Square root of chickens?

Now that we're here we are looking for some land to lease so we can get a cow and chicken and all... since we live in a neighborhood with backyard a bit bigger than our old garden, one gets the feeling of being caged in. But that's not to damper our agrarian culture. We are farmers living in a subdivision that have no animals and no garden. Hmmmm... we do have a head catcher and milking stool but no cow. All we've got left is a mutt who has torn down the badmitten net that I worked so hard to put up, and tried to tear down sheets of the clothesline (he got a good spanking) and he also tore up our clothes pin holder thingy ma bob, and a towl from a couple days ago. Needless to say he needing place to run around. Jack has always know four acres now something maybe a hundreth of that size is makes him depressed and naughty.
Daddy and I went to a couple of antique stores downtown to look around while Momma took the other kids to the city pool. (We got ice cream lol!)
We did piano yesterday and I came up with getting a marker board and sketching a piano note, or key, or symbol, and whoever raises their hand first gets to say what it is, you get a point every correct answer, whomever has the most points by the time all of the symbols they know have run out (or Gabby's patience) is the winner.
Ian learned a new song yesterday: Brother John. He was soo excited he kept playing it over and over again. It feels like days he's know that song. But he does really well with his fingers and he hardly ever misses anything.
~Gabby

It's COOL & BREEZY!!!

Here it is cool, dry, and there is a good breeze blowing. Isn't that nice instead of a hot 100% humidity in the air and abosloutley no breeze whatsoever and the hot sun is blazing down on you? Well maybe I'm exaggerating but it's nice to be home!!!
We went to the park tonight after supper, and momma and I took maybe a 1/3 of a mile walk around the park, so that was fun... and on the track there was a huge caged building with "moat" looking sorta thing and there was two black swans, the poor girl swan... one of it's legs was gone, but she had lots of little swans swimming around, and they were soo cute!!! Ever seen a baby swan? They are the sweetest little things in the world! And their eyes are adorable. Why can't we look like swans? Lol.
We've been reading a book by AVI, it called Crispin and the Cross of Lead. There are three books, Daddy has read me the first and second books, and now the third is out which we'll HAVE to get. We are now reading them to the other kids, and I think they are enjoying that! It's a good time to sit and knit my scraggly socks! Ha!
Well I certainly miss seeing my friends in Tennessee, speaking of which Happy Birthday Willa! I don't know when it is except that it's in July! And Happy Birthday miss Emma! Yours was in June... sometime.
Gabby

Morgan's interview comedy

"So Morgan Ann, what do you want to talk about?" (Gabby)
"I don't know." (Morgan)
"Can I write by myself Gabby?" (M)
Absoloutely not." (G)
"Why?" (M)
"Your dainty little fingers would shock the computer." (G)
"Oh." (M)
"What do you want to write about?" (G)
"I don't know, I didn't say anything."
Morgan gives me the look! (narrator)
"Okay... Anything else?" (G)
"Nooooooo!!!"
I've been elbowed by my a little sister. She is stamping her foot, yet she does not talk.
"Come on M&M, say something."
"No!!!"
"What are ya'll doing?" (daddy)
"I'm writing down everything Morgan says." (Gabby)
"I'm not going to say anything."(M)
"You just did!"
"AHHHHHH"
"Do you want to say good-bye?"
"Yes."
So thus concludes the comedy interview with Morgan.
~Morgan and Gabby
P.S. We've got about another interview like this done with her... I get a kick out of them. HAHA

We just came back from Amarillo visiting a church, then we ate with the pastor and his family at his wifes mothers house, the house was so pretty... Makes me want to go clean my room and repaint everything!!! I rarely find a kitchen I really just can't get enough of looking at, actually I don't think I have ever felt at home in anyones kitchen... sounds strange? You'd understand if you went in the pastors wifes mothers kitchen- Mrs. Morris, but this kitchen was cozy, and roomy at the same time, and it was springy, all the decor was trimmed in yellow. It felt like it had a touch of a "nana" (that's what all of the grandkids called her) So we had a good time. Has anyone tried blackberry cobbler blue bell ice cream? Thanks Mrs. Morris for introducing me to that...
I guess I'll do a little bit of teaching piano today. When we moved in there was a baby grand piano sitting in our living room corner! The dixons left it here for us. Now I'm giving beginner lessons to Morgan, Ian, Caelin. I've enjoyed teaching them but... really I've given them only one lesson each, and played a piano card game with them. But however, I WILL get to it today, but I've said that every day to kids since Wednesday.
~Gabby

Good Morning!

Yea! I got on the blog! Now I've got sis to do things with. As you may notice, we changed the blog background, and according to Morgan it looks like a school blog. I was looking for a little change in the background since we moved I thought it would be nice to, well, change, so to speak. And I was going to do something simple... but all plans always end up changed right? Yup, but I liked what we found and maybe I'll stick to it, unless someone expresses an pessimistic opinion!
I finished a book that belongs to a series called the Preachers Daughter. It was about an Amish girl that loved painting, and if you know Amish, they don't allow anything like that- at least in the old order. The girl- Annie, has a pen pal who is an "Englischer" and an artist! So they draw and send them back and forth to each other, so on and so forth. But it's a really good book, and now I have to go tear up the garage (filled with stuff that doesn't exactly fit in the house yet) and find the second book to the series! And of course it would be 102 degrees today. l
I forgot to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! We gave her a surprise birthday on Thursday... Is today already Saturday? Goodness gracious, time doth fly. I drew momma a favorite picture of Aidan when he was two, and we also got her a blessed pink toolbox filled with pink tools- very feminine don't you think? And now that we have a back porch, Daddy bought a rocking chair from Cracker Barrel. We invited a few friends and all... now someone needs to come and help us eat up all of the sweets left over!
Aidan came in earlier sobbing that "he took my cookie away!"
"Did he eat it baby?"
"Uh- huh...."
"Who ate it dear- hopefully not one of your brothers!"
"Jack ate my cookie!" the whole scene was pretty pathetic, obviously Jack snitched the cookie. It was funny- at least to the older sis, however it's not always fun having a dog eat the cookie you slaved over meant for PEOPLE. But I hope Jack gets a stomach ache over it.
My latest project has been making scottish socks. I'm not sure how it'll turn out but hopefully it won't look like a beginner just made a wraggly pair of ugly green tubes! HA! Since daddy is going to do a festival sometime in September I suppose, I wanted to see if handmade tubes- excuse me handmade scottish socks will sell. If they do I could make a good living off something like that- and I enjoy knitting anyways.
We set up a badmitten net a few days ago. And when I say we that means Gabby looked over all of the directions and put together a sorry looking net that the dog bit and made fall down. But it's usable and we've had fun playing. Mother, Caelin and I all played in the heat of the day while the sprinkler was on and took turns getting the shady side of the net, and every ten minutes jump through the sprinkler.
I found the rest of my shoes that were hidden away in a box. At least I packed my usual church shoes in a dresser, so I was prepared. The rest of the children has had to go to church in crocs! I've enjoyed that immensely!
Momma found Scattegories is a garage sale and hopefully we'll be playing that after I finish this paragraph. Off to play a board game- ttyl!
~Gabby

My Goodness!

My goodness! Has it been this long to write? I'm really terrible at this sorta thing, my poor journal too! ha! I'm really unfaithful, but I'll just put out the standard excuse: I've been sooo busy lately!There is so much to write about this time!
We moved to Texas... about almost sorta 3 weeks ago, and things have settled down and the house actually looks somewhat graceful. Our old friends used to live in this (anctient) house and we visited them here a couple times. I mean, it's already strange walking into a house that you'll be pasting memories in, but now we're going to paste memories over our friends memories. Do you know what's even stranger? This is the SECOND time to live in a house they lived in! We moved into a house that their parents owned right after Katrina... they told their parents about us and they let us move into the house until we got back onto our feet. Strangely, our friends lived in the same house and I really don't why except that they just lived there then they moved and we lived there. Quite a couincedence... or however you spell the word... Ya'll know what I'm trying to blabber right? I'd look up how to spell it but I'm on a timer... Maybe tomorrow. Ha! Like I'd get on the blog two days in a row!
But anways, it's been very hard to say goodbye where we lived for about ten months. Sometimes I thought it was heaven then other times... nevermind that! But we chopped trees down there and tried best we could to keep a fire burning in the winter, and our poor chickens! One of our last weeks in TN, we shot all of our many, many, male chickens. We would have eaten them but it wasn't worth the rubbery meat that they gave so... Caelin and Daddy got out their guns and... shot all of our chickens that woke me up at five o clock every morning so to speak!
But now we're here and maybe I WILL get to write tomorrow!
~Gabby