tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80265895888469063322024-03-05T12:34:26.133-06:00Destiny Acres & North Star ShetlandsAdapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. - Marcus AureliusRaynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-48160393509797618982014-02-04T03:15:00.000-06:002014-02-04T03:15:02.920-06:00I am such a slacker....Seriously! I am! I can't believe I haven't updated my blog since October! It's just so easy and convienant to update the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/DestinyAcres" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>, and it's a lot easier on gigabytes that cost a fortune for my computer! lol. <br />
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This winter has seemed UNREASONABLY cold... but really, I think it's just we've been quite spoiled the last 10 years or so. I can remember it being quite cold, much like this, when I was younger. We've had one day above freezing all winter, few days above zero. We've had even fewer nights above zero, and most of those below zero nights have had anywhere from -15 to -60 windchills! Very cold for the critters, very hard on the critters. I lost one older ewe, Shetlering Pines Olga. Very sad, she was such a sweet old mooch. I've lost several chickens as well. It's been rough. <br />
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But, I am now beginning to turn my sights towards spring. Adam and I have talked things over, and we're cutting back again so we have more money to put towards our bills so we can pay them off faster. We thought about selling out even, and it still may yet come to that, but I hope not. We are cutting back to less than 15 Shetlands (not including what my mother keeps), probably more like 6-10. We are keeping the Romeldales, the 3/4 BFLs, Babydoll, Charm and a couple of the 1/2 Romeldales (for now). It's going to be hard, but we'll make it work. I do need to find a new Shetland ram though! <br />
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As of right now, I will still be raising Coronation Sussex, Silver Sussex and White Cubalaya, and will hopefully be adding Ohiki this year or next as well. <br />
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This year will be a year for change. I'm trying to be more confident in myself and my decisions. I'm hoping to lose some of the weight I've put on over the last few years. I'm REALLY hoping to get my craft room set up in the spare bedroom so I have somewhere to put my YARN! I feel so bad with it sitting outside in storage totes, all alone....lol. <br />
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Anyway, I will try to get better about posting. Even if it's just mindless babel like this kind of was. I know a lot of you prefer to hear about things on here rather than my facebook page. <br />
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Now...off to dream of lambs...and try to figure out a theme for this year!Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-23294631768610858552013-10-24T04:16:00.002-05:002013-10-24T04:16:31.932-05:00Did you know....?That the worlds largest pumpkin record comes from Stillwater, MN? The pumpkin weighed 1810 lbs and 8 ounces! I think that would take the sheep MAYBE a week to devour. Do your sheep like pumpkins? What about your other animals? Pumpkins are high in minerals and vitamins, so think about giving some autumn treats to your critters! <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span>Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-67330647675600444752013-10-11T17:42:00.001-05:002013-10-11T17:42:27.415-05:00New computerWell, my computer finally died, and this new one is a PAIN! It has Windows 8 and it's just crap, I hate it. So needless to say, no pictures on this post. I'm going to try to start posting once a month at the very minimum, so don't give up on me! lol. Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-14091232439971169242013-08-24T17:14:00.002-05:002013-08-24T17:14:38.376-05:00Why is it always the boys???Why is it always the boys that are so FREAKING tame? I can't go out in the pen without getting mobbed by Rak'nor and Anteaus for attention. I never coddled them, they were dam raised, the only thing I can think of is they learned it through us bottling the bottle lambs and seeing how they got attention. But NONE of the girls are obnoxious, even the one bottle baby isn't! She takes her bottle and then runs away lol. *sigh* I really hope Rak'nor and Anteaus get good homes. Anteaus is JUST now starting to get very minor horn growth, so he would be awesome for a polled program, very tiny crimp and he's spotted to boot! And Rak'nor isn't what I'm looking for in a ram, but he could be what someone else is, his fleece is going to be longer, with wide, but nice, crimp with high luster and its very soft so far. Plus he's a light badger face. I'm keeping his half brother Teal'c and hoping for a shorter single coated fleece. Hoping to work on some lamb fleece shots maybe Monday, because tomorrow is supposed to be record highs again! UGH! Please, if you have rain, send it our way....we are soooo dry! <br />
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Above is Mr. Aris Bock, bounty hunter...hehehe. He's a lovely boy, wasn't real receptive about being held, well, none of the boys were! He's a lovely boy, black based katmoget, 3 white socks and a white dobber on his head. Lovely boy! <br />
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This is Bra'tak! He is a moorit light badger face. Lovely fleece coming in! LOVE his tail :) <br />
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This is Omoc...he is a grey CVM. He does have tiny scurs, his other brother had thumb sized scurs when he left for his home last year. <br />
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The Shetland boys are both ready to go, Omoc needs at least another month. :) Please email or post on the facebook page if you're interested! :) Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-73654460677096526572013-07-13T11:16:00.003-05:002013-07-13T11:16:41.058-05:00Evaluating, For Sale page, etcWell I just updated the For Sale page of my blog...I'm really hoping to get a website up one of these days :) Please feel free to browse :) <br />
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Okay, evaluating....It's tough! I'd love opinions on these lambs I'm thinking about keeping... The good, the bad AND the ugly :) This is just a sampling, hoping to take more photos soon :) <br />
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Okay, I know these aren't lambs...lol. But these are two of my yearlings, Annatto & Chicory. Annattos fleece is longer, and so I'm debating on selling her. Chicory will be staying, she microned very nice and threw an adorable lamb :) <br />
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This is Brenna. She's one of the ewe lambs I'm debating on. Thoughts?<br />
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This is Kynthia. I absolutely think she's adorable! I plan on keeping her... Any comments? <br />
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This little mite is Reese. This is Raja, one of my best ewes, daughter. Raja is in the top picture with her. Spotted Katmoget X Spotted Katmoget, and what do I get? Solid moorit...although if you look at her rump, she may be going fawn? Opinions? I just love everything about this little ewe lamb....<br />
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This is Teal'c. I'm hoping to keep this little boy. He's been slow growing, but I think he'll catch up soon enough, his daddy is a beast! <br />
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This is Drey'auc & her momma Zaria. She's a little different style, but I think she has her merrits. What do you think? Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-83958883054434037272013-07-13T00:09:00.001-05:002013-07-13T00:09:07.917-05:00Okay, I give up for the night. I'm having trouble making it work!! lol. Stupid blog. Still lots of updating to do! :) Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-28883446492464457132013-07-06T18:27:00.000-05:002013-07-06T18:27:34.963-05:00Updating...WOW are we out of date here on the blog! I'm updating the For Sale page first, and then I will continue with all the other pages :) Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-9446685749004255902013-06-25T14:55:00.003-05:002013-06-25T14:55:49.500-05:00Oh my goodness, it's been so long! How I've missed you all!!!!! <br />
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I've finally jumped from dialup where I couldn't even ACCESS this site, to MiFi through Verizon, which is the best thing I've ever done! Wish I would have done it sooner!!! It's amazing! <br />
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Okay! Some quick updates!<br />
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Lambing season is officially OVER as of yesterday. Delta ended it with a beautiful CVM ram lamb! <br />
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Here he is! Isn't he gorgeous?! This years theme was Stargate SG:1 for names, so I have to pick him out a name from the list. I'm thinking Omoc! What do you think?!<br />
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Flock average for microns this year was 26.4! I'm SOOOO PROUD of my flock! Average SD was 6.0 and CV was 22.9! So happy with my results! I will post individual results later!<br />
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I will be posting more regularly again now! I hope I didn't loose all my readers in the interim....<br />
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Have a wonderful day everyone!!<br />
<br />Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-51542143387858404892012-09-04T15:21:00.000-05:002012-09-04T15:21:48.158-05:00Wow, it's been nearly 3 months! Hoping to remedy the dial up situation by year-end...It's killing me! Every time I start a blog, by the time I finish it it's totally outdated lol. I miss you all! :) If I ramble a bit, I appologize, but I worked last night even though it was my night off, covered for a friend. So I am a little sleep deprived :D<br />
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So, what's new? Lets see here...For non-farm life....Adam and I both turned a year older...yipee...lol. The 20ths of June & August :) My beautiful god daughter turned a year old in July, and my awesome niece turns to a teen in a couple days. Gonna be pulling my hair out between those two within the next couple years...the older because of boys, the younger because of toddlering...lol. It's been nearly a year that we've been married now, and we've had our ups and downs, but we're nearly over the first hurdle! :) I've got something awesome planned...but shhh don't tell him! We're still working on selling the house, going to finish moving everything to our storage locker this week.<br />
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And the biggest thing I'm sure a few people will notice in a few days: We're not attending the Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival in Jefferson, WI this year. Between needing to clean the house, clean up my mom's place, and various other things and expenses that have come up, we're just not able to go this year. But that's okay, because next year we'll be back in the show ring! <br />
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We're changing the flock around a bit, downsizing the Shetlands, keeping back more meat crosses & purchasing a few more Romeldales. Ideally I'd like my Romeldale flock around 10 animals, hopefully a representation of every color available eventually, though I think it'll be a while before I'm able to get my hands on a Swiss marked. I love my Shetlands, but there's not much of a market for registered stock up here, and while I'm trying to improve my flock every year, it isn't going as fast as I'd like, though there are a few REALLY nice lambs out there right now, I'll try to get photos up soon. Bedegraynes daughter and granddaughter espically. I do have a young ram I kept back from last year I may use this fall, who's pretty darn nice. The toughest part is cutting some of the ewes that have made the difference, to let them be replaced by either their own progeny or someone elses. Some I can't cut, and will be kept on as crossers, like Bejig, and some who I'll probably cross this year, but next year if I get a better ram, will breed pure, like Rhiannon. <br />
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We're hoping to get a website up in the next year or so, so be on the lookout for that! I'd love to have all of my animals profiled on there, along with their stats for microning, lambing, etc. We're also hoping to start testing for Johnes, CAE, etc., as soon as money permits. <br />
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And while most animals choose to produce in the spring, it seems the fowl on this farm think that summer into fall is better. We have chicks popping out all over the place. I'm sure this year it at least has SOMETHING to do with the flood....OH THE FLOOD! Okay, I'll come back to that...So I have three abandoned chicks in the house. Twinkletoes was the first. I found Twinkie all by herself (hopefully) in the barn. Her momma was a first time momma, and didn't understand that you have to wait for newbie chicks to catch up. So she was cold, and I took her and warmed her up. But then, oops! She thought I was her mommy. She still runs into my hand every time I open the cage, too cute :) Next were Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum...Unfortunately Tweedle Dum didn't make it, and Deedee is really touch and go right now, they got very chilled through at least one night before we found them abandoned. And now Wookie has joined us. Wookie is the fuzziest non-silkie chick I've ever had! Total puffball. Wookie was hatched under a guinea where a hen accidently laid her egg, and so we grabbed her quick before the guinea left the rest of her guinea eggs to go off with one little mutt chicken and ruin all those eggs. They're precious :)<br />
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Okay the flood. That was Mother Natures birthday present to me...lol. But I also believe everything happens for a reason, and let me tell you, while the rest of this nation was having severe droughts, we were still okay because of all that rain. Our rain gauge overflowed within the first 12 hours...and by the end of 24 we were under 10 inches of water. Luckily our poor sump pump was working over time and only kicked itself out once, so we only suffered 3 inches of water in the basement. While we're in the Nemadji Flood Plain or whatever it's called, we're much higher than Barnum or Moose Lake are, and they got hit HARD. They had to recover people from the assisted living home there by front end loader out of windows. Lous weren't sure they'd ever open again, but with LOTS of donations, I was able to have breakfast there this morning :) They opened just in time for the fair. There are still a lot of people working to fix up their homes after the disaster. And FEMA is denying assistance...I'm sorry, but let me step up on my soap box for a second. People build homes where hurricanes, or at least tropical storms, happen YEARLY, if not more than once a year, and they get assistance? But when Duluth, MN and the surrounding area FLOODS, they deny it? People were KAYAKING by the mall in Hermantown. ON A HILL. /steps off soapbox.<br />
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Okay, on to more farm news. The baby alpaca is ready for a new home! As are MANY lambs, chicks, muscovy ducklings, young call duck pairs and other critters. We have farm kittens available as mousers as well. We are selling off most of the miniature horses as well, cutting down and refocusing everything it seems! We also have purebred Holland Lops available at this time, and hopefully will have Flemish available in the next couple months. <br />
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For cattle, we will be keeping back several of the young heifers for a couple years down the road because they're black carriers and we will be slowly switching over to black angus as it pays a bit better :) <br />
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I think that's it for now...the dogs are demanding my attention, along with taking over my lap, so I must retire. :) Have a wonderful day, and Twinkie says don't forget to check us out on Facebook! Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-29621522841978361472012-06-02T08:43:00.003-05:002012-06-02T08:43:20.215-05:00Back from the grave!WOW has blogger changed since I last blogged, which was far too long ago. I apologize to those who like to read my blog, we've been busy and having technical difficulties. :) <br />
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We're rounding up lambing season here, had a few yearlings who accidentally got caught, and so will have some unregistered lambs available for sale later in the year. Using a Romeldale ram as a crossing sire was awesome, the lambs are growing in leaps and bounds, and their fleeces are to die for. We did have a two year old just lamb too, but that's what we get for leaving the rams in too late :) lol. <br />
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Adam and are permanently out at the farm now, which feels GREAT, except that we still have to finish moving and storing things in the rental shed and bringing a little more back here, like tools and stuff. I still have to dig my garden there, no one can have my plants! :D lol. <br />
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I still hate dialup. :) Loading pictures is really a pain on here, but between here and Facebook, I will try to keep you all updated on the goings on :) <br />
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We finished calving yesterday. 6 heifers to 2 bulls (well, now steers *snickers*), so if anyone is looking for beef cattle to raise, we'll likely be selling some of the heifers privately, rather than shipping them. One is BLUE, she's beautiful and will be staying, as well as a black white face heifer who is massively built. <br />
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About a month ago, my computer crashed and wouldn't restart. There was a corrupted file in Windows, and we had to bring it into a shop to get it fixed. I was biting my nails and nearly gave myself an ulcer worrying about if my pictures and stuff would be lost or not. Luckily it wasn't, that's probably 10 or more years of my life on here :) We do need to upgrade it, and I need to start backing up everything so I don't need to panic from now on. I will start trying to blog on my weekends, or maybe Saturdays while Adam's at work, and try to do it once a week. Although, I will try to blog tomorrow because something really neat is happening in a few hours....<br />
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But, I will leave you in suspense now ;D <br />
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I would leave you with photos, but I don't have my editing software on my computer yet, and so it takes an hour to upload one photo. Seriously. I just tried it. Started uploading, fed the baby, and came back over a half hour later and one photo wasn't even half done loading. *sigh* I can't wait until we get some bills paid down and can get satellite :D <br />
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<br />Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-2429495519061421132012-04-16T13:24:00.002-05:002012-04-16T17:37:06.898-05:00Updates!Boy we've been busy! 14 ewes have lambed since Pandan & Parsley. We took our annual trip out to Ramsay Farms in New York Mills, MN for to see our bestie, Garrett, and to go to the exotic animal auction hosted by Vern Paustch in three seperate locations through-out the year. It's been a bi-annual tradition for us ever since they started the auction up there, though we've missed a few here and there. It was great to see Garrett again, that's for sure! Anyway, lets start at the beginning! <br /><br />All was quiet until the 8th of April, which means no one won the contest! :( We had 4 ewes on the starting date! <br /><br />River Oaks Tasha X North Star Lightning McQueen gave us twins, a ram and a ewe, both black as the night and nice tight crimpy fleeces. So far the ram will be available, but we will know more after both have been evaluated<br /><br />Quartz(Heinz 57) X Sampson (Romeldale) gave us a little single. This is her first time lambing and she did great! A beautiful snow white ram lamb with amazing looking fleece. I was loving having used a Romeldale already! He will be available for sale as a fiber wether or flock sire or meat until we ship to market in the fall. <br /><br />Lil'Country Maid Marion X North Star Forsetti gave a sweet little black smirslet sokket with a white tip on her tail! "Angelica" certainly looks like she has a halo! She will probably be for sale.<br /><br />And finally, miss Winter Sky Torrent gave BEAUTIFUL twin grey katmoget ram lambs out of Lightning. Now, this should be interesting, as she's a horned ewe, and he's a poll carrier ram. :) Both boys are stunning, one a little better than the other. Being both parents are katmoget, they could be homozygous kat as well. One of these boys will likely be staying with us. <br /><br />On the 9th, we walked out to find one of our maiden babydoll X Shetland ewes with a beautiful little ewe lamb at her side. Mica did great on her first run! Again, this baby will be available as a fiber animal, otherwise we'll keep her to add to the meat producer flock. Daddy is Sampson. <br /><br />On the 10th, Thor finally was a daddy for this year! White Pine Salida had a little krunet katmoget ram lamb. Cute little fuzzy bugger. He got out of the fence first thing, as Glenmore March Maddness was trying to steal him away from his mother! Salida is lower on the totem pole, so wasn't fighting back much, but he knew who his mommy was, and she never gave up on him. We moved them to another pen and now mommy and son are fully bonded with no problem :) <br /><br />Also one of our F2 Orion ewes went that day too, North Star Arkrose had a moorit gulmoget ram lamb with Forsetti. Tiny little bugger, but very spry!<br /><br />Skip a day...lol<br /><br />On the 12th, Diamond (3/4 BFL 1/4 Shetland ) X Sampson had a little white ram. Beautiful boy! Will have a LOVELY fleece. <br /><br />We left early morning Friday the 13th for Garretts. Got a call that afternoon that Olga had two lambs. Mom said "One was lighter, one was darker" so I'm assuming a katmoget and a gulmoget, as they were in Thors pen and he has the ability to throw either. We went out today to find two gulmoget EWE lambs! One is nicely marked with a heavy krunet, the other is the darkest marked gulmoget I've ever seen! She's so dark I hardly saw she was a gulmoget. <br /><br />Mom met us out at Garretts Friday night, got there just after we'd gone to bed. We all woke up that morning and went to Lakes Cafe, as tradition dictates, for breakfast. We all nudge and poke each other during the auction, and Garrett ended up going home with more ducklings than he had intended, and we also took home 10 call ducklings. We left for the sheep and goats and went to get lunch while Garrett went home and took care of the puppies & other critters. Unfortunately we missed out on a spotted potbelly gilt we had wanted as a friend for Missy, but oh well. I ended up buying the last cage of the auction, well, because I hadn't gotten anything else! LOL. He's probably a 2 year old red golden male pheasant, beautiful and fairly tame (considering he got loose in the topper and we had to catch him while putting sheep in). <br /><br />We always hate leaving Garretts, because he's so busy and it's so far we only get to see him a few times a year, so we stayed Saturday night and late into Sunday. We went out for supper at the VFW and had nummy greasy burgers, and then came home and had a glass of wine. Sunday, we helped him tag all his lambs, and I finally got to find out what our wedding present was! He let me take a sheep! So we got to welcome White Pine LaBelle to our flock, along with River Oaks Eliza, and probably a few more this fall (even though I said no buying sheep this year...lol). It always sucks leaving a good friend. <br /><br />So we headed home to pick up Pandan from Adams parents house, and then headed to Hinckley, to deliver him to his new parents. They had already driven from southern WI, to IA, and then up to Hinckley. They had already picked up Pandans future girlfriends, and boy was I jealous! They're were beautiful! Kendra is going to have a great start in the Romeldales/CVMs! I can't wait to see photos of him when he's grown. I miss the little butthead already, but to be able to sell a house, it's kind of important to get it ready, and with a demanding bottle baby, that's really hard!<br /><br />So, while we were gone, we had 4 ewes lamb! Crazy chaos! hehe. Babydoll had twins by Sampson, beautiful, looks like either two ewes or one of each. Bedegrayne had a cute little fawn kat krunet ewe lamb, but unfortunately her daughter wasn't as lucky. Ruby had a 10-12 lb stillborn single moorit ewe lamb. She was/is sooo sad :( It's never easy to lose one, espically something so helpless as a lamb. It looks like it may have been backwards, so probably not an easy birth, so we're glad Ruby is still okay. <br /><br />And last, but definitely not least, Charm did it again, only better! This year, instead of triplet boys, 2 white, one katmoget, she really outdid herself. This year, all three were moorit based instead of just one. One solid moorit with little romeldale type teardrops like dad, one smirslet flecket, and one wildly spotted yuglet flecket. And guess what....ALL EWES! WOOHOO! :) <br /><br />And now we come to today, after all the torrential rain and snow last night and today, Aurora graced us with a little black or moorit (too dark outside to tell) yuglet lamb, healthy and huge! <br /><br />I will try to get photos as soon as possible, it's just really hard with the dialup to sit and wait for an hour to upload 4 pictures, even after downsizing them lol. I will try though :) <br /><br />Oh and we're only 4 people away from 100 likes on Facebook, so head on over there and like us if you haven't yet! We'll be having a few giveaways when we hit 100!Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-9120931702893630252012-03-26T20:10:00.002-05:002012-03-26T21:11:02.355-05:00Please welcome...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk89slvbj76nrwWFuEbcCGTZzBVfpptpyax9ApR4lnx62KZ4ebEg6DTz008hL1BktIdNowqlER_EaZbvPwRz_8ubpzD0d7PQyYeS1uGYZjVx0cYDDcIdCopYQfzqEHlrBDLo5Of-wk4jmF/s1600/IMG_0435.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk89slvbj76nrwWFuEbcCGTZzBVfpptpyax9ApR4lnx62KZ4ebEg6DTz008hL1BktIdNowqlER_EaZbvPwRz_8ubpzD0d7PQyYeS1uGYZjVx0cYDDcIdCopYQfzqEHlrBDLo5Of-wk4jmF/s320/IMG_0435.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724385055722102450" border="0" /></a>Our newest member! Cute little bugger, huh? :) J/k. While Adam brought home this yummy treat for us...we actually do have new members!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYi07BbhapfxRs2Hu8FJPtHPAaNtC9vdlJDkKpJPqpA5yhN-wpCAFgTjbjXFgiSZ3NWNDR3ppmhfcvf30Kk8M8ChPJvycq-bAK6XA0vSSmSvW5tR7AjybM_1s_Hw7FHRkhhLIaLWLlHdxB/s1600/IMG_0443.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 203px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYi07BbhapfxRs2Hu8FJPtHPAaNtC9vdlJDkKpJPqpA5yhN-wpCAFgTjbjXFgiSZ3NWNDR3ppmhfcvf30Kk8M8ChPJvycq-bAK6XA0vSSmSvW5tR7AjybM_1s_Hw7FHRkhhLIaLWLlHdxB/s320/IMG_0443.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724385065589466578" border="0" /></a>Delta with Parsley<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8R_HptMZi2f_MXlMoOqBQcm3yN_a0b1aQinqIzu7Ad8bYlRUedD4-ToXo-mpgJvmQ6hq9Cj-8BB6T1EWMu22XH-OukPdUwQSHG182_BH_C9c7SKYQqtnq-XtTH7qNIbvgKrCwQNIisfVZ/s1600/Upclose.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8R_HptMZi2f_MXlMoOqBQcm3yN_a0b1aQinqIzu7Ad8bYlRUedD4-ToXo-mpgJvmQ6hq9Cj-8BB6T1EWMu22XH-OukPdUwQSHG182_BH_C9c7SKYQqtnq-XtTH7qNIbvgKrCwQNIisfVZ/s320/Upclose.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724385046849110498" border="0" /></a>And little Mister Pandan. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjk4_Aix4JTc1PrwPaxFc7RYC525ybBSZY7VGVCN9F1QnBrykAYlNNuKgh88lZJNbV2C7kRmNFDC8q4gPdtx_B8FsRLomY6qY3-BTqZYQh7eBUWq9dnSiAL84BrC-vnxEUgmkwgfk_e8ML/s1600/IMG_0448.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjk4_Aix4JTc1PrwPaxFc7RYC525ybBSZY7VGVCN9F1QnBrykAYlNNuKgh88lZJNbV2C7kRmNFDC8q4gPdtx_B8FsRLomY6qY3-BTqZYQh7eBUWq9dnSiAL84BrC-vnxEUgmkwgfk_e8ML/s320/IMG_0448.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724385040319619970" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHemuEMu1OYbqvbNglGBr3gwZOy7WHX0bWsLTrXp4FBda9zbfmn-E-5QbACgZyWcIRENCW__8MIkkciCrp30p_c0PHlhkByNGWcqUBMQZmuKWer850MtBvbzrfROagky_CAjnoTevtScZ/s1600/IMG_0444.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHemuEMu1OYbqvbNglGBr3gwZOy7WHX0bWsLTrXp4FBda9zbfmn-E-5QbACgZyWcIRENCW__8MIkkciCrp30p_c0PHlhkByNGWcqUBMQZmuKWer850MtBvbzrfROagky_CAjnoTevtScZ/s320/IMG_0444.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724385070607835810" border="0" /></a>Pandan will be staying with us in the house until such a time as he has found a new home, or we get too attached to allow him to leave lol. He is a purebred registered spotted badger marked CVM/Romeldale. Excellent fleece sheep. If he remains on the farm, we have yet to decide if he will be a wether, or will stay intact and be our new ram. Time will tell :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-83866659620849069242012-03-18T05:47:00.002-05:002012-03-18T05:49:46.686-05:00Contest time!!CONTEST TIME!!! Whomever can guess the date the first SHETLAND (not Romeldale or cross) lambs are born, will get to NAME THEM! The only rule is that is needs to be an herb or spice, that's this years theme. The Shetlands *could* go starting the 23rd according to the lambing calculator. <br /><br />If you can guess which ewe goes first as well, you will get $20 towards the purchase of anything to do with the sheep (lamb/fleece/meat) I will post some photos of the girls I think will go soonest to help you along :) Good luck to everyone! And don't worry if someone's already picked the date you wanted, go ahead and guess it. If there is a tie, we'll figured something out ;-)<br /><br />I'm posting this on my Facebook page as well. And please invite your friends as well to the Facebook page, we're 8 people away from 100 people! At 100, we'll be having a giveaway as well :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-45998764987859052702012-03-18T04:43:00.002-05:002012-03-18T04:48:26.567-05:00Record highs!What WONDERFUL moving weather! Yesterday Duluth shattered record highs in the 70s! IN MARCH?! How crazy is this weather? I'm loving it :) <br /><br />Anyway, still busy moving. We're planning on being out at moms by next weekend, so we've got lots left to do. Then we gotta get the house fixed up so we can show it. I should really clean my desk off..... :D <br /><br />Anyway, at least for a while, I will probably be on dial-up (If I can find a freaking modem! lol), so pictures will be minimal. I can post some on my FB page with my iphone, but that will probably be most of the limit lol. Oh well. At least until we can get satellite figured out. And probably sell the house since we'll be broke otherwise. Ahh the joys...<br /><br />But the real reason you're here....<br /><br />No there's no lambs yet. Sad I know! Everyone else is starting but us. Mom was teasing Delta & Dolly yesterday though, saying they looked like cows. Both are quite heavy bred, as are a lot of the Shetlands. The Shetlands could start as early as next Friday. Delta & Dolly could go any time. Here's hoping for healthy lambs!! :) <br /><br />Oh, and shearing day is April 21st, so if anyones interested in fleeces, let us know. We will be doing the alpacas in late May or early June :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-30608674662818294492012-03-02T12:51:00.003-06:002012-03-02T13:15:48.742-06:00Feb 20th and 28thGetting more and more lax, yeah yeah yeah, I know :) Bad me :)<br /><br />Leetle feathers on thee head...:)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHM3F__YBnnJw29Irr4184MQAZUmTGAf_pAdIY0sKrg_SHEijLJr0vvtn8lRw7sSTWwQT_p0QUOfXZkxox0EX4X2lC-eFpe140iJQUddvwKPijTmRWp8RxhPvfA_briflbkxoszsVo0ua/s1600/IMG_0027.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuHM3F__YBnnJw29Irr4184MQAZUmTGAf_pAdIY0sKrg_SHEijLJr0vvtn8lRw7sSTWwQT_p0QUOfXZkxox0EX4X2lC-eFpe140iJQUddvwKPijTmRWp8RxhPvfA_briflbkxoszsVo0ua/s320/IMG_0027.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715375898772720546" border="0" /></a>Spot starting to fade now<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_O0PBmS7MxbndweHfNlhKLLXmLVKbbWnXYkL29XouoGWgjOU_ouj2z_7tqWlkxeCziWMmU7YpzmzZSeXbqkDTKKQ0PlzPjLzyHGdJj5rvzKQrV8qktk2eore8VhEr7m4IKmbtzxqgtul/s1600/IMG_0029.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx_O0PBmS7MxbndweHfNlhKLLXmLVKbbWnXYkL29XouoGWgjOU_ouj2z_7tqWlkxeCziWMmU7YpzmzZSeXbqkDTKKQ0PlzPjLzyHGdJj5rvzKQrV8qktk2eore8VhEr7m4IKmbtzxqgtul/s320/IMG_0029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715375915111985106" border="0" /></a><br />Lots more feathers on the back<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSeyq02Ra4AHbv9Qf5TbfeiMfKi2j5s8Au9oJJ6Z-6zqFP3-PQJYg9itHdYC7n_YmXheaX24CHP6CSlX1w3WdJeZ38sHGS5_TWeZdp_OXcofiwM4BNT67DqsxkXJXuH114FcDiX_OOngcM/s1600/IMG_0030.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSeyq02Ra4AHbv9Qf5TbfeiMfKi2j5s8Au9oJJ6Z-6zqFP3-PQJYg9itHdYC7n_YmXheaX24CHP6CSlX1w3WdJeZ38sHGS5_TWeZdp_OXcofiwM4BNT67DqsxkXJXuH114FcDiX_OOngcM/s320/IMG_0030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715375924135737986" border="0" /></a>Look at that big comb! :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIlYMiTOF2bvyys87ilLHEwWAGHSzrgeDaNDb95ogiSrD0aHGT_J8xDPEhq2T17gW8VVliCcgeb21hYc9IJ5mzNpgs4mqZmhXy_PMCIM2uccxPTfUsuBvKIVoViDGCdyykniCcgpoWoqS/s1600/IMG_0028.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIlYMiTOF2bvyys87ilLHEwWAGHSzrgeDaNDb95ogiSrD0aHGT_J8xDPEhq2T17gW8VVliCcgeb21hYc9IJ5mzNpgs4mqZmhXy_PMCIM2uccxPTfUsuBvKIVoViDGCdyykniCcgpoWoqS/s320/IMG_0028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715375907687559650" border="0" /></a><br />Little brat trying to jump down back to the brooder....lol<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9c0t6OISP8uYf1l3WLdHyl8dVw4Le9-ABwawgLVvI76Mx1jOB-LqaHc8l1Ndqtxkcn3FvdNxVMrSAUx9m9sUAln9vMOXWuSYqTxUnwPN4oQ9Nye9w_cg0KCw4PS_GDxTN9MqIFeM6WNM/s1600/IMG_0031.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU9c0t6OISP8uYf1l3WLdHyl8dVw4Le9-ABwawgLVvI76Mx1jOB-LqaHc8l1Ndqtxkcn3FvdNxVMrSAUx9m9sUAln9vMOXWuSYqTxUnwPN4oQ9Nye9w_cg0KCw4PS_GDxTN9MqIFeM6WNM/s320/IMG_0031.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715375929989182338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Feb 28th<br /> We shut off the light for a while while I cleaned the cage, and then left it off for a while, so they took a nap :) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFs7KPWO4tImBTsPTbQi_j49QpQzQDCCJQqnt6fGh0CxeT5YxF4wy-HJpwxu_fkWsvDPV4m3Y74GXBYX3tgvk-juqRcNSxFXEUoAXgoNpsdDm1WqSXI21qPQP8m3aSFS0qQdab663ppeMZ/s1600/IMG_0054.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFs7KPWO4tImBTsPTbQi_j49QpQzQDCCJQqnt6fGh0CxeT5YxF4wy-HJpwxu_fkWsvDPV4m3Y74GXBYX3tgvk-juqRcNSxFXEUoAXgoNpsdDm1WqSXI21qPQP8m3aSFS0qQdab663ppeMZ/s320/IMG_0054.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715379803567333970" border="0" /></a>Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-90318600646208374372012-03-02T11:38:00.005-06:002012-03-02T12:51:48.059-06:00Feb 16 - 20Feb 16th<br />The newbies arrive! Spot is curious :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslFAgg4KGtkksgtvCG14lDKLYsz2uqv4a44YNDTH7Ue1nNv_DImNl_5xjGS6BXQzG3zhG9PA0KoMV_UwsGDqBFn6VgeZ2vD1iIh_zWQ9Da0m9UKTaLVzuoXpkWizevugocn5qGLrTRzJe/s1600/IMG_9932.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslFAgg4KGtkksgtvCG14lDKLYsz2uqv4a44YNDTH7Ue1nNv_DImNl_5xjGS6BXQzG3zhG9PA0KoMV_UwsGDqBFn6VgeZ2vD1iIh_zWQ9Da0m9UKTaLVzuoXpkWizevugocn5qGLrTRzJe/s320/IMG_9932.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715367036944822546" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXfNzGhi1WF1-SU7MVgRxkkxeRKm41Si_4Qi4XUdIesJ4Kg8Qnv-3QjaDBy-x5gI1lStcyBV7_QZwV7JNoVo5MrWWxKQazHq4EWEq7C3yiBMcQYQkrHrt5Mdu_wauVK4EjSbj9Yn55rt7/s1600/IMG_9934.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXfNzGhi1WF1-SU7MVgRxkkxeRKm41Si_4Qi4XUdIesJ4Kg8Qnv-3QjaDBy-x5gI1lStcyBV7_QZwV7JNoVo5MrWWxKQazHq4EWEq7C3yiBMcQYQkrHrt5Mdu_wauVK4EjSbj9Yn55rt7/s320/IMG_9934.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715367043069379122" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Stubby is always curious about the camera :) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMUsYmgCxWTKcsg2egc5tnsDFnmMuNEoM8N8VMIWN9wuCnOrp-Imfj2CxfDu-G4mDA5IxvlK8RZ2pKCPaFAJWIGh_7nLDMEjl6MOT1_UrkvMmj_W7GGvls03UeRr_AALWru8rdDC-NCjT/s1600/IMG_9933.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKMUsYmgCxWTKcsg2egc5tnsDFnmMuNEoM8N8VMIWN9wuCnOrp-Imfj2CxfDu-G4mDA5IxvlK8RZ2pKCPaFAJWIGh_7nLDMEjl6MOT1_UrkvMmj_W7GGvls03UeRr_AALWru8rdDC-NCjT/s320/IMG_9933.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715367037431282818" border="0" /></a>Baby Barnvelder says "Are you my mommy?" to Spot :)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24FV9kmPtIaTyezezkITkxe8vWhDOBg31zuIUYAFzl-yUEh3gphFz8T1dSnQiNGofqzEhdCx4GOD4R3aVTm5kXX1AIoC0Kdb-tcOo-IjQNP0ffgJWQ4GfADI5LYcGRpRZgyydNGJC3GRT/s1600/IMG_9936.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj24FV9kmPtIaTyezezkITkxe8vWhDOBg31zuIUYAFzl-yUEh3gphFz8T1dSnQiNGofqzEhdCx4GOD4R3aVTm5kXX1AIoC0Kdb-tcOo-IjQNP0ffgJWQ4GfADI5LYcGRpRZgyydNGJC3GRT/s320/IMG_9936.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715367054068577410" border="0" /></a>"Can I eat this?"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9l3KKmpzmrfKtDJ9wtp3fDUo3xhbaJ9gg-9jRtQr6M_lfFixFPgh080i28sYq-s_B3-hd87_m95Y34j7Z0-EVMtuodzCXvW3iyhfH0_k3d50f9aEFNslQCmjvvfwvbcfb6cAZtJi_MRdR/s1600/IMG_9939.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9l3KKmpzmrfKtDJ9wtp3fDUo3xhbaJ9gg-9jRtQr6M_lfFixFPgh080i28sYq-s_B3-hd87_m95Y34j7Z0-EVMtuodzCXvW3iyhfH0_k3d50f9aEFNslQCmjvvfwvbcfb6cAZtJi_MRdR/s320/IMG_9939.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715371153623734370" border="0" /></a>Lookee the back feathers!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvfhh2BhBlFyEXeZkI5mTgkPek1YvmQN5O1HwneF6HHIupR0REzw_ElhpVVmoD0OXZtstyr0G5ZXJQhoVC9hQcPWKTonLr0UOHE3FMHARkReIMp8acyucGOop1OL4vFys49HRDEsGg1BF/s1600/IMG_9938.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtvfhh2BhBlFyEXeZkI5mTgkPek1YvmQN5O1HwneF6HHIupR0REzw_ElhpVVmoD0OXZtstyr0G5ZXJQhoVC9hQcPWKTonLr0UOHE3FMHARkReIMp8acyucGOop1OL4vFys49HRDEsGg1BF/s320/IMG_9938.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715371146770726642" border="0" /></a>And tail!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj6QQWa9G7u1FM4TRW5Ka5zr0RWL7Fn-7E-hLW8OrnbGy0wHTBkD-P7JGAEKiMQpAYvO-wAJVoDXvqq8KOu44iUHuTwNekH4u8rSZFElgTkxzbGs1oNR0OH4cTAEef3-h0t20SvHvkPKLd/s1600/IMG_9937.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj6QQWa9G7u1FM4TRW5Ka5zr0RWL7Fn-7E-hLW8OrnbGy0wHTBkD-P7JGAEKiMQpAYvO-wAJVoDXvqq8KOu44iUHuTwNekH4u8rSZFElgTkxzbGs1oNR0OH4cTAEef3-h0t20SvHvkPKLd/s320/IMG_9937.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715371140622037906" border="0" /></a><br />And comb!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQ3bwHEj0WNSdmHUMH9_OGGp_Mc4QMklJEjL0DQoqPPnoAHPkl7mOscEGaMjTVGw7DZMXsdBbGobmeSJGqpmgXZcSA6PxZus4aBdVXm1_GJCumdS7Qpa-8kjcMC1XhvDiEMfRpq_0wHys/s1600/IMG_9940.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQ3bwHEj0WNSdmHUMH9_OGGp_Mc4QMklJEjL0DQoqPPnoAHPkl7mOscEGaMjTVGw7DZMXsdBbGobmeSJGqpmgXZcSA6PxZus4aBdVXm1_GJCumdS7Qpa-8kjcMC1XhvDiEMfRpq_0wHys/s320/IMG_9940.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715371157149502290" border="0" /></a><br />Feb 20th<br />The spot is still there!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiX6SM7lzvW3UEGOqmZyObDGx7e0zHyopKRZYSOTCog9V7RanWmAFRICFlLg0C43_SJtM9c5fzYONmggmPN_JkqsTXQGdTLXJByOTOgHeUCKuKaIOF8ltk2MphyphenhyphenJmdABNfJ3iyr4lIXpoD/s1600/IMG_0013.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiX6SM7lzvW3UEGOqmZyObDGx7e0zHyopKRZYSOTCog9V7RanWmAFRICFlLg0C43_SJtM9c5fzYONmggmPN_JkqsTXQGdTLXJByOTOgHeUCKuKaIOF8ltk2MphyphenhyphenJmdABNfJ3iyr4lIXpoD/s320/IMG_0013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715373731338743826" border="0" /></a><br />Startin' to get his stretch on :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4u0LYac-z8i-YlZ-lFYdWb84pV9v-O_ja0BRFyMYe-oJ076n4-D_yOYR7aUg3NO1ew5TUcxNfMZa4eEkceULJUtKnekjoByWzoaYLaDuvSvUKuNDW6bJLq9SPNCn6XmnI9G_dK8GR6-mI/s1600/IMG_0016.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4u0LYac-z8i-YlZ-lFYdWb84pV9v-O_ja0BRFyMYe-oJ076n4-D_yOYR7aUg3NO1ew5TUcxNfMZa4eEkceULJUtKnekjoByWzoaYLaDuvSvUKuNDW6bJLq9SPNCn6XmnI9G_dK8GR6-mI/s320/IMG_0016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715373737662015746" border="0" /></a>Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-69760729822767791792012-03-02T10:04:00.006-06:002012-03-02T11:05:45.751-06:00More Spot updates :)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMXHMP2th3cQ5aDx8hT-j0X8wEDra_wO9mc6ELdCejt94o-L-d4I13w39C2EgJDl5Q3HEXl_U1_86cX2InM6hw8OnJvAjXuQQ2qmTJN17w70O-xKVKY50l3qMdkSQhz_Dc4ObraZw2X7s/s1600/IMG_9929.JPG"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAxHVtamuiu4So5DOed-oJsVm0n6SAkFnYbDRPuHzKzgsAwWA4ItTlTUZFOSXw5TsIq_70U_5yAU9cLzDh0ITHOPuYPzKkpoDDnb8O1M2ACvTCtkGfDm4mXRyaZ-zsb3yOF-e3raOfOxV/s1600/IMG_9928.JPG"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkn0EIDcMwPZMwSYIlPSuB3SfSgx6NnP-SUGE6fCiDR4Gms8dBZxm_AdZmtsChSaC-HpBcRBpzvdh0Y35gk9u3N7izCIB6Btdxe96xKyCNEIeKWcGCT-Zf9q4a5YjLOEUQ3WHRYTud4rJM/s1600/IMG_9931.JPG"></a><br />Feb 10th<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiYduY2tOnrkNtw6XlNz4vxFTci8gTDhXYbDDeaEL9Y5Ax0bMeM8LIqx-SwXfbwZACMmXvM3Xp9vpNUB_TpgTFLjM5CpmMQ0BPODVPf1EetljegxHm9uEGc2rDMenPquP75EZ4mY-LuV6O/s1600/IMG_9917.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibv80E-w7psE6VvtJ6DZJzydrOSt-hacpZeo4MozPxsLDZJ-28aw_l3uP-cM6CERnpEo6SrjbAGPuAnsMhe2bep20EBWTWiXfMWqqcmpNxpGpUztrGYz2hsupMhsomJB0RfcBR_Kuoc2am/s320/IMG_9919.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715332716165537186" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNk51mxsEMYQj9Quw-464RV_ptx6ytsSx8SuJZodZfnOUmKI_EO6p3PU4edh9zX_XwYnVXajjaZWdEXyfDyZ_gvsVzoLaTdesXmLU1lw_FRjdyspLi322EMKXj6tnkY_-j9yflRyKpH5I/s1600/IMG_9920.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNk51mxsEMYQj9Quw-464RV_ptx6ytsSx8SuJZodZfnOUmKI_EO6p3PU4edh9zX_XwYnVXajjaZWdEXyfDyZ_gvsVzoLaTdesXmLU1lw_FRjdyspLi322EMKXj6tnkY_-j9yflRyKpH5I/s320/IMG_9920.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715332722695620210" border="0" /></a>Back stripes are still holding on for dear life!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-p1iXlwPF48_PnVw1Mr5PSWzHp2-4hJUq6gH9ZgSPo5KYkcuNI-Da-Hsm0kWfKRbh-DLi6f-C0zg6YCbicofM3STlJkYfpL82rsv2ATzLhIpa7YSmwB99FzWUX9XJmo57v6Z-1cxfMFH/s1600/IMG_9921.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz-p1iXlwPF48_PnVw1Mr5PSWzHp2-4hJUq6gH9ZgSPo5KYkcuNI-Da-Hsm0kWfKRbh-DLi6f-C0zg6YCbicofM3STlJkYfpL82rsv2ATzLhIpa7YSmwB99FzWUX9XJmo57v6Z-1cxfMFH/s320/IMG_9921.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715332732555062434" border="0" /></a><br />2/11 - Happy birthday Mom!<br /><br />Just a pic of Paulie sleeping in my hand...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ1Y0DWzA3dVfXLGUdAXq14SjTFiUs0ouN1g2claL2ox-F55iFCF5YYxVba5hq2JzxHdMIEpQNdzBYaDCYPEckm71jtyvOZt1yOef9pJt_6eRmibG5I6QOBJHUQIKeJWpmwid3uv0vXq0L/s1600/IMG_9923.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ1Y0DWzA3dVfXLGUdAXq14SjTFiUs0ouN1g2claL2ox-F55iFCF5YYxVba5hq2JzxHdMIEpQNdzBYaDCYPEckm71jtyvOZt1yOef9pJt_6eRmibG5I6QOBJHUQIKeJWpmwid3uv0vXq0L/s320/IMG_9923.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715342223187894898" border="0" /></a><br />Feb 15th<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAxHVtamuiu4So5DOed-oJsVm0n6SAkFnYbDRPuHzKzgsAwWA4ItTlTUZFOSXw5TsIq_70U_5yAU9cLzDh0ITHOPuYPzKkpoDDnb8O1M2ACvTCtkGfDm4mXRyaZ-zsb3yOF-e3raOfOxV/s1600/IMG_9928.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAxHVtamuiu4So5DOed-oJsVm0n6SAkFnYbDRPuHzKzgsAwWA4ItTlTUZFOSXw5TsIq_70U_5yAU9cLzDh0ITHOPuYPzKkpoDDnb8O1M2ACvTCtkGfDm4mXRyaZ-zsb3yOF-e3raOfOxV/s320/IMG_9928.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715346111705532098" border="0" /></a><br />Teeeeeny little back feathers :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJA8CQvPwsyYki_rrUfE1zsUYZjStn_Tgqk29s8GbEPV847ciNYnrO3HzHLAsjnMx7gyHENfn4MpGfBHfEYHDcXRvoF2tX3-av8O08KLAnoKTPvzSy-yAtFUxhzCtHXUMM7d_v9RCffGz/s1600/IMG_9930.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJA8CQvPwsyYki_rrUfE1zsUYZjStn_Tgqk29s8GbEPV847ciNYnrO3HzHLAsjnMx7gyHENfn4MpGfBHfEYHDcXRvoF2tX3-av8O08KLAnoKTPvzSy-yAtFUxhzCtHXUMM7d_v9RCffGz/s320/IMG_9930.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715346122026836194" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMXHMP2th3cQ5aDx8hT-j0X8wEDra_wO9mc6ELdCejt94o-L-d4I13w39C2EgJDl5Q3HEXl_U1_86cX2InM6hw8OnJvAjXuQQ2qmTJN17w70O-xKVKY50l3qMdkSQhz_Dc4ObraZw2X7s/s1600/IMG_9929.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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And other chickies :)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4KYh56yI_8s0WpdQa7i-mGF3NEBqxVJ8Sa-5SBcJ3mJrLgrJhJYr8oVy_Clg6hez8maU0IyvNjE9XHS_IRwuOdhxsc6w3VR4DAuUSLoIPQvyrtO8fXTCfOgNMF-B7OWcr3aJ26E320L4/s1600/IMG_9900.JPG"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZw-SMC7oh7fXg-CJss7BmuzTSRWHZB1jJ1kFhyphenhyphenowNFGZlCd3hpV_zF0WGYXmWi3x6aEGg8rmzabOdxHn6olMZc6AdhwXpAuRuFok0a3zGNi6tfZbgUdRqkaMdeiLQCaZAqKmr7SkUVbd/s1600/IMG_9899.JPG"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NCARFbnpkGynMNoG3Oi4dL2nMEF26x0y6oKghR_bSXOWNN-0Jpn3wkgN3ZDV1WhN7GB820TpS8hyphenhyphenhOcgL45PzpZ0dU150tEGO0_ixy503_Ntu82CpxCPJzrURMPp8I8al9Ef2x9aYEyX/s1600/IMG_9902.JPG"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuhxhTL6Zg60g3hS6PWSrcaVz2hbfO47HghNxQBoDlsPf6p98S4bTSdn5y-2jUt_cbmFWvWtNy50RD-5HDpv2-35rycsSSuSBJ4mm6bFmfo7M_R5M_qbyeaZILEkwp16Rd45TXdfQbFBU/s1600/IMG_9896.JPG"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtchi-uh_vrAYyXwV3oPcjvzo7Uzlc6ySrYR-BMvjLsymQszgW-hZ8fmYKNnXO6zshFVc95gHZ9a-EHAWr_YbvQVf_jAMGB5PChmb2fdnsvfQE6sIxTOKl3w1LG9-3LkjYFmsfne-hpwE/s1600/IMG_9895.JPG"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLF5GjxCjA25DLkvzrXOItA19BhK4Z3yCwKKa7OqRDyZF_Tbd8Ciec-mZkEyRX9i6cY-wm95gsbtUi3bD5OxV_WUIHxS-VGqmidkYUACSEpEeekVFfUWT3KNOYY0MQXy3rMh9udpfymBT/s1600/IMG_9898.JPG"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi680m41wV4RHskP8xWvHDmiIdebkvwqqcZcLt3XRTx6j0OUiqTAVG0SD39duePi4hKq7AjIP3CWfwfxexcESv9-QTNGWbH07czSKozflJRNkqZGfu8qSDcqNNBLK43E34gPqfP3f40mtK2/s1600/IMG_9892.JPG"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilM58yyx9ti3CYvQ9qGyyCwqW5EnbIbsAu49XRRircCuncQFd0TcI1UcZrbe9xJhqithNIRlOHOfMAXCtcNUg5WKFZU0TRS8ypW6bLjUQW-ADZFZxRS0QT2GXN3hY22yiO2JMr6akJkxyA/s1600/IMG_9894.JPG"></a><br />Don't stone me, but I haven't been very good about EVERY DAY photos...but I've gotten a lot. :)<br /><br /><br />Feb 6th<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi680m41wV4RHskP8xWvHDmiIdebkvwqqcZcLt3XRTx6j0OUiqTAVG0SD39duePi4hKq7AjIP3CWfwfxexcESv9-QTNGWbH07czSKozflJRNkqZGfu8qSDcqNNBLK43E34gPqfP3f40mtK2/s1600/IMG_9892.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDcr4PFTevWoN3U7GNUJiekQ9kaAvYRcjQKnWy2ZlCN65AqzFmmmnDX7pPfpkGMtb0A9GtU4q4rfM5WJjf2xTGktlLE7_xvyfRp7PLP3P3MINNUH9NyR6VK5E8vQMHVXiSWIDIM2DeZCDk/s320/IMG_9893.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715322927803163618" border="0" /></a><br />Feb 7th<br /><br />Buh-bye back stripes!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuhxhTL6Zg60g3hS6PWSrcaVz2hbfO47HghNxQBoDlsPf6p98S4bTSdn5y-2jUt_cbmFWvWtNy50RD-5HDpv2-35rycsSSuSBJ4mm6bFmfo7M_R5M_qbyeaZILEkwp16Rd45TXdfQbFBU/s1600/IMG_9896.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsuhxhTL6Zg60g3hS6PWSrcaVz2hbfO47HghNxQBoDlsPf6p98S4bTSdn5y-2jUt_cbmFWvWtNy50RD-5HDpv2-35rycsSSuSBJ4mm6bFmfo7M_R5M_qbyeaZILEkwp16Rd45TXdfQbFBU/s320/IMG_9896.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715325637231112050" border="0" /></a><br />Lookee those wingies!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtchi-uh_vrAYyXwV3oPcjvzo7Uzlc6ySrYR-BMvjLsymQszgW-hZ8fmYKNnXO6zshFVc95gHZ9a-EHAWr_YbvQVf_jAMGB5PChmb2fdnsvfQE6sIxTOKl3w1LG9-3LkjYFmsfne-hpwE/s1600/IMG_9895.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPtchi-uh_vrAYyXwV3oPcjvzo7Uzlc6ySrYR-BMvjLsymQszgW-hZ8fmYKNnXO6zshFVc95gHZ9a-EHAWr_YbvQVf_jAMGB5PChmb2fdnsvfQE6sIxTOKl3w1LG9-3LkjYFmsfne-hpwE/s320/IMG_9895.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715325633387426994" border="0" /></a><br />This was the first time I suspected "Spotsie" may be "Spot" instead :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-ZrSZXwOUu9ytW-nrToD5aYtihK-hE_PmGC8e6n1nH70xIZGD91iVrVTV87lZmKDPY7a4xe3wNwPEAXVn58iuvvRioX-ForocC5sWoVQSUwSDXLJXRDXn9vJ3UPRErhClgEK54ZD4eVz/s1600/IMG_9897.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-ZrSZXwOUu9ytW-nrToD5aYtihK-hE_PmGC8e6n1nH70xIZGD91iVrVTV87lZmKDPY7a4xe3wNwPEAXVn58iuvvRioX-ForocC5sWoVQSUwSDXLJXRDXn9vJ3UPRErhClgEK54ZD4eVz/s320/IMG_9897.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715325644060532194" border="0" /></a>Oooh baby shake yer tailfeathers! Look at those little buggers comin' in!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLF5GjxCjA25DLkvzrXOItA19BhK4Z3yCwKKa7OqRDyZF_Tbd8Ciec-mZkEyRX9i6cY-wm95gsbtUi3bD5OxV_WUIHxS-VGqmidkYUACSEpEeekVFfUWT3KNOYY0MQXy3rMh9udpfymBT/s1600/IMG_9898.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLF5GjxCjA25DLkvzrXOItA19BhK4Z3yCwKKa7OqRDyZF_Tbd8Ciec-mZkEyRX9i6cY-wm95gsbtUi3bD5OxV_WUIHxS-VGqmidkYUACSEpEeekVFfUWT3KNOYY0MQXy3rMh9udpfymBT/s320/IMG_9898.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715325651622611570" border="0" /></a><br />Feb 8th<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZw-SMC7oh7fXg-CJss7BmuzTSRWHZB1jJ1kFhyphenhyphenowNFGZlCd3hpV_zF0WGYXmWi3x6aEGg8rmzabOdxHn6olMZc6AdhwXpAuRuFok0a3zGNi6tfZbgUdRqkaMdeiLQCaZAqKmr7SkUVbd/s1600/IMG_9899.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfZw-SMC7oh7fXg-CJss7BmuzTSRWHZB1jJ1kFhyphenhyphenowNFGZlCd3hpV_zF0WGYXmWi3x6aEGg8rmzabOdxHn6olMZc6AdhwXpAuRuFok0a3zGNi6tfZbgUdRqkaMdeiLQCaZAqKmr7SkUVbd/s320/IMG_9899.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715329086962184818" border="0" /></a>Little changes every day!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4KYh56yI_8s0WpdQa7i-mGF3NEBqxVJ8Sa-5SBcJ3mJrLgrJhJYr8oVy_Clg6hez8maU0IyvNjE9XHS_IRwuOdhxsc6w3VR4DAuUSLoIPQvyrtO8fXTCfOgNMF-B7OWcr3aJ26E320L4/s1600/IMG_9900.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM4KYh56yI_8s0WpdQa7i-mGF3NEBqxVJ8Sa-5SBcJ3mJrLgrJhJYr8oVy_Clg6hez8maU0IyvNjE9XHS_IRwuOdhxsc6w3VR4DAuUSLoIPQvyrtO8fXTCfOgNMF-B7OWcr3aJ26E320L4/s320/IMG_9900.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715329093987904258" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjjKNE_vWajIQyow7szWKQoh0mat-ibKsZW-pz_FxT0EhGjocj0jOaM6lkxlijVFphuZXm1ONPnurtMn8Ub2cFEGLaAmGKOgGAcWnOBNgA9-wJsM_8mDuR7LxxTLZ5Xdppw4C59MhO4138/s1600/IMG_9901.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjjKNE_vWajIQyow7szWKQoh0mat-ibKsZW-pz_FxT0EhGjocj0jOaM6lkxlijVFphuZXm1ONPnurtMn8Ub2cFEGLaAmGKOgGAcWnOBNgA9-wJsM_8mDuR7LxxTLZ5Xdppw4C59MhO4138/s320/IMG_9901.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715329098242080434" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NCARFbnpkGynMNoG3Oi4dL2nMEF26x0y6oKghR_bSXOWNN-0Jpn3wkgN3ZDV1WhN7GB820TpS8hyphenhyphenhOcgL45PzpZ0dU150tEGO0_ixy503_Ntu82CpxCPJzrURMPp8I8al9Ef2x9aYEyX/s1600/IMG_9902.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9NCARFbnpkGynMNoG3Oi4dL2nMEF26x0y6oKghR_bSXOWNN-0Jpn3wkgN3ZDV1WhN7GB820TpS8hyphenhyphenhOcgL45PzpZ0dU150tEGO0_ixy503_Ntu82CpxCPJzrURMPp8I8al9Ef2x9aYEyX/s320/IMG_9902.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715329106154619986" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Continued on next post... :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-32944397210737594612012-02-05T16:30:00.004-06:002012-02-05T17:01:02.911-06:00Chick-fil-a? Noooo Chick- a- day!Well, I won't BLOG about her every day, but I do plan on trying to take photos of her every day. Explaining....<br /><br /><br />I ordered an order from Ideal....in it, were 15 of 3 varieties of blue moderns....blues, silver blues and self blues. Now that their wing feathers are coming out, I can tell two are splash, but don't know if they're splash silvers or just splash. But anyway, in comes Spotsie...She is one of two dark blue chicks...but she's unique in the fact that she has an even darker spot on the back of her head/neck and dark blue almost chipmunk stripes (think typical wyandotte chicks)! Interesting! So I have decided to take a photo a day of her to maturity to see how she turns out. It gives me a project...an excuse to use my camera...and an excuse to make myself blog every week on SOMETHING, since I've kind of left you guys high and dry most of the winter (I am SOOOO sorry :( )<br /><br />Anyway, so the only photo I got on day one was with my cell phone, and I'm pretty sure this is her in the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=248662421877359&set=a.123516931058576.25046.122428974500705&type=1&theater"> middle</a>, but not positive. If you haven't, feel free to like our page while your there! We're hoping for 100 people soon so we can have an uber contest!<br /><br />And here's day two. Yes, those are sheepies on my PJ's :D<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZIiav0rNFLeos6m4sxUgMPQkTAkzGK5Gs_Xu6LZqQ9pPn1MhKdlwzeyuZ5oUTdZINRUBMO5-502JeW_viuvmAgFQrwoZEoAR0cBbcRn6IaC5-NO58NUbmBRT68zaM15TUNkshEMjnpK6X/s1600/IMG_9855.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZIiav0rNFLeos6m4sxUgMPQkTAkzGK5Gs_Xu6LZqQ9pPn1MhKdlwzeyuZ5oUTdZINRUBMO5-502JeW_viuvmAgFQrwoZEoAR0cBbcRn6IaC5-NO58NUbmBRT68zaM15TUNkshEMjnpK6X/s320/IMG_9855.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705785494101947234" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxe832caR-wCPlp9BGYSeKr9bUC8qhgiHNHGcNHv8q-ds3BLF8_fY5SwQuyRmatFrlba6h1S35YGkuIjpLYzyxbhiZhVYpljYRuZmHEa451Q_KmU8LCRyF5of7J0Jjl7nnC88kETPDRAW/s1600/IMG_9852.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxe832caR-wCPlp9BGYSeKr9bUC8qhgiHNHGcNHv8q-ds3BLF8_fY5SwQuyRmatFrlba6h1S35YGkuIjpLYzyxbhiZhVYpljYRuZmHEa451Q_KmU8LCRyF5of7J0Jjl7nnC88kETPDRAW/s320/IMG_9852.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705785479788233522" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxC4dYp97DVjoXla0_Y37yxBqZCV5xo7QGrETMKW1VHai27VZCneKaHO6r5jLrKfacHXH7SZjJQEpV3_bC9wFt_rZm6cKOk4xW3Zj4WwP496_32Mz_YSTxMLWsXaAtasWN_fgFi0mLuCs9/s1600/IMG_9862.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxC4dYp97DVjoXla0_Y37yxBqZCV5xo7QGrETMKW1VHai27VZCneKaHO6r5jLrKfacHXH7SZjJQEpV3_bC9wFt_rZm6cKOk4xW3Zj4WwP496_32Mz_YSTxMLWsXaAtasWN_fgFi0mLuCs9/s320/IMG_9862.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705785481246623250" border="0" /></a>Itty bitty wingies!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GfV0ItINox6zKNEm5AmHF2q4SOEP7Bpgk9Ud3i8IK0tnjXhx-be2R5GEl_Bpl5NOy9Q7KiCOYA1saFZJomBFs8z8IVN0vska1ed5FnVikYjyftY02l0gCITSTE734FYUl9QpUWytR6dT/s1600/IMG_9863.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GfV0ItINox6zKNEm5AmHF2q4SOEP7Bpgk9Ud3i8IK0tnjXhx-be2R5GEl_Bpl5NOy9Q7KiCOYA1saFZJomBFs8z8IVN0vska1ed5FnVikYjyftY02l0gCITSTE734FYUl9QpUWytR6dT/s320/IMG_9863.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705785489169596674" border="0" /></a>Hiding "under" momma :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmp7jA5GZNa2t-ZMASP_Rptr-kyUlzcoWfWAqZtrHIjYuFeAQWjiV4jzCXJEEsD055p3aa4_vpIW3GdNV0n3EradQ9w5YUt1WNVHbLvVf-Q56r5mEvIrJeoubti8vgj-kdShuK40HUCS7o/s1600/IMG_9868.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmp7jA5GZNa2t-ZMASP_Rptr-kyUlzcoWfWAqZtrHIjYuFeAQWjiV4jzCXJEEsD055p3aa4_vpIW3GdNV0n3EradQ9w5YUt1WNVHbLvVf-Q56r5mEvIrJeoubti8vgj-kdShuK40HUCS7o/s320/IMG_9868.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705785492434641602" border="0" /></a>I think she's half giraffe! :)<br /><br /><br /><br />Oh, and I have to post one other photo today. This is one of the "for fun" white d'Uccles I ordered. Look at the extra toe! I wonder if there's some silkie or dorking blood in the backround.... It will be interesting to find out how this chickie turns out :)<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQ-fRf63B7JnHdKDtjEy6tuP98pHUwJb0sJY3yM0xgHiZIU0njkC5HWsntr6Uv3GDDxCUp66JsgBlB9yykEyLCnUG4a4nhw2o0hbY9X0ZcuDiw6qzKbbvOAapFbeBuo3MHiFGNdnngL6G/s1600/IMG_9840.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPQ-fRf63B7JnHdKDtjEy6tuP98pHUwJb0sJY3yM0xgHiZIU0njkC5HWsntr6Uv3GDDxCUp66JsgBlB9yykEyLCnUG4a4nhw2o0hbY9X0ZcuDiw6qzKbbvOAapFbeBuo3MHiFGNdnngL6G/s320/IMG_9840.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5705789877798000242" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I'll post another post on Spotsie on day 7 probably, or around there, and compile pictures from the week :) I've got some cute ones :) <br /><br />Two months until lambing! YIPEE! :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-34770231387104722832012-01-24T07:49:00.004-06:002012-01-24T07:58:04.851-06:00One word: UnproductiveYup. Wish I could say I've been soooo busy that I haven't had time to write. That I've been doing things soooo legen-wait for it-dary it would blow your mind(been on a How I Met Your Mother kick if you hadn't noticed). Nope. Not doing anything spectactular. Nothing outrageous. Nothing even fun really. Last week the world was plunged into an icy abyss...and we rode it out by hibernating :D<br /><br />I am over half done with Adam's hat though.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8N4NxLbpDUiigKhOO7559bYldqV5aCrGDeyIz2e1_XpkC0OxTnDVq8maG6uQWBoBr-frn8izr0h_FPjsx69boyAg1X50w24TvvLPfE2-ylBCJt62N8q6qjJbCGTnM06_QVFpLju3Bzo4F/s1600/IMG_9818.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8N4NxLbpDUiigKhOO7559bYldqV5aCrGDeyIz2e1_XpkC0OxTnDVq8maG6uQWBoBr-frn8izr0h_FPjsx69boyAg1X50w24TvvLPfE2-ylBCJt62N8q6qjJbCGTnM06_QVFpLju3Bzo4F/s320/IMG_9818.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701197011584872898" border="0" /></a><br /><br />But that's okay. Because in the next few weeks, things are gonna get WILD. We're *hoping* to be moved out of the house by the end of March so we can fix up the few things that need to be fixed up and sell it. So we've got about 2 months to get EVERYTHING that's not essential to our living packed and either moved to moms or the storage shed. Things gonna be gettin' crazy....I'm not sure if we'll have internet right away out at moms, but I'll try to keep lambs updated on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Destiny-AcresNorth-Star-Shetlands/122428974500705">Facebook page</a>. Please like it. Trying to get to 100 fans and we're gonna have a big contest! If you have any suggestions as to what we should give away, please suggest away! <br /><br />Oh, also, 5 registered intermediate/primitive fleeced Shetland ewes and 1 registerable ram for sale. Please inquire if interested. :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-83389543730517727262012-01-03T09:41:00.002-06:002012-01-03T10:21:34.136-06:00Welcome 2012, and a whole lotta changes!As some of you may have noticed, our name changed slightly :) The Shetlands will always be North Star Shetlands, but since returning to the farm this spring is FINALLY happening, we needed a farm name. There's WAY too many "North Star Farms"...there's even one locally, so we didn't want that. So I came up with a list of names, and Adam and I went over them one by one, and decided on Destiny Acres. We both believe everything happens for a reason, so destiny it was! Plus Kumani's name meant 'destiny', so there's also that special meaning behind it. <br /><br />Goals for 2012:<br />~Reevaluate the flock. Culling out lots of our Shetlands to pet, fiber & meat homes. Going to slowly start over with a handful and work our way back with proper fleeces. We'll see what is produced this year, but a lot will be leaving. That means if you've seen someone you're interested in, please inquire, ya never know :)<br /><br />~Start building up my SQ poultry again. I miss having poultry! I've already got a few feelers out on some Cubalayas. Hopefully going to eventually renovate the barn so that there really isn't and poultry loose anymore, so each pen can get the different feeds they need. We'll still have some "yard candy", but not near as many as we do now. So will also have some colorful crossbred roosters and hens available this spring!<br /><br />~Start selling and sending in WOOL! I have 3 years of the stuff! lol. I'm hoping to buy a wash tub this spring so I can start washing it and sending it out. Going to start making use of the time work is giving me off :) Also want to save up money for some coats, so everything I make off selling raw wool will go right back into a fund for coats. Anyone wanna buy some raw wool? :D <br /><br />That's all I can think of for the moment. lol. <br /><br />Married life is good, for those that are wondering :) Adam is loving all the critter changes and ideas I'm having, and he's actually happy that work cut my hours down, it'll allow me to get packing soon! <br /><br />Also, I'm having a mini contest before the 100 likes contest on my FB page. When I started it there were 30 people left to go til 100, so I posted that whoever invites the most people (people that actually like animals, that are interested in animals, etc) will win a mini prize as well! So get inviting, people! Christy is ahead so far, but it's anyones game :) <br /><br />So, here's to a healthy and happy new year! Bring it on 2012! :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-85655769507086589272011-12-22T09:40:00.001-06:002011-12-22T09:41:53.071-06:00Pretty jewelry! Chance to win!http://www.thevintagepearl.com/blog/2011/12/last-minute-giveaway<br /><br />Go there and enter for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate! Neat hand stamped jewelry! :)Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-39193020307367873002011-12-22T08:19:00.011-06:002011-12-22T09:40:56.733-06:00Happy Birthday Anisa!!!!It's Anisa's 5th birthday today! Everyone got their favorite treat<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThgLFwPm67h68Hhe8rwAvb1tDTqUxcxTt41KeB_PjeTJAI8YFvkFIlGp4ZMW-wy_vbvreOcvqDwrHPNyA_u9fukGosj987ucX56B2uuu7Xc1Ngx_foBOecwTWqpb3O5hTtqSDwQ76fKCf/s1600/IMG_9705.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThgLFwPm67h68Hhe8rwAvb1tDTqUxcxTt41KeB_PjeTJAI8YFvkFIlGp4ZMW-wy_vbvreOcvqDwrHPNyA_u9fukGosj987ucX56B2uuu7Xc1Ngx_foBOecwTWqpb3O5hTtqSDwQ76fKCf/s320/IMG_9705.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688959394435733042" border="0" /></a><br />and I thought I'd share some photos of Anisa! :) Enjoy! :)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8393AVbrVdukADtG3saoGP3UCaA7TAAmBUQpY_vrz5bC4y-uzXzfs0pz2dNhgAL205pyBhZ4LbwSsoL-oAUokalCoACl5jBPkIZAKX3GsDHvKIiWVw1T8E5QlgqPCfDhVQ49N8ca8i4Aw/s1600/100_1078.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8393AVbrVdukADtG3saoGP3UCaA7TAAmBUQpY_vrz5bC4y-uzXzfs0pz2dNhgAL205pyBhZ4LbwSsoL-oAUokalCoACl5jBPkIZAKX3GsDHvKIiWVw1T8E5QlgqPCfDhVQ49N8ca8i4Aw/s320/100_1078.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688965536686404850" border="0" /></a>Just a few hours after picking her up from the breeder in Superior, and then my mom meeting the breeder in Barnum to get her sister :)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ehKhGZEzn6H6y_gmOESkdkjvN21g81Q4p5tbi_K6Ef1qLs9SloSoZgdwq9Dl1olXUcuhZotTArlNC-YcjsKdXSH8zmzv8trmDfQD0odmwKp_ArAqAZOpWgzzWwWK_DybY3I1emZWYbv_/s1600/100_1077.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ehKhGZEzn6H6y_gmOESkdkjvN21g81Q4p5tbi_K6Ef1qLs9SloSoZgdwq9Dl1olXUcuhZotTArlNC-YcjsKdXSH8zmzv8trmDfQD0odmwKp_ArAqAZOpWgzzWwWK_DybY3I1emZWYbv_/s320/100_1077.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688965532738982514" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAanJm6uD90FZK6dnrlbGOrmlTL1ZbWzG8QPvjuA7Art390nd67dPYJZIlZlwY99W6GvfLBI1wAiNRklHlRfEITj2WFCRrBaMNqapbkEJwR6jI4q2FtZslwJhTlE8avYebs7V0LUude4pf/s1600/100_1071.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAanJm6uD90FZK6dnrlbGOrmlTL1ZbWzG8QPvjuA7Art390nd67dPYJZIlZlwY99W6GvfLBI1wAiNRklHlRfEITj2WFCRrBaMNqapbkEJwR6jI4q2FtZslwJhTlE8avYebs7V0LUude4pf/s320/100_1071.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688965529165375282" border="0" /></a><br />Mmm...socks :) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWwl_8gvNRYnLyY1VzaVwz2pPxd8orClu8K3sl1-ltSbOV9kp8Akh_7rUG8DflM6EVL3pooWaPAKT5T7cRLTu7A77vDLe3kl_Rruv2-qGpZoY38u5MJY7fhGROseDZLmmzaFSEZItNXmH8/s1600/100_1069.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWwl_8gvNRYnLyY1VzaVwz2pPxd8orClu8K3sl1-ltSbOV9kp8Akh_7rUG8DflM6EVL3pooWaPAKT5T7cRLTu7A77vDLe3kl_Rruv2-qGpZoY38u5MJY7fhGROseDZLmmzaFSEZItNXmH8/s320/100_1069.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688965522976910338" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GETpqcdhZ6lkZeRCW6QWxtcuhccr1OY4HlxPrd5x3KfC0-bRJCGqJq32m6Fw-HhBNLJ3ljMjMenuHz1DEg_IO3KMkBokyMhdGJwkQnF-MQ84Yoz15IrJmIGgVntg8xUYMSw9hw9cIoDG/s1600/100_1098.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GETpqcdhZ6lkZeRCW6QWxtcuhccr1OY4HlxPrd5x3KfC0-bRJCGqJq32m6Fw-HhBNLJ3ljMjMenuHz1DEg_IO3KMkBokyMhdGJwkQnF-MQ84Yoz15IrJmIGgVntg8xUYMSw9hw9cIoDG/s320/100_1098.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688965544848597762" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5k66k77ckL6lhIr4lv3e_60MHQmdFtR0dZDzz4-xx5OqIiHf5mTQHfsiv2nAaYfegxC03uw1Js59Xfjf6WDG13GBZt_g8oXnPUJZn-SCBgSdC9aAW7mtjTkdOUFvf1K77L4HhWmWJ7kQy/s1600/100_1130.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5k66k77ckL6lhIr4lv3e_60MHQmdFtR0dZDzz4-xx5OqIiHf5mTQHfsiv2nAaYfegxC03uw1Js59Xfjf6WDG13GBZt_g8oXnPUJZn-SCBgSdC9aAW7mtjTkdOUFvf1K77L4HhWmWJ7kQy/s320/100_1130.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688966993474958258" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqgEVDZQqlvYxx4tcDTNLb5gv_fq4-rsua0ls3eoDt6c5gdkuEO3_EhY2vG9wKxSc6p6PVzNBZ6aAJP_fhaihOFrA3T8t8kWvHaFRCjzqOXTNySuSX61lBQ64_ZSVdJ1UvnUHGMrBC7SC/s1600/I+wanna+help.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqgEVDZQqlvYxx4tcDTNLb5gv_fq4-rsua0ls3eoDt6c5gdkuEO3_EhY2vG9wKxSc6p6PVzNBZ6aAJP_fhaihOFrA3T8t8kWvHaFRCjzqOXTNySuSX61lBQ64_ZSVdJ1UvnUHGMrBC7SC/s320/I+wanna+help.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688967003644060162" border="0" /></a><br />She's a lot less help nowadays lol<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sHpyPN1Z2rdnRWgeV5YMIpMhuY0KwQumiEhV0UT3N9eSOiXGDh4A1Pqf411i6JS2u1DMBJKPDKwgzNL_vOjV1nMR5FJ57ltsSiW7v2zZolBKFblW_Ab6RErVOQoCN9DdwNW5LPJicEro/s1600/parrot+puppy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4sHpyPN1Z2rdnRWgeV5YMIpMhuY0KwQumiEhV0UT3N9eSOiXGDh4A1Pqf411i6JS2u1DMBJKPDKwgzNL_vOjV1nMR5FJ57ltsSiW7v2zZolBKFblW_Ab6RErVOQoCN9DdwNW5LPJicEro/s320/parrot+puppy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688966997042253282" border="0" /></a><br />Nice size comparison, even though she's stretched out a bit<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIYS9n1nCMaMC7j9DAG3mq_pSAh0nUC0IEF0eI1ylkUE5QqbFyuGHjQ7RjBuAfIbeSycZGfT1y21qSiUEtCakCLfERk280ApgayOhZdWIJkC3BpF-_Gi35eyZrxZ4dcsxcVwRfTbgvkyM/s1600/100_1152.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIYS9n1nCMaMC7j9DAG3mq_pSAh0nUC0IEF0eI1ylkUE5QqbFyuGHjQ7RjBuAfIbeSycZGfT1y21qSiUEtCakCLfERk280ApgayOhZdWIJkC3BpF-_Gi35eyZrxZ4dcsxcVwRfTbgvkyM/s320/100_1152.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688968587859273794" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyAU1ppBVJdMeZI29oU3q_QKV6eyyTzcGoqgGif8-M8V1YRtMSNaJkWx8v3CjZNuaGq1sxeHoVhCAOHON2lrKBZjUTwOrisIHiZJjzuRHc6MIf3z16Ctn8Xqhkxcb4XK1nPPgPhU3nNyT/s1600/100_1202.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlyAU1ppBVJdMeZI29oU3q_QKV6eyyTzcGoqgGif8-M8V1YRtMSNaJkWx8v3CjZNuaGq1sxeHoVhCAOHON2lrKBZjUTwOrisIHiZJjzuRHc6MIf3z16Ctn8Xqhkxcb4XK1nPPgPhU3nNyT/s320/100_1202.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688968595928750162" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkq7A0haerNsmouBreNvLPn5-D6CvJaOs891ypEOMiz14fibd0Hsc0UU3gJZQuTkghgiLOik-qQzH6Skt_EG1MLbZ7kOtxlA4WGs6J5bAaq0QKphERpTZNWmKWkx7S10I64lJjzNulYSK8/s1600/100_1136.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkq7A0haerNsmouBreNvLPn5-D6CvJaOs891ypEOMiz14fibd0Hsc0UU3gJZQuTkghgiLOik-qQzH6Skt_EG1MLbZ7kOtxlA4WGs6J5bAaq0QKphERpTZNWmKWkx7S10I64lJjzNulYSK8/s320/100_1136.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688968582635652898" border="0" /></a><br />In my shoes.....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPET_yRC0mvRm4EgxrP465TQGzBNhkaxcDOX0W3vwCHbWnQCV9Vcm3NhJNuklKxtpMrX4E8OLw7AIt4UjpzuGn5tFpZ_LBziXwq-ZnsgHQWcv1jtt54Mh32n_GAWt9HH5uUMGdHeRIqBH9/s1600/100_1138.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPET_yRC0mvRm4EgxrP465TQGzBNhkaxcDOX0W3vwCHbWnQCV9Vcm3NhJNuklKxtpMrX4E8OLw7AIt4UjpzuGn5tFpZ_LBziXwq-ZnsgHQWcv1jtt54Mh32n_GAWt9HH5uUMGdHeRIqBH9/s320/100_1138.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688968587024422306" border="0" /></a>Below she's starting to get into the puppy uglies that poms go through<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhslU1ivhUil5vqDFv7O7B2Mg5AdStmKrwVh9YxFMyjigt6Vt9px2LDl0My4ZaMKQ1Y0nDmFAPrigNN9QKeX4eCvbVomYR3MLGcjfQP9Vrs3yG6Z6Zre3YVFTXtYcpNM8dYFOZYZD_60mNd/s1600/100_1259.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhslU1ivhUil5vqDFv7O7B2Mg5AdStmKrwVh9YxFMyjigt6Vt9px2LDl0My4ZaMKQ1Y0nDmFAPrigNN9QKeX4eCvbVomYR3MLGcjfQP9Vrs3yG6Z6Zre3YVFTXtYcpNM8dYFOZYZD_60mNd/s320/100_1259.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688970256756371010" border="0" /></a>These were taken in May, right around the 5 month mark....<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LSudWSCAjt8nxw-zkaUBnW78Q54WpkYbgphaFGr8PgBH9kEOvQW0zPk6vxXslvLU_3Ytn4-eDA_kFwn31E0cWx-Im13zF32ujkYNhL2Wl7ArZhB2tsAm60tjyWGEQ0aclG9oUX89UjHI/s1600/100_1274.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LSudWSCAjt8nxw-zkaUBnW78Q54WpkYbgphaFGr8PgBH9kEOvQW0zPk6vxXslvLU_3Ytn4-eDA_kFwn31E0cWx-Im13zF32ujkYNhL2Wl7ArZhB2tsAm60tjyWGEQ0aclG9oUX89UjHI/s320/100_1274.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688972746020932098" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFX6A5qyUa85HtKbmMED_BwP8aou04Xaa8YY-bbz6y3yZO8HEc_9ELFroplPibEDxtL1ap2WQx-lrGO1UG3to_uONvOmBq2zE1SiXqjdN26Hft5eWsspNyH-Pk4GGVg_SgZ-aBzhKddwj/s1600/100_1284.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFX6A5qyUa85HtKbmMED_BwP8aou04Xaa8YY-bbz6y3yZO8HEc_9ELFroplPibEDxtL1ap2WQx-lrGO1UG3to_uONvOmBq2zE1SiXqjdN26Hft5eWsspNyH-Pk4GGVg_SgZ-aBzhKddwj/s320/100_1284.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688972749777142930" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiov38vPWAvKVRttMsJSydorTrAU4Ghw5xJlp8w42JCgnf88V906X2Z-CgSIeUBBRRgw2Latt_CaNudL_rUiupvA_CVX-GwmgNFRyivC2B6R2UkrrficFdIKsk9MGqoFpF4sOawc0bXlpKx/s1600/100_1286.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiov38vPWAvKVRttMsJSydorTrAU4Ghw5xJlp8w42JCgnf88V906X2Z-CgSIeUBBRRgw2Latt_CaNudL_rUiupvA_CVX-GwmgNFRyivC2B6R2UkrrficFdIKsk9MGqoFpF4sOawc0bXlpKx/s320/100_1286.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688972759476583010" border="0" /></a>Next to one of my mom's Cavalier puppies<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAeUiLMkFp34MwdvVcYKa9S5fAgwV1SK-4pdIua7stPfDcNgca98mJOeTIv1B9Amw5ABcuttKmmoy_mgsjTqqo6o0kjmz037VQXyc37zBWEr1xjkFQt8n7nqVlm95V9D6_MNCoTlJy2pOU/s1600/100_1427.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglilm3V4oQ_mCilQrmnq6Nn1LVVPzEJskahTdfEp7E_i8LTNN1pGM-o2jhJOmLMt7kRzF8Gouumwu0R-_6RPjWMysfr5f_TU-WHIJkznxbQyw94l2RKOd1_B9mz7O52uL8QKEWxf0_KrcK/s320/100_1423.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688974701304964178" border="0" /></a>With her sister, Meeka.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGatXbCPAZ_zWCOsLfdjIrjs2HuC4hvp5UnwNCDtVF8iA0HYr3jyKW68wYtmWyLhZVv6fZ3AvpWiA_KEAoDlelXy4IS2nHCrMkdDUN0mcYR641Ix6E4wGJPBO9ixislQFeBkHtJlXsEcOn/s1600/100_1570.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGatXbCPAZ_zWCOsLfdjIrjs2HuC4hvp5UnwNCDtVF8iA0HYr3jyKW68wYtmWyLhZVv6fZ3AvpWiA_KEAoDlelXy4IS2nHCrMkdDUN0mcYR641Ix6E4wGJPBO9ixislQFeBkHtJlXsEcOn/s320/100_1570.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688976392747960738" border="0" /></a>MAJOR puppy uglies :) lol<br /><br /><br />And now the beautiful princess that she always has, and always will be! Momma loves her naughty, nasty, crabby princess :)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6njLNf_eukXnalhKjBMxuCA4zmTp3JtZfCof2wQDzzzvfzoOLHgZfBlY3oJlcX0Zn48MfR5dBwwD02O8Y4IaqhWvz-G8I6kDsSGbRBI6e5fKFFFH4CYK9XJ9GDt7fkfWGOS53MwcuJddC/s1600/100_2605.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6njLNf_eukXnalhKjBMxuCA4zmTp3JtZfCof2wQDzzzvfzoOLHgZfBlY3oJlcX0Zn48MfR5dBwwD02O8Y4IaqhWvz-G8I6kDsSGbRBI6e5fKFFFH4CYK9XJ9GDt7fkfWGOS53MwcuJddC/s320/100_2605.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688977668977911282" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xee84VDJYra16jOAZCdF3l0vdFB9FzkFKRtH8izm92knA6SzipqHODXlfxddGMP7m7NaL0dSyz9kLC4qOONcQzEdia1zmPHfnMpsRo64I_kddf537JNtjJMqp0kPW8Eflnwb-hHssDmb/s1600/100_2606.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xee84VDJYra16jOAZCdF3l0vdFB9FzkFKRtH8izm92knA6SzipqHODXlfxddGMP7m7NaL0dSyz9kLC4qOONcQzEdia1zmPHfnMpsRo64I_kddf537JNtjJMqp0kPW8Eflnwb-hHssDmb/s320/100_2606.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5688977673752820290" border="0" /></a>Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8026589588846906332.post-2330136905926101022011-11-26T10:52:00.002-06:002011-11-26T10:54:46.642-06:00Wedding Tidbits update...Okay, so I got yelled at last night. LOL. Okay, so not yelled at, but Tracy pointed out that I missed something in my wedding tidbits blog....The car! Use your own car if you can, limos are expensive and overrated. I, fortunately, had my 74 Dodge Challenger to use :) But if you don't have a cool classic car...see if you can borrow one from a friend/family member! They make GREAT photo props too. Money's not an issue? Get creative. Like golf? See if you can rent a golf cart somewhere. Love horses? Horse drawn carriage. Use your imagination!!!Raynahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264278371448401119noreply@blogger.com2