop                   www.the-coop.org
The Poultry Pages     www.allotment.org.uk


Poultry Organizations/Associations:

The American Poultry Association  www.amerpoultryassn.com
American Bantam Association www.bantamclub.com
National 4-H Club www.4-H.org
Americauna Breeders Club www.ameraucana.org
The Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquitieswww.feathersite.com/Poultry/SPPA/SPPA.html
Old English Game Bantam Club of America www.bantychicken.com/OEGBCA


Other Pet Chicken Websites:

My Pet Chicken www.mypetchicken.com
Feathersite www.feathersite.com
Poultry One www.poultryone.com
Chicken Crossing www.chickencrossing.org
Incredible Chickens www.incrediblechickens.com
Goodbye City Life www.goodbyecitylife.com
Suburban Chicken www.suburbanchicken.org
Backyard Chickens www.backyardchickens.com
Pets Boutiques www.petsboutiques.eu


Excellent CBS News Sunday Morning Show today!

    I was extremely inspired this morning, when I watched CBS News Sunday Morning.  A truly genuine story was told by Mark Straussman, about a young woman named, Luma Mufleh living, in a suburb near Atlanta Georgia and her dream to build a school. 

    Luma Mufleh, was born in Jordan in 1974 and she moved to the US to attend Smith College. After graduation she established residency and found work in Clarkston, Ga.  She ended up forming a Fugees soccer team with the children living in our country from other war torn countries.      

     She became very involved, especially in 2007, when she went all in and is now dreaming big to build a school that will help educate these children, with whom the public schools are unfortunately failing. With her love of soccer and her desire to become a US citizen, she understands what these children need to succeed and she understands the importance of not taking US citizenship for granted as she has just recently been granted US Citizenship. She is doing all she can to create a village of supporters for her program, has been and will continue to help carry her kids through a lifetime of education and learning. Her energy and dedication is driving her dream to build a well needed school for them.

   Wouldn't it be fantastic if somehow the young girls who recently invented and designed the SOccket Ball, came together to raise the 5 million needed to build this Refugee school on the 19 foreclosed acres Luma has been able to purchase. 

     I will follow this story and I hope when I graduate that I'm able to meet her and visit her school and all the kids who attend. What an inspiration that would be. It is my dream to find financial ways to help her and propagate programs like this that are necessary everywhere in the U.S. to elevate young children with the education and support they need to become our next outstanding generation. It's only from the firm foundation we build and nurture that we can then lean on for strength & support in our futures.


                                                 Bibliography


     http://www.thefootballsupernova.com


     Strausman, Mark, perf. "War, Soccer, and the American 
            Dream." Prod. Jason Sacca. Coming Home. CBS:
            CBS, 08072012. Television.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

      Praise God! I think I almost started to tear up when I received a confirmation email from Dr. Anderson (Vision Source, our eye doctor in town) letting me know that she will allow me to shadow this summer starting July 20th.  Boy, that made my day.  Every little blessing that takes me down my path to reach my goal is something to celebrate!  I also planned a visit to the Pacific University this coming Friday to visit the campus and get familiar with what it will take for me to be accepted there for Graduate School!
      In the mean time I stay on course by applying for every scholarship I can find, caring for my chicken co-op Restless Hens & sharing their eggs, caring for the 100 + newly panted trees on Wilburville and working as a tutor at the tutor center on campus.  Of course I'm also making time for my writing and speech courses, which I'm enjoying so far. Great Professors, I've been so fortunate to study with.
   I'm weeding with my chickens at my heels, crock pot spaghetti cooking for dinner and Tyler (my youngest son) is out mowing the grass, and it doesn't get better than this on a sunny summer day :)
     Spent the morning filling out scholarship information, which is my new everyday ritual. I'm determined to continue my education and it will be short of impossible without winning a few scholarships....Please God Please make one happen for me; I won't let you down :)