Sunday, January 25, 2009

Soap, Teaching... life

Well we just recently finished the first semester. Geometry in a semester. Wow! That was fast! Teaching kept me so busy I haven't had much time for soapmaking, but I plan to change that. I plan to make some soap this year... and lots of it! :)

There won't be any updates on the tadpoles until after we have our new pond put in. It seems our pond wasn't very sturdy and disintegrated (or was damaged by a big bad crane!). So we lost our baby fish and two of our original fish. We panicked and I was so focused on getting the fish out of the pond that I didn't think about what was going on with them once they were out of my sight. We didn't acclimate them to the bath water temperature and we didn't adjust the water chemicals, so they didn't survive. I was thinking more clearly the second day when we discovered that we had four of the big fish laying on their sides in shallow muddy water and now they are in a tank in my daughter's room. Poor fishies, the tank is smaller than they are used to and they don't like it. But we are working on redoing the pond and they should be out there as soon as the weather is better.

I will get some pictures of the pond, the crane and the new tank up soon... I just haven't had much time since we are moving from the old school building to the new one now that finals are finished.

2 comments:

Anne-Marie said...

Thank you for sharing your 2009 goals on my blog. I just wanted to check in with you to see how you were doing with your goals so far in '09. Hope all is well!

The Foxes Den said...

my goals: I would like to learn to balance my time between family, soapmaking, and teaching and planning for teaching... I am working on that. Trying to spend more time at work planning and less time at home. It's challenging trying to manage my time better in school, but I am getting better, and closer to to being able to balance family and work and soap!

I plan to get at least one wholesale account (working on that currently through my sister and the winery she invested in)... WOrking on some fragrance blends and suppliers for fragrance blends for the winery. I'm not that great at blending my own scents, but I know a few suppliers with scents I am going to experiment with :)

My kids are close to college age, so I try to spend as much time as I can playing games, watching movies, sightseeing and doing whatever I can with them... this we are always working on! I enjoy my kids. I try to hang out with them doing the stuff they enjoy most.