21 August 2012

As promised, barn raising & mummies

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Remember when Brandon blew in on a breeze of improved chi?  Well he stayed a couple nights and boy was he a big help!  We’ve got a barn to raise (modify) after-all!  We only wish he would live here  and be our full-time ranch hand.
So, onto more mummies.  That's right, more.  You thought one person can only have so much luck, right?  Well, after the muskrat discovery we discovered a cat (actually a few cats).  Cody thinks this is all pretty gross but I think it is fascinating.  So do the kids.  Seriously, how often do you find a mummified animal?  Increasingly more often around these parts.  (PS those aren’t leaves in its eye sockets, trust me.  They don’t come out – insert dry heave here…)
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This picture makes me laugh.  Brandon took it.  To him it looked like I was kind of holding it like, “here, kitty, kitty.  Nice Kitty!”  Also Brandon can make the exact face the cat is making in this picture.  It’s uncanny.
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PS don’t you like my outfit?  I am nothing if not fashionable at all times.  It’s always been my downfall in life.  Fashion first.  Yep, that’s me.
Look what else we found in the barn (shed). This is an electric fence charger.  Someone could get the wrong kind of idea about the previous owners, what with the voltage box and mummies in the shed.  We found a bucket of oxidizer in there and Cody was afraid it would have some human remains in there. 
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Our first load of hay.
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Look at these boys working hard.  We are so lucky we had so much help to get this stuff done!
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Hey look, I got a cowboy hat!
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We figured we better say some prayers and burn some sage.  That way we don’t have to call our farm, “the Cave of Trapped Souls” Farm.  08 15_200308 15_2010
So we got fencing around the garden, fenced in a corner, divided the shed into two sides with separate entrances, and lots of other things I’m forgetting that we did.  And all this to get ready for…

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