Felicia Day Envies Our Goats

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Stuff

We’re having a VERY early spring this year. The snow was gone by March 12th or so, and the lakes have been out for quite a while already. Very little snow this winter. I only got to go snowmobiling three times.

Henry has been riding his 4 wheeler every day. He didn’t seem to care for the new gas powered one last year, but now he loves it. He can handle it very well too.

The pond is nearly empty. Usually this time of the year it’s totally full. There are some frogs out there, but not many.

I’ve been collecting bikes from the dump over the past year and I’ve finally started on my first project using them: a tandem bike. It’s almost done being built and then I’ll paint it – sparkly green and silver.

Delia is playing Minecraft right now and chatting with her friend on Skype. She has been playing tons of it lately on our own server, and she has lots of friends she plays with.

Delia and I have formed a band: The Barn Cats. Delia is the drummer, and I’m the guitarist and singer. We were playing every day for a while but then she got really into Minecraft so it has been pushed aside lately. We’ll get back to it though.

Delia and I went on a super fun 4 wheeler ride today and had a picnic.

I’ve started a new business/hobby: motorcycle/motorsports salvage! So far I’ve bought a ton of engine gaskets at an auction and three motorcycles. Sold a few gaskets already and almost have the first bike torn down so I can list the parts on ebay.

Sancho is really skinny and I can’t figure out why. The other pasture animals are doing fine. Banjo had a bad limp last fall but seems fine now. Chickens are all good. No chicks this year.

Ki is getting LOTS better. Today he was outside almost all day and mostly just sat on the deck. If he only knew how lucky he is.

I think that’s about it for now.

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Updates!

I’m going to do my best to start updating this again. I feel like I have to go back and cover all the stuff I missed and that is keeping me from adding anything new, so I’m going to just ignore the old stuff for now and start from here.

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Henry

Henry doesn’t want me to record him because girls might see it and want to be his girlfriends because he’s “like Justin Beiber.”

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Henry

“When I grow up I want to have kids and I want them to have kids so that the world isn’t empty of people and it keeps going.”

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Barn Swallows

They’re back. And so are the frogs.

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Henry Gems

Two gems from Henry on the day of my Grandpa’s funeral:

During the service: “Mom, what should I do with my snot?”  It produced much needed laughs.

When the preacher started in on a pre-meal prayer: “Jesus?!  I DON’T WANT ANY MORE JESUS!”  Amen.

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Hay Feeder

Finished it today and so far it’s working great.

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Hay Feeder Project

While looking at the dump’s pile of tires, I became inspired.  A bunch of tires standing upright and bolted together would make a dandy hay feeder for the animals.  It’s indestructible, safe for them, and free!  I came home with a dozen tires and I’m bolting them together now.  Hopefully this will prevent the animals from wasting a bunch of hay while we’re gone.

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Dump Score

A Stihl weed wacker! It looked complete and had compression so I brought it home. Checked for spark and it had it. Put some ether in the cylinder and it fired up briefly. It won’t keep running which I think is due to a gummed up gas line. The only thing I can find wrong with it is the tab that holds the spool on is broken, but since it’s a Stihl, I should be able to easily find parts. This has the potential to be the best dump find ever.

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