Museum of Tolerance

Wow.........Incredible.............heartfelt....... are only a few of the words i could use.

Sara's 8th grade class took a field trip to the Museum of Tolerance in LA yesterday and it was amazing and i would love to go again and spend more time there. I wanted to look at everything, read and experience it but we didn't have the time.

I have to admit that the class didn't get what they should of out of the field trip. In my opinion they are still to young to fully grasp it all. I believe they understand the world is full of prejudice but they don't understand that they also in a small way are as well.

I can't tell you how exactly it made me feel listening and walking thru the Holocaust errea. Especially when we walked thru areas that looked ust as it did back then, like the bathing station / gas chamber. You have to go...
I highly suggest that all you older peps go check it out when you have a chance. just plan on spending a couple hours in there. The tour we took was only one part of the museum and it was 2.5 hours long. I know i will go again.

Chicky adventures 2

Well, unfortunately only 6 of the baby chicks are still alive today.

As soon as the chicks turned 3 weeks old we had a little incident that resulted in a Chicky massacre.

Kaleb accidentally left the gate open to the back and my wimeraner Ave (Bird Dog) got out and into the coop that was supposed to be coyote proof.

Needless to say 11 baby chicks were killed.

Kaleb luckily didn't see inside the coop to see the damage and for that i am grateful.  He did / does feel horrible that it was his fault. But I just kept telling him it's okay and at least now we know dad has work to do to make it predator proof.

So with all of this we went out looking or new chicks.  Luckily, a couple Matt plays ball with on Monday nights had some 6 week old they wanted to get rid of.  So we picked those 8 up and a 8 more three day old the that weekend..

We are a full chicken coop again and everything is working out well for them.  Kaleb has a new favorite  and all is good.

Chicky Adventures 1

So we made the decision to raise chicks in order to have farm fresh eggs..  We currently can go through one 5 dozen pack from the store in a week.  Yes, i know that's crazy; at least in a couple months i won't have to buy them any more.  I'm gonna love walking outside to get my own eggs.

Our adventure began April 9th a little over three weeks ago when i took the kids and my mom to pick out our pullets baby chicks (female).  We don't want any roosters.  After two stops we came home with the feed, and 17, three day old chicks.

Aren't they supper cute.