my sister has a zoo

HI, here are the pics i promised you from my weekend working my sisters petting zoo. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them. Enjoy, happygirl

Cock-A-Doodle....Gobble Gobble...???

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great weekend , mine was pretty busy. Sat was kids day at one of the grocery stores in my area. So my sister who runs Pony Rides etc, had her entire petting zoo there for all the kids and adults to enjoy. There was the llama clyde, pokey the donkey, gloria and billybob goat, curly and blossom the sheep. Of course there were the rabbits, ducks, chickens and lets not forget rosie the pot belly pig with her purple halter, purple and pink leash and flower on her halter all dressed to impress. It was a hot day but the animals had tents and lots of water. Boys and girls had a great time feeding the animals and getting critter kisses. My princess violet bunny was there she is a violet rex bunny, and my ducks, salty quakers(buff openhimer) and his girlfriends, pansy and posey(blue swedish ducks) were there. they stood in there big water dish. My sister had some interesting chickens there . She had one of her black silkie hens, and a coucian hen and rooster. One young boy that visited the animals thought the rooster was a turkey, and when it got on in the day and the rooster started crowing a cute little 2 yr old girl put her finger to her lips and told the rooster to shhhh. it gave me a giggle and still makes me grin when i think about it. Poor clyde, he was even called a camel a time or two. But everyone had fun and i did too. So if you ever need critters for a birthday, family get together, block party, etc. Just call my sister Beth @704843-3798 and have yourself one wonderful afternoon full of memories and some giggles too. Pictures to come as soon as Cicero downloads them. Thats all for now, happygirl

picture time

well i had trouble getting all the pics to load so here are more pics from my adventure. enjoy!!

What a wonderful time!!!

HI all,
just wanted to share with you pics from my vacation. I haven't had one in over a yr. my husband and i went to gatlinburg tn. we celebrated his 30 something birthday and his parents came over from georgia. it was wonderful and i can't wait to go back. enjoy the pics,. We walked and walked. We stayed at the sidney james, not a bad place. they had a nice pool, and hot tub. we went to the aquarium there, was really interesting. Did you know there was a four eyed fish, that horseshoe crabs have 9 eyes, there is a fresh water sting ray?? i didn't until then. We also went to pigeon forge and visited the 'forbidden caverns', saw a small bat, then went to parrot mountain and played with the parrots. a great place to go, visit and eat is the old mill there. great memories and experience. on our way home we went a little out of the way back to pigeon forge and fed the bears and gem mined at one of the local attractions by the road. i liked the bears, but felt sorry for them. i thought they needed grass and more comforts in there area. they seemed sad to me. they liked the apples better than the bread you could buy for them. i still think they need a tree or something to make them feel more comfortable in there confined surroundings. made me sad. the gem mining was fun though. so was the hot tub where we stayed. have a happy day, happygirl

down on the farm

I visited my sisters farm and it was wonderful. She only lives 40 min away from me, but we both stay busy so it is good to see each other when we have a chance. So here are pics from my lil adventure and i hope you will enjoy them as much as i enjoyed taking them and being with the animals. Happygirl

better than i thought.....

hi all, me happygirl again. wow twice in one day, i am really getting to be a blogaholic. Well today turned out better than i expected. Mr. grumpy got ungrumpied, turned out all he needed was food. So met my mom and dad for lunch, then headed to my sisters. didn't make it to the pool, but did get to play with all her doggies, go shopping, pet my bunny that now lives with her and one of our roosters remembered who we were and we held him too. He is my mr. fancy pants, half game half polish and beautiful as far as roosters go. I got to pet the goats, see the baby pot bellied pigs, wanted to put one in my pocket and bring that cutie home, and rubbed rosie pigs little pot belly. got some great pics, will be downloading them soon, so that means you will be seeing them soon. Take care, and here, here for Happy Days!!

ho- hum day

hi all you who look at this. i thought today was going to be a pretty great day, well it is not even noon yet, and things have turned sour. i was up at 830, got ready, went to a great church service, sang to my dogs, felt good. that was untill my husband checked on our pet chicken and found that the peeps were gone. the fox or possum paid a visit, and we are both SAD. He has been grouchy ALL day, fusing and fuming. i told him to go take a nap. was going to go to lunch with my mom, pay my sis a visit and see her puppies and bring one of my rabbits, princess violet home, maybe even go to the pool, but no, he comes home turns the tv on, grouches about the skitters, the dog getting sick, etc, cetera,cetera .....to infinite cetera... hoping my blahss and hum drums go away, anybody got any ideas, all mine are fuzzy.... wishing all of you in blog world a good day, i am sure it is gonna be better than mine, not so happygirl.....

its that time again

Hi, i will let this be the last blog for today, just had a lot to share. As mentioned in the earlier blog, cicero and I went on vacation last week. We went to Gatlinburg Tn
and celebrated his birthday. His parents joined us and we had a blast. I tried to stay on my weight watchers program, but it was hard. I say this because i missed my meeting last week, and i can't believe it is already friday and the week is almost gone and it is time to go to a meeting again. I kept thinking last week before the trip i would go the day we left and then head to the mountains, but with us, we are always rushing around , last minute this and that, so that didn't work out. I ate three meals
of my own, and the rest of the time we shared. We had BIG meals. If you ever go to Gatlinburg eat at the LOG CABIN, it is great and you get alot, and the prices are good too. So we had pancakes, eggs, bacon and grits there. My mother in law told me i was doing good. she told me i was getting skinnier. Made me feel GOOD. While walking up and down the streets there i had some rock candy(grape), yummy too, cicero helped me eat that too. He let me share his OOGLE dog(thats two hot dogs on a stick and battered, like a giant corn dog), really yummy. I drank water all but twice, then had sprite. Then we returned home and I missed our vacation and wanted (not needed) bad food. So have had doughnuts, light soy choc milk, last night he went out to Mcdonalds and got me ice cream and a big mac. So i dread going back to weight watchers. One to see how much i have gained and 2 since i missed last week i pay more this week. Well at least the sun is coming out now, I have so much to do. my vacation wore me out, had to rest for two days after coming home. we had a big adventure. Hit the great smokey mt aquarium, forbidden caverns, and parrot mountain. rode the space needle and saw all of gatlinburg at the top, walked and walked and walked some more. enjoyed the pool and hot tub at the hotel. I didn;t want it to end. neither did cicero. He had to come back to go to work, i had to come back for my three little dogs and my sweet mama. I can't wait to go do it all over again, Happygirl!!.......

what a wonderful start to my day.......

well, let me just tell you about my mornings these past couple of days. Yesturday was the best so we can start there. I need to back track some, be patient: went on vacation last week, so my sister has all the farm animals for a time being, but she missed a few so I still have one Hen (laverne) and her 3 there were 4 chicks, till my sister accidently opened the cage and one is MIA. So anyway, to the present: I have mama hen and chicks, so i went down to feed and water, and to my SURPRISE there was a black snake in the chicken house. I screamed , he hissed, he is gone now, he must have eaten eggs, for there are none down there now, and the hen and chicks are in a wire cage so the big bad snakey can't eat'm up. Wasn't that just a lovely experience....
So today I go back down there to feed and water, I put some hay in the cage so there little chicken feeties want be on the metal and get sore and mama hen Flogs me and pecked me in two places. OUCH!!! then if that wasn't enough, I am bringing the dogs in and scruffy has to be on a leash or else he runs off, jerks to get in the house and jerks my hand, the same one that was flogged mind you into the door. so now my knuckles on my right hand are nice and red and i have two small holes there as well. HOpe your day is off to a better start.. today i am just a girl!

Fresh from the......hmmm

HI, well here i am again. just had to share that my garden, hmm, flower pot, hmmm, well my veggies growing in flower pots , yeah thats it, finally made something. i just picked a squash and a tomatoe. Can't wait to try them. I have been trying to garden organically, so the first veggies i just told you about are organic, but they needed a little help, so my dad showed me how to fertilize with the spray stuff. Not really what i wanted to do, but the squash leaves were yellow. So hopefully someone out there can tell me more about how to garden organicly, i have eggshells in the pots, is that a good start??? also how do you fix squash flowers to eat??? Have a happy day from happygirl, happy about her fresh veggies!!