This Is My BB Gun. There Are Many Like It, But This One Is Mine..

Life on the farm, an update...

I keep our dog food in a metal trash can out in the garage and usually the last thing I will do before I leave for work in the morning is feed the dog. This morning I opened up the dog food can and I was lunged at by a tenacious field mouse! So, this morning the last thing I did before leaving for work was shoot a field mouse with a bb gun. I guess I am officially a hillbilly now.

Hey, Violet. The phone is for you. Yeah, it's Olivia Newton John. She wants her outfit back. She can basically walk now. She can walk across a room but still is most comfortable crawling. Her big words lately are daddy, Dora, and I-eeee (Ike).

Mama bought this buffet at a yard sale on Friday...

Henry and Violet play with baby dolls.

Henry and Violet partake in the new dinette set-- a thrift store find. No more highchair for Violet.
Henry "helps" dad mow the lawn...

Henry keeps coming up with good material. Let's see what I can recall from the past couple weeks...

-"Dad can you help me climb this tree, cuz' this is just SO not my day."

I was explaining to Henry that you have to be an old and mature teenager before you can get a drivers license and he comes back with - "Well, dad, my feet are getting bigger, I don't use a sippie cup, I poop on the pottie -- can I drive?"

Henry came out to help me finish up a few odds and ends with the goat fencing project of 2008 and he was carrying his little green John Deere tool box that he keeps his tools and stuff in. So I'm working and he sets down his tool box like it's time to get down to business and says "alright dad, I got my drill, my microphone, and my pink sunglasses". He proceeds to put on his sunglasses and belts out a pretty solid rendition of "London Bridge". His pitch was a little off, but he took that tune and made it his own...

Henry went to Pea Pickin' Flea Market in St. Croix Falls on Sunday and is a big fan. He got a Spiderman action figure for a dollar and lady gave us a free bowl of ice cream.

I made a little shelf / armrest thing on the corner of the goat pen and Henry was sitting up there and wanted to climb down the fence. Mama said something like "be careful, are you sure you can do that?" And he shows us how he climbs down the fence and says "See? Someone should have showed Humpy Dumpy how to do that." He's right.

We might go see about some goat prospects later this week to expand the herd. We'll keep you posted.