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When You Are a Kid.

Life is fresh and new when *you* are fresh and new.  Every day is a new and exciting adventure.

 
I took these pictures couple weeks ago and back then the triplets were a little smaller.
 
 
But just as fun.  Here’s how it works.  Someone disturbs your slumber by pointing a big black box at you and [...]

Someone’s Sick

Poor Butterscotch, she dropped two kids, one of which was deformed and died.  The other died the next day and while we were doctoring the little buck Butterscotch got a bad case of mastitis. 

 
We tried milking her every two hours.  It was a process she didn’t enjoy.

 
We tried penicillin and then we resorted to [...]

Party Canceled

Alas, it has been canceled.  With everything soggy wet and an 80% chance of rain tomorrow it seems unwise to have everyone over being that we would not all fit in the house. ;)  We’ll have to do it another time.  If you are Heather, Laurie or Sarah I’m trying to contact you.  Give me [...]

New Ducks

Monday I drove into town to go to the library book sale.  While I was in town I picked up 18 more fuzzies for Junie.
This is an Ancona duck  They are spotted and each one has a different pattern. They are a rare breed.  Junie wanted you to see this one that has a mohawk.
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Ron Paul on Swine Flu

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T-Minus 2 Days

Still holding at 40%.  In the meantime we have added 18 ducks, 25 chickens and one more doeling to the farm.

I’ll post pictures later tonight.
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T-Minus 5 Days

40% is nothing.  It’s way less than 50% and as the previous commenter said " ‘isolated’ and ’scattered’ can be pretty hit and miss."

Mostly miss.
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T- Minus 6 Days

Is anyone else obsessing over the weather report in Mansfield, MO?

I know it’s just gonna blow over.  It is.
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Garden Redo

Remember all the work that went into those garden beds we put in?  And Jeff spent lots of money and the boys did lots of shoveling.  Then we planted and waited.  And waited.  And waited.  But the gardening gods were not smiling on us.  In fact, the gardening gods think that the dirt we paid [...]

How I Ambulate

Hello, my name is Jodi and someone has asked for an update on me.  Yes, me.   Now that it is getting warmer I spend alot of time outside.  When that happens one of the bigger kids is watching me and that leaves Mom lots of time to do other things so she is usually not [...]