Happy National Boston Cream Pie Day
Happy Birthday: Maddie Oct. 24 / Alex G Oct. 24 / Kaytlyn Oct. 25/ Brian Oct. 29
Happy Anniversary: Emily & Justin Oct. 26
Congratulations: Reagan and Cale engagement
Prayer: Robert’s Father . Kim Ketter / Isarel / innocent citizens safety in all areas of the conflict/war / hostages
Good Monday Morning from NC.
Dean and I are battling the birds that have decided to land on our vehicles and peck on the windows and poop. We are covering the mirrors and the back wiper on my car where they like to sit as well. They are still sitting on the side of the door and pecking at the windows. So I’m Printing photos of Bald Eagles today and try putting them in the windows..
It was an exciting week for Hailey, she was elected the Junior class princess for homecoming. She found out at the homecoming game Friday night. A nasty thunderstorm rolled through before the game, but no rain during the game. Jessica’s parents were there, and Mark was able to come as well. And then had homecoming dance Saturday night.
Saturday was spent doing projects and watching football.
Sunday, church, lunch, and home to watch football… I did finish the Stella Dinner puzzle before half time.
Have a blessed week,
Love,
Gatha
Been a busy week here; Aria is well into Nutcracker practices for the Bristol Ballet and that has us (rephrase: Brittany) going three times a week to Bristol for a few hours. Aiden is busy with scouts. Both just finished up their first period in home school with flying colors. The public schools here still teach cursive, but not until 3rd grade. Abeka, on the other hand, teaches cursive starting in Kindergarten, so they’re having lots of fun catching up with that. So far its been a challenge, but fun, and just from listening to some of our other neighbors and some issues going on in the schools right now, we’re still confident it was the best choice.
Brit may be getting an opportunity to work from home more, while the kids are doing school. It’ll still be with the same independent pharmacy she’s working for now, but they’re just trying to expand their clinical model to keep up with the changing pharmacy times. Pharmacy is still the only business I know of that doesn’t get paid for the product we sell, and the government wonders why small pharmacies are going out of business at an alarming rate and we’re looking at a shortage of ~200,000 pharmacists within the next 10 years. To put that in perspective, there are currently 315,000 pharmacists currently employed in the US. In the next 10 years some estimates are expecting that for every 2 pharmacists leaving the workforce, only 1 will be replaced. With pharmacies (e.g., Walgreens and CVS, to start) already having issues keeping the doors open because no pharmacist is available, and pharmacists walking out because of the work environment, it will be interesting to see how this plays out…
Pictured is Dan the Man. Our re-homed rooster for the last few weeks. Probably not really liked by our neighbors, although I can’t really hear him in the house, but we took him to keep him out of the cook pot. We had a family in June that had 2 roosters a couple houses over that moved to Alaska, so I’ve enjoying hearing the crowing again. Just something about that sound…