What I’m Loving Right Now

 I forgot about this format until I saw someone use it the other night. I’m substitute teaching today. Right now actually. Kind of weird. Today I am a building float for intervention meetings for teachers. Right now I am in 6th grade. There are two paras in here helping me run this class. It’s getting loud. The natives are getting restless. Can you blame them? It’s early afternoon on a Friday and their job right now is to finish up any unfinished work. Spring break is still a week away. Today is the first day this week that the weather has been Spring-like. Tonight should be a classic spring night in Kansas, it’s humid and warm and storms are on the agenda. But what I’m loving right now…. 

• New sneakers. I’ve been subbing for about 15 months and I have been promising myself decent shoes for the job since day one. Heaven only knows why I ordered cream colored tennies but I think they look amazing right now. Fingers crossed I can remember not wear them at home. Or at work? Most of our school playgrounds are covered in "mulch" made of tires. Those pretty almost white shoes will get black all over them. *big sigh* But I do think they are pretty.

• My headlamp for evening chore time. I received this as a Christmas gift this last year. I promptly failed to read all the directions before using it and after one use it stopped working. Now I finally have that one replaced and let me tell you, having the use of both hands and not worrying about dropping phone or flashlight is an amazing freedom at chore time.  

Never mind how goofy I look! 

• My rainbow flock is also something I love. We have decided to call them our rainbow flock because we’re always on the quest for more rainbow colors to add to our egg colors. Currently we have 3 colors of brown eggs… a very light brown, almost a peachy/pink color; a medium brown (some of them with speckles, so does that mean there’s actually 4 brown colors?); and the dark brown eggs of the copper marans. We don’t have any true blues right now. But we have an aqua greenish bluefish color that I obviously don't really know how to describe. Greens, we have a definitive two different shades of green, but there are the "sometimes" colors too.... we certainly have a rich olive green, not super dark, I think "rich" is the best descriptor; and a pale, pastel green. The sometimes are.... sometimes we have an inbetween green and sometimes we have speckles on the medium/in-between green color as well as on the pale/pastel green color. I'm on a quest for a darker brown, that black copper maran color that is almost red, a white egg, and a richer blue. These colors for sure. But the eggs below are a really great start and I think we have gorgeous rainbow spectrum eggs. 

Notice the dark browns, they have speckles today, and the pinkish color? and there are a couple that look blue-ish. 

This is the same carton. The lighting is a little different. I just wanted to show the different coloring better. or differently at least.  

• hatching chicks. I love when it's hatch day or nearly hatch day. Silkies usually hatch a couple days early. But my last hatch was late. And this one looks to be as well. Tonight marks 0 more days until hatch. And I have one egg hatching. It is a thrill. On lockdown day I candled them and there were a lot that were full. Last night I had one egg pipped. Tonight it is zipped. Idk if that is a technical term or a Carrie Horn specialty, but that's what I called them when theres a line that looks like the shell is being unzipped to let the chick out. 

See how the egg in the upper left is "zipped" or has a line cracked open? That little guy is trying to break free from the confines that imprison him!

• are these kittens! They have my heart! They are sweet and spunky and cuddly and getting more and more playful. And who doesn't love a kitten?!

This is the little babe that was out in the rain last night! 

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