Merry Christmas!

     Well December is finally here...but the only snow that we get turns into slush in less than a day...I took the picture on the right at about 8 in the morning and by noon there wasn't any snow on the tall grass any more and the mud was showing through the snow. 
     Then again, it is better than being snowed in... Hugh ( 6 yr. old little brother) built the sweetest fort with me while we had a few inches of snow, and before it turned to slush... and as i am looking through the camera we didn't take a picture of it!

    I also bought a baby Nigerian pygmy goat in November...back then he was smaller than a cat, now he is about the same size as a very fat/tall/hyper cat. Right now he is really grumpy because he has been taken from four meals a day to three meals a day...he is definitely able to express himself!
                  We also have extremely early bum lambs (orphan lambs), we started with four, and now we have two... but they're thriving, so it is all good. Well now it is about time to go make the bottles for the bummers and the mighty Thor (amazingly cute pygmy goat)! And here's a cute picture to boot, This is me when I was around four (?) at Grandma Sherie's house eating a huge "crispy treat" on my way to play in the snow!

Mondays....

I can't believe it is already October! It definitely does not feel like October. It has been cold and rainy, not crisp and cozy like it should be! Looking back at previous posts (there's not very many to look at...) I have come to the conclusion that A. Home coming went pretty well considering that Bear River won, B. Dance is extremely fun, and our jazz dance is my current favorite, and finally C. I was wrong about the school books, their still coming in full force! I am currently setting up a flower garden and I am hoping to put the bulbs in the ground soon. We are also turning an old bookshelf/cabinet into a raised bed which will hold some kind of flower. Since it is so close to bed time I have added a poem for my little brother, Hugh, because he says that tomorrow his bed will be the Ark, a spaceship, and invisible!

From The Bed Book

By Sylvia Plath

Most Beds are Beds

For sleeping or resting,

But the best beds are much

More interesting!

Not just a white little

Tucked-in-tight little

Nighty-nighty little 

Turn-out-the-light little

Bed-

                    Instead

A Bed for Fishing

A Bed for Cats,

A Bed for a Troupe of 

                     Acrobats.

The right sort of Bed

(If you see what I mean)

Is a Bed that might

Be a Submarine

Nosing through water

Clear and green,

Sliver and glittery

As a sardine.

Or a Jet-Propelled Bed 

For Visiting Mars

With a mosquito nest

For the shooting stars... 

(This poem is from the book " A Family of Poems" compiled by Caroline Kennedy and the Poem is written by the above stated author under the above stated name.)

Recent Happenings.....

 
Well first off, on the seventh I received my learner's permit, mainly
 because Mother wouldn't let me put it off any longer, but it wasn't too bad... Then on the twelfth I went exploring in the garden and I found...      

Ants invading!

Flaming Sunflowers

Snakes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

The little sweet peas!

Then Monday came... and with Monday came dance class, and I'm still sore! The last of my school books (I think) came on Monday too! Not much happened on Tuesday, except I made ginger snaps and they tasted really good! After I got done making the cookies, Mother laughed at me because I had made a cookie which was roughly 5 inches in diameter, and then I ate the whole thing. It was delicious! Wednesday not much happened , except I finished my old science book. Again nothing happened on Thursday, but today the 17th of September is a very special day. It is the youngest brother's birthday!!!! Today he officially turns 6 and he has been super excited about his birthday since May!

Here's the birthday boy!

About me...

Welcome to Bear Country!

This is the blog of a home-schooling sophomore who has yet to convince her mother that, broken cookies really don't have calories... I am the only girl in a family of four kids, one brother is older and the other two are younger. I have a Pembroke corgi whose picture will be on this blog if I can catch him holding still long enough to take a picture. There are also three other dogs who increase the amount of love in the house by 'recycling' the cardboard that doesn't make it out of the house quite fast enough... So hopefully we will make it through the year safely, happily, and with most of the sanity that we started with!


P.S. Congratulations to everyone who auctioned an animal at the Box Elder County Fair!