psalm_onethirtyone | "You Wake Up to the Sound of Alarms..."

Well, I am--sorry for yesterday's post. I was really, really tired. Looooong, wonderful weekend, but long. ^^

Daddy is sick. We think maybe pneumonia, so he got chest x-rays and bloodwork done, he's too old for pneumonia to go by lightly, so we're worried rather. I took Maggie for her walk to-day, and got the paper and the mail, and drove Daddy in to the doctor and got him the Times, and then I picked peas in the garden under my umbrella. The guineas squawked at me.

And Mama and I drove to the Oriental house and sat on a hay bale in the barn and watched the thunderstorm and talked for a long time. And I read a lot and watching Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, which is exceedingly silly and I had to hide my eyes a little, because besides being exceedingly silly it is bloody. Also it features God's big shiny box of smite. Really I think it ought to be common sense to leave known boxes of smite alone.

We had supper together, Mama and I, because Daddy's sleeping, he's been in bed all day except for going to the doctor. To-morrow I'll get up early and do everything again and then go to work. I kind of don't want to, I'm still pretty tired, but I promised Michelle I'd go to-morrow. So I'll try to get to bed at a decent time to-night because of that.

Maggie ate the remote. Also a driver at the truck stop fussed over her and said he had a dog at home that he missed, a golden retriever.

There's always so much to do.

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We promised not to eat them because they all came from a rescue. We just eat the chickens. And they do lay, but they hide the eggs. They are very clever about that. >_> As I'm sure you know. Ohhh, that's fantastic. We have a flock of laying hens but the chicks were eated this year. At the Oriental house we have an actual chicken house for the chicks and for the hens so we're hoping to have better luck keeping them alive. God knows. GOOSE! Oh, wow. That's--eee, wow. I mean, okay, besides being a pain because they're huge eggs, but still. HUGE EGGS. Is she a guard goose?

The purpose for the goose was to have some sort of fowl that we wouldn't eat. We got two, an toulouse named Tudor and an Embden named Stewart, but Tudor was borne off on a high wind and impaled on our shed. Then Stewart was so very lonely that we got her some ducks. She is a very dutiful duck-mommy. She is quite haughty and aloof in a very goosish way, but if she's, say, being bitten by a horse, it's all damsel-in-distress. One can then carry her to saftey which is wonderful because she is warm and I suspect goose down is the softest material known to mankind.

Ooooo dear. >_> But awww, that's utterly wonderful. That is wonderful. I want a goose now. XD I think it is.

Happy goose tummies. (-: Petted her to-day. The chicken-yard is behind a giant puddle now, and it's full of waterboatmen and rainworms.

Awwwww. --I just bet it is. Luckily things are only pleasantly damp here.

This is the fifth rain in three months! We may break the drought! Where do you live?

I know, we were having it last week, it was horrible. Pennsylvania! Where you?

Rain is happy, happy, happy thing! Ooh, Pennsylvania. I'm from Lane Co., Kansas. You've never heard of it, I guarantee you. It's one of the 'dead counties', those whose population has fallen under 2,500.

Yes, it really is. <3333 Yay, rain! And ha! I haven't heard of it, but I'm from Perry County, which is--kind of utterly pathetic. My town has pop. 140.

I have actually heard of Perry County, but only because I've heard of most of them in Pennsylvania. Our nearest town would be Amy. I don't know the population, but it has a house, which is better than Pendragon and California. I've not been to Alamota but I hear it has houses too. Dighton's our only incorporated one, which is cleverly built lengthwise along the highway so that it looks bigger than it is.

Are you serious? That's amazing. How come you know about PA? And what do you have in place of houses?

Oh, because I had to research it, having relatives who originally came from there. Fultons, I think? I forget. And as to the houses, Pendragon and California are deserted. I think California's been uninhabited since 1873, and people say it has a 'cellar'. I've been there and I can't find it. Then, Pendragon, 'the alive ghost town', has cows. Lots of cows, and dust. Lane County is pretty well doomed. It's Sharp Bros. Seed Company that keeps it afloat.

Ohhh, okay. There are Fultons in this area, I think. --Oh, wow. That's crazy. EEE COWS. I WOULD LIVE THERE. Good lord.

You like cows? Hum. They're everywhere. Our pasture is rented out to our neighbor, and his are calving right now. Two weeks ago, we saw one when we were riding, just being born, and circled it 'til it stood up.

I love cows and sheep and pigs. I never stop being delighted with them, which I probably should, since I've grown up with them. But, um. See, that makes me die of joy, right there.

Our animals' utter inability to properly birth things is astonishing at times. The envy for said neighbor and his herd of healthy calves is quite bitter.

Ohhh. That's too bad.

Our eldest mare gave birth to twins two years ago. One never got out of the sac, but the other lived for about forty minutes and was the most beautiful caramel colour ever seen.

;__; Much too bad. But how beautiful.

*snufflesob* Fortunately, the camera was working that day.

*huuuugs*

*is comforted*

*hairpets*

*hair must be brushed, you might loose your hand*

*pfff, I has experience with tangles!*

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