sucky day part two....

well not alot more happened, thank goodness, although Todd took the four wheelers to town to the car wash to get all the mountain crap off of them and blew a tire and didn't have a spare. We took an old crappy one with fubared lug holes in and he got back home so tomorrow I've gotta go get a new tire put on the rim. The togg had her babies... they are both fine although I did have to pull the HUGE buck kid, the doe kid slid right out. Windy, the baby heifer is doing fine. she had her colostrum and is happy her mother still REALLY hates her though so she is definitely a bottle kid now. The dead goat is dispatched with, her kids still won't eat but maybe by morning they'll be hungry enough. the milk shed door is fixed... kinda. The freakin wind is still blowing and blowing and blowing.. Colt's calf still has the runs but is eating well. China got captured and returned to her pen after being free all day, the brat. The togg contortionist is walking on all four legs again! YAY So now we are just finishing dinner and yes it is 9:53 pm! ARGH I need to go to bed and put this darn day behind me.

This day sucks!

OK, so today has just sucked rocks... slimy puss covered rocks! This morning I was all psyched thinking I'd go home do chores and then run to salt lake but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo things were not to be. First I got off almost an hour late and then everything that could possibly go wrong is! So I get home and go out to milk and there is a boer cross doe dead, she of course has two kids who are about 3 weeks old and are wanting NOTHING to do with that plastic thing I keep trying to convince them will give them milk! Then I find a togg doe who somehow has manipulated herself like a contortionist and is stuck in a fence. I should have taken a picture because there is really no way to explain how badly she was bent up and stuck but there she was. Apparently she'd been there awhile as she had a nice berry pile going on behind her. So I hunt up the bolt cutters and cut her out and then the rest of the does escape while I'm doing it and I have to chase all their butts down once I get the fence rebuilt. Grrrrr. At first the doe wouldn't get back up but now after some gentle persuasion she is standing. mostly on three legs but still standing! well anyhow, so then I go out to feed the calves and colt's calf has scours... bad scours... ARRRRRRRRRGH. He's still eating well so hopefully we can keep him hydrated and get him over them. Well then our horned heifer decided to calve.. good good... oh wait... not good SHE HATES IT!! absolutely and totally hates the baby. She would actually like nothing better then to skewer it on her horns and toss it out of the pen I think. So now we apparently have yet another bottle calf. I think that's actually all for now... well except the milk shed door broke when I took all the buckets back in there and the freakin wind won't stop blowing and I think one of our toggs is in labor. Have I mentioned this day sucks.

Its a beautiful day...

and I'm at work. Isn't that just how it always works? :-) actually today is alright to be at work, gotta make up some hours as I have been off the last three days. Why you ask. Well I'll tell you.

Todd and I ventured up to Newton to visit with the always lovely Gates family and it was a splendid and glorious time. Even though we were all exhausted and there was a moment or two when I thought Tauna was going to shoot us all, it was great fun. It was great to see Michael also (and I will continue to call him Michael even though I know he hates it, just because I can't help it. he's just Michael to me).

Then Saturday is Bella's obedience class day so tia and I ventured back up to West Jordan to go through the paces of the class. Upon first thinking about the fact that we drive 2 hours each way for a 1 hour class it seems vaguely stupid, but I really don't care. I think its good for her. she gets out with other people in different surroundings and she's actually learning stuff. She's a smart little hummer, which is not always the best thing but having this class makes us remember to work with her and not put it off as seems to have happened so many times in the past. She's going to be HUGE and she needs to know something about behaving.. that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I need to post new pics of her. she's growing.... and growing... and growing.

What was she thinking....

what were we thinking! I finally forced Tia into the DMV to take her test to get her learners permit today after many months of her procrastinating worrying that she'd fail and guess what... yup you guessed it she passed! Passed easily actually with a 92% So the roads are no longer safe as Tia motors her way around to becoming more at ease behind the wheel.

Congrats Mooey mooey.

The garden contest...

Now that my blue funk has abated life is back to normal.. well normal for us. But onto the "contest" Willie and I are having a contest. We won't win anything except the sheer thrill of winning but we're still doing it and I'm gonna win! what is this contest you say,well its growing a garden this year. One small minor problem.. I am NOT a gardener!! I can't seem to ever get anything to grow and have really never had a actual real garden but I'm going to do it. So far I have peas and onions planted and shortly will do beets and carrots. baby squash and pumpkin plants are sprouted in the house but its still way to cold outside to do anything with them! they will probably die before I can transplant them. AHHHHHHHHHHHH I must keep them alive!

The countdown is gone...

The lovely and exciting countdown that has graced my page here for oh so long is now gone. There was still almost 11 hours left on it but seeing it there just makes me sad now that we are no longer going. I really hate when punishments punish myself, but I now acknowledge I have to grow up and act like a parent instead of just making threats that I never seem to carry out. I am very sad though that the more time goes on the worse a parent I think I'm becoming. I did at one time think we were doing a good job. I really have no interest in talking about any of this either so don't bother asking. I will just retreat into my sad little head for awhile and then I'll be alright again.

*runs around like a psycho*

I AM SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!! FINALLY I HAVE ALL MY DEBTS PAID!!! MEANING, I'M GOING TO GO SEE MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE ON FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!



Yes all caps was needed!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD






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Dad's DNA

What is up with all the trust issues in this family... sheesh. Colt is the best of us all!

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Colt's DNA!!!

Look how confident he is!!! Look mom! He doesn't have our trust issues!

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Happy Birthday...

April is the month of all the Parental Birthdays of the currently living Parentals at our house! Ok, so actually that should be the parentals of the parentals... hahahahah So anyhow, Happy Birthday to my Mother, Todd's Mother and Willie who all have birthdays the first half of April. HAPPY Birthday to Yoooooooooooou. Happy Birthday to Yooooooooooooooooou happy Birthday, Dear Parental figures. Happy Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrthdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooo-oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooou!

My DNA!

See that tini tiny red sliver in the corner? THAT'S MY CONFIDENCE! Feel bad?

And the dark blue one? That's muh trust. Yep I think you'r all going to kill me!

*le sigh*

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DNA Personality

Ok, so I took this test and I just dunno... I'm not that untrusting of people am I???

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