tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343687152024-03-12T16:38:22.021-07:00The Orange Deafie BlogOfficial communication outlet of the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center. Our official press releases and situational responses are found here.OCDAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04746602479574653008noreply@blogger.comBlogger2063125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-65239794663857367482019-03-02T08:36:00.000-08:002019-03-02T08:36:13.645-08:00College Credit for your Deaf or Hard of Hearing High Schooler<div>
When it comes to high school many parents are worried that their kids simply graduate, this is especially true with students that have disabilities that can affect their learning. Many students have strong and weak subjects. I would like to encourage you to think a bit outside the box and look at these three ways that can save your student time and money when they get to college by planning now in middle school and high school.</div>
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Many people are already familiar with Advanced Placement (AP) classes and the exams that are taken at the end of those classes that can earn college credit. AP classes can be hard and take a lot of a student's time. There are also dual enrollment programs that allow high school students to take college classes at the community college. These programs are growing in availability but are limited by many high schools to the top students. The third way is the <a href="https://clep.collegeboard.org/" target="_blank">College Level Examination Program (CLEP)</a> by the College Board. They offer 33 different tests that students can take and if your student passes then they can get college credit when they enroll in a college that accepts CLEP (most colleges do but the amount of credits and the tests accepted can vary).<br />
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CLEP is not new, it has been around for years, used by the military and adults that already have experience to test out of subjects. There are a lot of great benefits to CLEP. Students do not have to sit in a class, they study on their own, at their own pace. They can study using a textbook, by watching videos of a free online college class (most all colleges classes caption their videos), doing math on <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank">Khan Academy</a>, or watching <a href="https://thecrashcourse.com/" target="_blank">Crash Course</a> on youtube! They take practice tests and when they are ready go to a testing center and take the exam. </div>
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For our Deaf and Hard of Hearing youth who often have issues in a regular class setting this can be a great low stress way to get some college credit.</div>
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One great resource is <a href="https://modernstates.org/" target="_blank">Modern States</a>. They have free online classes and when you finish the class you can request a voucher to take the CLEP exam there by making it free!</div>
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For those of you interested in homeschooling or more info on this subject <a href="https://homeschoolingforcollegecredit.com/" target="_blank">Homeschooling for College Credit</a> has a lot more info and is a great jumping off point. It is possible to have your child graduate high school with a 2 or 4 year degree from a regionally accredited college!</div>
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If you would like more information please feel free to <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/contact-us" target="_blank">contact us</a>!</div>
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Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-24976386098861670152016-10-01T19:34:00.002-07:002018-02-22T16:08:43.762-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog 9/29/2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17537631020672268374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-56369843832102548602016-10-01T19:31:00.004-07:002016-10-01T19:32:24.059-07:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog 9/27/2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17537631020672268374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-67617239180864052812016-09-30T19:38:00.000-07:002016-09-30T19:39:43.247-07:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for September 26, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Bobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17537631020672268374noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-46600459133129418732016-02-15T14:13:00.001-08:002016-02-15T14:13:53.582-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for February 12, 2016Friday, February 12, 2016, 1915 Hrs., 55 degrees, clear sky.<br />
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Good evening!<br />
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Yesterday I spent most of the day to reorganizing both the trailer and Astro van so the van will have more space to put in more books from the storage when Beth can bring them down here. Here’s the picture:<br />
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After I managed to pull out 4 eBay orders, as I trying to print out the shipping labels and found out that black ink has run out again, all that less than 2 week!! YIKES!!!<br />
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We are still seeking any donor who would give us storage shed ( minimum 10’ X 10’), if you know anyone who would donate and deliver it to us, please contact Beth at 714 699-3323. We need a storage shed as fast as possible!<br />
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Beth told me to try to get the ink refills kits, but I doubt it it would work because each cartridge have green memory chip in it. If I refill it, it may still have memory stating “empty” and not going to work.<br />
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Anyway, Both yesterday and today weather has been really nice here, very warm in the afternoon and nice cool at night time like 50 degrees.<br />
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Today, I had to go to the town to drop off the packages from eBay then to Wal-Mart to get another ink and 2 bottles of waters and come back here. No one hasn’t given me a ride to and back at all. I left here about 8:45 this morning and finally came back here about 4:10 pm this afternoon, yes, very long hours of walking both ways. Now my back is really bugging me, jeez!<br />
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Anyway, Last night I put in the small pile of tumbleweeds far from here, about 30 yards southeast from our RV. Here’s the picture I took with zoomed in:<br />
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Tomorrow I need to pull out 2 more orders, pack it and take to the post office. Hopefully I can get a ride to and back!<br />
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Just hopefully Beth will bring the remaining books crate I left in Garden Grove storage and BBQ pit with propane tanks. I miss eating chicken, steak and my favorite - hamburger!<br />
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Yes, I want to finish off to adding books in eBay!<br />
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I know there is one full & one half full propane tank, Beth can tell by lifting and checking the weight. If it is heavy, then it full, she can tell between full and empty. So I need this! I know we have 4 or 5 propane tanks in the storage, if Beth want to, then she can exchange it all or one at a time, it only cost $19.95, plus tax. Your cash donation would help!<br />
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Well that’s about it for the night.<br />
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Have a great weekend!<br />
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Bobby Fleener<br />
General Manager, Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch<br />
Vice President, Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center<br />
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More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />
Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />
Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a>Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-1643200279370624722016-02-13T22:41:00.004-08:002016-02-13T22:44:43.324-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for February 10th, 2016Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 1915 hrs., 53 degree, clear sky, slightly wind.<br />
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Today is “a-okay” for me, but my cold “flu” is still stuck with me. I have to walk into the town until a good person with a Mercedes Benz gave me a ride to Wal-Mart halfway there, so I can get cat food (Only 4 lbs this time because it is hard for me to walk back with another 16 pounds bag), litter clay (4 pounds), 2 bottles of water and a soda and came back to the land with a ride again. I didn’t go to the post office today, because I just wanted to go Wal-Mart and come right back here and relax, napping for a while which I did. I don’t know why I am still “so” tired right now.<br />
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I can’t believes that 25 pounds bag of cat food were gone in less than 2 month, normally it should last 3 ½ months. <br />
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I have been hearing some “boomings” around that the U.S. Air Force practicing dropping 100 lbs of bombs.<br />
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Anyway, the weather is very nice today, around 70’s degrees, but hot in the RV. So I had to put a fan in the RV, but Solar Panel Battery doesn't work on the fan, however, the Astro van with engine running, works fine on the low setting for an hour and half, Medium or high setting does trip the red inverter. I also did crack some windows open for a while. I mentioned before I need a bigger and better battery for the solar panel. Oh well. Here’s the picture of the fan I took:<br />
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Anyway, I noticed that Beth mentioned in her last video, hopefully we can get another camper or RV that’s better.</div>
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Few weeks ago, I mentioned in the blog about the laminated wood that I pulled out of the RV storage compartments. I fell it is an “eyesore” for me to leave it there for no reason. Here’s the picture:<br />
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I need to ask Beth if she would let me to burn it away from the RV in our land property, I found 5 different spots that I can choose from to burn it which it way away from the RV, van and trailer. I only will burn it when there is no strong wind one day. That way the “eyesore” will be gone!<br />
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So anyway since I am less emotionally, hopefully tomorrow morning, I can start pull out 2 eBay orders and get it ready to go to the Post Office and hopefully I can get back here fast as I could so I can start reorganizing between Astro van and trailer and start a video or two.<br />
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Well that’s about it for today.<br />
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Have a great day!<br />
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Bobby Fleener<br />
General Manager, Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch<br />
Vice President, Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center<br />
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More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />
Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />
Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a></div>
Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-13440521314516439752016-02-11T22:48:00.002-08:002016-02-11T22:48:44.918-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for February 9th, 2016Tuesday, February 9, 2016, 1915 Hrs, 47 degrees, clear sky.<br /><br />Good evening!<br /><br />Today was pretty nice and warm and didn’t need to wear a jacket for the first time! How nice!<br /><br />I went to post office today to drop off the braille magazine from our eBay Store, no one has given me a ride as I took 2 ½ hour of trek walking to the first bus stop and it really pain to my hip and my back, jeez! I came back about 1:30 pm today and took a good nap until 3:45 pm to rest off my hip and back.<br /><br />I still have a cold and sore throat that hasn’t stopped yet.<br /><br />Anyway tomorrow should be a nice weather again and I will pull out 2 more eBay Order and take it to the post office, then I need to stop by Wal-Mart to get more cat food.<br /><br />Our Crowdrise is now 20%, we need 80% more to go, please visit and help us to raise fund today at:<br /><a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br /><br />Please, do take a minute or two to visit this link and help us to raise funds so we can get materials for the chickens in our ranch project. Please help us by donating $10 or more.<br /><br />Also, again, Please see Beth’s video at: <a href="https://youtu.be/JsskUcxejDY">https://youtu.be/JsskUcxejDY</a> today and you can click donate there.<br /><br />Also please visit our Amazon Wishlist at:<a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist"> http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a> today!<br /><br />Anyone, PLEASE help us, we need lots of donated materials for this ranch project, we also need a truckload of firewood, materials for a storage shed ( at least 20’ X 20’). You can either:<br /><ul>
<li>Send check or Money order to OCDAC, 2255 W. Ball Rd., #2430, Anaheim, CA 92814 to help us purchase items we need.</li>
<li>Contact Beth at 714 699-3323 and ask what you can do to help us</li>
<li>Or email me at bobby.fleener@deafadvocacy.org with any questions</li>
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If you or your company supports us, your name will appear on our RRMR website at:<br /><a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br /><br />That’s about it for the night, have a great evening folks!<br /><br />
Bobby Fleener<br />
General Manager, Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch<br />
Vice President, Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center<br />
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More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />
Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />
Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a>Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-14296196014559226782016-02-10T01:38:00.000-08:002016-02-10T01:38:40.220-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for February 8th, 2016Monday, February 8, 2016 1730 Hrs., 68°, clear skies and windy.<br /><br />Good evening once again!<br /><br />Over this past weekend I came down with a cold and my nose running all the time and had to blow my nose. DANG!! <br /><br />For the past 3 nights a row, weather is so nice to me while I sleep, not too cold and not to warm, “just right” for me to sleep better, I didn’t have to bundles up too hard this time. Hopefully there will be no more “hard cold” for a while!<br /><br />Today, the weather been windy all day and I saw some tumbleweeds rolling away across our land. It is fun to watch them.<br /><br />Anyway, I just ran out of water here and it’s going to be hard for me to carry water around, but I think I can manage to get some.<br /><br />I also pulled out 1 eBay order this morning, packed and labeled it and it’s ready to go for tomorrow again, ugh! We also sold APH Bookport for the blind. I know Beth has it as I left it in Orange County for Beth after we loaded up our trailer before I left Orange County. I have emailed to Beth about this and she hasn’t responded yet or “Marked Shipped” from the eBay. Hmmm.<br /><br />After that, I finally cleaned the dishes and cleaned up here in this RV.<br /><br />Tomorrow, hopefully the winds die down so I can go to the HQ Post Office to drop off the package, get one gallon of water and return back here. Yes, it is takes time for me to go and return, more like 4 to 6 hours. Yikes! I still have bit of sore right hip from the fall I had 2 weeks ago.<br /><br />Well, that’s just about it for now until tomorrow. Have a great day! KMG-365!<br /><br />Bobby Fleener<br />
General Manager, Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch<br />
Vice President, Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center<br />
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More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />
Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />
Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a>Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-76487595187379826892016-02-06T20:55:00.000-08:002016-02-10T01:35:39.373-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for February 4th, 2016Thursday, February 4, 2016, 1950 Hrs., 43 Degrees, clear sky and light wind.<br /><br />Good evening,<br /><br />This morning when I woke up, my stomach was in so much pain, an hour later, I was very sick and do not know why. Yuck!<br /><br />So I stay in bed most of the day today until 2:30 pm when I was feeling better but still feeling nauseous and I couldn’t eat or drink at all today.<br /><br />I managed to pull out two eBay Orders, packed and labeled the shipping on the packages.<br /><br />At about 3:30 pm, my new friend, who is willing to speak his friend about fixing the car contacted me that he won’t make it to meet me today because he has had last minute things come up on him and he will see me tomorrow or Saturday to talk about getting it fixed.<br /><br />So at 5:00 pm I started up the campfire and enjoyed it until now.<br /><br />Sorry, I couldn’t do much today due to illnesses which it makes me not feel like doing that much today.<br /><br />Until next time!<div>
<br />Bobby Fleener<br />General Manager, Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch<br />Vice President, Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center<br /><br />More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a></div>
Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-35936614415358765292016-02-03T20:11:00.000-08:002016-02-07T19:03:50.589-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for February 3rd, 2016Wednesday, February 3, 2016, 6:30p.m, 45°, partly cloudy with light wind.<br /><br />Good evening!<br /><br />After what looked like was going to be a rough start to my day, it got progressively better as the day unfolded. I had to go to the post office to drop off the eBay store orders. Now, on a good day, the trip itself is a good hour and a half walk, plus another half hour bus ride. But my hip and lower back weren't having it today, making the already long trip even longer. Anyway, 45 minutes into my trek, a Good Samaritan gave me a ride to the town. From there I took the bus to 25th Street West and walked another 45 minutes to the HQ post office. While I was there, I found out our eBay store sold two more items. Fantastic!<br /><br />On the way back, I ran into a guy who had given me a ride twice before. We sat down and had lunch at McDonald's. We chatted talked for a while. He said he’s going to talk to his good friend about getting the car working again (fingers crossed). Not only did he give me a lift back, he offered to take me to get more water and fuel for the Astro van. Good things really do come in threes!<br /><br />Tomorrow morning I am going to pull out two eBay orders and get them ready to ship on Friday morning. I’m also going to try to work on the videos and tidy up around here. I need to gather wood for the fire pit and solo-stove. I usually keep a stockpile, but the wind scattered it all over the place on Sunday morning.<br /><br />The weather here has been mostly cold. It should get warmer later this week!<br /><br />That’s about it for today’s blog, until next time!<br /><br />Bobby Fleener<br />General Manager, Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch<br />Vice President, Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center<br /><br />More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a>Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-23743306349183373692016-02-03T19:57:00.003-08:002016-02-09T14:40:38.496-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for February 2nd, 2016<br />
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 6:45 p.m., 38°, windy and cold.<br />
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Good evening folks,<br />
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Sorry for the long delay. Things have been rough for me lately. I’m constantly pulled in many directions. So much to do and not enough time, money or help to get it all done. ARRRGH!! So frustrating!<br />
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I wrote my previous blog entry last Tuesday, but it didn't actually get posted until today. While I’m tempted to post my blogs unedited, the reality is good blogs are never rushed and rushed blogs are never good.<br />
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As I was saying, it's been rough for me lately. Thursday I went to town to do my errands. It was a 2 ½ hour walk. I went to drop off the packages at the Lancaster Post Office. I can't believe they still refused to accept free matter mail. So I had to walk another hour and half to HQ post office. While there, I spoke to the manager about this matter. He said he will talk to them. He also said the tracking numbers are not accepted for free matter. I know for a fact it’s not true. He removed the tracking number label off the packages, and accepted them as free matter packages without tracking number on it. Someone needs to tell these people that tracking numbers still count for free matter!<br />
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I walked back to Avenue I. From there, I took a nice bus ride east until the last stop. Unfortunately, the bus ride ain't cheap and it doesn't give out day passes. Luckily, a nice lady was kind enough to give me a lift as far as 80th Street East.<br />
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It was REALLY windy on Saturday, with rain expected later that night. I went up to the roof to check on the cement patches I made and added more patches where it was needed. As I climbed down the ladder, I was so distracted thinking about all the things that needed to be done that I fell off the ladder and landed on my right side. No broken bones — thank goodness — just sore arm and hip. My hip is bothering me still to this day. Anyway, by 7:00 p.m., I decided to call it night.<br />
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The next day, I woke up to rain and VERY STRONG wind. I posted a video on FaceBook showing how strong the wind was! WOW! It was raining buckets all day. The front unit started to leak...AGAIN! But I couldn't do anything about it until the rain stopped. GRRRRR!!!! By 3:30 p.m., the rain finally let up. I went up to the roof to check on the leak. We now have a rooftop pool! LOL<br />
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Sunday morning: thanks to a leak this time in the rear unit, I now have a waterbed! YIKES! So I got up and wrung out my bed and put down another drip pan to collect the dripping water.<br />
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As I was saying, It’s been cold and windy the last couple of days. Good news is the ground has already dried up.<br />
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Yesterday I tested the battery between solar panel and Astro van. The solar panel isn't strong enough to power both my printer and laptop. On the plus side: I can run one of the printers and charge all three laptops off the Astrovan battery with the engine running. It takes some time, but it gets the job done.<br />
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I ran out of black printer ink. So I went on a 4-hour long trek to Wal-mart. Yeah, I know. The trip really should only take only two hours max. But with my hip still sore from the fall I took, this was as fast as I could go. I eventually made it to Wal-Mart, got the black ink, came back here and got the shipping label printed out, FINALLY!!<br />
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As soon as some money comes in, I plan on ordering more black ink from eBay. Which reminds me, I need to take those packages to the post office first thing tomorrow morning. Nice, eh?<br />
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I emailed Beth with suggestions how we can improve our communication and working relationship. As soon as we reach a compromise, I look forward to starting the video classes.<br />
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Well, that’s about it for the day, until next time!<br />
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Bobby Fleener<br />
General Manager, Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch<br />
Vice President, Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center<br />
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More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />
Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />
Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a>Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-88991058375226827912016-02-02T09:07:00.000-08:002016-02-03T20:10:59.183-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 26th, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: </span><a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: </span><a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Our wish list on amazon: </span><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a></span></div>
Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-7336935949919438502016-01-23T09:00:00.005-08:002016-02-02T09:12:48.442-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 22nd, 2016Friday, January 22, 2016, 2045 Hrs., 44 degrees, mostly cloudy.<br /><br />Happy Friday everyone!<br /><br />I woke up bit late, must have overslept for some reason. <br /><br />I have not fired up the generator at all today to save the gas. I only fired up the generator last night to charge up some battery for about an hour that solar battery is so small and won’t charge too well one at night time since no sunlight. Once all the battery fully charge up, I shut it down. Maybe we need a larger battery that may help, I am not for sure about that yet. My idea is that there’s another inverter in Beth’s “Green Bag” that she rarely use it anymore and I will ask her to bring that inverter so I can use that for Astro van to charge something up with it.<br /><br />I have 2 power packs here with me, one of them is dead, that’s the one we used it at the storage as I tried air up the trailer tire that got badly smoke came out of it. Another one is in good shape and does charge up the cell and laptop battery good. I am going to ask Beth to bring her power pack with her next time when she come visiting me so we can trade it, so she can take another home with her to charge it up. It’s does take at least 24 hours to fully charge up. I can’t have generator runs it 24 straight hours to charge it.<br /><br />Anyway I finally managed to clean up small area including did some dishes before I make some video. I finally made 3 videos today, one at a time. I charge my cell battery with silver inverter which it have USB port to plug it in. 1 hour at a time. During the battery being charged up, I upload the video to my drive. During that time, I kept myself busy to clean up the floors again and reorganized my room. I also pulled out another eBay order from the trailer and will pack it, label it and take it to the post office tomorrow.<br /><br />I finally managed to upload all 3 videos to my Google Drive and do not know why I am showing 3 same videos in the drive each and I shared with them with Beth. <br /><br />After I wrapped up for the video, I cooked myself a small dinner with Solo-Stove, (yes, I only eat 1 meal a day) and started a campfire for a peaceful Friday Night Live campfire warmth! Here’s the video I made:<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br /><br />Anyways, on my last blog as I mentioned about Beth created new link and here is the link at:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br /><br />Please, do take a minute or two to visit this link and help us to raise funds so we can get materials for the chickens in our ranch project. Please help us by donating $10 or more.<br /><br />Also Beth made a video that was deleted by YouTube and Beth filed appeals about us and surprising to us the video was restored. Please see her video at: <a href="https://youtu.be/JsskUcxejDY">https://youtu.be/JsskUcxejDY</a> today and you can click donate there.<br /><br />Well, that’s about it. Tomorrow it should be raining and windy, so I don’t know for sure, but I will take the eBay order to the post office when the rain not too bad and do one quick errand and come back here and try to finish off the videos again.<br /><br />Have a great weekend folks!<br /><br />Bobby Fleener<br /><br />More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist </a>Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-20307702102332482962016-01-22T08:39:00.000-08:002016-02-02T09:12:48.402-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 21st, 2016<br /><br />Thursday, January 21, 2016, 1840 Hrs., 50 degrees, cloudy.<br /><br />Good evening once again!<br /><br />Yesterday, Wednesday, I couldn’t do any blogging because I didn't know what happened to my Tuesday blog until it finally showed up this morning.<br /><br />Anyways, yesterday I finally managed to clean the exterior wall of our trailer before it started to turn cloudy and the wind started again, Grrr! I also removed two broken mini blinds, one above the sofa and another from my bedroom and tossed it out and tried to installing the two wooden blinds that Beth got for me and but it didn’t work it out so I pouted about it and put them back in the trailer and re-cleaned the floor again!<br /><br />Today, we got a new eBay order last night, I managed to pull it out from the trailer, fired up the generator to get the printer working to make the shipping label print out and shut it down. <br /><br />I finally could go to town to drop off an eBay order and save my time and to do laundry and filled up one of our 5 gallon bottles of fresh water. It cost $1.50, I think it’s too much for that vending machine instead of using the one at Wal-Mart. The Laundromat and water vending machine is just about 4 blocks away from post office. It saves gas and time to do all 3 in one trip. Pretty smart! Yes, laundry here is quite high, compared in Orange County is $1.50 and here is $2.75 for the front loader, $1.00 for the top loader in OC and $2.50 here!<br /><br />When I came back, as I was putting away clean white towels, Beth texted me stating the video she made was deleted from YouTube, how stupid! I told her to file appeal to explain who we are.<br /><br />Beth is going to use the videos in our Google drive instead, good idea!<br /><br />As I was trying to clean up myself by shaving with hot solo-stove and change my clothes to look nice for the video filming. At 4:00 pm As I started to do it with my smartphone, it’s got too dark to film videos. Oh drat! I will try again tomorrow.<br /><br />Beth also texted me about begining of the year fundraising with a link. I told her please to email me the link instead so I can spread the word around, please do keep your eyes open on my next blog as she stated she will post it everywhere. She needs to also post that in Craigslist as well.<br /><br />Beth and OCDAC needs your help to bring up funding for the Youth Expo which it will be on Spring 2016 in Costa mesa. Please do help us by visiting our website at <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/">www.deafadvocacy.org</a> or email Beth at <a href="mailto:admin@deafadvocacy.org">admin@deafadvocacy.org</a> or by calling her at 714 699-3323. Beth also needs some volunteers to help her at the expos which are coming up soon. Also I would like to have Beth get a volunteer for grant writing.<br /><br />Beth is currently working on the Volunteers Application online, so we will update on that soon.<br /><br />Anyway, on my Tuesday blog that I mentioned about the square plastic container instead of Circle, I think I made mistake of using “square”, but I think it should be rectangular plastic container to cover the battery and 2 inverters to protect them from the rain. Color is no matter to me, but it’s needs to be good quality that can bear the weights of 2 or 3 bricks that would hold down during strong winds.<br /><br />Well, that’s about it for the day and it’s getting cold now here and want to climb on my bed to stay warm as much as I can and watch Hulu movies.<br /><br />G’night folks!<br /><br />Bobby Fleener<div>
RRMR General Manager<br />Vice President, OCDAC <br /><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: </span><a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: </span><a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Our wish list on amazon: </span><a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a></span></div>
Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-66063337426343504782016-01-20T23:12:00.001-08:002016-02-02T09:12:48.430-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 19th, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br /><br />I then covered that red bucket and put a brick on it and find I needed a square bucket to cover the whole thing instead of a round bucket. Shortly after that more rain came pouring down. I stayed inside for the duration of the good rain.<br /><br />Now I got mad that an hour after the rain pouring down from the sky, the front unit start to leak AGAIN!! GRRR!! After I put 2 coats of cement around the unit and it still leaks, that’s really upsetting me. So after the rain stopped, I went up to the roof again to squeeze the standing water out of the roof to slow down the leaks. Rain down poured from southwest that may have caused it to enter the front unit vent holes. I still need to do something about that with aluminum tape, therefore I need to ask anyone who can donate a roll it would help! Please call Beth at 714 699-3323 with how you can help.<br /><br />I also found that the printer and coffee maker don’t work on the solar power, but I will now cut down the generator running and only will run it when I need coffee and printing shipping labels from eBay Store. Yes, Coffee maker is not always coffee, but hot water for my shaving and bath when it’s windy and raining. <br /><br />At about 5:15 pm today, instead of using generator, I had a hard time to get solo-stove to fired up so I could have hot beef stew (No, my body don’t like eating cold food on cold days!). Normally I can get solo-stove fired up and ready-to-eat within 10 minutes, but this time, due to wetness and wind, I finally got my meal cooked and ready-to-eat in about an hour! I had to light it up 12 times to get a fire going with lots of cotton balls! Yikes, 11 matches wasted!<br /><br />For tomorrow, I need to clear up wet mud again and see if I can get our “yard” clean up and look for more woods around. It supposed to be a clearer day tomorrow with light wind, I just hope!<br /><br />I am calling it for the night!<br /><br />Later!<br /><br />Bobby Fleener<br />RRMR General Manager<div>
Vice President, OCDAC<br /><br />More information on the Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch: <a href="http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch">http://www.deafadvocacy.org/the-richard-roehm-memorial-ranch</a><br />Donate to the Begining of Year, Chicken Coop Fundraiser: <a href="https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac">https://www.crowdrise.com/beginningofyearfundraiserhelpushatchsomechickens/fundraiser/ocdac</a><br />Our wish list on amazon: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist">http://www.tinyurl.com/ocdac-wishlist</a><br /></div>
Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-60400830165030823732016-01-19T09:33:00.000-08:002016-02-02T09:12:48.423-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 18th, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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I couldn’t do any that much today but feeling RV rocking, watching dust flying through my windows, covers wind drafts on the bottom of the front door with a towels and I could hear a little bit of whistling in here and I couldn’t find it where it comes from, but I can imagine it is coming from the main door as I could feel cold air coming in from this door.<br /><br />I cleaned up a bit at about 11 this morning on the floors and desk top and had to clean it up again at around 2 pm. Lots of dirts! I hates this part, clean twice in one day!<br /><br />At about 4:45 pm, wind dies down for a while, but still gusty, I fired up the generator to charge up my battery on my cell phones and laptop which it was nearly dead and finally shut it down after all battery fully charged up! Again the wind started to pick up at about 6:30 pm.<br /><br />Hopefully I can catch up tomorrow to get things done and take some eBay orders to the HQ Post Office!<br /><br />Hope you all have a great weekend and stay safe!<br /><br />Bobby Fleener<div>
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Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-8334627115186191952016-01-15T07:49:00.000-08:002016-02-02T09:12:48.446-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 14th, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bobby FLeener </span>Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-33053955378583559202016-01-13T22:28:00.000-08:002016-02-02T09:12:48.406-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 12th, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sorry for not making a blog for Monday, I was too worn out after a lot of hard work and had to eat and go to bed early.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn’t do much on Sunday since it was my day off, mostly relaxing and watching the campfire most of the late afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After I got my phone battery charged up and finished with my coffee, I turned off the generator to save gas which I am getting low on gas, I would say about 4 days worth of gas left! Your cash donation for the fuel cost is appreciated by calling Beth at the number shown above or you can donate on our website. </span></div>
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<br />Beth Koenighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717541967276525903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34368715.post-39229409048182051572016-01-04T21:30:00.000-08:002016-02-02T09:12:48.414-08:00Richard Roehm Memorial Ranch Blog for January 4th, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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