life begins anew

well well sometime i will have to borrow a digital camera again or buy some more film & develop it.....many little chicks & guineas needing to be seen by all...

gobo will be missed...almost makes me feel like i can't go anywhere at all...we were just about to get him a lady friend, but.....unfortunately the bird-hunting dog is still being found out off a leash....this isn't the area to do this.....people shoot dogs without remorse around here....and the people at the bottom of the hill i believe have done it before....killed cats too, so i've heard

but we should be moving in a few months so....somewhere a bit nicer for all & safer for the animals

oh yes--wakaba is a mama now! yesterday 4 little chicks were born!!!!! the first births we've had! 3 look like their dad, buff (that's the reddish silkies) with darker bums, and one is whitish with black spots on its head. if they stay these colors, than presumably the white one will be male & the buffs will be female. they're adorable! kenshin has also been sitting on some eggs, so we will see what comes of those.

everyone is doing fine. the mama guniea hen likes to fly out of her pen and run around the edge of the fence....meanwhile her babies run around beside her on the inside of the fence. it's goofy. they love when i put some clover in for them (they've pretty much eaten all the plants that used to be in the pen, so i supplement some for them now). they pick up a piece and run all around so no one else can get it. but they all do this at the same time, so it's quite amusing to watch. but the cutest thing is when they are all huddled under their mama's wings, and you can only see one or two heads peeking out of her feathers......one night mama guinea didn't come back in the pen, so her babies all huddled under the buff mama silkie (whose babies are two big to huddle under her).....that was nice of her!

nothing much to rant about today......enjoyed vermont (it wasn't winter yet!) yeah so i met & talked with sandra bullock's sister gezine & her husband ray (movie producer)....my friend works for them....that's just weird

right so pics will come soon

RAGE

so i am in another state right now, but sometime early this morning i dream that the neighbor's dog mutilates & kills one of our goats.....well, i was only slightly off

our neighbor's assinine brother is at his place today apparently, and he thinks it's fine to let the dog run around loose while he sits inside in front of the television....huh

we are catching/chasing that dog into its house 3-4 times a week sometimes more already, and they know, THEY KNOW NOT TO LET IT RUN FREE!!!! IT IS NOT A CALM MILD-MANNERED DOG! IT HAS ATTACKED OUR GOATS BEFORE!!!!

AND NOW IT HAS KILLED GOBO!!!! David's favorite chicken, the polish crested, beautiful and just learning to crow!

our neighbor rents from my father too, so it's not like he was here first or anything....we were!

this dog, as i've said before, should not be cooped up all day alone, but it definitely should not be allowed to run around here---this is not the place for it and our neighbor is not the right owner. a goldfish would suit him better. or maybe a cat. at least with an outside cat, it wouldn't matter if its owner forgot to feed/water it.

the thing is, this could have been my kitten, or one of the goats, like in my dream. this dog has attacked before, so obviously he can and will do it again! HE JUST DID!!!!!!! we can't keep him out of our yard unless we erect a 6-foot or higher wall! we don't have the means for that right now! our puppies are just puppies! they can't always scare him away! we aren't lightning fast ourselves!

but if certain someones would just take a certain dog out on a leash then maybe....

again i refer all to the voltaire quote at the top of the page.

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(so i am raging at the stupidity of assinine fools)

thirty-five & counting

that's how many animals look after us. let's do some simple addition:

2 cats + 2 dogs + 2 goats + 2 pigs + 9 guineas + 18 chickens = 35 players in a hobby farm menagerie!!!!!

well, not really a menagerie......we're not really displaying them in an zoo or scientifically studying them but I suppose you could call it a "collection"......you know how words are often not used properly until eventually the real meaning is lost

new to the group are two bantam-cochin roosters (one white, one white & black), an andalusian blue hen, a mama guinea and her 7 babies (safe & sound this time!) & a mama buff (reddish-orangish) silkie and her 5 similarly colored chicks

sayonara (the buff silkie rooster) & the new bantam roosters have crowing contests across the yard--one crows, then there's a pause, then the other cocks its head, stretches out, & crows......back & forth ad infinitum

gobo (crested polish rooster) has been learning to crow recently--he still hasn't quite gotten the hang of it, he sounds like someone's hurting him actually

going to visit Liz now....long way to drive

stopping the world somehow

haven't posted in a while......not that there wasn't anything to say. sometimes you just can't talk/type.

thought i'd let everyone know about Miracle Mike--the rooster who thwarted fate. on sept 10th 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen was ordered by his wife to go get Mike for dinner. now Lloyd's mother-in-law would be there too, & she happened to have a taste for chicken neck. so Lloyd aimed the ax high up. Mike ran around as all chickens do afterwards, but then a funny thing happened. Mike ran into the coop. Lloyd figured he'd be dead tomorrow. Nope, he roosted with all the other chickens and was out "pecking" for food the next morning. so Lloyd decided he had to feed Mike somehow--with a dropper right into Mike's gullet! Mike lived a week. then another week. 18 months later Mike started choking while being fed. Lloyd tried to help but couldn't in time. Mike finally died. so how does a chicken live without a head? chopping so high up the neck left the brain stem and one ear intact. that's all you need apparently, if someone's willing to stick a dropper of food in your neck for you.

chickens aren't the only ones who can live without much brain mass either. it has been discovered that some humans are born missing large portions of grey matter. and they function rather well too. no sarcasm here. it's true.

well, i actually have a giant rant, but i just don't have the energy to explain it all. maybe some other time.

so i will instead mention that a friend of mine who lives in vermont is working at a bakery/coffee shop run by sandra bullock's sister. the actress was there for the opening. this world is quite bizarre. i'll get to see the place soon. too bad i'm not into sandra bullock.

speaking of movie stars, the local news recently had a really big heavy story!!! "what's up with brad & jennifer?!" you'll know after you watch! all the juicy details!

apparently, this was the most important thing happening in the world. ahhhh....the media. glad i don't have television.

there is this little gadget you can get that turns off most TVs from quite a distance, if the aim is right. you can actually drive around turning people's TVs off! i know people who've done this! isn't it great! too bad it doesn't keep them off permanently.

i rented a dvd from the library with short documentaries on it. one was about an artist named jay something or another. can't remember. but what he does is great. he puts up for sale signs everywhere. what does he sell? a cracker for 15 cents. a push-pin for 35 cents. a pen cap. an eraser. and people will call and buy! what does he spend his earnings on? photocopies! this guy was awesome! the best thing was that he just did it to do it. whereas it was others--an art collector, random conceited egoists--who tried to blow it out of proportion. somehow they were able to masturbate their egos with this when it wasn't even their work! there needs to be a campaign against ego masturbation. something like the "every time you masturbate, god kills a kitten" thing. so don't kill kittens. or rather don't make god kill kittens. 'cause god kills an awful lot of kittens already, and i don't think it needs to kill anymore. the big meanie!

oops! maybe i offended some egos or some gods? can't please everyone all the time now can we?

hey when you were a kid did ever get told "just b/c everyone else is doing something, doesn't mean you have to" or "if everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?".....well, 'cause i think that's a great thing to say to your parents when you're all grown up but not living your life the way they did and their parents did, etc. really. but you have to say it in the appropriate tone--like you are speaking to a 5-year-old. or perfectly calm and ordinary. both would grab attentions.

my kitten is climbing on everything everywhere. she's finds new precarious perches by the hour! and cute as ever! the notorious Rumpelteazer.

animal friends make me really happy.

gotta go. major tom is contacting ground control this time. don't want to let him down.

btw--
"how're the lizzies, how's your jesus christ been hanging?"