Six Words or Less ...

Ran across this book on the Women’s Health magazine site ... (wait, that sounds weird. Ran across a book on a magazine site. Hm. Words.)

Thought it was a cool idea and wanted to share. These people put together six-word memoirs - there are some listed here. What would yours be? I don’t think I could settle on just one ... I’m much too wordy to put it all down in six. But, they’re kinda like haikus and I love me some haikus, so here are a couple of submissions:

Happy, disappointed, happy, stationary, determined, happy.
(looking at that makes me laugh at how funny the word ’happy’ looks)

Put down roots. Grow, live, return.

She never answers her damn phone.

Yes, this is my natural color.

Work very hard, sleep very well.

Can't ... sit ... still. Must ... rock ... out.


Try it yourself - it’s good times!

Second Opinions

I'm sure this sounded like a great idea to the person putting up this sign: "Yeah, this'll be a great way to get the word out on the drawings we're having for discounts! How cute and clever of me!"

Um. Problem is, this is a tanning and hair salon.

Whoops.

Spring is here!

On Broken B, springtime is announced by the return of red-winged blackbirds gurgling in the trees, buds on the lilac bush, the first sprigs of green in the fields ... and this!



This particular little shaver is this mama's first calf ever (very oddly, we call them 'first-calf heifers'. Ha.) and, extra-exciting for me, is that you might say I was the fertility doctor for this heifer and about 6 others. Let's say you were a woman who wanted to have a child via a sperm donor. You might go to a clinic and sort through hundreds of eligible donors to pick the one most suited to you. That's basically what we did with these heifers. We sorted through many, many books and EPDs (expected progeny differentials) to find the perfect donor bull. Then we artificially inseminated (A.I.) the heifers last summer, and this is one of the progeny - about 30 minutes old! Welcome to the world, kiddo!

Happy Spring!!!

New Men on the Farm

Yeah, I brought home not one but TWO men this past Saturday evening. :) Not only are they pretty to look at, but they're excellent on paper too. (Now, if I could only find one of the homo sapien variety ...!)

Church Karaoke

For the past few weeks (four actually, I think), I've been playing the piano at my church. It's definitely had its goods and bads, but overall, they haven't replaced me with recordings so I feel like I'm doing well!

This past Sunday, though, not only did I play, but I sang too. BIG step! Just a couple of months ago, I couldn't play an entire song without approximately 5,283 missed notes. But our usual song leader couldn't be there, so I decided to give it a shot. Hey, church karaoke ... could be easier than I think ... right?! In the words of one of my friends: "Thank God for God." There is no way I pulled that off without divine intervention, for real. He must've been thinking very good thoughts and sending them all in my general direction. :)

I even got compliments from the congregation - and they wouldn't lie, would they? Especially while they're in church?! I hope? I kept looking for the lightning, but it didn't happen, so maybe they were truthing.

Hey, I did it, and it didn't suck real bad. In my book, that's a successful gig.

Well, at least we'll all be thin.

There are frightening things a'brewin in the global commodities markets. These global markets are exponentially smaller than stock and bond markets in terms of money and investors, so they're not getting as much media face time. But several factors are working together to create a perfect scenario for worldwide ... famine.

I wish I were kidding. Here are just a small smattering of the predicaments we're getting ourselves into:
- Americans are fanatic in our attempts to find alternative, sustainable fuel sources. The 'alternative' we've come up with (corn) is raiding our food supply.
- Because demand is so high, which makes prices sky high, farmers are planting corn, corn, CORN! But guess what? That means their acres are all in CORN - even the acres they used to devote to wheat and soybeans. Which leads us to ...
- a shortage not only of corn (because besides eating it, now we're burning it for fuel too, and farmers can't keep up with demand), but of wheat and soybeans as well! So, due to a supply shortage, prices for THOSE commodities go up.
- Now. Because cattle, hog, and other animal farmers use corn, wheat and soybeans to feed their animals to get them ready for the consumer to eat, those farmers have to pay MUCH higher prices to continue to do that. Therefore, U.S. meat producers aren't going to be able to make any money, so they'll sell everything and get out of the business. But guess who are the only ones right now who can afford the skyrocketing price of land? Crop farmers. So, who's going to raise meat for Americans to eat? Not America.
- Add to these things the plummeting dollar. Which means that OTHER countries are able to buy our exports, but it's becoming increasingly difficult for US to buy our OWN commodities.
- Heap onto that a growing global population.
- Heap onto that a number of weather problems in typically agriculturally productive areas of the world.

It's terrifying, really, where all this is leading. Honestly, I see a renewed interest in gardening. Ye gods, with my black thumb, I'll never survive.