Sunny days are meant for macro

The sun is out...the bugs are out...I am happy. The bug at the bottom is the same kind that's on my banner. From this morning:

Daphne

Jeff took me over to his Grandpa Don's farm after work today. We got to play with the baby geese, so squishy! Also see the new calves, and meet Daphne, the sweetest calf that followed us around and sniffed and rubbed on us. It was like my own personal petting zoo, it was great! There were also baby chicks, I held one, but they were not as tame as the ones I am used to and it didn't care for being held. It was a lot of fun, and the weather was perfect. Thank you Jeff and Grandpa Don for having me over!

Captions

We played a little game last night I just decided to call "Captions". We made up different scenarios, or just said a word, then showed the emotion. Some examples: You make me sick, You stole my baby's daddy!, That tastes funny, Chlamydia, Miss America, Just laid an egg. Feel free to give these photos your own captions.

Game Face

Guy hitting on us at bar?

Holla!

To nurse inserting catheter: "That's not my urethra"

This may be "You make me sick", but I'm not sure why Megan is shooting herself

Just ate something gross

Our wedding photo

Just won the lottery

Allergy Season

Chlamydia

Megan Visit

We started the night off right with American Dream. The proceeded to visit Corvallis's grocery options. An old past time of ours. No pictures taken unfortunately. We loaded up on Gushers, small red boxes of Barnum's Animal Crackers and Shark Bites.


Sunday we went for a walk by my house. We gave ourselves a self guided tour of a mansion being built nearby. Then up further into the country. It has been raining a lot, so we got lucky finding two newts.


This guy may have been the smallest one I've ever seen, Megan kept saying "We need a penny!" for scale. I took some pictures where he doesn't look like he's being tortured, but you really can't tell how small he is. Don't worry I did not feed the newt to the chickens.



Then we met some friendly mules. At least we think they were mules...looked like horses, brayed like donkeys. They are living in this total mud pit, they slid around when they walked. The poor things will be lucky if their hooves don't rot off. I don't understand why people have animals and don't take care of them. They aren't children...you can get rid of them if you don't want them anymore.




We ran some errands, bought some over priced yarn, met Juanita's grandbaby, watched Waitress and relaxed for the night since we were both pretty tired.

Farm Life

I went for a walk this evening and took some farm animal pictures. It was a beautiful day today, especially after all the crazy winter weather we had yesterday.

Drama

I have been having a nice relaxing weekend. No big plans or pressing tasks. I was watching a movie when lo and behold a SHREW ran across my living room floor. "What are you doing in here??" I shrieked. I took a deep breath, paused my movie, and grabbed a tupperware with a large diameter to aid in capture and tracked the sucker down. Luckily he was in my bathroom, the room with the least amount of clutter and a door. I chased him around the toilet a few times and finally capped him, so to speak. I had to go outside for a breather at this point as I was sweating and my heart was pounding. I went back in to complete the mission, almost allowing it to escape, twice. I am embarrassed, but will admit, I did scream like a girl once when this happened. I took the little guy out to the chickens, thinking maybe they would take care of him for me. Boy did they ever! The shrew was not on the ground for more than two seconds before a black and white chicken was upon it. I was both laughing and horrified by this. The chicken grabbed the shrew and ran with it (as chickens commonly do with something good to keep the others from taking it), I could hear the shrew squeaking as the chicken began to pummel it back and forth. I do feel a little bad, but it's nice to know that that shrew will not be visiting me again. Oh, education for today: Shrews are not rodents, nor are they even closely related. They are in a different family, they have one more extra toe than rodents, and their teeth do not grow forever as rodents do. They have a poisonous bite, and my mom reminded me our cat would catch them but never eat them. I hope I didn't kill that chicken.



In other news, I was at Fred Meyer yesterday and they had all this Easter candy on sale. I was kind of feeling like I had missed Easter this year. Probably because I did, and I was regretting I hadn't had one of these:

Every year when I was little I got one of these "Milk Flavored" bunnies in my Easter basket. So I got one for .54 cents. I ate so much of it I made myself sick yesterday and finally had to throw the feet out so I wouldn't eat that too! I'm probably good on milk flavored rabbits for at least 2 years.

Luckily fajitas can make anything better

Oh man I had a fiasco at Ross that I don't want to relive, but moral of the story:
KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS

So I finished my first hat this week!!! Very exciting, I might start another this weekend. With all this snow we've been having, it's perfect knitting weather. Now I was warned when I started this hat, that I probably wouldn't have enough yarn to finish, especially not with ties and a topper. Well I proved them wrong, and you will see how much "excess" I ended up with.






I just made some fantastic fajitas with just chicken, taco seasoning, olive oil, red pepper and onion. Super good. I need to start cooking more for myself. I have gotten out of the habit since it's just me.



I have been getting these tortillas at the Coop, they are everything the perfect tortilla should be and more.



Well off to make some very important decisions...What's Eating Gilbert Grape or Jumanji...