Toooobing

We went tubing down the guadalupe river yesterday. It is a beautiful clear wide river with a nice stone bottom. It was mostly 3-5 feet deep-- perfect for swimming. We had a lot of fun! And we are absolutely toasted-- but just on our front halves. We were both moaning last night trying to go to sleep without moving. It felt like my legs were on fire. Our friend Natasha went with us, along with her 3 kids (5, 2, 1 years old) which made it more fun. It was a great trip! I don't have any pictures, though, since you know, my camera doesn't like to get wet. Here are a few from the internet!


I love this one-- isn't that beautiful? Where we went looked more like this, except the river was wider. :O)
Anyhoo, everything else is going well. Daniel is leaving to go to Peru for 6 weeks on may 3rd, so I will be all by my lonesome. I am thinking about going to Ohio/Kentucky for a month while he is gone, but we have sooooo many animals to take care of here at our house. (pets: rabbit, 2 parakeets, rat. Backyard animals: 2 pygmy goats, 8 chickens, 11 rabbits) We plan to board the goats-- there is a lady at our church who has goats, but I still need to find out who she is, call her, and see if she would be willing to board them. Then I need to hire a neighbor to come over every day to feed everyone. Good grief! It would almost be easier to just stay home, but I think I would just die. Daniel was gone for just a week a few weeks ago and I was very sad and lonely. Plus my little brother is graduating from highschool, so I want to go see him. Here he is! With my dad, too! (this pic is from their visit in January) I just can't believe he is almost 18!! He was so little when I went off to college! :O(

Ok michelle, here are the goat pictures you've been waiting for!!!


The goats are now out of their moveable shelter and freely roaming around the yard. They like to wait for us by the back door, and they desperately want to come in the house, for some reason. They always dash for the door when we come out, as if we don't see them. It's so cute! Anyway, I guess I could't possibly write a blog without saying something about my goats. :O)

I forgot the most important part of the story!!

I can't believe I forgot this part of "the neighbor's house is on fire" story! about 15 or 20 minutes before we discovered the fire, our house-bunny, Hunza (he is like a cat- he is litter-box trained and roams free around the house), started acting very unusual. He was running like a mad-rabbit around the living room and repeatedly thumping his back foot, which rabbits only do when they are extremely scared. He has only thumped once or twice in the 2 years we have had him, and he has never acted this strange. Anyway, we didn't know what was wrong with him, but after this little display he went and hid under the couch, which he also does when he is scared. After we found out about the fire, we were amazed to think that Hunza knew! he was trying to warn us! What a smart little rabbit. He could have saved the day if we would have listened to him.

here is a picture of the little hero! Sitting under the piano is one of his favorite things to do.

Whenever I am on the computer he likes to sit under the desk at my feet (where he is right now), or run around my chair in circles (that means he loves me.) I just love him.

Fire!

Our neighbor's (the ones with the evil dog) house was on fire the other day. My mom was visiting and she and I were trying to watch Lost on the computer (which was disappointingly a re-run!!!) when we heard this cracking noise outside and smelled smoke. I thought there were kids setting off fire crackers in the woods behind our house, so I told mom to shut the window. When she went to shut it someone was out in the street yelling "call 911 there's a fire!!" We ran outside and sure enough, there was one. No fun. The cracking sound we heard was the neighbor's windows cracking from the heat. The house wasn't up in flames or anything, but I could see flames in the downstairs windows. Luckily no one was hurt. In this picture, our house is the one on the left (the garage) and the house in the center is the one on fire.

This picture is from our upstairs window. There were 4 firetrucks and 3 police cars.

And here are our baby rabbits! (well some of them) They are so cute! I love them. :O) They love eating grass.

Well Daniel and our friend Kyle went up to Kentucky for a week. They are visiting the farm, and starting some farming endeavors of our own. We bought a ban saw mill together so we can mill lumber to build chicken and pig shelters. They are working hard, and they are so busy that I have only talked to Daniel maybe a total of half an hour in the 3 days he has been gone.

My mom also left this morning from a 5 day visit. We had a good time and I wish she was still here b/c it's really lonely all by myself. :O(

Michelle, I am going to do a goat photo shoot just for you. Check back soon!!

New Pictures

So here are some pictures of our life today (or a month ago--- because that's when I started this one). First of all, here are our baby bunnies! There are 4 of them and they are a week old(now they are a 6 weeks old...). Soooo cute-- they just started crawling out of their little nest today. Their should open their eyes in the next couple days. Here are our cute little goats, pepper and coconut. They love each other.
This is me. I am so happy!
This is Daniel--- as handsome as ever, and reading ACRES USA, of course.
This is the basset hound that our neighbors found. They named him Rufus. He is sooo soo sweet. He looks almost exactly like my dad's old basset hound, Daisy.
Anyway Now I need another new blog because this one is already outdated!!

Oh AND....

We later discovered that our poor little goat coconut (in the picture below) was injured by the dog.... he bit her leg. She is hobbling around on three feet- it's so pathetic and miserable. We bandaged it up, but she is just shaking from the pain. Pray that she gets better.

Stupid Dog!!!!!!!!!

Ok so I had a crappy crappy day at work today, and then come home to find my 5 beloved chickens DEAD in my backyard. The neighbor's stupid dog chewed a stupid hole in the fence and came and killed all our chickens. And pooped in our yard. I am sooo mad. They were my little babies- I loved them. 2 were already laying and the other 3 would have started laying in the next month. The neighbor didn't seem to really care at all. WOW I am so angry and upset I can't even think of what to write! I loved my chickens. :O( The chicken in the picture was Patty. We also had Petunia, Paprika, Mrs. Black, and Mrs. Brown.

I'm just glad our dear little goats have their moveable shelter... otherwise they may have been goners, too.

Ron Paul Success

I've been wearing my Ron Paul pin at work. I'm in customer service, so I see a lot of ppl every day and know most of my customers on a first name basis (I know some of their kid's and dog's names, too!) Anyhow, my lovely pin has sparked plenty of conversations, and many of my customer-friends have promised me they would look into him. Of course, i have come across a few supporters, too! Only one nay-sayer, which occured today. An elderly woman- she looked at me with a funny smirk and said, "Don't throw away your vote!" I said I would vote for him no matter what because he is an honest and principled person. I love how ppl just assume that voting outside of the main stream media coverage means you're throwing your vote away. Anyhow, I'm really loving all the conversations that have been sparked. I never go anywhere now without a hat, pin, and a ton of flyers in my purse which I hand out to ppl, stick on buletin boards, and stick on all the cars around mine in parking lots. I think that so far, just at work, I have convinced 3 or so ppl to vote for Dr. Paul. And that's just this week! ( I just started wearing the pin at work)

Anyhow, if any of you my dear readers are Thompson supporters (he's just dropped out) then look into Ron Paul! He is great! If any of you are Huckabee supporters, then consider Ron Paul! He is also a deeply committed Christian, even if he isn't the poster-boy-candidate for the religious right.

Ron Paul very intelligent man who wants us to live by the constitution. He is a 10-term congressman who has never compromised, never taken government-junkets, never voted to raise taxes. He has promised to bring troops home immediately. He is pro-life. Will abolish the IRS, NAFTA, NAIS, and many other bad government programs. These are just a few of his virtues-- the ones I can think of off the top of my head. He wants to give you back your personal liberties and responsibilities!!! Support Ron Paul!!!!!!!!