It’s a taste-of-fall kind of day. It’s about 1:00 now and the temperature seems to have topped out at about 48 degrees. It’s been raining off and on all day and the pasture and driveway are slippery mud pits. I don’t mind too much though, we definitely need the rain and the coolness feels good. I think it’s time to break out the hot chocolate mix… iced tea just doesn’t sound good today.
We had some exciting news today… It looks like M will be starting work at our local Chick-Fil-A very soon. Remember my “internship” idea? The one that got put on hold for almost a year because M developed tardive dyskinesia and I ended up spending the past 9 months adjusting meds? Well… M still isn’t as stable as I would like him to be for this (we are STILL adjusting meds!) but I decided not to wait any longer and just move ahead with the idea anyway.
So a week or so ago I approached an acquaintance I know who works for Chick-Fil-A (she also volunteers at the same library we do) and told her about my idea. At first she seemed hesitant… She said she knew of other Chick-Fil-A restaurants that had hired people with developmental disabilities (in a supported work type situation), but our local restaurant never had. She said she’d talk to the owner about it and get back to me. I ran into her again today and she said that the owner said yes, and was very excited about Michael working there. She said the owner had been wanting to start working with the DD system in terms of hiring kids, he just hadn’t taken the first step. So M will be that first step…. cool, huh? M is so excited, he can hardly stand himself. We have the application here and we’ll fill it out together and get it back to them ASAP.
Not much else is going on here. I got most of the things on my agenda done the other day… it was an awesome day. We’ve been getting school done regularly again, and life just feels like it’s getting back to “normal” (or what passes for normal around here) again after our extremely busy summer.
Have I mentioned the little twin fawns that live up on the hill behind our barn? We’ve had so much fun watching them grow from tiny things (twice I’ve had to stop the car on the road in front of the house because the babies decided they needed to nurse, immediately, and mama deer stopped right in the road to nurse them! The other day I watched them playing on the hill that goes down to the gully… It was so much to watch them jumping around (and on!) each other.
Here are a few pictures I’ve taken lately of mama and her babies…
Here’s mama, her babies are close, so she’s watching me very carefully.
The twins, heading across the driveway…
…and the whole family down by the neighbor’s barn.
Can you see the twins? It’s not a great picture, but I just loved the way they were eating side by side… (my new “deer-proof” garden fence is working beautifully, so far no deer have been in the garden since we put it up although, as you can see, they are grazing as close to the garden as they can possibly get…
Better go, quiet time is over and I should get moving.
oh that’s great news for M! We love Chic-fil-a. they’re a great company. Did you hear what happened with the founder Truet Cathy? Some girls vandalized his house, so instead of having them arrested, he gave them community service of his own. LOL
Love your deer proof fence…here we needed rabbit proof.
Twin fawns! That is awesome.
Congratulations on landing an internship for M and congratulations to him on his first job! That is terrific news.
Great news with M. Tell him good luck on his first for me.
The deer and her foals are cool. I wish I had some. I doubt there has been any deer near me since the last ice age but if there were no doubt Millie would chase them away, but I still would like to have some around the place.