Dottie moves on: July 2008

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

We have lots of chickens. There are eleven. One of the chickens, Big Yellow, who is eight,we share, but there are ten others. Key: the ones in blue are mine; the ones in green are sister Casey's. Well, here are the chickens:

On left: Big Yellow, on right: Spunky

Clockwise starting with speckled at top: Speckie, Henrietta, Little Peep, Big Girl, Energy Ball, Brownie, Little Girl

Right: Little Peep

Left: Little Girl

Far left: Speckie

Casey with Blackie Longtail

Energy Ball on a high perch-- playing King of the Mountain!

Little Girl-- Yup, that's her: Then and Now!

Mellow Yellow's checking out the camera!

So now you know what chickens are mine (Little Peep, Little Girl, Spunky, Brownie, and Energy Ball), Casey's (Big Girl, Speckie, Mellow Yellow, Henrietta, and Blackie Longtail), and the one we share-- Big Yellow. Check out my blog often to find out new things about our animals!

Dog sayings

Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on. --Colette

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. --John Steinbeck

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. --Martha Scott

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in

circles. --Steven Wright

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. --Herny Ward Beecher

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. --Gilda Radner

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. --Abraham Lincoln

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. --Louis Sabin

The average dog is a nicer person than the average

person. --Andrew A. Rooney

When the Man waked up he said,

'What is the Wild Dog doing here?'

And the Woman said,

'His name is not Wild Dog any more,

but the First Friends,

because he will be our friend

for always and always and always. --Rudyard Kipling

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be

doing. --Lonzo Idolswine

I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.' --Fred Jung claus

A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. --John Holmes

If you can't decide between a Shepherd a Setter or a Poodle, get them all . . . adopt a mutt! --ASPCA

A Pekingese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized

lion. -- A. A. Milne

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. --Karel Capek

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog . . . . He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world . . . When all other friends desert, he

remains. --George G. Vest

You do not own a dog, the dog owns you. --Unknown

If you wish the dog to follow you, feed him. --Unknown

It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. --Unknown

Let sleeping dogs lie. --Charles Dickens

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. --Ben Williams

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives

whole. --Roger Caras

A dog wags its tail with its heart. --Martin Buxbaum

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that a child cannot do much harm one way or another. --Robert Benchley

My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am. --Toby & Eileen Green

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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