Meet Jill.
Jill is a 3-month-old chihuahua puppy: and my grandparents' new doggie.
My Grandma brought this purty little baby in from Arizona, surprising my household, my Grandpa, and Dolly, who now has a new sister in the home.
She's a beautiful purebred, and is completely sweet: very playful, and tiny as all get-out.
Rose loves her: she calls her the 'Choo-choo-wa-wah' puppy.
And another good thing about this little dog, is that Dolly gets along great with her -they play, and Jill is very brave dispite her tiny size -not fearful at all around Dolly, who is a giant compared to her.
I can't wait to see this dog again! :)
Welcome Jill!
We went to my grandparents' house yesterday.
And I took pictures! :)
Birdhouse!
Ooooo, fountain-thingy.
A skull!
Water drops!
Dolly!
Look at her little beard! :)
Such a pretty dawg.
Hm.
No people pictures.... Ah well. :)
Anyways! I hope you enjoyed those photos!
Everything is going good here; the baby ducks and chicks are doing well -they are now running around the chicken lot with the other birds and my goats.
My bantam hen Jellybean is sitting on 5 eggs, all fertile! Hopefully they will be hatching in the next week or so.
We also have a gamebird sitting -Willow calls her Sun -she's on 1 'duck' egg. This egg is fertile, and is way behind Jellybean's eggs (I have candled them,) and she started sitting way before my bantam, which makes us think she has a duck egg. And -well -we found the egg on the ground.
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Hopefully we'll have some more baby birds so!
*Cheers*
I have also decided to start running again.
Starting today.
Hopefully.
*Coughs*
I'm going to try to do two miles today.
But first, we must concentrate on worming our doggies.
Mom has just confirmed that Duke has tapeworms.
Great -eh?
It probably has something to do with all the dogs chewing on an old beaver carcass....
Bleh.
I bought 7 new books last week.
My Daddy took me out to eat and to Mckays for my birthday!
A little late...my birthday is in November, but I had a great time all the same!
:)
Here are my new books:
The Sherlock Holmes books are awesome!
We saw the movie not long ago -I loved it!
And so, of course, I had to buy two books, each with about 12 stories in them about Sherlock Holmes!
Then I have those three Redwall books, that Seekers book, and a Star Wars book!
Yeah!
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Little Miss Dolly is staying with me again.
Here she is, looking so pretty with her nice mohawk.
Here's my doggie, looking so pretty-ish in her laziness.
Cody! Chowing down on some ratty food.
Hm. I wasn't too sure what to make of this.
Master Chief!
The Lightning Rat!
But, no, really: Master Chief.
Named after a Spartan from Halo -is quite fast -and so is Cody.
Now to compare the Spartan and Rat:
Master Chief.
Master Chief.
Can't you just see the resemblance?
The weather is continuing in its path of awesomeness!
It has been sunny and clear outside all day today!
Yeah!
I have a two things to say -
Firstly:
Guess who's staying under my wing again? -Dolly!
I don't have any pictures right now... in truth I've been rather lazy today, you see, I'm a bit sick, my Mom says it's allergies...but I don't know. All I know is I'm been feeling right bad today, and yesterday, for that matter, but worse today.
And secondly:
I finished Fire Bringer, two days ago, really; it was very good. As good as a book can be about deer!
And I've started Fell; I'm over half-way through, and it's quite good, though I would have named it something else! Fell -he's a wolf -really doesn't seem to be the main focus of the story!
That is all; see, nothing really new. Dolly so far today is doing good, she's been playing with Zelda half the time she's been here!
She really likes playing with Zelda.
That is all.
Over and out.
Look who is back!
Dolly!
She was brought back to our house last evening by our Grandma; this little dawg is going to be staying here for around a week, I think.
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She slept real good last night, not barking or anything.
And this morning when I went outside to take care of the chickens, Dolly found a nice good black walnut to chew on.
She was quite proud of herself.
Y'all want to see my newest baby?
This is Penna. She -or he -is a Bobwhite Quail.
The Hunters were -ah, hunting -quail yesterday in the property next to ours. I was watching from our driveway. One got away from them and flew onto our side of the fence.
(Safe! You could hear them Hunters swearing, it was kind of funny. 'Gosh darn it, there it goes!')
We left to go to see our grandparents and cousins, (Dad's side of the family,) and we were gone for some time.
When we came home my Dad caught this little bugger in the garage -the cat -Ghost was trying to get her.
So they gave her to me and I brought her up to my room in a kennel, and she stayed there all night.
She's quite wild, when she flaps her wings feathers fall out -which is a sign of fear and stress.
I think.
Hence her name -Penna, which I believe is Latin for 'feather'.
I can't find any wounds on her, but she still won't be able to survive outside, because she was raised with a bunch of other chicks, in captivity, to be released for hunting practice for the hunting dogs that the Hunters have.
Make sense?
(A little blurry....)
I was going to take Penna outside to put in a pen, but I think I'm going to let her stay inside another night.
I'm going to hold her some today, maybe I can get her tamed a bit. I've gotten her to drink with some help, she's pretty shocked by being captured by us, I reckon.
I don't know if she has eaten; but when I woke up this morning she was standing in her food, so maybe she ate some....
(This is what Norbert looks like when he isn't happy about the lights suddenly turning on in the morning.)
This morning one of our new baby chicks passed away.
She was sick -we didn't really know what was wrong with her -but we think she may have been squished.
I noticed she was ill yesterday evening, and I held her until it was time to go to bed; I made a place to keep her up in my room for the night, with a light and everything.
(For the record, my bed has been made today.)
I didn't really think she would make it through the night, but she drank some water with help, and she pooped, which was a good sign.
And she refused to go to sleep unless I was holding her, she'd cheep and cheep.
So I had to move her box next to my bed so I could put my hand in there, and she'd quiet down.
The heat lamp was in my face the whole time, though. So I put a blanket over my head and slept like that.
I still woke up every hour or so with her, she didn't feel good, and I could tell.
I finished a book -that I had started eariler that morning -last night, a book that had around 300 hundred pages.
I only wish it was a book that I needed to read for school....
This morning the chick was still alive -which I thought was a good sign, but after a took and shower, and went to pick her up -I could tell that she wasn't going to make. She was barely breathing, and wouldn't hold herself, and open her eyes.
She died about 10 mineutes after that.
I held her to the end, I think she liked me, every time I put her down she would cheep for me to hold her again.
But before she died -I know this sounds stupid -but before she died she opened her eyes, looked at me, cheeped, then her little heart stopped beating.
I'm glad she said good-bye.
Her name was Stella, which means 'Star' in Latin, I named her yesterday.
No critter should die unnamed.
I'll miss that little chicken! :(
On a much happier note -Dolly gets to go home today. Her Mama is coming to pick her up and take her home -where she'll stay for around a week before coming back to stay with me.
She had a nice bath today -so she's all clean and sparkly.
The sparkly part isn't true, I lied.
She also got a clip and bow.
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I think she will be glad to see her Mama and Daddy again.
I've been outside a LOT today -despite the fact that those in my house all have bad head-colds, myself included....
So -I've been playing in the woods; I have been working on building a new 'base'.
Dolly has had a brilliant time 'following' ('following' as in trying to sneak away... to get into the creek,) me around; trying to get into the quail-farm, and playing in the mud with Duke and Zelda.
(She needs a bath.)
Just a few minuets ago; I took Mom's camera outside and started taking some pictures, these are Dolly's:
(She is looking at my rabbit.)
Do you see the joy on her face? After all this snow -finally: some beautiful sun.
(I played with the contrast an awful lot on this picture -I admit it!)
(I tinted this one -green -a little.)
Purty Dawg.
Apple -hmmmm.
Drinking her formula....
She still doesn't have a name -but, my Daddy's still thinking on it. It has to be just perfect for the perfect Flying Squirrel.
Dolly is still sitting pretty here at our house.
Today she's been barking an awful lot -at the trains (still not used to them, completely,) at Duke, at Arwen... but goodness knows she has fun doing it -her little tail just wags and wags some more! :)
Cody and Johnny have been allowed to run around my bed a lot lately -these are some pictures I just took of them... they've already gown so much!
Such handsome bucks.
So well groomed. Their whiskers are straight and full.
Hehe. I caught Master Chief during a cleaning session.
Cody -observing the bedroom.
(Those are Quinn's LEGOs in the background -for the record.)
This overly soft -amazingly cute, and little (LITTLE) thing is my Daddy's new critter.
She's a Southen Flying Squirrel -and is darn cute.
Look at her eyes! 0-0
We just got her today -she's eating well, and has drunk some formula.
She doesn't have a name yet, but my Dad is giving it serious thought.
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She looks damp -but she's very soft and warm. She has a special pouch that Dad got her -it's called a 'bonding pouch'.
These squirrels need to bond to their owners, and they will. But since their nocternal -they need something safe to be carried around in.
Hench -the pouch.
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More pictures -and a name -coming soon!
Dolly!
She got a little hair clip thing.
Hehe.
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