Looks like our winners will be:
Franchesca with 10 votes
Isadora with 9 votes
Eleanor Roost-evelt with 7 votes
Then a tie between May Bell and Artemis Fowl with 6 votes each
And finally the last few are all tied as well with 5 votes each
Lydia
Sylvia
Emily Chickenson
Sacagawea
Mrs. Darling
Unfortunately Dottie Henson and Loretta Lynne were the losers. For those of you not aware, Dottie Henson was the main character from A League of Their Own. And Loretta Lynne is the coal miner's daughter - country singer and best movie ever...
Help break the tie between the last 5 names so we will be able to name our chickies tomorrow when we pick them up!!!!
Monday, April 12, 2010
Attempting productivity...
It was a busy weekend... sort of.
Sunday found Ben, the kids, and myself picking ooogobs of dandelions in the yard and we began a giant batch of dandelion wine.
We also went to TSC (Tractor, Supply, Company) to buy chickie supplies. We got their space all set up. We also sat starring at the bin full of day old baby ducklings for like 37minutes trying not to buy them. They are so damned cute. like fluffy tennis balls. We decided that if we can manage not killing the chickies we'll opt for ducks next year.
I also finally got around to dying some roving for a couple projects my mom and sister are working on. And now the dye is stuck in the creases of my fingernails and making it look like i brutally murdered and tore to pieces an entire herd of cattle...
pictures to follow... not of the cattle but of the wine and wool and chickie brooding pen.
Sunday found Ben, the kids, and myself picking ooogobs of dandelions in the yard and we began a giant batch of dandelion wine.
We also went to TSC (Tractor, Supply, Company) to buy chickie supplies. We got their space all set up. We also sat starring at the bin full of day old baby ducklings for like 37minutes trying not to buy them. They are so damned cute. like fluffy tennis balls. We decided that if we can manage not killing the chickies we'll opt for ducks next year.
I also finally got around to dying some roving for a couple projects my mom and sister are working on. And now the dye is stuck in the creases of my fingernails and making it look like i brutally murdered and tore to pieces an entire herd of cattle...
pictures to follow... not of the cattle but of the wine and wool and chickie brooding pen.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Pictures from Easter....
(photos courtesy of Oma)
Esther hugging Uncle Eric, or almost...
Sisters-in-law...in dress...
Forsythia bush...
Me... in mom mode... (and yeesh, my slouching problem is getting worse with old age...)
Brothers and sisters are for loving...
I also think it's good for teaching them personal space and boundaries...
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
i-phony
Yes. i know i'm terribly behind the techno-curve but here i am all bleary-eyed from staring at my new i-phone pretty much for the past three days straight.
Still trying to figure out how to blog on it. Christy said something about e-mailing my posts to blogger... i'll figure it out sooner or later.
So the whole purpose behind getting the iphone was that i would be available pretty much all the time for work e-mails, phone calls, tech support, and yada yada. I also get the rfp's right as they come out so there's that too. Unfortunately this means i have to be much more vigilant about keeping my phone about my person. Anyone who calls me on a regular basis knows i hardly ever answer the phone. The reason for this is not so much because i don't want to talk to you, or because my hands are full of screaming babies (though that does happen too), but more because i don't know where my phone is.
And since warmer weather is here and this means shorts and tanks and skirts and things without pockets, the real crux of the matter is where am i supposed to put my phone? Duh! a purse. I have never really carried a purse. I've had a backpack, a briefcase, a messenger bag, tote bags, re-useable grocery bags, and diaperbags... but never a purse. I guess the closest i've come is one of those travel money pouches fat white american's get when they travel to europe for the first time.
So if anyone has a good stylish but not too stylish suggest of a good purse or purse manufacturer can you steer me in the right direction? It should be small so it can be chucked in the diaperbag but big enough for the phone, my wallet, and a knife. And preferrably with a long strap so i can wear it across my body (messenger bag style).
Still trying to figure out how to blog on it. Christy said something about e-mailing my posts to blogger... i'll figure it out sooner or later.
So the whole purpose behind getting the iphone was that i would be available pretty much all the time for work e-mails, phone calls, tech support, and yada yada. I also get the rfp's right as they come out so there's that too. Unfortunately this means i have to be much more vigilant about keeping my phone about my person. Anyone who calls me on a regular basis knows i hardly ever answer the phone. The reason for this is not so much because i don't want to talk to you, or because my hands are full of screaming babies (though that does happen too), but more because i don't know where my phone is.
And since warmer weather is here and this means shorts and tanks and skirts and things without pockets, the real crux of the matter is where am i supposed to put my phone? Duh! a purse. I have never really carried a purse. I've had a backpack, a briefcase, a messenger bag, tote bags, re-useable grocery bags, and diaperbags... but never a purse. I guess the closest i've come is one of those travel money pouches fat white american's get when they travel to europe for the first time.
So if anyone has a good stylish but not too stylish suggest of a good purse or purse manufacturer can you steer me in the right direction? It should be small so it can be chucked in the diaperbag but big enough for the phone, my wallet, and a knife. And preferrably with a long strap so i can wear it across my body (messenger bag style).
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Date Night
Now that my folks are back from Mexico Ben and I got a date night last night.
We went to the Hereford Feed Mill. Listened to a poultry seminar and placed an order for 6 lovely chickies.
Our girls arrive on April 13th!
You get to help us name them!!! (See the poll to the left there? GOOD now go do it!)
I fixed the poll try it again.
We went to the Hereford Feed Mill. Listened to a poultry seminar and placed an order for 6 lovely chickies.
Our girls arrive on April 13th!
You get to help us name them!!! (See the poll to the left there? GOOD now go do it!)
I fixed the poll try it again.
In the grocery store with Esther...
In the produce isle.
Esther sitting in the seat in the cart.
Can't seem to get the seat belt buckle undone. getting frustrated.
she says in her high angelic voice...
"What idiot designed this thing!?"
Esther sitting in the seat in the cart.
Can't seem to get the seat belt buckle undone. getting frustrated.
she says in her high angelic voice...
"What idiot designed this thing!?"
Monday, March 29, 2010
It's been a good day...
How many almost 30 year olds do you know who can still put their feet behind their head?
(don't ask how i discovered i could still do this)
(don't ask how i discovered i could still do this)
Actresses i would want to play me in the movie of my life...
you know... if i were tooting my own horn and going for broke.
1) Zooey Deschanel
2) Ellen Page
3) Shannyn Sossamon
1) Zooey Deschanel
Oh, Me. You're so talented.
I just learned that i did a REALLY good job at work. twice. in a row.
GO ME!!!
(i think that when people do a good job at work someone should provide cake)
Sorry about being cryptic... it's confidential...
GO ME!!!
(i think that when people do a good job at work someone should provide cake)
Sorry about being cryptic... it's confidential...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
playing with the template...
ignore the man behind the curtain... ok well don't. but ignore my fumbling with the look of the blog... i'll get it right one of these days...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
rough nights...
Asa is cutting yet MORE teeth. I mean seriously, how many teeth does a person need?? He's had a fever for three days now. Won't sleep unless he's laying directly on top of me and even then he tends to whimper all night.
God, Evolution, whatever dictates the next step in human development - no teeth. osmosis.
God, Evolution, whatever dictates the next step in human development - no teeth. osmosis.
Monday, March 22, 2010
finally...
I would like to congratulate the House of Representatives for its historic, final passage of the health care reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), along with the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HR 4872) which makes improvements to the Senate bill. The reforms will give quality, affordable health care to nearly all Americans for the first time in our nation's history.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Nostalgia
Why is everyone feeling so damned nostalgic lately?
Also, spring is making me really weird. i need some sort of binge or something...
what happened to the days when we could just take off for the mountains and do nothing but swim and fish and drink and be wild things and get it all out....
ahhh. those were the days...
Also, spring is making me really weird. i need some sort of binge or something...
what happened to the days when we could just take off for the mountains and do nothing but swim and fish and drink and be wild things and get it all out....
ahhh. those were the days...
Monday, March 15, 2010
Wishing i had a better camera...
ah... the innocence... it's a ruse.
these were my present from Stoner's Auction from Ben.
this one is a Ferrari Berlinetta. Notice how the steering wheel is on the other side of the car?
The kids being awed by the weather actually being warm enough to open the windows. Notice the patches of snow still outside the window though... it's still winter i guess...
this is a common game. something about kids and laundry baskets...
she's a princess...
this was the Valentine's day pie i made. we had dinner with my brother and may-as-well-already-be-sister-in-law. It's a sour cherry pie and the top i made to look like cherries but cut them out to be hearts... it was kinda cute before the gore of devouring it...
my fellas. man, they're cute even when the look really unhappy...
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