Trying to beat my Mom to the top( and GOOD news too!!!)

I'm trying to beat my Mom to the top of her Mom's favorite blogs page. She was very disappointed that her new post didn't make it to the top of her page. And now, for the GOOD news that I told you I was going to tell you about.

I am getting another goat!!! A milking doe, too!! Her name is Destiny and I love her( especially her udder!) Now I know that sounds crazy, but it is true. A dairy goat is judged for it's udder, and so, the perfectly uddered doe is a really good thing to get. I really wanted to wait to tell you until I had pictures, but with my mom showing sudden interest in her blog, I couldn't wait. Her bolg is http://www.varnerpartyoffive.blogspot.com. I will have pictures on my next post, I promise.

A Visit From Our Cuzzies

The summer is short, the winter long, or so my saying goes( Hey, I can do poetry pretty well!). I have learned that you really should enjoy the time you have during the summer, cuz it's all you're going to get for the year. One of the things that makes the few days of summer go by slower are visitors. And we have had the priviledge of having a few visitors this summer. This visit was about a month and a half ago, when our cussies came over. We had some fun times swimming and bar-b-quing, that I totally forgot about my camera. The next day I remembered and felt really bad, until they came over the next day to pick some things up. Then I got some pictures. Here are a few.



Five cousins all posed for a picture. I'm on the far right with A in front of me and Little E (not so little anymore) to the left. Then there is M on the left and C being the star of the show. J isn't in the picture, having gone earlier to a friend's house.

Here is my mom on the right and my and her Aunt S on the left.


Now if that isn't a cute picture of cousins, I don't know what is. My mom on the right (again) and my Aunt M on the left. I'm taking the picture.

So far as I know, there isn't a better way to end a visit than with a big group hug.

On the Move

Today, as my mom decided, was the day to move the chicks from their home in an appliance box, to their Taj Mahal coop. My goodness they are chicken. They scatter every time we try to pick them up. I don't think they quite get the hang of human speech. We were trying to be very calm and reassuring toward them while telling them to hurry up and get in the cat carrier so we could get out of our 100 degree garage. My goodness, they sure are rowdy and chicken.

This is the majority of the 22, scattering

at the sight of me and my camera.

This is my younger brother, JD.

He is very happy to have caught his chick, Nadia.

Here are a few of our girls checking out their new home.

Here I am, letting a few chicks out of the cat carrier.

Here is C, calling for the chicks attention.

Here is Joey, checking out the newest members of the barn.

All the chicks in their new home.

Life out here is, well... simply country

Chicks

Our life here is starting to get so busy that I sometimes forget just how many animals we have. Let's see... twenty-two chickens, two goats, a cat who won't stop talking, a dog that is totally spoiled, and a guinea pig. I mainly am in charge of the goats, a show/dairy goat named Covergirl and her friend, Joey. Most of the time I don't even think about our chickens. But when I do go see them, that makes it all the more suprising. And my goodness are they growing!!!!

This is a chick named Nadia because when she was younger, she looked like a little Russian girl with a fur hat, scarf and coat. Now I think she looks, well, just odd.

This is one of my chicks on the cardboard perch. She's a big bully.And for some reason, she keeps on being a bully no matter how many times I tell her to stop.

This chick is named Hawk, but I am thinking that might be changed to Cock(rooster). He, I mean she, is much larger than the other chicks of his, her, type. Plus, they gave us a free chick. I'm going to check.

Hopefully it is going to be a henand not a rooster. We'll see.

Life here is simply country.