Transition

A week ago I submitted my first attempt at the Career Step final. Hopefully, my only attempt. After beginning Career Step's Medical Transcription online course June 8, 2009, I was more than just a little bit eager to bring this endeavor to an end!

The final consists of an objection portion of typical mutiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and matching questions. It was pretty easy. The practicum portion consisted of 8 geniune dictations of approximately 15 minutes that I had to transcribe. I had 48 hours to complete the final. We strive for perfection. I went over and over these files. I listened over and over trying very hard to make sure I wasn't missing even the articles (a, an, the)!

The finals at CS are hand-graded, therefore it takes 2 weeks to get your results. I should know how I did by March 24th!

Can't wait.

Meanwhile, I'm in transition. Waiting. Playing a lot of Farmville!

Photo of one of our lovely Red-bellied Woodpeckers.

Our Not-So-Furry Friends.....

This is also from the spring (2009). The dogs were going crazy barking at something in the large mulched area. Went to investigate and this is what they'd treed. A beautiful black snake. Looks like a pretty big one too.

Our Spiders

We have a couple of spiders spinning a web every night illuminated by the flood lights by the porch. We love watching them. Got a few decent shots of them last night...

This one nabbed a good sized catch last night!

Photo of the Day--Nature

I took this shot last fall (07) on the back deck. I love how the background blurred like it did. Such a beautiful spider!

Just Rambling:

Still working on "Photo Album Project"! I've filled like six albums since I started this project a couple of weeks ago having to start with the year 2000. No embellishments on the pages, just slapping them in there and going on to the next event. But taking pains to create pages that are pleasing and arranging the photos to that end. Olivia and I sat down and looked at what I'd done so far when she was home for Merlefest. It's such an account of our lives! A history. Some events were difficult to look at and remember. Especially Bella--very, very hard. And other things I won't go into here.

I've several topics I want to eventually blog about: my parents, my nieces and nephews, the store--The Vintage Home, our west trip of 07, nature photos, 12-step work, old favorite photos of Jug, Olivia, Grant, --hmmm, that's about all. I think I'll do the store next. I have a good bit of pics of our getting the store ready to open last May (07) but want to take current photos before I start this project. It's just an amazingly beautiful store! Michelle is so very talented! And even though I'm no longer a partner in the business, I still feel such a part of it; am invested in it and want very much for it and Michelle to succeed! I love going down there and visiting with Michelle and seeing what is new and Michelle and I having tea and a cookie! So stay tuned for blogs on "The Vintage Home"! Please visit Michelle's blog: www.thevintagehomeofwilkes.blogspot.com