We have been busy bees as of late and I have had no time for blogging activities.
So, without further ado, I present to you:
A List.
1) Handsome Dude’s basketball team has started playing games.
He gets to take his uniform home, as if life could not get any more exciting. As soon as he returns home from being a basketball champ, he puts his uniform on a hanger and takes it with him from room to room to proudly display it in all its gloriousness.
He is his own biggest fan.
2) Last night was his first game. It did not start until 6pm and it was all I could do to keep Mr. Basketball out of his uniform all day. Contrary to popular belief, 5 year old boys are not at all tidy and are known to spill ketchup and applesauce on their attire from time to time. Finally around 3pm, I relented and allowed him to break out the uniform.
It was all very exciting.
3) Little Dude, a fan of the chickens, asked me the other day when I was going to “hatch” another baby.
4) Homeschooling for the win!
5) Last Saturday, the girls had a basketball game over at the far end of the earth. We made the most of our travels and decided to stop at a horse museum on the way home.
6) Apparently, since we homeschool and all, we must do these sorts of things on Saturdays. Its in the handbook. I checked.
7) Do y’all remember the day I had to play Vet Rescue and capture an injured chicken?
Sure you do.
Poor Sweet Pea has been caring for said hen. She even named her “Sweetie.” Yesterday, Sweet Pea went to check on Sweetie and found she had died. It was all very traumatic. Sweet Pea desires to be a vet when she grows up, so she is usually pretty willing to help out with the animals, but she loves animals, so it is hard when sad things happen.
8) And lots of sad things happen here with the animals. Hello? Are you new here? Have you not read this blog?
Welcome!
9) My neighbor texted me yesterday to inform me of recent neighborhood sightings of: a cow moose and mountain lion tracks and to inform me that someone else in the ‘hood heard wolves howling.
10) Its like “Neighborhood Crime Watch: Farm and Country Style.”
11) So, now I have to fear the wolves. And did you know that mountain lions and cougars are one in the same?
There you go. You learn something new every day.
Alright. I must go tend to my homeschooling duties. We are going to be covering the differences between “mammals” and “birds” so poor Little Dude doesn’t go through life thinking ladies lay eggs.
Later, dudes.
#10: Love!
I believe I should point you to a tutorial of the ways of the Photoshop Blur tool. But then again, that would take away some of my entertainment… (Hee! Smooches!)
YES! I would totally pin that tutorial. I need more blur in my life 🙂
Cougar=Mountain Lion=Puma=Panther=Catamount I taught at a school many many moons ago where the cougar was our mascot, so I learned a few things about cougars. The cougar is most closely related to smaller cats than lions and tigers. It cannot roar like a lion, but can purr like a house cat. They have a huge range and can travel over a great many miles. They are beautiful animals but may want to eat your rabbits and chickens, and possibly even your pigs depending on how big they are. Be careful out there in the woods. My youngest son is wee afraid of bears and wolves and things that live in the woods. He doesn’t like driving around at night and passing any place with a bunch of trees. He’s afraid a bear will attack our car.
Thanks for the post! I love to see a new LJW post in my reader. : )
My mother in law once argued and argued and argued with mea bout the above names for the same animal. According to her panthers were black, and the other cats other than the mountain lion were found in other parts of the US and were COMPLETELY different species. She would not believe me, even with a picture taken AT THE ZOO describing the above. It became quite a source of amusement to me…Just to jab her a little.
A mountain lion is also called a “painter”, the dictionary says it is a variant of the word panther. So, there’s another title for your scary creatures of the woods.
My parents had a mountain lion living in the fields across the street from them a few years ago. My dad and husband, thinking they are hilarious, decided to name the mountain lion Snaglepuss (not sure if I spelled that right, but it is a Hannah-Barbara character) To this day, my 6 year old wishes he would have met Snaglepuss because the name sounds like he would be a nice pet. I don’t have the heart to show him a picture of a mountain lion and ruin his thought of this awesome pet that could have been.
Don’t worry about the wolves, but did you know a momma moose is the most dangerous moose you could come across. Because of that, my kids are only allowed to play in the back yard, and only if the dogs go with them. We worry about momma moose more than bears, and our pastor was mauled by one.
We’ve not had mountain lions, but we do have a bear that lives in the conservation land behind us. He visits us on garbage days and lounges about in the small field next to our house, watching the cars go by. He is the original Yogi.
I still don’t let my kids play with him.
oh, I wanted to leave a comment about eggs and ladies, but it became too graphic so I deleted it. You have enough gruesome daily occurrences, you don’t need the word picture I was going to put you through!
So are pumas. Well, why wouldn’t they come when they have the Maliblahblah and ‘hood Smorgasbord. Pork chops, chicken nuggets, hasenpfeffer, buffalo burgers etc. Word is out to the winter-hungry predators. Be careful. Let me know when you’re coming and good luck with your collegework. Congratulations on HD’s uniform.
One of the teachers at the high school here informed his science class there were no mountain lions in our neck of the woods. Another child’s parent captured one on their hunting camera (hey, we live in the sticks too) and the proof was in the picture. The mom showed it to me on her cell phone and I thought it was actually quite scary. Not a fan of wolves either. We have coyotes and they are also creepy. I’ve only seen them dead on the road here, but I do hear them when its quiet at night.
On that happy note-have a lovely day : )
The country life…is not for me! 🙂 Oh my!
Yay for the basketball!
Go handsome dude!!!!
“10) Its like “Neighborhood Crime Watch: Farm and Country Style.”” Awesome. Thanks for that. 🙂
I, too, loved the Farm and Country Style Neighborhood Watch. And Homeschool for the win! How’s the hatching coming along?
I personally think you should hatch something, just because you really don’t have enough on your plate.
Also, maybe you should get a gun. You know, to shoot the predators. When you aren’t tending to your animals. Or hatching things.
at the very least, a slingshot.
Handsome Dude makes me smile. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone had that kind of enthusiasm?
My husbands aunt lives in a very very rural part of Texas. She came out for work one day and a mountain lion was sunning itself on the hood of her car. She barked at it until it went away. Brave lady, it would have been an excuse for me to turn around and go right back to bed lol.