Journee's Critters

 I asked Hermoine if she missed leia while she was gone, and she told me she survived it just fine. I think she slept in the sun the whole while.

 And I'm sure Leia wasted no time in recapping the events of her day.

While eating, I'm sure, them goats hardly ever stop. :)

 Farm Day at the preschool went really well today; we had three different age groups come in, each with two classes, so by the end of it the critters were exhausted, but the kids loved it, the crowd favorites were Midnight the bunny and Leia the goat, who many kids thought was a sheep, or a dog. :)

Snowy the rooster ended up crowing with the last age group, and they loved that, and all the while through Catherine quacked, which they all thought was very funny.

I tell you though, I promptly came home and washed by hands---they were so many kids with colds there....

 We took the hens and the rooster, the bunny the duck and the goat around a few times for everybody to pet, and ask questions with a lot of enthusiasm; it went great though, and I enjoyed it.

One little girl starting kinda tugging at Snowy comb, and asked what it was.

"It's his comb," I explained, and was about to tell her how roosters would grow larger combs, and hens would have smaller ones when she stopped me and asked, "to brush his feathers?"

I was silent for a second, and then nodded, smiling, "yup."

She liked my cowboy hat, also.

 Two of the older classes made us thank you cards, and one class wrote down their names, and which animal they liked best. Two little boys said, 'the snake.'

We didn't bring a snake, but apparently, it was still the best part, lol.

Leia got to feast on grain, bread, and the grass outside. She had a great time, and peed and pooped once in the building, which all the kids thought was hilarious---expect for one real shy little girl, who looked stunned. 

On the way home (Leia sat in my lap riding shotgun there and back,) Mom made the startling realization that it was Leia that smelled so bad to her; Leia kept coughing up her cud to chew again, and it has a rather strong smell (though I don't mind it,) and Mom kept waving her hands around and opening, then closing the window, scolding Leia. Lol. It was amusing.

I'll tell you, though, my thighs and and shoulders are stiff from carrying Leia back and forth, and squatting down, and standing up, and squatting down, and standing over...over and over again so the kids could pet her. She wouldn't walk where you wanted her to inside the building, and so I did a lot of carrying her, lol. She gets real heavy after hauling her around for a while. :) Lol. But she's not fat, just healthy.

Today my family did a lot of basement-cleaning. We took stuff to Christ Chapel to be donated, we threw stuff away, we moved stuff, and I---burned stuff.

That was my main job, and it started by moving a old wooden (rotting) rabbit hutch out away from the tree line, and loading it up with cardboard, paper, wood, shingle, etc, and setting it ablaze.

I don't have any pictures of the hutch on fire, though I can tell you it was dripping melted plastic, falling into cinders, and sending sparks onto the wind, along with great plumes of smoke that I think got into my head...I have quite the headache now, lol.

After it was over, it was nothing but ashes and bones, and we kept adding stuff.

Here are a few pictures:

 Hey Jordan, do you remember that pikachu I made out of paper and flour water at y'alls' house? My dad made a dragon, and Logan started a yoda? That's the pikachu burning in the picture above.

 The pikachu again...lol. I feel a little guilty, aw well.

 My dad threw some popcorn on the flame---and guess what? It popped! But the popcorn burnt...surprise surprise.

Heaven knows what we burnt.

 

My Halo Reach player-model, though lately I've been playing as a Elite ranger a bit more.

 That's my Elite---RT version.

Rose is doing much better today, and seemed more or less 'cured' throughout today, and hasn't thrown-up once, though she complaining of a belly ache again this evening, and is laying on her pallet again. My mom thinks she's okay now, though.

I'm still washing my hands often, however,  and have disinfected the stairway rail, and the doorknobs of the house a few times, to ward off the germs from the lot of us.

I think it's working pretty good.

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Me, Mom and Quinn will be leaving the house around 9ish tomorrow morning to head to the preschool with the critters. I've got the kennels and rabbit hutch lined up, Leia's lease, a bucket of scratch, and a brush all ready, and my cowboy hat is just waiting in anticipation. We'll bring Leia, Midnight, Catherine, Snowy, Little-Lopsided (the mottled houdan hen,) and a red-star (sex-link) lassie; Snowy and his ladies will spend the night in a drop-pen in the bantam coop, and then will be loaded into a dog crate tomorrow. Catherine will take his time in a pen out near Pirate's, and Midnight and Leia will stay where they are until morning. Midnight gets to ride in a smaller rabbit hutch to the preschool, Catherine with stay in a cat kennel, and gets to ride in my lap. They ought to all be ride and crazy, so tomorrow should be interesting.

I did tell Mom, though, that next year I will have some really tame chickens to take. Or next month, you know, with my bantams, but that's not when the Farm Day thing is for those preschoolers, so next year will have to be it.

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 This little rat loves him some white chocolate chips.

Look, his buggy little eyes are rolling back into his head with pleasure.

Naw, he's not spoiled.

It's just a act, he really isn't that fat.

Chocolate chips are good on the body, you know, he'd never gain weight eating them.

And he works out regularly.

Sorta.

 Norbert is just about done with his shredding, and is slowly starting to perk up today---only after a lured him awake with some crickets, which he munched down like it was nothin'.

His right eye is still a bit gooey, and was swollen today because of the scale particles caught in his eye from shedding...I got it all cleaned up, and he's feeling better now.