Nugget the Big Red Rooster

Nugget the Big Red Rooster (Picture Book)

Pg. 1 One day, in the barn at the Webb's farm, two little brown eggs hatched.

Pg. 2 The first little chick was tiny, with no feathers on her neck at all, and the rest of her baby feathers were a pretty black color. She had a little black hat on her head too.

Pg. 3 The other little chick wasn't so tiny! In fact, he was huge! He had bright yellow fluffy baby feathers and long, long legs. His legs were so long that the first little chick could walk right underneath him!

Pg. 4 The two little chicks became the best of friends, the tiny little one's name was Woo, and the big little one's was Nugget, because he looked like a little gold nugget when he was hatched.

Pg. 5 As they grew up together Nugget kept growing, and growing,, and growing!

Pg. 6 But little Woo grew a little more, and then stopped right there. She was so tiny she could walk under Nugget and not even bump her little head.

Pg. 7 In the farmyard were other chickens too.

Pg. 8 There was Blue Rooster, he was the boss! He would stand on top of anything he could and he would crow so loud you could hear him all over the farm.

Pg. 9 Blue Rooster let Nugget tag along with him as he walked around the barnyard making sure that all the other chickens were where they were supposed to be.

Pg. 10 The hens had an area all of their own where they laid their eggs, and Farmer Webb picked them up and took them in the farmhouse.

Pg. 11 They had a beautiful house the called their coop. It was so nice inside! It had nice warm straw to snuggle down into lay their eggs. It also had two wooden bars called perches, so they could sit on them and sleep safely at night.

Pg. 12 Outside of the coop was a nice big area with a strong fence around it, to help keep the nice chicken ladies safe. There was door on the side that opened up into the barnyard so the hens could scratch around and find little treats to snack on.

Pg. 13 Every now and then one would find a really tasty treat and take off running so no one else could take her treat! All the other hens would chase her around the yard, trying to steal the treat away, but in the end, they all shared their treats.

Pg. 14 To Be Continued

My Plan!

I have a plan! Not sure how I will implement it but I have a plan! I will put in applications in at least one different school district a month in areas I'm interested in. I find friends and acquaintances who might live in those areas and know of people with a house/trailer/etc for sale or rent in an area I can have my animals.. chickens, ducks, dogs, cats, etc.. Maybe one of them will have something I can get at a decent price! I will start liquidating what I have, things I can't take or won't want to. I will start making weekly trips to the dump to get rid of everything I can. I will find homes for the chickens or ducks that I don't feel I can take or that I am not as fond of to cut down on feed expenses for now. I'll try even harder to get a second job to help get out of this financial fiasco I'm in,,, 2500 bucks would solve all my money problems, surely I could make that in two or three months in a part time job somewhere??? I might have to leave my education off of the applications because I'm tired of hearing I'm overqualified,,, I can work with it!!

Jan 4, 2010

Wow,, what a Winter break! My son hit his terrible two's, teen angst, and I'm 18 and an adult all at once! Of course according to him it has nothing to do with his BFF he suddenly started hanging around with lol! He and I had a great Sunday together, shot pool, did some yard work, watched a movie,, just like normal and he had no contact with his buddy. It was a great day today, we had lunch together since I'm back at work, and then a nice afternoon, but now he's at his buddy's house again, we'll see what his attitude is like when he gets home.

I've made a decision, one that won't be easy given my circumstances with my finances and all... but I'm setting a goal of getting everything, that being taxes, and water problems, heat problems, all that, in order and hopefully finding a job in a new district in another part of the US so that this time next year I will be living somewhere else. I'm going to either cut off and acre to sell for cash, but can't do that until my way past due taxes are caught up, or after taxes are caught up, put my whole place up for sale. It's about 3 acres with a double wide mobile home that needs work, but it's a good area people are moving into, so I might be able to get enough to just flat out buy another place somewhere. I'll never be able to finance a breath of fresh air again, so I have to be able to buy. Wish me luck!