Jul. 3, 2009 This is my 3rd post today... Jul. 3, 2009 Junie's Glittery Thing... Jul. 3, 2009 Look what I made for Jessica... Jul. 1, 2009 My Calendar isn't Working
You know why I haven't been blogging? Because Mom hasn't been blogging and Mom's blog is my calendar. So since Mom hasn't been blogging, I've been getting all the days mixed up. So now you know.
It's July already. Oh, I've got a funny story for you.
Last night, while I was flipping my calendar to July, (my real calendar, not Mom's blog) Jessica said, "What's today, the oneth?" And I said, "Yup, today's the oneth and tomorrow's the tooth."
Then Jessica and June started talking about flying teeth or something like that. I wasn't paying attention.
Dad made fly-wipe for Star. Now she won't have flies on her.
The Hunsakers came over yesterday. Mariah rode Star and later helped give her a bath and groom her. We had fun. :)
Someone asked me how Star was doing. She's doing great! She nickers to me when I go up to her. I'll post pictures some other time. :)
Well, I guess I'd better be going now.
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye. :) |
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Jun. 26, 2009 Lanolin does NOT taste good. Therefore, I strongly advise you not to taste it.
I decided to take a week off from blogging. Sorry I didn't warn you, it wasn't really planned. 
We sheared the sheep yesterday. It took a few hours, but she's so much more comfortable. Sheep make an oil called lanolin. It's yellow and looks like earwax. And it tastes like earwax concentrate. So, yeah, don't go lick your hands after shearing a sheep, it doesn't taste very good.
Well, it's hot in here and I'm running out of things to say. I'm running out of brain cells, too, because Mom bought blueberry muffin mix. Guess what we had for breakfast? Well, it was good anyway. Thanks, Mom!
Guess what I dreamt about last night? I don't have anything to give away right now, so I'll just congratulate you if you get it right. Maybe you'll get an invitation to come visit us or something. 
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye.
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Jun. 19, 2009 I Don't Remember...
I don't remember if I told you... No, I don't think I did. We sold the goats!! All 20 of them! I am soooo happy that we don't have to deal with them anymore! They were so annoying. They just got out all. the. time. And I was putting them back all. the. time. With them gone, life out here is so much easier. And with Jefferson gone, too, life is good. Now if we could just get rid of the sows...
Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow, Anna.
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye.
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Jun. 18, 2009 Sorry, Guys...
Sorry, guys. I missed a few days of blogging. I'll tell you what we've been doing. We went swimming at the creek right down the road. It was in the 90's yesterday and we stayed and swam for 3 hours. The water was really cold but we had no trouble getting in and getting wet. There was a deep swimming hole where the water was up to my armpits in some places! There were a lot of little minnows swimming around so we caught some and took them home to put in the stock tank. I don't remember if I told you or not, but our stock tank collects quite a bit of green muck. We bought some little goldfish, but they aren't keeping up with it. So guess what we thought when we saw the minnows? Free fish! So, yup. We brought a whole bunch of them home along with the biggest tadpole I have ever seen. He must be 3 inches long by 1 inch wide.
We dried Rosie off! So we don't have to milk her anymore, which is good because after milking two cows, feeding the pigs and feeding the dogs, I was really worn out by the time I finished.
We had coffee cake for breakfast this morning. It was made with lard instead of butter, so it did taste kind of lardy, but it was still really good to have it. :)
Jefferson is ready. Or will be by the 19th, which is most likely when you will be reading this. Did I tell you he weighed 305lbs?? That's a lot of meat.
Well, I'd better go. There was something else I was going to say, but I forgot. I hate it when that happens. I'll probably remember as soon as I turn off my computer. That's how it always happens. Anyway... G'night!
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye. :) |
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Jun. 16, 2009 Remember the Pigs?
Any of you remember the pigs? You know, Jefferson, Trouble and Piglet? Well, we sent Jefferson to the butcher earlier today. I woke up around 7-ish and saw Jacob out in the pouring rain trying to lure Jefferson into the trailer with a bucket of grain. Well, let's just say that it didn't work and we didn't end up getting him into the trailer 'til around noon-ish. Then Dad hauled him off to the butcher. He weighed 305lbs! Crazy. So now you know why I didn't blog earlier. Jefferson was being a pill.
Anyway, I'd better head to bed now. It's almost 10:00pm and I'm tired. Just wanted to let y'all know that I didn't forget about you. :) G'night!
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye. :) |
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Jun. 15, 2009 Dancin' and Milk Cows
Sorry I didn't blog last night. Things got really busy and it was 9:00 before we even finished with the animals. But anyway, I'm back to blogging now.
Okay! I guess I'll blog about the dance first because that's what I have pictures of right now. But I've got to show you one picture before I say anything else:
June and I don't look anything alike, do we? I look sad or something, but I was really just hot. I had a great time. :)
Okay, moving on.
Dancing. I think this was the Posties Jig. My favorite dance and the only one I missed. :-/ No, now that I look at it closer, they are reeling. So I think this is either the Virgina Reel or Chasing the Fox.
Mom didn't dance. She sat and talked. Isn't that boring? Just kidding, I like sitting and talking, too, I'd just rather dance. :)
In between dances the boys would arm wrestle and play Saber Wars. Jacob taught me how to play Saber Wars on the way home from the dance and it's like arm wrestling but you stick your index finger out and try to poke your opponent with it. But no poking the arms or face. Don't want to poke anybody's eyeballs out.
Don't know what's going on here. Maybe they were arm wrestling and Jessica got Joshua down? Or maybe he just fell down and Jessica pointed and laughed. I really don't know.
Dad was holding Jodi, that's why I was making that face. Jodi thought it was funny.
Aha! I found a picture of Jacob and someone playing Saber Wars:
Now for Buttercup. This is the only picture we have of her. It was taken in Flemington right before we left her old home. I took it with Dad's phone and uploaded it to Facebook.
I just love the way Jerseys look. With the white around their nose. They're so cute. All the way through Springfield people were looking at her and smiling. So now you know. If you are sad, look at a picture of a Jersey milk cow and it'll cheer you up. :)
Anna, that's awesome. :) I guess I'll see you this weekend then. :D
Oh, and the pictures are kind of grainy because most of them were taken with Dad's phone. The ones that aren't grainy are the ones I stole from the Covingtons. :)
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye. :) |
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Jun. 14, 2009 Day 2 of My Ingenious Plan
How many of you thought I wouldn't blog today? Probably not many of you because I've only got like, 5 readers now. Okay, 13 visits per day. That's pretty good when I only blog a few times a month!
It stormed last night. Not while we were dancing, when we got home and were sleeping. I'll give you more details on the dance after we milk the cows. I woke up at 7:30 this morning, now it's 8:00... I don't know why that's important. *shrugs*
Anyway, before I go I need to tell you something funny. Jodi likes to wear mine and June's watches and if you ask her, "What time is it, Jodi?" she'll look at her wrist. Even if she's not wearing the watch, she'll just look at her wrist! She doesn't tell you the time, though, so we're working on that one. :)
Okay, I promise I'll post again later today. I'm going to go milk the cows. :)
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye. :) |
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Jun. 13, 2009 Okay, okay...
Since I have so many adoring fans I decided that I do need to blog more often. To help me do this I've devised a clever plan. I'm going to turn my blog into my personal facebook page. It won't really be my facebook page, but I'll stop in here a couple times a day and give you a status update. It'll be a long status update, though. Here's today's update:
Dad and I got up early this morning (5:00 am, to be exact) to drive to Flemington which is 2 hours away. Why? To get Buttercup, a 3 year old Jersey milk cow. I'll post pictures later. But yeah, we just got back about 20 minutes ago. :)
We're going to a dance tonight! It's in Nixa and we'll leave at 4:00. Which means milking Buttercup at 3:30. And we're drying Rosie off so we don't need to milk her. We found out a week or so ago that she's pregnant and due to calve in 5-6 weeks! So that's exciting.
Trying to think of anything else to say before logging off. ..........Nope, nothing else. So my next post will most likely be tomorrow sometime and will have pictures of Buttercup and the dance.
Let me know if you like this new blogging system of mine. It's too early for me to tell if I like it, but I think it'll work out, which means more blog posts. :)
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye. :)
BTW, this post is writen for two of my fans... Grandma Heidi and Anna! And I really will try to blog more often... I promise... Sammy, I promise... :) That's Sammy's thing, "I promise! I promise you, a lion really did mark his territory on us!" Yeah, uh-huh. :)
Okay, I'm really leaving now. :)
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye. :) |
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A few days ago I found this ad: http://www.equinenow.com/horse-ad-54020 Mom emailed the people, then talked on the phone and we ended up putting a deposit on Star through paypal! That was Tuesday. Yesterday, Star arrived.
 I know you can't see her face or anything, but that is Kathy holding Star. That's me behind Star on the other side. It was a long drive here (1.5 hours!) so Star was a little restless.
 I am told that Star saw the goat way out in the pasture and took off at a trot to see what that weird looking pinto Shetland was. I was in the barn getting the brushes. That's Kathy's daughter Christine holding Star's lead.
 After Star sniffed and ate and sniffed some more, Kathy and Christine saddled her up. Christine rode her first, just to be safe. The last time they had ridden her was in August. I think she did really good with me riding her, but considering that, I'm pretty impressed with this horse.
 I rode her in the paddock and we'll be keeping her there for a while until I feel confident enough to catch her and ride her out in the pasture.
 After Kathy left, I unsaddled Star and brushed her down. Unlike milk cows, you can actually use the curry comb on her without worrying you are going to hurt her. Mom had gone inside to do something (update her status on Facebook or something) and when she came back out she said, "Oh, so you're going to ride her bareback?"
I knew she was joking but I said, "Can I?"
She said sure so I hooked the reins to the halter and scooted her up next to the fence. She's not as easy to scootch as Rosie because, well, Rosie's a cow and she's been taught to scootch and Star is a horse and she's been taught to carry a rider. So anyhow, I scootched Star up next to the gate and hopped onto her back. Mom and Dad joked that she was going to buck me, but it's different if you've ridden her and you know what she's like. Then you know her "horse-anality" and know that she wouldn't even think of bucking you.
 She always stopped to take grass out of the kids' hands. She doesn't want anyone to feel left out.
 Then Dad wanted to ride her. Star really likes Dad for some reason. So I slid off and put her up next to the fence for Dad. He got on and rode around the paddock at a walk and then Star decided it was time to trot! Dad was just letting her walk around, not telling her to walk, go this way or that way or anything, so she wasn't really disobeying. It was really funny, though. The look on Dad's face!! Ha! I wish we had a picture of that! She did stop when he pulled back on the reins and said whoa.
 She's a wonderful horse. Just a few more things before I go milk... She's purebred Arabian and she's registered. She's big, too: 15.2hh for you horse people. For non horse people, that's around 60 inches at the withers if my calculations are correct, which they probably aren't. ;)
Thank you, Mom and Dad for getting me this wonderful horse! Thank you John, Jacob, Jason, Jessica, June, Joshua, Josiah, Jilly, Lina and Donut for pooling your money with mine. I'll pay you back, don't worry. :)
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We recently got some kittens from some friends of ours. (Sorry this post is so late, Kaylea... Things got busy. )
 Shiloh's so funny. She gets along well with any animal. The kitties like her now... Sorta. That's Penny.
 Susan, Jill's favorite.
 Penny again, my favorite.
 Susan again.
My next post will be a surprise. (Aren't they always?) It's exciting. Very exciting. For me anyway. Don't you like short sentences? I do.
Anyhow, look forward to my next post in a few days or weeks or months... And if you know what the secret is, please don't tell it! You can say you know it, but don't tell what it is! You too, Ginger... I know how sneaky you are.
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May. 4, 2009 Look, I'm Blogging!
I am back. Sorta. I wasn't really ever gone... I just stopped blogging for a little while. Kaylea and her family came and visited us (it was really supposed to be a party, but it was canceled due to the rainy weather) and Kaylea told me I need to blog. She yelled at me. Okay, not really. But she said I needed to update my blog so here I am. The funny thing is is that there's been so much going on that I don't know where to start. I guess I'll start at the beginning because, as every Sound of Music lover knows, that's a very good place to start.
Okay, back in March (March 3rd, to be exact) we got a milk cow. Her name is Rosie and she's a purebred Holstein. Not that she has papers or anything. We got her from the Amish.
It's pretty comical when large milkcows back out of a trailer. Here's a better shot of her:
Wait, now we've got to go back in time a little bit. Before we got Rosie we got Domino. Here's the latest picture we have of him. It's from a few weeks ago.
We also got a sheep who's due to lamb sometime in uhhh... April 2009 I thought. But that's past already so it must have been May 2009.
Then the pigs. Piglet, Trouble and Jefferson. They're a lot bigger now. And Jefferson is scary. He grunts and squeals, etc. I don't know what etc is supposed to mean in this case.
Now the goats. We got the bucks around the same time as Domino but I'm not going to post seperate pictures of them. You'll have to deal with this one. These are just a few of the does, but I like this one best of all the pictures we have of them.
And some of the does have kidded. UG the First (Un-named Goat the First. We have two UGs) dropped (dropped?) three kids in April. Two bucks and a doe.
Then Butterscotch kidded. She had one doe and one buck. The doe was very deformed and died soon after birth. I don't think you want to know the details. Then she wouldn't let the buck eat and as soon as we found out we brought him inside and tried to bottle-feed him. His temp was really low so we put him in a warm bath. He was dehydrated so we injected saline under his skin. Dad dropped an NG tube down his mouth and we gave him electrolytes. After his bath we dried him off and put him in a box under a heat lamp. He died not too long after that. So now Butterscotch has mastitis and Dad and Jacob have been giving her shots. (Dad's been giving shots, Jacob has been helping hold her still.)
So then we had a skittish spotted goat drop her kid. She had one doe. That's it. Then our other skittish spotted goat that's not AS skittish kidded. She also had one doe. Then Peppermint kidded. She had two does! Woo-hoo! It's pretty exciting here. I don't really like goats. I mean, they're okay but they're way too friendly. I just like cows a lot better. But still, I'm enjoying kidding season becuase baby goats are really cute.
Now our party. It was canceled becuase of the rain. So that means no egg toss, no sack races, no BBQ... No dancing. :( It's nice out today, though. The weather never cooperates. Well, I guess that's about all. We had a few families visit us, but no party. It was still really fun and us Bettendorfs learned a new game called Mafia. You could probably look up Mafia Game and it would come up. Unless it was made up by our friends. I don't know becuase I live under a rock. ;)
So yes, we had fun. :D
Are you happy now, Kaylea? :)
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Apr. 8, 2009 Ha! I'd like to do this someday... Apr. 6, 2009 Patches the Horse
I recently found a new website! www.ponybox.com This is sort of like BellaSara but better because it's free! Every day you sign in to Ponybox you get another 1000 PonyBucks. On Ponybox you can visit auctions and bid on horses. Every Friday on Jeff's (the owner of Ponybox) blog he hosts Free Horse Clipart Friday where you can download free clipart!
It's fun and it's free so be sure to check it out today!
Adieu. Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Cheerio. Shalom. Bye.
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Feb. 24, 2009 Where's George?
Well, George is headed to my good friend Ginger’s house. Ginger promised to track him at www.WheresGeorge.com and send him off to another friend telling them to pass him on. I’ll keep you updated on where George has been. If you'd like to check up on him yourself, you can click HERE.
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Jan. 13, 2009 Another video for you... |
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