I HAVE A BLOG?!?!

Wow, that's sad isn't it? I forgot I had a blog until I found it today :)IT has been 11 month since I last posted! So, what has happened in the last 11 months? Well, I wrote a novel, completed my first semester as a Sr in high school and have enrolled in college. Also, kidding season has started here on the farm. We have 11 kids on the ground with 16 does still to kid! Yep, it is going to get really crazy around here :) I wish I had something more exciting to post, but right now I'm just excited to have found my blog!

Food

I love food. Food is one of my most favorite things! Really, it is an obsession. I like to make it, smell it, eat it... whatever! I'm especially fond of baking and cooking. It is my job to feed our family. And I always enjoy coming up with new recipe. Perhaps my biggest success was chocolate oatmeal. I knew this was a hit when my little brother and sister (On seeing me mixing breakfast) began doing "the chocolate oatmeal dance". Think you Micheal Jackson/ Nepolian Dynamite. You can imagen their disapointment when they discover this particular morning we were having cream of wheat.

I get asked all the time what my favorite food is. Of course, you all know how that varies day to day, but after putting a lot of thought into it, I've decided these are my favorites for now :)

Breakfast: Waffles (It is an obsession.) Something about those butter filled crevices call to me!
Dinner: Pizza! I love thin crust pizza with peppers and tomatoes!
Snack: (Around here that is a fourth meal.) crackers with cheese and jelly! It's really good even though everyone thinks I'm weird.
Desert: (My very favorite meal!) Ice cream!! I really like it in a cone, or coldstone makes an icecream with brownies, fudge and cookie dough. That is pretty much awesome.
Oh, and my favorite thing to drink is coffee when it is cold outside (Vanilla Latte`s rock!) or Coke zero when I need the caffeine kick.
so there you go!

kids!

Spring is my favorite time of year! Or at least, one of them. Actually I like all times of year as long as it is not to cold or wet but that is beside the point. My favorite part of spring, besides the wonderful warm weather and green grass, besides the chickweed and blooming flowers,is the baby animals. Since I live on a farm, we have a lot of baby animals in the spring but my favorites are the goats. Baby goats are so great! They're cute, they're snugly and they are really friendly! So far, I've assisted in the birthing of 15 kids this spring and we're about half way finished with the "kidding season"! I've done a pretty good job of only keeping my very favorites this year... all 7 of them! Here are a few pictures of some of my "kids". I'll try and update the blog more often as the others are born :)

Monkey Brains

eggs anyone?

I live on a farm, and I've discovers that animals do some pretty weird things. Did you know that turkey's will drowned if left out in the rain. It's true. Stupid birds will turn their beaks up to catch raindrops and forget to swallow. Did you know that rabbits scream like little children and will try their hardest to scratch your eyes out with their cute little paws? They will if they think you are feeding them to the dogs!

A few weeks ago, I walked out to the chicken pen to try and collect eggs. Our chickens do not really lay eggs on any kind of a regular bases, and when they do, it is never in the chicken house, so my whole venture was foolhardy from the start. As I flipped the latch to go into the pen, I see a hairy white monstrosity poke his cute, guilty face out of the hen's house and pear guiltily in my direction, licking his long white beard frantically. Sam, my buck (or billy goat for you city folk) had managed to sneak into the chicken house and devour every last egg! Now, believe it or not, once I moved said woolly behemoth from said chicken pen, I actually started getting chicken eggs.

Two days ago, as I dragged my milking does in and out of the barn to feed them their breakfast, I noticed something odd. My most annoying doe, my doe who is always as the fence trying to get out (and usually succeeds) was nowhere to be found. Worried, I shoved past my hungry flock (herd?) of goats and went looking for her. As I rounded the corner, there she was, a yellow yolky mustache across her upper lip and a pile of cracked eggs as her hooves.

So was I surprised today when I entered the kids pen and found suspiciously gutted egg shells strewn around and a couple guilty looking kids? Ahh! I guess I can have eggs or I can have goats milk... if I feed my goats eggs do you think it makes the milk like an "eggnog"? Oh! if it does, do you think I could pour some chocolate syrup over their grain and get chocolate milk?!

just a thought

Monkey Brains

Watermelon: The Saga of Hamlet and Tonto

Well I can now add movie making to my list of accomplishments! Well... Actually I just wrote the movie.Anyhow, it's a remake of Hamlet... set in the wild west. Tonto is his faithful Indian friend and the bad Sheriff murdered his father and the mayor fell off a cliff after hallucinating about Ninjas. Besides all that, the time line is all out of whack and the mayor left his son a TEXT before he died!And what exactly does the mysterious green stuff on that badge mean? Que theme music and dramatic lights! Dun Dun Dun!! Did I mention I wrote the whole thing in about 15 minuets?!

Exciting right? We'll see... At any rate, it can not be any worse then the Transformers movie I went to see this weekend... The special effects were pretty good. Infact, it looked like at one point Megan Fox was actually crying!! The whole movie lacked plot and emotion... and as hard as it is for me to say it... the acting was a joke.

luv u guys!


Mickey

Happy Daddy Day!!

Something like that right?

Are'nt dads great? I wanted to write my dad a poem or something, but my poems end up like a graceful duck's love life... they just don't. Anyhow, I don't think he would read it. For father's day this year, we all got sick. Mom and I decided to call it the five pound bug. We're thinking we might offer it out too. "Come spend a day with the Spauldings and loose 5 pounds in 24 hours!" What do you think? Would it sell? I'm ok with the idea since I'm pretty well over it anyhow, but poor dad "Had to go get a new book to read". The poor baby :P

Happy D-Day everyone!

Mickey

There's a snake in my house!

or at least there was until I put him out :)

I was on the phone with my mom yesterday while she was at the store and as I walked into the front room I noticed a snake slithering across the floor. Now, we live in the country and snakes are not all that uncommon. (I have never found one in the house before though) I just walked right on past with a simple thought of "Oh neat a snake." I hadn't gotten very far before I realized what I had just seen and did a double take. this time my though was more along the lines of: "OH MY GOSH A SNAKE!!" In fact I'm pretty sure I said that bit aloud, into the phone and hung up. I picked him up and put him back outside were I assumed he'd be happier. Mom called back.

Mom: "Did you say a SNAKE?"

Me: "Yeah but he's gone now."

Mom "INSIDE?"

Me "Not anymore."

Mom "Uhhh... elaborate please. Was it just crawling across the floor?"

Well he wasn't crawling since that would require legs (Something snakes lack for all you city slickers ;) but yes, he seemed quite cool about the whole thing... except maybe the being thrown outside bit...


Mickey