Another Chance Ranch

Our Newest Addition

 

Meet our new little man.  This is the only photo we have at the time.  He is in Colorado with his parents, still in the hospital in fact.  He was due on the 9th of Oct, but decided he was ready to make his appearance early.  If he had just been a little earlier we could have been there when he was born.  

He was 7 lb and 3 oz and 19.75".  They say he looks like his Daddy.  He and Mom are both doing great and should be heading home soon.  

Turkey

This is what we see outside our door/window just about everyday.  What beautiful birds.  They are a bit ugly, but so ugly they are pretty.  I mean look at them.  We have about 30 of them running around here.  I like to feed them cracked corn.  Which reminds me, I need to go and get some more.  

One day I hope to get a good shot of all of the turkey while they are flocked together.  

What is your favorite bird?

This is what we see outside our door/window just about everyday.  What beautiful birds.  They are a bit ugly, but so ugly they are pretty.  I mean look at them.  We have about 30 of them running around here.  I like to feed them cracked corn.  Which reminds me, I need to go and get some more.  

One day I hope to get a good shot of all of the turkey while they are flocked together.  

What is your favorite bird?

Memories

First I want to thank everyone for their thoughts, prayers and emails sending their love.  You don't know how much it means to me.  The funeral is Friday afternoon.  We all seem to be doing well right now, but Friday it will be a different story.  This was very unexpected, she made supper for her youngest son a week ago and all was fine.

Memories are a funny thing.  We have good memories and we have bad memories.  Her name was Pat.  She came into my life when I was a newborn.  She became the first baby sitter I ever had, and then I became her little girl.  She had two sons but she had always wanted a little girl, I became that little girl.  

She had two boys, DT and TL, they were older than me, so I had brothers.  DT is 5 years older than I am, he just had a birthday this past Monday.  So to him, I was probably the annoying little sister.  TL, he is like 2 or 3 years older than I am, we had a blast together.

One time he was gone for the weekend, I am pretty sure he (TL) was gone to Robbers Cave and my sister and I were staying Pat and Toby.  She had bought some cookie dough.  You know the kind that is already made and it was ready to just take out of the bag and put on the cookie sheet.  But that didn't happen, we didn't put the dough on a cookie sheet.  We all sat there and just ate the cookie dough.  I don't think we ate the whole bag, but between my sister and I we put a huge dent in it.  

Sometime in the middle of the night my sister and I started having belly aches.  Imagine that.  So after making a pit stop in the restroom to lose my cookie dough, I went into Pat & Toby's bedroom to tell her that we were sick.  I knocked, but they were both asleep so I just stepped inside.  I almost got sick again.  There they lay, fast asleep.  Pat was all cuddled in her blankets and Toby, well Toby was laying there buck naked.  Ewwww!  

I still love cookie dough, that hasn't changed.  And I was able to banish the memory of naked Toby right out of my mind.

See what I mean, memories are funny things.  I can remember everything so vividly, except for the naked part I have blocked it from my mind.  

Long Days and Short Nights

My weekend was filled with a lot of driving and a lot of family.   If you read yesterday's post you know that I have a lot of blogging thoughts, but you also know that I had a family member in the hospital.  McD and I left our house yesterday morning rushing to be by her side.  I prayed and prayed that we would make it before she left us, and in a way we did.  The medication and machines were keeping her alive, and when I got there her heart rate was at 24.  They were getting ready to take her off of the machines, but she went even passed while on the machine.  

So, I am tired, pissy, and even with all these ideas on the previous post I have writers block.  I will work on that today though.

Bethany,

Email me so I can mail you your prize!

I found...

someone new this Sunday morning.  

Late last night as I was driving home from my Grandparents house I began pondering what to blog about this morning.  There were all kinds of things floating around in my mind.  Not that it is large by any means, but I can think about a lot of things all at once.  McD on the other hand rarely thinks about anything.  Just ask him.  He will tell ya.  When I ask, he says "nothing."  

Me:  Whatcha thinkin' about?

McD:  Nothing.

OR 

Me:  Whatcha thinkin' about?

McD:  I don't know.  

Oh sorry, I have been sidetracked.  Here were a few of my thoughts on what I could blog about:

a) The Country Jamboree I attended with my Grandparents and Great Aunt & Uncle last night.  

b) A lady in our family that was admitted into the hospital last night and is in critical condition.  That one is a downer though.  

c) The latest book I am reading.

d)  Another story about me and McD.

e) Another recipe.

f) The new music bought.

g) Reality TV

h) Finding a new blog.

i)  More sunset photos.  (Nah!)

j) The abduction of my cousins.

k) McD

l)  Being found on my*space by my high school sweetheart

See what I mean about thoughts floating around.  So while I was laying in bed this morning, dreading getting up and listening to McD breathe really loudly,  (He doesn't snore...really, he just breathes loudly)  I finally decided to find someone new on Sunday.  And I did!

I use Google Reader, and on this particular reader it has a "Discover" button.  When you click on this button it gives you a list of blogs and you just start clicking away until you find one you like.  This morning it took only one click.  ONE!  

I clicked on The Country Doctor's Wife and found Rechelle.  This is the first post of hers that I ever read, and I was hooked.  I have been reading all morning.  So, Rechelle if you check your stats and see that someone from Illinois is on your blog a lot this morning, it is just me.  And I am not really in Illinois, but apparently the satellite I am on is...I am in the great state of Oklahoma.  I love your blog!  Or should I say blogs!  I love, love your new sidewalk.  I am picking pumpkin with the brown glaze as the color for your hutch and I am going to see what the heck Letter Boxing is.  Gotta love google.  :)

So everybody reading today, if you have just a minute head on over to see Rechelle here or here.  Tell her hello, help her pick out her hutch color and check out her photoshop skills.

Proverbs - as in wisdom

To get milk and eggs you must not frighten the cow and hen. - Tibetan proverb

A guest, like a fish, stinks the third day. - Dutch proverb

The heart has no window. - Russian proverb

A happy heart is better than a full purse. - Italian proverb

(I guess we can see who are the romantics between the Russians and the Italians.)

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. - English proverb

(While reading all of these I kept seeing the English proverbs and assumed they were the American proverbs. Then I stumbled on a few of the American proverbs.  Look at the difference in the proverbs for Laugh.)

He who laughs last, laughs best.  -  English or American?  

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. - English or American?

Okay all you smarty pants out there.  Which do you think is the American proverb and which is the English proverb?

This isn't really a contest, but be thinking about proverbs of your own.  Next week there will be a contest and the best proverb will win.  I don't know if I should tease you with what the prize will be though.  Hmmm.

Bethany

would rather be wiping up vomit!  

We have a winner folks!  

Bethany!  email me at anotherchanceranch at gmail dot com with your mailing address.

Congrats!  Thanks for playing everybody.  (I noticed Muncy didn't mention anything.  Hmmm)

Druthers? A giveaway

Do you watch the B!ggest L0ser?  

This is the first season that we have started watching it from the beginning of the season.  Last year we watched the last few episodes and we were hooked.  Well, hooked enough that we DVR it and then fast forward to the good parts.  :)  

Sammie Brady Alison Sweeney said it all last night when she asked the contestants if they were ready to inspire America.  They inspire me.  :)  Do they inspire you?

Last year I acquired the The Biggest Winner Dvd set (5 dvds) by Jillian Michaels, and I am giving them away this Friday.  Are you inspired to lose weight?  

If you are, or you know someone that is ready to become the biggest winner, leave a comment or two or three or four... and tell me all your druthers.  What would you druther do than work out?

I have a whole list of things I would rather do...

read - take pictures - read blogs - cook - eat - lay in the hammock - the list could go on and on.  

The drawing will be random, so enter as many times as you like - the more you enter the better your chances are.  I will announce the winner Friday evening.

Gross, but hilarious!

Living out in the  middle of nowhere with animals that hunt, Mordecai and Mia, we find little surprises on the porch pretty regularly.  Normally they are little.  One time, before Mia joined our family, Mordecai killed a squirrel and brought it to the back door to show it off.  

Here lately McD has been removing dead rats and mice from the porch, almost daily.  It is just something we are used to.  Intestines laying on the porch first thing in the morning is pretty normal around here.  What happened yesterday is not normal.  It is sick and wrong and so funny that I still laugh out loud when I think about it.  

We have had about 4.5" of rain over the weekend, so I have been driving my pick-up.  Sunday was very nice and sunny, and dried everything up so I drove the MINI today.  It was dark when I left the house so I never noticed anything unusual.  It was a little lighter out by the road when I got out to open the gate, but still I never noticed anything unusual.  It wasn't until my lunch break that I noticed the dead mouse on top of my MINI.  Well, it really wasn't a dead mouse.  It was half of a dead mouse.  It had to have been stuck pretty good because I was driving around 70 mph on the way to work, and it didn't budge.  

What is even funnier than having a dead animal stuck to the top of your car, is finding it when you are taking someone to lunch!!  One of the girls I work with was going shoe shopping with me.  We laughed so hard we almost cried.  

Oh the joys of living in the country.  I sure hope Mordecai enjoyed that mouse.