Apr. 17, 2008
Ok Well, We Did It Again..........
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We went to "TSC"
We had bought a little paddle boat last time we were there, and they where supposed to deliver it, but they never came. So we decided we better check on it.....
  Well, we were walking around the store again and we went by where the chickens were ....
 There were the cutest DUCKS!!!!!!!!!
We showed my dad and he said we could get four. Josh, Ruthie, Jacob, and me all picked out one.
  They are living with the chickens for now. When they get older we are going to build them a shelter on the island.
As they grow, they will turn into white ducks, but they won't be able to fly, we've been told. They can stand the cold winters we get,
So they sound like really good ducks.
 The guy there told us that since they will kinda resemble a swan, they will keep the geese away.. Which is really really good!!
  Well, my mom and I went to Shipawana on Tuesday. It was a lot of fun and I will write about it on Sat if I get a chance... Whenever I do write about it I will tell you what other farm animal we bought while we where there.......
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Apr. 10, 2008
My Bedroom
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About a year ago I got to completely redo my bedroom. My mom and I had a hard time deciding on what we wanted to do in there, but we finally decided that we would do a "Western Themed "
bedroom, special effect paint, and wood floor.
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My Bed  My mom wanted an "organic mattress," and probably as all of you are thinking, my family also thought that was "crazy." Many many jokes were made out of the "organic mattress," but in the end we got an organic mattress, and a free organic pillow. Now every time someone comes up to my bedroom, lays on my bed, and puts their head on my pillow, they tell me that they are going to take it, or say that they wish they had one. So if you haven't caught on yet, my "organic mattress" is very very very comfy, and "Healthy."
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My Dresser
 A couple things have changed in this pic since it was taken. The doors are now painted white and there is a pic above the dresser.
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My Night Stand
 The dresser, bed, and the night stand are all made out of
cedar wood by the Amish.
The wood smells so so so good. For about a month my mom kept stopping by my room and just sticking her head in to smell it.
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This is the paint color in my room.
 The color that is on my ceiling is the color that is under the orange that is on my walls. Every day for about a week the color on my wall would change and look a little different
 It was a lot of fun to come into the room every day and see how the paint had changed !!!!
There was three steps to getting my paint to be that color. I don't have a pic of the first but it was a solid color. Then we painted small Xs all over that, and that was step 2. Then we painted small Xs over step 2 and that was step 3, and we get our final color.
Step 1
Paint a solid color of some type of blue.
Step 2
My Ceiling ^^^
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My Wood Floor
 This wood floor is not an every day wood floor. It is the original wood floor that was put in when the house was built 150 years ago. We stained the wood floor two or three times and I think it looks beautiful, but maybe that's just me.....
This is what it looked like before we stained it.
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My View
 This window is the right window in the pic below,
And this one is the left one in the pic above.
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 When people see my bed they always say that it looks like you could hitch a horse up to it.
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My Walls ^^^^
Apr. 9, 2008
Spontaneous
Posted in Pets
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Guess what !!!
We got more pets, to be exact, 18 more pets. Before I tell you what kind of animals we got, I am going to tell you how we went about getting them................
Last Sat I got home from a sleep over at around 1:00 or something like that. My friends and I went riding and had a lot of fun. We rode in saddles around the trails, but before they went home we rode a little bit bare back. Bare back is my favorite way to ride!!!!!!! So much fun!!
 Well, anyway I'll get on with my day.....
They went home after that, and my family
then went out to eat with my brother and his wife.
So after that we went to "TSC" cause my dad needed some work boots. So when we were in there we were all looking around cause it's a really fun store to look at every thing in there.
So as we are looking around, we see that they have Chickens for sale.
 They are so so so cute.
We showed my dad and he started talking to the guy that was helping us.
And what do you know.......
 My cat thinking we brought dinner for him for a month!!
We come home with a chicken coop in the back of our truck, things for the chickens and the coop, and 18 baby chickens!!!! When we left our house a couple of hours ago we had no idea that we would be coming home with chickens!!!!!!  My brother and his wife had gone home and were in their yard playing with their dogs when we got home. We were driving down our drive way when my brother looked at us. His mouth dropped and he started to point and said,
"Is that a a Chick Chicken coop?"
I think he was more surprised than us that we had bought chickens.
 Our family is extremely spontaneous!!!!!
As you can tell........
 Well, the chickens are doing great, growing fast, but doing good.
 So if any of you have any suggestions on rasing chickens, we would greatly appreciate it !!!! Considering the fact that we have no idea how to raise them.......
 So that's one of the things that is new around here...
There's a couple more things that I am going to blog about that are new, but this is the most recent and the most interesting.
Rachel
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