And the Winner Is....

Okay, when I asked y'all for stories, I had no idea how many of you had a hard time keeping your pants, skirts and even shirts on! After careful evaluation and a few hardy laughs, the winner is... Haha! You'll just have to read the rest of the blog to find out.

We girls just love a good party!

So, it seems there's going to be a blog party beginning tomorrow. I only just received the invite. Well, let me clarify, I never received one, but I read about it on someone else's blog. And knowing how my rowdy groupies here love crashing a good party, I thought I'd swipe the invite link and post it here so y'all could party on! (Do try to keep your clothes on, though, so we don't have any more embarrassing moments!)

That little bit of sun was sure nice yesterday. Too bad I woke up to the four letter S word today! About three inches, not bad when you consider they were having a slick mess of a time down in the Seattle area. A 50 plus car pile up was the 'highlight' of the news on Snoqualmie pass yesterday and even today. Yikes!

Tait and Rocket help Sunny with the grain. The temporary divider is coming down; the full divider is now up (but not in this picture!)

Snow aside, City Boy set to work putting in a new divider in the barn. Sunny has been fighting such a horrible case of lice, you may recall, and I've kept Quiet Storm out with the sheep so she didn't pick it up. However, with Taffy so close to lambing, I really need Storm back in the paddock.

Hmmm...let's see...what else was on my mind tonight? Oh, yes! Something about a contest... Well, I must tell you that your stories made me feel much better about the whole booger date incident. I got quite the giggle out of most of them, and was quite surprised to see how many of you lost your clothing in public. Snot just doesn't seem so bad anymore! In the end (ha!) I had to go with the G-string bowler, though. Jr. High? Yeah...that would be embarrassing. Congratulations, Dixie!

And for the second prize...yes, a name was drawn from the remainder of those entries, and Connie Peterson, that would be you!

Now, y'all have a good Friday and we'll see you tomorrow when the party starts!

I just got these cool posters in the mail from my friend Ramona at the BLM in Oregon. Darling and I are doing a demo on adopting a wild horse at Super Saturday in a couple of weeks and these posters are to hand out. Cool, eh? (Did you know I spoke a second language? Yep, American and Canadian, eh!)

"City Boy...can we get ducklings?"

The answer was no. No ducklings. No more animals, he said. Hmph. It's not like we've got that many. Two cats. Three dogs. Seven chickens. Two horses. Six sheep. That's not too many.

Perhaps I shouldn't list how many of each we've got...that way if I decide to get a few more chickens, he won't notice...right?

I came across a blog tonight that talked about Guinea Hens. Have you ever owned a guinea? It's a pleasure everyone ought enjoy at some point. We had them years ago, back when City Boy, the little Geek Boy and I were still living in town. Town was not the best place to keep barnyard foul, so before long they were living at Hovander Park. I'd tell you the story, but I think instead you ought to read the blog post I came across. I'm thinking it's booger worthy...see what you think.

Did anyone watch the Oscars last night? I didn't watch much...did manage to catch Tom Cruise. I'm not a Cruise fan; thought it funny that he received such applause. Perhaps they were afraid he'd jump up and down on their chairs if not encouraged to stay up on stage? And talk about a politically correct Oscar night...well, I'd rather not.

Moving right along...



Six, Seven, Eight...



It's a lot easier to get ten sit ups done when you begin with number six. I'm beginning to lose hope in ever getting my inspiration jeans on. I've completely ignored them hanging in my bathroom. My middle is just as round as it's been since eating turkey at Thanksgiving...and Christmas...and all that candy last Halloween... It doesn't help that City Boy is home so much these days. Do you know that man only works 14 days a month? Yet another reason the empire he works for can be considered evil. Not that I mind having him home, but he either takes me out to dinner of feeds me huge, delicious meals here. I know...I should complain of such a thing! But my jeans don't fit, dad gum it! They just don't fit. And I hate to think I wasted that 99 cents at the thrift store! I guess I can't complain too loudly...he didn't buy me chocolate for Valentine's Day. (Please picture that little eye rolling emoticon here.)



I need an Oreo cookie...hang on, I'll be right back.



I wish we'd gotten the double stuff ones. Not that I'm eating them, of course...

Are you getting excited to learn about the contest? Want a little clue as to when it is? Tough. Not today. Just keep coming back, and coming back...and pretty soon you'll find it. The theme? Coming Clean...

Okay, then...just a peek at the prize basket! But don't tell anyone else I let you look!

Happy Sunday, Y'all!

Answer me...why are you here?

1) Oh, Tracey, you're just so darned witty and I'm completely addicted to your blog! I can't go a day without it!! (Thank you, you're so kind for saying that!)

2) I'm just waiting to see what other stupid, embarrassing things you do. (Thank you...sort of. Glad to at least keep you amused at some level.)

3) I was doing a Google search for big bottoms, this is where it led me. (Ha! Fooled ya, didn't I?)

I installed a new stat counter which lets me see exactly what people are looking for when they find me through Google... It would appear that in order to build traffic to this blog I'd need to tweak the titles of my posts, eh?

Okay, on to other things...

I was here earlier this morning trying to post when my computer froze up. Since I had other things to get done, I hit the restart button. I know to some of you the proper terminology is 'rebooting', however, around here rebooting is generally when City Boy gives me a second swift kick in the arse to get moving. So, you go ahead and reboot; I'll just restart as it's a lot less painful.

Before I was interrupted by my little computer glitch, I was going to thank Pea for putting a little booger link together for me! I sent it on over to Slick so he could let folks know he'd gotten an award for his post on the spelling bee. Now, don't ask me why it made me laugh...it just did. Likely because it was so absurd. But again, I warn you...if you go over there, his blog isn't exactly to every one's liking/taste.

Upcoming Contest!

No, I'm not going to tell you when, other than the details will be posted later this week. So you'll just have to keep coming back to find out, won't you? And there's a pretty decent prize (I think) for the winner. Like, oh, a huge basket of bath goodies with a value of over $50! Okay, perhaps just a wee hint...you'd better begin thinking up all of life's embarrassing moments =)

Have a terrific Sunday everyone, and God Bless!