Jul. 2, 2009 10 Possums in One Night
A while ago, my mom kept hearing clangs on the cat bowl outside and seeing a possum running away. So I decided to trap it with my live-trap. My bait was cat food.
In the morning, my mom woke me up and said there was a possum in the trap. It turned out that the possum had nine babies in her pouch. I think I broke some sort of record, catching ten in one night! |
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| Two days ago we found mites in our basement. We found out they were grain mites. My mom tried vacuuming them up but it was not working. So we had to spread DE in our basement . We covered the entire basement and everything in it with DE. It was very fun and tiring. We had a water fight afterward. We still need to vacuum the basement. |
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| My dad bought a new chainsaw and a couple days ago, we went out to the pasture and started cutting up some fallen trees. The first time, we had to walk through some muck to get to the trees. We ran out of gas so we loaded up everything we had cut up, put it in the truck, and drove back. The second time, we brought gas and oil, but we tried to drive through the muck and got stuck. We started cutting up the rest of the trees while Dad called our friends to pull us out. When our friends came, my dad drove our truck, 4 of us pushed, and 1 drove the other truck. The front tire was a foot and a half deep in mud. We came home muddy! |
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Dec. 29, 2008 A lot to say
I'm sorry I haven't written on my blog for a long time. A lot has happened since I wrote last time.
- We've been in two accidents in the last two weeks. In both accidents, we were near a house and we went into ditches. No one was hurt.
- We only have 2 cats now, Johnny Cash and Chief Wahoo. We got them both fixed.
- I had a hard time getting people's presents done for Christmas. I need to plan better next year.
- We finally got our two does (goats) to a buck for breeding. He belongs to our friends.
That's everything exciting. |
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| On Monday, I was playing a game and Meagan was upstairs on the computer when Mom called us to go outside. When we got outside, Mom told us we were going to get our picture taken with Abby. Abby was wearing a shirt that said "Big Sis". We didn't realize it yet, though. Mom took a couple of pictures and then we realized that Mom was pregnant. She is due June 20th. I hope it is a boy. |
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Yesterday morning, we were butchering chickens. I was cutting the neckskin of the chicken. I was holding the chicken with my left hand and holding the knife with my right. I was having a real hard time cutting the skin and it cut through the skin and I got an inch-long cut [on my left index finger knuckle]. I went inside, pouring blood, and my Mom couldn't tell how deep it was, so we went to the hospital.
We went in [to the hospital] and they put me on a bed and started checking my wound out. They gave me shots all around my wound and boy did that burn! They cleaned out the wound and gave me four stitches.
When I came into the house when I first got my wound, Mom thought I cut my whole finger off.
Later in the day, we had a picnic and I told some of the people that a big coyote attacked me and bit all over my hand. But they didn't believe me.
At least that chicken won't be giving me another wound soon! |
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Jul. 14, 2008 Butterfly catching
Yesterday afternoon, we went to a friend's house and went butterfly catching. We caught a lot of black butterflies and a couple of purple ones. We tried and tried to catch the white ones, but we never could. We called them "White Beauties". Better luck next time.
While we were catching butterflies, Meagan started crying. We went over to her and asked what happened and she said that she got stung by a bee. I went to the house and told mom. Meagan had already scraped off the stinger and was fine. She's not allergic to bee stings. |
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| Yesterday evening, we were going out to do the chores and we were walking by, and on the cattle panels, was a bird. It was only about a foot away from me. So, I asked my dad if I could pet it and I reached out and pet it. After I pet it, it flew away. I came in and told my mom and she could hardly believe it. She said that it is funny that I can pet a wild bird but that our chickens won't always let us pet them. |
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| Once upon a time, there were 4 goats. They went to see 3 more goats. The older goats were mean. When the 4 younger goats got there the 3 older goats tried to kill them but the 4 goats escaped. Then the 4 goats went to where their Grandma and Grandpa lived. When the 4 goats got there, the Grandma and Grandpa were nice. The 4 goats lived happy for the rest of their days. |
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Mar. 17, 2008 Letter to the Editor
| My name is Caleb ********** and I live in ********* County. I’m in 3rd grade and I homeschool. Legislative Bill 1141 is being talked about in the Senate. This bill would get rid of our freedom. My senator is Lavon Heidemann and I’m glad for that because he does no like the bill either. I like to homeschool. I like learning about World War 2. My great-grandpa fought in that war for freedom. This bill hopefully will not become a law. |
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Feb. 28, 2008 Sauron and Saruman
 We have 2 Black Giant roosters and we named them Sauron and Saruman because they are evil. My dad says we should butcher them because they could poke out an eye with their claws. Whenever I go to do chores, they challenge me. They run up to me and kick me. Mean roosters stay mean, so that is why we are going to butcher them. My neighbor, Mrs. B, says that there is no room on a farm for mean animals. |
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Feb. 11, 2008 Dox- a true story
| Dox is a hound dog. One day there was jewelry stolen and Dox caught the thief. Dox’s friends made it so that on his birthday he got a free meal. One birthday he could not decide where to go, but he picked a restaurant. Inside, he caught a thief who had gotten away 6 years ago. He caught 400 thieves. He worked for 15 years. |
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| If only I had a glob of goo, why, I would make some tricks for the goo. I’d make it go and catch a grasshopper. I’d play with the goo. My sister would scream all day long. This is what I’d do with goo. |
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Jan. 14, 2008 A Fable of Aesop
| Aesop wrote the story about the cock, the dog and the fox. The cock and the dog go off to see the world. They go to a tree to sleep for the night. In the morning, the fox comes. He asks the cock to come down. The fox is very hungry. The cock says to come in to the tree instead. Then the dog, who was hiding in the tree, kills the fox. The moral of the story is that if you deceive you will be deceived back. |
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Jan. 11, 2008 Imaginative News Article
| I interviewed Jesus while he was in Nebraska yesterday. I asked him about why he was alive during this time period. He told me, “Because people need to believe in me.” That was a good topic to talk to him about because I believe in God and I think people need to believe in him too! So, believe, people! You do this by asking God to forgive you. Then, you can go to heaven. I am glad I could interview Jesus because it felt good to talk to the Messiah. |
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Jan. 1, 2008 Eric the Red - a made-up story
| Eric is a Viking. He went on a voyage. He sailed for many days. One day, a huge storm came up. It raged for days. One day it stopped. He spotted land and it was Japan! He lived there for the rest of his life. |
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| One day, I went to the chicken coop corner and I found 3 dead chickens. A few days later, Dad saw another dead chicken in the dog run. That evening, we looked out and found a cat that is not ours eating a dead chicken. So Dad and I took out a BB gun and my .22, but we didn't shoot because the cat did not act aggressive. The chickens were nearby the cat but the cat did not kill them. We still don't know what killed the chickens. My dad thinks that they are killing each other. I think it is our mouser, Chief Wahoo. |
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Dec. 8, 2007 Sodom and Gomorrah
| God saw the evil in Sodom and Gomorrah. He went to Abraham and talked to Abraham about it. They agreed that if there were ten good people in Sodom and Gomorrah he would not destroy the cities. So he went to Sodom and Gomorrah and did not find ten good people. He went to Lot, Abraham’s nephew, and told him to go away from Sodom and to not look back. Lot’s wife looked back and turned into salt. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire! |
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Nov. 19, 2007 Why Dogs Lick-an imaginative story
Dogs lick people today because back in the times of the ancient Egyptians, people wore gold. Dogs licked people because dogs wanted shiny tongues to attract a mate. They thought their tongues would shine if they licked the shiny gold. Dogs licked people 50 licks a day and people got soaked.
Later, people did not wear as much gold because the Pharaohs buried it with them when they died. After a while, there was not much gold left and nobody wore it anymore. After that, dogs stopped licking as much. Now we have no gold to wear, but dogs still lick some because it is now an instinct. |
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Nov. 16, 2007 Injured chicken
| Some of our chickens escaped today and one of them was bloody on his tail. We let him back in and the other chickens started pecking at his bloody spot. So, we took him, wiped off the blood, and put St.John's Wort oil on it. Then, we put it in our barn in a cage so that he wouldn't get worse. We think it is from pecking and for some reason, they pecked him. Maybe they were fighting to see who would be the leader. |
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