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Pearce Pastures
Barn Babe
It is a busy week as usual.
Pretty sure I gave myself food poisoning yesterday and am now making great pals with Pepto
... :/ .... 
.... I decided to make some buffalo chicken wings and thought they were cooked 
. Hoping it passes soon.
Had a nice talk with a BYHer and it really helped. Feeling encouraged about what may lie in the future in my career, despite all the stuff going on. My boss, a great guy who has nothing to do with all of the other stuff, stopped by my room yesterday to give me a kind of 'read between the lines' talk. Without flat out saying it, he basically let me know that finances are bad, spending is well planned, and without a teacher's union, my contract will be no good in a year once it expires. What does that all mean for me? If I still have a job, my pay will likely be affected (not sure if it will be a positive or a negative impact), the hours I work will likely increase(U.S. teachers already work well beyond teachers in any other nation, just a fun fact) , and our benefits will not be protected. But the part that I am wondering about is whether I will even have a job---without a contract, I have not seniority and if they want to cut teachers to save money, why not go for ones that cost the school more? So boss really wants to keep me as a teacher and asked if I might be willing to get a few titles added to my license (like "Reading Specialist"), by taking the state's exams in those areas. The tests are a few hundred each but it sounds like they might make me look more attractive to the district as they start looking for cuts. Not sure what I am going to do right now though and DH is starting to think that it might be time for us to come up with a few backup plans (including my being a homemaker ). Time and prayer---that is the plan for now.
DH is working on his application for the mill right now
. This is a bit earlier than we thought at first but the opportunity arose and we are all over it. He graduates in 8 weeks so I suppose the timing would work out just fine since it takes them a bit to go through all of the applicants, screening, and what not. You will be seeing one extra happy Pearce on here if this all comes to fruition.
Oh, I have a nice, big leg of goat sitting in my roasting pan in the fridge right now, and a shelf full of "dinner". DinDin dressed out lighter than we had estimated but all the same, I am looking forward to our big family dinner tomorrow to try this out. I need to look up the recipes I have seen floating around here for a nice roast.
Weird though---I think Charlie is worried about where his big goat went. He just seems to be looking for him and he keeps looking out into the fields and whining. The does are celebrating his being gone
No giant fuzz butt hogging the feed trough at night.
Pretty sure I gave myself food poisoning yesterday and am now making great pals with Pepto
... :/ .... .... I decided to make some buffalo chicken wings and thought they were cooked . Hoping it passes soon.Had a nice talk with a BYHer and it really helped. Feeling encouraged about what may lie in the future in my career, despite all the stuff going on. My boss, a great guy who has nothing to do with all of the other stuff, stopped by my room yesterday to give me a kind of 'read between the lines' talk. Without flat out saying it, he basically let me know that finances are bad, spending is well planned, and without a teacher's union, my contract will be no good in a year once it expires. What does that all mean for me? If I still have a job, my pay will likely be affected (not sure if it will be a positive or a negative impact), the hours I work will likely increase(U.S. teachers already work well beyond teachers in any other nation, just a fun fact) , and our benefits will not be protected. But the part that I am wondering about is whether I will even have a job---without a contract, I have not seniority and if they want to cut teachers to save money, why not go for ones that cost the school more? So boss really wants to keep me as a teacher and asked if I might be willing to get a few titles added to my license (like "Reading Specialist"), by taking the state's exams in those areas. The tests are a few hundred each but it sounds like they might make me look more attractive to the district as they start looking for cuts. Not sure what I am going to do right now though and DH is starting to think that it might be time for us to come up with a few backup plans (including my being a homemaker
). Time and prayer---that is the plan for now. DH is working on his application for the mill right now
. This is a bit earlier than we thought at first but the opportunity arose and we are all over it. He graduates in 8 weeks so I suppose the timing would work out just fine since it takes them a bit to go through all of the applicants, screening, and what not. You will be seeing one extra happy Pearce on here if this all comes to fruition. Oh, I have a nice, big leg of goat sitting in my roasting pan in the fridge right now, and a shelf full of "dinner". DinDin dressed out lighter than we had estimated but all the same, I am looking forward to our big family dinner tomorrow to try this out. I need to look up the recipes I have seen floating around here for a nice roast.
Weird though---I think Charlie is worried about where his big goat went. He just seems to be looking for him and he keeps looking out into the fields and whining. The does are celebrating his being gone
No giant fuzz butt hogging the feed trough at night.
Keep us posted 
