livin' on the funny farm- SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the funny farm6]

Thanks.

 

[the funny farm6]

I found a person with purebred nubian billys. Bad part is they are 2 1/2 hrs away. Only 50.00 for 6-10 week old billys all weaned, no bottle feedings. Now to convence my better half that we should go that far. They sent me pics...and those EARS!! Well this weekend is mothers day!

I checked back the rabbits this morning and nobody wanted anything to do with the bucks. So should have babies on the way. Got the rest of my stack units on legs. And cage tage on everyone. Also emptyed trays on the stacks.

Lunch time then more work!

 

[SSDreamin]

That's too bad about Bob

I like the Mother's Day gift idea, but whenever I try that, it backfires. Last time I tried, it was for a dog. I got the dog, alright, but it was the one DH & DS wanted, not the one I was looking for :/

 

[the funny farm6]

I hear you on that one! I did get a tiny chihuahua puppy 15 years ago for mothers day. But I lost him 3 years ago. He was only 2 and a half pounds full grown. He was a great little dog. Hubby was hinting around about a tiny dog but I told him it wouldn't be peanut so don't bother. Sometimes there is no replacing!

We did go last year to a big dog trade/ show, to look for a dog for me. But we came home with the uglyest, dumbest dog on earth. He is 3/4 english bulldog and 1/4 pug. He is slightly bigger than a pug, but looks like a bulldog. He humpsenything that has a pulse. One day I was here at home and heard a car horn honk- again-again. So finaly I got up and looked out the window and there was a BIG 4X4 dully deasle, double cab-with a lift out in front of the mail box. So as they kept honking I went out on the porch and didn't see anything, so I started up the driveway. Finaly I get far enuff up the drive to see around the flower bushes and there is hank. Sitting in the middle of the road, looking up at the grill of this HUGE truck! Panting with his long a** tounge hanging halfway to the ground. And the look on his face was like "what ya doin? Where ya goin?" So I yell his name-hank about 6-8 times finaly I yell "hey, retard" and here he comes trotting up the driveway! the stray beagle is going to have puppies by him next week. And lately I have been telling my husband that he ruened her cause she is stupid now. He is like a sexual desease. Lol

 

[Denim Deb]

I've solved the problem of Mother's Day by just buying what I want, or standing there while hubby buys it. My gift came in the mail yesterday-a new seat for my canoe!

 

[the funny farm6]

Well started to clear the new area where I am going to plant hostas and some shade loving herbs. I need Tom to get some trees out and to cut an evergreen tree. I pulled all the poison ivy. (The poison oak on the other side of the goat pen is another story!) So now the kids can help. I will add some horse or rabbit poo before I plant. I have seeds planted when they get sprouted good I will plant some out there. I am getting spearmint or peppermint to plant along the house. Does anyone know the bennifits of one over the other? It can grow to its hearts content and when it goes farther than I want... I can mow it.

Many of my herbs are going in big pots on the porch.

 

[the funny farm6]

I thought I might add a little about my family...

I have been married 19 years to what I firmly belive is my soul-mate, Tom. We have 4 girls. The oldest will be 20 this coming week- she just moved out about a month ago. The second is 18 and lives with friends due to school stuff. The 3rd is slmost 16 she is mentaly slow, she is my animal lover. And my youngest is almost 15 and she is a handfull- she is a lot like I was at her age, but a little more twisted! She is the one who will stand outside the other girls' bed room door when I yell for them and scare the holy heck out of them- and I get the blame cause I yelled for them! She can also shoot better than most grown men. And her favorite gun to date is a 50 cal handgun, and Toms 12 gauge. (With the 50 cal she is dead on at 100 yards!) She met john lionbaugh (sp?) And her goal is to get her licence and a job and order a gun from him! She LOVES scary movies. We have the same question- why does the blond ALWAYS wear 6 inch heals to a cabin in the woods? Duh. My 3rd daughter is the one in love with animals. She just got dutch bunnies cause she wanted to be able to name the babies. (We eat our baby bunnies) she wanted dwarf or lionhead, but if she can't sell them they have to be a breed we can eat. She also wants minirex and mini lop. There are other breeds but they are not common around here.

My youngest 2 are the only ones that live at home. And I still cook for an army. My husbands "son" is here working with him he is from michigan.

We have 5 acers in iowa. He grew up in this area, and I grew up in Nauvoo, Ill. There are sooooo many tourests around here in the summer! But he promised me my place in the country when we got married. We have been here 6 years in july.

I grew up catholic and am non- practicing right now. I do belive in god but don't hold with many things in the catholic religon. It started when I was told I was going to go to hell cause I had a tattoo! And whent from there. Dh grew up protastant but they didn't go to church- even though his uncle is a preacher.

Also if you haven't noticed yet...my spelling isn't good.

Any questions?

 

[Denim Deb]

Yeah, why the funny farm? Every time I read your name or title to your journal I always want to "sing", they're coming to take me away, ha ha, they're coming to take me away ho ho, he he, ha ha, to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time and I look forward to seeing those nice young men in their clean white suits and they're coming to take me away ha ha!

 

[the funny farm6]

Well... everone thinks it is odd or funny to come to my house and see the dog laying on the porch with a chicken pecking her toes, and a cat laying on top of her. Or the day that my goats got in with my big donkey, and he stood with them under his belly and between his front legs and when the horses tried to see them- wow did those big ears dissapear, he layed them back and tryed to attack anyone or thing that came near! He never moved a foot though. Everything and everybody gets along (simply cause if you don't you don't stay!) So it seemed that we just got titled "the funny farm"

Plus you never know what odd critter I may end up with. Last year we bottle raised a red squirrl. We have had a pet skunk(even when they are descented they STINK! Along with about every kind of odd pet store mammals, and reptiles. Seems like whenever someone has an exotic to rehome they call me. We also raised a baby deer for a couple weeks. We found mama hit on the side of the road. Was asked last year if I wanted a litter of cyote pups- my cousin found a den and the were only a day or 2 old. Said NO!

I also have a pic somewhere of our old cat sleeping with 2 hamsters. She loved those things! Would lick them like kittens.

So it seems "the funny farm" stuck.

 

[the funny farm6]

Plus we arnt your average hillbillys! People think we are a little "funny" too. Lol

We have a homemade cannon. It makes a big boom!