Multiples? Yay!

I believe Blogger is going to allow me to post photos and words and YAY! Lots has happened on the farm and in the family. Bill and Second could not fly due* to delays in weather for oldest graduation from Basic Training. So they decided to drive as we know how important it is to have family there when you graduate. They made it to Oklahoma City when our son Bill called and told us that they canceled graduation due to the horrible ice storm that hit Kentucky:(

Bill and Second headed home. Our oldest son made it to his advanced training so all is well. Now to the photo above. On my farm blog(link on top right corner) I shared that we traded wood for four female goats(1 momma her twins, and a pregnant momma). Today I went to town for groceries when Bill called me and told me Jen, Helga(the goat) had her baby...



No, she had twins...





Then I received the biggest surprise of my being a farm wife...TRIPLETS!!!
This is the runt. So far all are doing well. Well they are doing well- because we brought the 'kids' all inside for the night. Our barn for Helga is not super warm, and it is to drop below 30 tonight. As farm life is supplementing our income...inside the kids are, snuggled in a bin by the woodstove. Actually the runt is being bottle fed right now.


By the way, in the second photo in the background is my very best friend EVER! We increased our African goose population by one more. This fellow...George, came from the same flock as the first five. But the five will not include him, so I am his flock. Not my daughter-who he honks loudly at, or any of the guys.

To be honest as embarrassing as it is to confess, I kind of like having this attention. George follows me every where, sits on my lap, and lets me pet him. He acts more like a dog then Pepsi-in first photo in background.

Well so far all seems ok. I was not able to enter my farm blog. Is anyone else having any problems?

I am working on switching to something else as the lack of control has really troubled me. Hopefully more soon. I am going to try and insert a title...sigh, I hope these photos do not disappear.
Jennifer

* oops I spelled do-not due...and I am once again able to enter my blog. Well kind of it took two tries and my password was wrong, then finally it was correct?!?!

Now I can write in the post section but not in the title section. Go figure.

I am having problems posting...it seems I can only write in the title section!?

What to do, what to do...

I have the solution as to what to do with the prisoners at Gitmo. They have quite the resume and would be perfect in one place in American society.

Before I go on I am going to list the credentials of these prisoners: they hate Americans, most also hate Jews, and desire Israel wiped off the map, they are rogue in the desire to kill-murder-end the lives of others, they have survived making all sorts off bombs that did not go off in the process of making them, and no country wishes for them to be "returned".(this is important because they need to understand that they can have the decadent lifestyle along with all their other aspirations of death and destruction)

We need to train these prisoners to become abortion doctors here in the grand old USA. Yes, I believe that they are qualified just by the desires and presence to kill what they view as unwanted. So we set them up in offices across the land aborting fetuses.(well to the prisoners we better refer to them as what they are American infants- but we can still call them fetuses so that we can pretend that they are not life *wink wink*)

Once we set them up in office they will not have time to do anything else as we abort nearly 4,500 babies per day. This would be the dream job for terrorist overseas hoping and praying to kill infidels in large numbers. I mean in a good year they could kill ONE MILLION AMERICANS, perhaps with some funding(well more funding) from the government they could take that number even higher.

And if the USA Today, Fox News and CNN are correct in their reporting, Obama is planning on funding abortion clinics overseas so any terrorist that cannot get in our country via the southern border can perform the nasty deed of slaughter elsewhere and the victims will be brought to them all wrapped up in a nice package of the mother.

No I am not trying to offend anyone but I am not able to sit blindly by and pretend that the thousands killed on 9-11, and the troops that have been killed since the war are any less or more of value than the 1 million babies that Americans extinguish each year. We live in harsh times- but if we are going to be more transparent and open with the truth- then roll up your sleeves and let's get honest.
Jennifer

Oh that's all you have to do?

It is now the era of I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I did not pay my taxes...

I'm sorry that we are in an economic crisis, but I spent $170,000,000.00 on the inauguration.

I'm sorry but whites are racist so I am going to say so in an inaugural prayer.

I'm sorry that Bush was president and we Hollywood folks despised him and his buddies...but hey we are pledging to be "servants" to Obama. (hmm isn't slavery and servitude what the Left states Obama overcame?)

I am sorry that is for sure. I am sorry that we are a country where half the citizens believe that the government knows what is best done with YOURS- MINE AND THEIR money.

I am sorry indeed.
Jennifer

Caption Contest

Time once again for the weekly Caption Contest. Have fun and feel free to enter as many captions as you wish. Winners will be announced on Friday.
Jennifer

Thank You President Bush

I have one thing to mention as we end the Bush presidency and begin the Obama Presidency and that is of praise. Praise God that Agents Compeon and Ramos sentences were commuted today. Thank you President Bush for fixing this grave injustice.

My many posts about Agents Compeon and Ramos:
My post here closed with that prayer on July 20, 2007.
Fan or Fanatic
Duncan Hunter
Reflective Thoughts
It's Time to Release these Men
This is Insane
Where's the Outcry?

I will post about George Bush soon...as I have had nearly total respect for him. I pray that he and Laura have a wonderful transition to the private sector!
Jennifer

Caption Contest Winners

First Place: Tom Blogical said..."...and it goes from 0 to 60 in 2.4 minutes!"

Second Place:Penless Thoughts said..."I may be slow, but I'm sure"

Third Place:Jungle Mom said..."Peddle faster, Wilma!"

Honorable Mention:Shane Rios said..."ok ill give you a 70 Minute head start you wont even be a quarter through the race."Says the Ferari.

Pat said..."If this energy efficient guy would use some energy to move out of my way, I'd pass him!!"

Timeless Classic:RightKlik said...The turtle and the hare.

Caption Contest

Time once again for the Caption Contest! Have fun and feel free to enter as many captions as you wish. Winners will be announced Friday.
Jennifer

Seriously? Updated

We all know what this photo is used for-as it is a kitchen gadget. As a home schooler for many years, I have seen this every time I think of our public schools. You see we are pouring so much money into our schools yet there is not one level of controlling the money. It drains through so fast that before the year is over we have heard at least 30 times how underpaid teachers are , and that they often spend their own money to support classroom activities. One enterprising teacher actually sells ad space on his exams to fund the printing cost.

Now I am not against teachers, nor wish to be the state's babysitter. What I am against is the absolute con that we the public are sold each year. Test have been repeatedly "dumbed down" for students to take. What this means is that all the tax dollars funding the schools are being used elsewhere instead of learning. When the social education takes precedent over the basics of reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic, then we realize what happened to the money. We need to stop the gay awareness agenda- we all get that there are many sexual orientations. Stop building or attempting to build gay schools, trans-gender bathrooms, and readers for primary grades teaching pride in diversity, as the pride is really a shunning of traditional.

I am at a loss at the current cry from a Detroit public school. The mismanaged finances have reduced the principal into a beggar on the local corner, "Hey mister moms and dads, can you spare a roll of toilet paper, some garbage bags, and hey even a roll of paper towels?" Can you imagine this image? Well you don't need to as Principal Naomi Khalil is doing just this.

I say time to stop casting frowns towards the home school movement. Mismanaged schools across the nation condemn the very notion of homeschooling, all the while not educating as much as pandering. Take back the schools. If the teachers are not being paid enough force higher salaries for them...not the CEO's of the districts(Superintendents). Oh and I think that if I were to pick a secretary of Education I would pick the teacher ambitious enough to resolve the funding without taxing an already strapped citizen.
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Rightklik wrote a great post on this subject that is well worth reading.

The public schools need to be revamped. I refrained from mentioning test results of home school vs. public school as I am not suggesting all students should be home schooled, but Pat did mention this fact. So I will expand on it, homeschoolers are testing far higher than public school students. Take a moment and chew on that, because the movement pays for the public school, then on a shoestring(usually) pays for their children's school needs.

~Money is not the answer.
~Being trained in education is not the answer as most parents do not have a degree in education, yet do quite well teaching their children.

Your thoughts?

To the Left and to the Right...More of the Same?

This of course is a picture of George H.W Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. Looking at the photo, I see a space I guess in my mind, I place Ronald Reagan in. With Reagan we would have 6 presidents, all who became presidents after Roe v. Wade.

The numbers add up this way: 20 years of Republicans in office, and 12 years of Democrats in office. Now for my thoughts- if Republicans are the party of Pro-Life, then why hasn't any measure been taken to cease this action, or at the very least boot the issue back to the states as it is a States issue?

I have seen many bloggers that took a stance against Obama because he is Pro-Choice. McCain has been in our legislative body for 25+ years...what did he do to cease abortion?

You see my quandary with writing this post don't you? Until we determine what our issues are, the Right is exactly like the Left, voting for the party all the while not sure what the party is all about. It seems to me that the Right is not a party of life , but uses that as a factor to gather a conservative religious vote.

I say if we are fortunate, and our country is not taken so far into socialism that we cannot fix it, that we should really determine what our political parties stand for, and hold them accountable and STOP voting for something that clearly is never going away.
Jennifer

Caption Contest Winners

First Place: Pat said..."everyone in unison now, MAMA!!!"

Second Place: Glenn Bartley said...Don't be afraid - I'll move in and nip from the right, you guys go center and left. Just another tasty morsel but bigger.

Third Place:Jackie said...Happy Chicks Anonymous

Honorable Mention:CONNIE'S THOUGHTS FROM THE HEART said...Oh My!!! The sky is falling!

Timeless Classic: Tom Blogical said..."My, what a big beak you have, Mommy."

~And Blogical one more time because of the Burp~ Tom Blogical said..."We ate Jen for taking our picture and putting it on her blog for a Caption Contest. No winners this week! Burrrrrrp!"

Please forgive me for not posting the winners on Friday. With my laptop out of commission I am sharing the other computers with the family. Our Macs are sloooooooooooooooow, and the other computer is for school, IM'ing, and generally teen everything, so I pulled back. It has been a nightmare to not post. When I check on blogs on the Mac I am shown the evil circle rainbow(thinking delay).

My solution? To stay up late and use time no one wishes to use!
Jennifer

Pen of Jen has been called what?

I wrote all about my newest handle tossed at me. I am sure it was meant to be negative, but am no longer convinced. Jump over and read what happened here. Oh and I really posted a photo of me this time!Lol~

Let me know what you think...
Jennifer

Caption Contest

It's Caption Contest time once again! Have fun and feel free to enter as many captions as you wish. Winners will be announced on Friday.
Jennifer

He Never Left...sigh

It's true, Governor Richardson has announced he will not become Obama's secretary of Commerce, due to some clouds hanging over him.

The corruption in government has no top, no bottom, no political party, no race, no gender~it is everywhere. The notion that Obama has the moxie to align himself with so many that are openly involved in corruption, scandal, terrorism, socialism, and Marxism is very telling. It is as if a nuclear blast occurred and only the cockroaches have survived.

I am sad for my country because no longer are deeds and slimy transactions done in dark corners, they are done in broad daylight with all to see.



H/T Blogical Conclusions

Caption Contest Winners

First Place: mRed said...Ralph marveled at the kid's imagination when they complained that the trampoline hurt.

Second Place: Pat said...It's too hot to be jumping around, so let's just chill in the shade under this thing!!

Third Place: Shane Rios said...We are the Under "Deer's"

Honorable Mention: Jackie said...The perfect trampoline for the procrastinator.

Tom Blogical said..."You're sure nobody uses this thing...right Buck?"


Timeless Classic: Pam said... "Oh DEAR!"

Have a safe weekend!
Jennifer