Play with your food

I wanted to share some amazingly cool books! They are kids books, but secretly teens and adults love them too!;)

Here are a few pictures from the books: 

Wordless Wednesday

Just for Laughts!:)

From WRAL:
Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway. State police Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance. He says another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Levier says the animal already had been dead a while.

Farm Adventures

Our family once had a farm. Since I don't want to repeat myself, if you want to read about our farm go here.:)

I have decided fro the next couple weeks to write some of our farm stories down for all my reading to read. When we had our farm, having moved from Cary NC, and not knowing anything about farming, it was hard work, but most of all it was great fun! We jump head first to the farm life and thankful we swam instead of sinking!:)

This being the first story, I had a hard time picking it. There are so many stories I could write about, like when I was got stuck in the greenhouse,  or when I got stuck in a food barrel,  humm it sounds like I get stuck in lots of things!:) 

Anyway, I think I know what story to write about so here it goes!:)

Our Turkeys were strange and crazy! Other then never wanted to be penned up, then loved wheels! They would chase anything that was a wheel. Bikes, cars, roller blades, anything! Anyway, one afternoon, I was rollerblading. When all of the sudden I saw a turkey coming! Fearing for my life I ran while on roller blades! Once entering in to the garage I thought I was safe, and stopped running to catch my breath. Then I looked behind me and  jumped in fright! The Turkey was  still coming for me!! That is when I started screaming for help, while running up the stairs. Yes, I was still in my  roller blades.:)

When I got up the stairs I arrived in the Laundry room. I thought I was save, there was no way our turkey would come in the laundry room Think again!

It had followed me up the stairs and was now closer then ever before! That is when I run out of the Laundry room and slammed the Laundry room's door on the turkey.:) Since he could not get past a closed door I was finally safe from the turkey and was able to start laughing about how a turkey had just chase me into our laundry room!:)

I am now off to bed!

Goodnight!:)

Veterans Day 2009

Last night I got stung on my little baby toe by a wasp!:( My toe now looks really funny cause it swelled up.:) When I get stung by anything...I normally have Benadryl right away for safety, then I get really sleepy and kinda crazy.:)
Anyway this is not the frist time I have goten stung on my baby toe by a wasp. Last year I was dancing in the kitchen and I stepped on a wasp. The same night as I was getting into bed I got stung again, this time on my arm.

I don't know what it is with wasp and me, but I am going to try to stay away and not get stung anymore this year!:)

Answers!:)

What's your favorite color? Black and blue cause I am always banging into things :)

What's your favorite Bible verse? Matthew 19:26 "Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

What did I miss at church last Sunday? Mr. Garner preaching and seeing everyone. 

What is the meaning of life? To glorify God

What is your favorite animal? I love bears, black bears, panda bears, polar bears, any kind of bear, even Koala bear...and that's not really a bear!:)

What instruments do you play? My first instrument was piano. When I was 11 I started violin. I stopped piano at age 14, to focus on violin. I did not feel like I could play both instruments, because I was getting over a wrist injury and had to watch how long I practiced. I also...did not really like piano, and was not very accomplished.

If you could name yourself, what name would you pick?I I would probably just keep the one  I have now since I  like it:  Anna Beth Leigh Henderson. But if I had to choose another name I really like Darby. 

Do you eat grapes? Yes, Grapes are my favorite fruit!! I could eat them all the time. I like the green seedless ones.

What is your favorite season and why?I love spring cause it's when everything is starting to get green again and the birds are coming out and it's not hot yet.:)

Favorite sport to watch? Duke Basketball!!:)

Cooking or cleaning and why? Cleaning. I love to organize, and that is categorized under cleaning. I CAN cook *glares at Abigail* but just prefer cleaning.

Where would you like to go that you haven't been, and why do you want to go there? Ireland!! I have family living there and it would be cool to see them. There is also a castle in Ireland that if your last name is Henderson you can stay a night for free. We had a orchestra visit our orchestra a couple years ago, and had two Irish girls staying with us. It would be cool to go and see their school and hear their orchestra. 

What is the most important quality/aspect that you want your future husband to have, besides being a Christian? A Hard worker, willing to serve others, loves kids and loves to laugh.

What is your favorite Bible story? The birth of Christ.

What is your favorite thing to grow in the garden? Blackberries

What is you favorite meal? Chinese Food!! Are you sure you did not know this?:)

Have you ever been yelled at for trying to poor out lemonade? Why yes, how could you have ever guessed. Here is how it happened:  One day after dinner I was cleaning up the kitchen and talking to a guy who was on my left side.  There was a  pitched of lemon aid that only had a tablespoon to two left. Since I was trying to get the kitchen all clean I decided to poor out the last few drops. So I walked out to the sink and was about to poor out the last few drops, when the guy on my left, decided to lunge at me screaming to save the lemon aid!! I jumped a foot and screamed, it's a wonder I did not throw the pitcher at him.:)  I do declare I have never been so scared in my life and think I jump a foot! If I had been a cat I think I would have lost all 9 lives!:) 

If you were given one million dollars, how would you spend it? I would make sure family was taken care of. Then I would buy violins, stands, and music books and go teach kids who could not afford violin lessons.

Do you consider yourself ambitious? Yes, defiantly with violin and teaching violin.

Do you ever think of something funny to say and are laughing so hard at yourself that you can't get it out to tell the other person? YES!  All the time!:)

If you live in the country, are you ever scared to take a walk because of any redneck hunters that might want to kidnap a bride? :) We do live in the country on 40 acres and we are surround by people that hunt, but I have never been worried about this. I think it's probably because everyone who lives near us, does not really like to be bothered and we don't see our neighbors very often. :)

Have you ever been locked out of your house? Yes....lots of times. 

Do you have a favorite chair? Yes.. the big brown one in our den. We call it the sleeping chair.

What's one of your favorite bugs? Butterfly... that's a bug right?

Do you have a strong or sensitive personality? Sensitive

Do you like cheese covered English muffins? Well I like English muffins and if they happen to have cheese on them....then well I got lucky!:)

have you ever petted a crocodile? Yes...I have also fed a giraffe:)

do you like blue grass music ? No I hate blue grass music, I don't like the style, and I don't like how the instruments are more the center of the song, then the words.  I do love country music, and there are certain blue grass songs I like. For instance I love this song.

do you know how to fish ? No...but one of these days I am going to learn!

Are you really going to answer all these crazy questions? Well looks like I have:)

Photography

Some of my favorite pictures I have taken.

Wordless Wednesday!

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Our Farm Life!

In the year of 1997 our family moved from the city to the country. About two years after moving to the country we started “Chicken Little Farm.” We had gone from buying all of our groceries at local stores to the raising and eating of our own chickens,eggs, geese, guinea hens beef, turkeys, ducks, rabbits, milk, homemade whole wheat bead, Honey and veggies and fruits from our garden.

We made farm brochures and mailed them out to families we knew that might want a healthier way to eating. We also started farm days in June and December to give families the chance to visit the farm, pick up their orders and enjoy our beautiful land. At night our family would sit in the den and read How to books about farming and animals!:)

Although I was only six at the time,I still had jobs to do on the farm. A normal day for me was waking up at 6:00 am and starting school. Then I would go outside and feed and give water to the rabbits and cats. Then I would hold my 4-H chickens and make sure they had water and food. Next I would check for eggs and hold the cows tail as Sarah milked the cow. Lastly, I would head home to eat breakfast. After breakfast I would finish the rest of my school. I would finish school at lunch time, so after eating lunch I would go outside until dinner. After dinner I would go back out to the barn,check for eggs again and hold the cow's tail while Sarah milked it again. We all learned how to milk the cow, but Sarah was the quickest!

*just I little note if you have read the Freddy the pig books, we named all our animals after the animals in the books. Our dairy cow was named Mrs. Wiggins!!:)*

In the summer and fall we would raised around 400 white broiler chickens. We build pens to hold them in and everyday we would move them around the field, feeding them for eight weeks until they weigh between 3.5-6 pounds. The chickens would feed of the grass, but also on the special blend feed that we had ground at a local mill. We also had around 30 Rhode Island Red chickens for eggs.

Turkeys are a pain!!! I would never ever ever get Turkeys again!! I don't even want to talk about then!

Our Beef cows were a really sad project! We had two twin Hereford steers that were only two weeks away from bring processed, when suddenly one of the cows got bloated and died! Well a few days latter his brother also died from a broken heart!:) (We don't really know why he died, so we say it was from a broken heart!) After this we never tried to raise beef cows again! We also had a brown Dariy cow.

Our ducks were a mix of Mallard and Blue and Black Swedish. Our rabbits were a mix of New Zealand and Californian mix. We never ate my rabbits, I would not let my family! I was not any older then ten and really loved my rabbits.At one time I have 26 rabbits! That's a lot of rabbits!!!

I would never recommend extracting honey and jarring it in your house!!It's a bad idea, trust me! We had two kinds of honey ; sour wood and clover, which we got from our 6 bee hives. Now whenever I eat honey I think it taste like bees, that does not mean I don't like it, I just think it tast like bees!:)

Around the year 2002 we stopped our farm. My mother became pregnant with Matthew and my brothers both started basketball. We sold or ate most of the animals left.

I loved the farm and the animals. Looking back at it now I am so happy I got to spend some of my life taking care of animals and learning about them. I also glad I learned how to work hard and get dirty!!!:)