Miss Kressant Amanda Smith

Hey y'all! This was my first blog and it was great until I ran into some tech problems. Oh well. I use my new blog smithfamilia.blogspot.com So I'll see you there!

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Tuesday, June 21, 2005

A Day at the Farm-Homeschool field Trip?

After traveling for an hour or so from the Dallas' house, we found ourselves out in the boondocks at a Sheep farm? I'm not sure exactly what you could call this here farm as Mr. Greek (That's what we call him) has horses,cows rabbits, pigeons, goats, sheep, dog's the size of the large goats, peacocks, and a dead snake. Mainly though he has around a hundred goats and and maybe 150 sheep? Anyways when we arrived the place looked promising and we scrambled out of the truck as fast as we could. Unfortunately Mr. Greek was not there and we stood for a moment pondering the situation. However when goats, and sheep are calling you, and a massive peacock is daring you to chase him we kids soon disappeared to explore! We found several mother hens with their little broods running around everywhere chased by little wild kittens. I attempted to catch a chick or a cat but I never succeeded. We then discovered the rabbit pen and a rabbit that had escaped. Daddy has been thinking about getting rabbits to raise eat and we surveyed the group and found them, well, rather dull. LOL. I then discovered much to my surprise doves! When I was younger I once raised pure white doves for nine years. When I asked Mr. Greek for the purpose of him raising doves, he simply said with a shrug of the shoulders "I don't now, you want some?" We then wondered into one of the many sheep/goat pins where we and the goats eyed eachother suspiciously. Arman and I proceeded to explore the barns when as I was peeping into one of the many dark dens I heard a fierce growl. As I could not see where the growl had originated from I stood my ground and waited until my eyes became focused. There laying in a bed of hay was a huge billy goat drooling and growling. Arman and I figured that we could find many more interesting things on the 'other side' of the fence. LOL. Safely on the 'other side' Arman and I heard a well known bahhh of a baby lamb, inside another barn we found two little lambs. They were so cute and tiny! Their mother was having a few problems so Mr. Greek was having to bottle feed them. Mr. Greek offered me the two little orphans but needless to say I rejected the offer with as much graciousness as possible. I think that I have had my turn at bottle feeding lambs this year. LOL. Now to the dead snake, as Arman and I were petting the babies Dad whistled (each of us kids are given a particular whistle, but Daddy calls the dogs by name. LOL) for us and we all assembled around him where he was holding up with a stick a dead copper head. He pointed out is pattern to Rachie and I who, naive as we are, have notyet had the pleasure of finding one ourselves. I couldn't get a real good picture as one of the dogs had killed it plus it wasn't that big to start with. While we were learning about snakes Mr. Greek arrived! Well, three men arrived. Rachel and Alan being the only ones that have ever met Mr Greek introduced us and we started off on a tour around the farm. Mr. Greek also calls his 'kids' with a whistle which he demonstrated for us.

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