12 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 8-14-24”

  3. Boy has been having football practice each evening, Monday thru Friday, since the beginning of the month, and enjoying it. He had not been able to complete last season, due to a mild concussion, so he has missed it.

    When school starts at the end of this month, the practices will not be every evening, but two or three evenings a week.

    He is doing pretty well otherwise, too.

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  5. I forgot to mention something else about Boy. This year, he will be in eight grade. For high school, he wants to go to one of the trade schools in our area. He thinks that he may be interested in welding.

    He’s a bright kid, and really good at math, so Nightingale was hoping that eventually he would want to go to college and get an engineering degree. But he’s not interested in that, at least not right now. But there is still time for him to change his mind one way or the other.

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  6. My recent headline on a story I did about trade schools becoming more attracting: “Welding is hot”

    But an engineering degree – also nice and profitable.

    Glad he’s back in football practice and enjoying it –

    Praying mumsee

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  8. KJ and Flyboy both went to a “middle college”, a charter high school based at a community college where most of their work after the first semester was done in college classes. Each student graduates with a high school diploma and either an associates degree or a certificate in a trade.

    My children both went for the associates degree a year or two head start on four-year college work, but a lot of others went for trades, and welding was indeed a hot option there.

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  9. My National Merit Scholar came within 2 points on a Latin final from graduating from college, then gave up.

    He floated for too many years, and then got offered a machinist position.

    The second day on the job, he saw how to more efficiently make screws, thereby cutting the time to make them in half.

    He’s never looked back.

    All that Lego enables him, now, to be a foreman in a machinist shop–where he oversees and writes computer programs to manipulate and cut enormous pieces of metal–including parts on the Webb Space Telescope and other secret materials.

    He’s able to support a family of five in California on what he makes “with his hands.”

    Yes, he’s the son and grandson of engineers. He happens to be brilliant, too. But he didn’t want to sit at a desk. He’s perfect at this “trade” job.

    I saw on Twitter this morning that the US has 750,000 open trade positions.

    You go, Boy! Great thinking.

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  10. There is a shortage in those trades, hence the ramping up of those programs now out here – during the summer breaks and, ideally, included in regular high schools as well.

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  11. Other Grandmother picked up the runaway, put him or her back in the nest, and covered it up with the covering that had come off. Mama bunnies come to the nests to nurse around dawn and dusk, so the bunnies will probably be okay. (We had seen the mother another time, but didn’t realize that she had babies.)

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