mom-from-missouri's Journal

Went to our little town today. Most of the few business we have here are owned by the same family--2 gas stations, grocery store, hardware store, newspaper, resturant and real estate office. He and his kids and their spouses manage them all with help from non related high school kids. I noticed a sign up the the 2 gas stations, grocery and hardware stores, as well as the resturant. They will be open regular hours on Thanksgiving. At the one gas station where I stopped, the help was complaiing-all the "family" members are off, only the non related high school help has to work. The do not get over time or holiday pay. One said if it were a school day he normally didn't come in until 4 p.m., but was scheduled 7-4 because it was not a school day.

Then I went to the next town over to get some things our town doesn't have. The grocery store there is open 6am-12pm tomorrow, along with most other businesses. Even Sonic had a sign up they were open regular hours.

I go to the grocery store there fairly often to fill in for what Aldi doesn't have. I said something to the owner/manager. He said he had so many people complain to him, he will not be open Christmas as a result. I also said something to the Sonic manager (had a craving for a route 44 cherry limade and he was the one working the drive thru). He said it was a corp office decision and stupid. He said last year they didn't even clear enough to pay the help.

The walmart in the city that we go to when we have to is open regular hours on all holidays.

All for the sake of the almighty dollar.

This has nothing to do with saving money, but possibly saving some lives and sanity.

A friend of mines grandchildren were kidnapped in June of this year. There have been amber alerts out, a just a couple of sitings in the beginning, but the trail has grown cold.

It will be aired on TV on Thanksgiving Day o the Maury Povich Missing Childrens show. Please watch it if you can. The 3 little girls are Grayson, Canon and Sawyer Brown. They were taken by a noncustodial parent and their spouse.

I am not sure if this link will work, but you can try

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2011643&l=19b7c&id=1221346619

That is to my facebook album that has the kids pictures in it. I set that album to "public" so hopefully it will work.

I work with these kids grandpa at church camp every summer. He and his wife are worred sick. The man involved is dangerous and it is believed he has a gun with him.

I subbed again today. Upper math for the most part.
1st hour (wich was acutally called 5th block and was really 42 minutes long...) was a math class for the kids that the school considered to be drop out risks, or as one student put it, the future nobodys in life. I had 7 students in the class, all were very well behaved. They used a very good math book called "Life Skills Match". The book covers everything from how to balance a checkbook, paychecks and various taxes, how to double, trip or half a recipe, how to figure square footage to paint or carpet a room, loans, interest types, credit cards, mortgages...basically math for everyday living.

The 2nd class and 3rd class were also very well behaved, but were algebra/trig and calc students.

The 4th class was supposed to be the "school brains". This was an advance class that they are also getting dual college credit for. In this class wre the kids of several "upper class families and old money families". They were the rudest, foul mouthed senior brats I have ever seen or heard. One guy kept trying to unhook all the girls bras, and using "the word"--yeah, the BIG BAD word. (he ended up in the office). Then we had chair throwing, belching and farting contests/sex stories..... This was the class that had the guys with the letterman jackets, the cheerleaders... The ones that you would expect to go further in life because if nothing else they have more opportunities that they can afford.

In my opinion, the first class may go further in life.

Oh--the one that I sent to the office?? I was told there will be no punishment because he is starting in tonights basketball game...

I hear the teachers and administrations at various schools where I sub complain about these kids, yet they have the power to stop some of this--bench that kid a game or two an I think his attitude may change.....

I got called to sub tomorrow for High School math. This particular district pays $80 a day and it is a 9 mile drive. It is the same district, but different school from what I had last Wednesday. So, on Dec 15 I will have a $160 check (minus taxes) to pick up in time for Christmas, or filling the propane tank.

I also made $20 for an article I wrote for thriftyfun.com, so that is coming my way also.

We finally turned the furnace on last week, but it goes to 59 at night and 63 during the day. We are also buring wood in the fireplace and that helps as we spend a good amount of time in that room or the rooms surrounding it.

I paid the electric bill today while I was in the town that the coop is in (took the girls to the library a few blocks from there). The bill for both meters was $185. That is about as low as it gets-that is for both the house and the barn, with no heat or air on.

Seems like all my posts and such have been made from the library lately. Their computer is so much faster than our dial up at home. Right now the kids are taking a science class. They are doing various experments. I think the topic was matter and minerals or something like that.

Yesterday we took dear hubbys car into the shop to repair the damage that a deers hubby did to it. Around $2500 worth. Insurance will cover it, and most of the rental car. We wanted an upgrade, so we are paying $2 a day on a rental. The one the insurance approved won't even hold the entire family. However, since the damaged car would, I think we can argue that with the insurance adjustor and win. If we had a 5 seater in the shop, they should pay for a 5 seater rental. The shop thinks it should take a week to 10 days to get the car repaired.

Meanwhile, its warmer today, so the house is nice and toasty. I didn't even need to light a fire in the fireplace. DH finally got the furnace downstairs fixed, but we haven't needed it since he fixed it, except for 12 hours or so. As a result we should have a low electric bill next month.

Last hour the class (6th grade) I had was so loud. This one (HS kids) is so quiet you can hear a pin drop. I am just sitting in here while their teacher is at lunch for 30 minutes. I wish I could keep this class.....

It is for a little town a few miles down the road (the one where the girl disappeared from on an earlier blog of mine-if you missed all that, there was an Amber alert for over a week and it turned out she and her BF had run away and are back now). It is for next Wed and the cool part is it is for a day where they have an early out. So, I teach 1/2 day, but get paid for a whole day. It is for 6th grade communication arts.

This is the first sub call I have had this school year--usually they don't start until this time of the year when people start getting colds and flu.

DH will be working nights that day, but it is his first day back after his off days, so childcare is not an issue--he usually naps in front of the TV on his first day on night shift. I will leave the girls their school work and he will check it between naps. $$$ for Christmas.

starting today...At 3 we have a library art class. Its a 30 minute drive to get there, but in the same town as girl scouts, which is at 7. So, we will stay at the library for a couple of hours after the class, then hit mcdonalds $1 menu then go to girl scouts and should be back home by 10. Friday we have homeschool coop and a visitation for a good friend of mine who died suddenly Monday morning. Saturday is the funeral and then a dinner, followed by my nephews birthday party that evening...Then, Sunday is church, a meeting, and then the 4H holiday dinner prepared by the kids. It all hits at once, and my biggest expense is going to be the gasoline.
Last night DH found some for $1.79 at a Quick Trip in Independence, so he tanked up.

As many of you know, we homeschool. Our state requires that we school 1000 hrs per school year (year is defined by the parents, and we pick July 1 thru June 30 as our school year, and we school year around 7 days a week). 600 of those hours have to be in key subjects, such as math, science, history.....

Anyway to make a long story short, this year for us started July 1, and we hit our 1000th hour today. So, legally we are done, but we will continue on.

For those of you who think we are mean parents making them school 24 hours a day sitting at a desk, that is not the case. It is a matter of what I count and how I count it. For example, I count piano lessons and practice as music, grocery store and shopping trips are included in hours for home-ec (the kids help with the shopping and making the lists). Yesterday the kids went with us to vote an we counted that as history/social studies. Working with my husband on the tractor or lawn mower motor, or changing the oil counts as vo-tech (small engines).

Their TV counts--we like to watch daily "How do they make that" and various shows on the weather channel/history and discovery/tlc channels. I get emails that give the show lineups and plan some of our book reading according to the shows. This works real well to have a video or show supplement what we just learned in the books.

Then we also have the "extras" that don't always get counted such as 4H, Girl Scouts, Bible Bowl, Horse Bowl, horsemanship, and trips to the library.

Next week one of my 10 year olds is starting an internship at my cousins clinic. He is a vet. She picked vet science in 4H, and is going to spend 1 day every 2 weeks with him (through May-weather permitting)in his clinic to learn the ends and outs of running a small business, small animal care, billing procedures, maintaining animal records and such. She wants to be a vet when she is older. My 12 year old is getting ready to do a similar activity at a library in her Grandmas town (we have no library in our county).

We also belong to a homeschool ccop where the kids take classes on Fridays. For this year, they have 3 classes and their winter program left. Then the ooop breaks until Feb next year. Those hours also count as they take creditable classes such as band, spanish, french, business math, Dave Ramsey for kids, weather watchers, art, photography and more.

Well, last week I posted that I ran the furnace through one cycle, just to make sure it was in good working order. It was. No problem. I changed the filter and thought we were ready for when we needed it.

This morning, DH got up and went to turn it on, nothing. Nothing at all. Deader than an doornail. He said we shouldn't be out of propane (although I don't think he actually went out and looked at the tank). All that we use on the propane is 2 furnaces and the water heater. We still have hot water. We need to see if the other furnace (for the upstairs of the house) works. So for now at least, we are burning wood in the livingroom fireplace. He is not feeling well (flu) so not sure when it will all get checked out.

Meanwhile, I came to town to bring the girls to the library. I noticed the lowest regular was 2.05 (plus it was at the coop, where we get a 3 cent a gallon discount for being on their electric, so 2.02 for us) and deisel is now 2.99. DH will be glad to see the deisel down. The ruby red deisel normally runs a dollar lower sooooooooo, I think the tractor will get filled up for the first time in a year. It will be happy. We can only put the ruby in the tractor, its not legal in the truck unless we are using the truck off highway, which we use both on and off highway. (ruby red deisel fuel is untaxed also.)

The kids who disappeared, had amber alerts issued over them and were found on Sunday were on the local news and local radio last night. Basically it seems they did it as a lark. I saw/heard really no remorse from either of them. He was 16, she was 14. I couldn't understand why a 14 year old was "dating" with her parents blessing (not my style) but apprently they had been for "several" years according to many sources?? The family seemed to have some issues as well. It seems these issues passed on to the kids. I hope the situations these kids are in improves. Let kids be kids while they are kids. Let the grown up activities wait until they are grown up...OK, I got that rant out of my system.

The 14 year old who was kidnapped by her 16 year old boyfriend (after he stole his parents car) has been found unharmed, with him. Both were returned back to their families yesterday, and I would think are meeting with law enforcement today. They were saying they had about enough gas to go 200 miles, and that is about where they were found. Apprently with no money,, and after over a week he allowed her to call for someone to get them, so she called her family and the amber alert has been cancelled. She was taken from a football game about 8 miles from us and evidently lived even closer than that. TV said he was bipolar and had quit his meds, and when he was off his meds was prone to violence, so everyone was very concerned. Thank God, it could have been much worse..

Yesterday I only spent $1.50 for the KC paper--will earn that back from using some of the coupons in it. I have a special invite to Pamida, they will double coupons through the 28th, and we have one here locally now!! AND, I got an email to print and bring in for 25% off, so I will see if they will do both.
Today will be a no gas, no spend day. Heat is still off.

Last Friday 2 teens in our area went missing. They are not from our town, but from a town very close by, where we sometimes eat at their diner and buy feed, and some of our 4H activities are held. We are there at least 1 or 2 times a week. The amber alert is now updated that the male has kidnapped the female.

http://missouriamberalert.com/

One source said they had been dating for quite awhile and she was possibly trying to end it. She is only 14, he is 16 and has a car. Apprently he took her in his car.

I attached the link, should anyone want to check out her picture.

Am I the only parent around who thinks 14 is too young for a girl to be dating? Last year, a school near here had a 14 year old girl who was preg, and it was her 2nd child. I think it is too young! Way to young.

Our neighbors had a large farm with a daudy house (old german and dutch term for a smaller house for the grandparents located near the main family home). They tried to sell it all together but that did not work. So, they split off a large amount of farm land, and the neighbor in the back bought it. Then they split off the grandparents house with 5 acres, and the sign now says there is a contract pending on it. That leaves the main house with 20 acres and a landscaped fishing pond still for sale. This spring we got two new neighbors to the east of us. We are about to be the old timers out here. I tried to use the zillow thing to see if they lowered their prices any (houses have been listed a very very long time), but they do not show up.

We had a heifer that ran off to seek her fortune some time back. She reappeared yesterday--someone put her into our horse arena. We knew where she was, but DH hasn't had a day off in almost 2 weeks in order to go and get her. But, she is back now. We still have not figured out how she got out of our pasture into the neighbors, but, he may have fixed the fence. (repairs are the responsibilty of each of us). It would be nice if she met up with a nice bull while out on her adventure.

I still have not turned on the furnace, although I will probably tomorrow evening to give it a test run after I change the filters. I don't want to wait until we have to have it and discover it has a repair issue.

Never left the house today, other than to put out the flag. So, no money spent and no fuel used.

in Independence, which is where my DH commutes to 3 times a week for a class he is taking for work.


YEE HAW.
(Thats Missouri talk for "its a good thing")

Today the kids and I all stayed home. The grandparents went home last night, so the girls spent in RV (where the grandparents had stayed during their visit). I thought they would get cold during the night and come into the house, but they stuck it out in sleeping bags. The RV has both a propane furnace and an electric one. I told my folks to turn on the electric one, but they didn't, and neither did the kids. It is in the low 60's outside, but staying 68 in the house.

We were given some free tickets to the American Royal (horse show) for tomorrow night, so I think we will be doing that. I think tomorrow we will make a snack to take with us, maybe brownies and popcorn balls. If we eat right before we leave, we can hopefully make it a NS event.

Right now the kids and I are at the library again. This weeks class is on animals, and the KC zoo is here with some of their animals. Right now I see the guy holding up a large snake, so I am glad I am here at the computers and not in the classroom. Snakes are not my thing.

This works perfect with the animal books we have been making at home. Each child has a notebook and each week they have to research a new animal, put in a picture and fill out a form about the animal. So far I think they each have around 30 animals. They like it so they usually do more than my required 1 a week. This is part of our science.

My parents have been here the last few days. My dad is doing some "chores" for us--electrical ones. He is installing one ceiling fan, repairing another, and checking out electrifing our chicken coop.

Meanwhile, last weekend we had our party--hayride and bonfire. It went well. The weather was perfect for it. Out of all the games and such we had set up, the big hits were the BB gun shooting contest and my chickens. Everyone seemed to be holding a chicken as I would look around. I guess chickens were a novelity to a lot of the guest as they are what we call "city people".

Our local paper (a weekly that is about 8-12 pages) publishes the courthouse news once a month.

Sadly, out of 11 pages this week, 4 of them were nothing but foreclosures.
This is a small rural farming area, we are the county seat. There is no industry or big employers. To have a decent job you have to drive 45-60 minutes.

The majority of the ones in the paper are from a auto manufactur who did a large layoff about 6 months ago, or farmers. Most of them in the paper were family names that I recognized as being 3rd and 4th generation families to this small town.

People wonder why others leave small towns. There is nothing here to attract them to stay--no way to make a living here. And, with the price of fuel, they aren't making as much to drive to the city.

But on a lighter side, I got fuel for $2.88 a gallon. I have not seen that price in over a year. It was wonderful.

The kids are taking a 1 hour class here at the library. I forgot what the topic was, but it sounded good. We have been taking classes here and at another branch 1-3 times a week. So far this month they have had astromony; Mexican day; learned about Ireland; the history of checkers-how to play the game and made their own boards; the Amazon; leaf art; basic finances...

All the classes are free. While they are in class I grab a computer. Since we are dialup I can get on the library which is DSL and clean out my mail in a fraction of the time it takes at home.

Actually though, I think it was the library where my password was comprimised and my email and accounts were hacked. It was done about a month ago by a family member, through my library card (which we have to use for access to the library computers). So, now I have a new library card with a new password. And, I change my library internet password each week.

Last week I got several great finds off of free cycle to use in our classroom (we homeschool). A set of cubbies, and a mail organizer with 48 slots, and some books. Later this week I pick up 2 corkboards that are 3x4.

Last night we got our first frost. So today, I will probably start pulling up the corn from the garden. Part I will keep for decorations, and the rest will throw to the horses, cows and chickens. However the frost does not seem to have bothered my okra, beans or tomatoes and peppers.

My computer has been doing weird things, or so I thought. Emails were held up for several days or disappeared. People sent me things I never go, ones I sent never arrived....THEN, a bid I made on ebay said it was retracted by me (I never retracted it) and a site I write for had entires I never recalled making. So, I have been working with tech support of our ISP. We were hacked. I am bad. real bad. Quite a few of my passwords were the same. The ones that were the same were messed with. The ones that had another password were not. I should have had a different password for everything (but I'm too old to remember them all.) The ISP can't tell me who-that would take law enforcement to get involved, but they can tell me where (what part of the state) the person was at--they told me where, and it pretty much narrowed it down to a family member who has had such issues in the past.... So, passwords are now changed and all are different....Lesson learned. I guess I need to read through my posts on here and see if they are all really my posts, or have been edited or deleted......

Then, IKE made his way to Missouri....well, not all of IKE, just his rainfall. The gutters were overloaded and it all came into the basement. We lost quite a few books (more are still drying in the oven). What a mess. We have bought the items to reinforce the guttering and drain it way away from the house, and will do that tomorrow.

I cleaned off DH desk, then mine. I found a forgotten $22 check on mine, and a $141 check that was never even opened on his desk.

I think the man owes me dinner out--what do you think????

I am wanting to paint the office, but am debating on the color. Right now its eggshell. It has 2 windows that over look the back pasture (horses and ponds) so it gets plenty of light. One door leading into the office (off the kitchen) is a solid oak door, and the door that leads into the living room is a oak and glass door--the glass is the old time wavy glass. The bathroom off of the office is sage green.

The office is kind of a western theme--a horse collar mirror, and a set of 5 large horse pictures framed in hunter green mats with leather frames and brass nails. The desks and file cabinet are also oak.

There is also a love seat in the office that can open into a twin bed, so the room can double as a guest room with its private bath.

I am tired of the eggshell colored walls. Ideally, I'd like to go a leather brown or dark color, but DH thinks that is too dark. (carpet is light tan) I am almost considering wallpapering it. Then I had another idea of a darker tan on the walls and a leather type border, or darker tan and an oak beadboard on the lower part of the walls.

I need a decorator, but I am too frugal to hire one!! (So, I am quizzing you all)

I saw my parents today, and they brought me a huge cooler full of concord grapes. So, tomorrow I will be canning those, as well as more apples.

(Guess we won't be getting scurvy this winter!!!)

Some local boys were killed this weekend, drinking and driving. They also hit another car head on--no news on how those are doing. Seems things like that hit the small towns really hard--effects the entire town, since everyone knows everyone. And, it hurts more when they are young people. I just hope the other kids learn from their mistake.

I hate getting old.

10 years ago I would have gone to the city today. But it just rained too much. I didn't want to get out and get the kids out in it. So, will have to do my trip tomorrow.

10 years ago I would not have gotten the speghetti out of the pantry and laid it down and lost it. So much for speghetti for supper tonight. I did elbow macaroni noodles instead, so we are calling it Italian Goloush....

10 years ago I would not of forgotten I already made a gallon of tea and made another....

10 years ago, I had a housekeeper who did my cooking and cleaning (because I just delivered twins and just came off of bedrest). That is all I'd like to go back to though...

But, today ended up being a NS and NF (no fuel) day. Yee haw.

So, I can't do much outside. We now have al the apples picked except for the last 4 trees--2 are regular apples and 2 are crabapples.

So, I will start in on some applesauce today, work up a few beans and okra we picked last night and make a trip to the city later to see if I can find some more of my supplies for my class.

If I get enough energy (IF) I may paint my DD3 bathroom. I already have the paint (free paint-bought it with a gift card I earned at MYPOINTS).

DD3 also has a friend spending the night--she is also from a homeschooling family that attends our church and lives in our same neck of the woods.

As I have been putting this years food into the freezer, we are trying to finish up the last of last years. In a bit I will make some zuchinni bread-I'll put it in the oven with some bread that is raising now and bake it together. For supper, I think we will have speghetti and garlic bread with greenbeans, salad & applesauce. All homemade or grown here on the place except for the pasta.

I just took a turkey out of the oven, that had been in the deepfreeze for well--since Easter. It tastes wonderful, but was the scrawniest bird I have ever baked. It was a free one however, for spending a certain amount at the store.

Usually we get 4 or 5 meals off one, plus soup. I think this is a 2 or 3 meals plus soup bird.

I went to the store for about 4 things. I came out with over 100.

All the school supplies were marked way way down. Friday I start teaching a weather class and each child needs a notebook for it. 13 young kids are in the first class and 41 older students are in the 2nd class.

3 ring binders were 50 cents a peice. So I bought all that they had which amounted to 54 3 ring binders. I thought it neat that I had 54 students and they had 54 left on the shelf. I will get reimbursed back from the homeschool ccop for the notebooks. For my class, there was a $10 supply fee. I had planned on $2 per notebook, so either kids will get some of their supply money back, or when I buy the items for their weather stations (each kid will make and keep their own) I can get better quality items.

I also bought some pocket folders marked down to 9 cents each, 3 yarns that were marked down to $1.20 each (knit my brother and nephew scraves or hats for Christmas)

They also had the bags of the popcicle sticks that you freeze for 25 cents each. So I bought all they had of those as well.

Now that I am home, I noticed the toothpaste that I got for $1 was rung up at 1.99, and the rubbermade containers I got for DD1 that were marked $2.69 rung up at $6.99. I called the store, and when we go in for 4H I am to bring the items and the receipt. I will be refunded my money and I get to keep the items. So $11 back to my pocket. Yee haw.

The chickens that is. I caught them in the garden last night, so today, they are grounded to their coup and their small fenced in area.

I will keep them grounded until we get another round of beans and okra picked, which should be today or tomorrow. It looks like it could rain.

Today was going to be a NS day, but I am heading to the little store here shortly. DH broke BOTH shoe laces on his tennis shoes, and they are black. All we have here are white ones, so off I go. Sopunds like a simple thing to find, but not in this little town.

I keep meaning to post about my recent train trip and I forget. We moved DD1 to Chicago via moving truck and came back by train. We could have flown, for twice the price in 45 minutes time. But, we took the 9 hour train for less than half the price. It was a very nice ride and we got to see a lot of pretty country. It was a little faster than driving, and we didn't have to stop to eat, stretch or for restroom breaks. The seats were more comfortable than a plane and we could move around more.

Amtrack has a reward program. I didn't find out about it until AFTER our trip, but signed us up for it anyway. Then, after thinking about it, I called them. I had to read the numbers from our tickets off, and they added them on, so we already have points on our accounts. We can also earn points by shopping at certain businesses as well. It works much like a frequent flier program, in that we can get discounted tickets and hotel rooms with our points.

If anyone is thinking about trying out a train next time you travel, I would highly recommend.

FYI the dining car is pricey--$21 for a dinner, but you can bring on a cooler and the snack car even served hamburgers, hotdogs, nachos...so we ate our own snacks and in the snack car instead of the dining car.

Our dog selling days are over. The last dog to leave is gone. We have one remaining puppy which we plan on keeping. Hopefully no more preg dogs enter our life for awhile, but I think it would be a way to make some side money AFTER the kids are all old enough to not cry (major drama) after each one is sold. I do have to admit, baby beagles are one of the cuter dogs. I like it when they learn to run--the back feet go faster than the front feet, then they can't stop-stopping results in a sommersault of sorts.

Today was a no spend, no fuel day. Good way to start the month. I do have to spend some later this week, but I will be reimbursed for it all. I need to buy some supplies for the weather class I am teaching that starts on Friday.

We picked more corn, beans, okra and some peppers tonight. Still a bunch of apples left to pick as well.

One more dog found a new home today. He went to a little boy for his 6th birthday. I think he will be well loved. We have one more to find a new home.

Meanwhile, we are beginning to plan our annual bonfire/hayride. We plan on around 200 showing up. It is all a Christian group for the most part and very mild in behavior as there will be no alcohol. We will provide the hotdogs, tea, watermelon, baked beans and paper goods, and outdoor games.

People from church will each bring a covered dish, or ice cream (home made) and a package of buns. Also they can bring a game or their fishing gear.

For entertainment, we have a lot of talented musicians who will sing around the fire, and we have 2 fishing ponds, volleyball, teather ball, a shooting range (limited to BB guns for this event and well supervised) horse riding in the areana, 4 wheelers, ping pong (in the barn if its windy) egg toss, spoon and egg race, 3 legged races, horse shoes, croquet, badmitten. Once it gets dark we will start the hayrides.

Last year we had some camp here the night before and the night of.

I already have the paper goods, bean makings and tea supplies. I still need to get the hotdogs yet. The watermelon will come out of the garden. We already have all the games, but I will need to get some more shooting targets (big pad of them from the gun shop), so we will pull this off for around $60.

Besides our church, we also invite those from the girls homeschool coop, neighbors, and the former Christian School where the girls used to go. Since the hotdogs will freeze, and people also bring a dish, I don't have to worry about RSVP's and it all goes real smooth. If it rains, we will reschedule.

1 little boy beagle went to a new home today. We got $75 for him (broker said to try and sell him for $250, but the economy the way it is...people are buying gas and fuel, not dogs). But that is about the breakeven for his food, dew claw removal and shots.
We told the kids we would let them keep 1, so 2 more also need to find homes.