DNA Tests and spring

A note again on the polygamy- stolen children thing. They now believe a 30 something year old woman made the distress call. Yet they continue to pursue separating the children from their families. They are doing DNA testing- at an incredible cost to the taxpayers I may add, on all the children. So who cares who fathered who if there is no abuse? Prove or at least have a good suspicion of abuse then DNA test those children only.

Too bad we can't order DNA testing of all the acquaintences of the 15 year old with a child on welfare who claims she doesn't know who the father is. We might find some abuse there or at least a father who needs to pay child support.

DNA testing and results take time- its not like crime shows on TV. There are many important crimes waiting to be solved because of a DNA testing backlog across the country. I cannot believe we or Texas anyway, is still proceeding with this witch hunt.

On a lighter note

Our beautiful string of almost summer like weather has ended. It’s nice in away but it has made many things flower that now may be injured by the coming cold. I almost welcome cooler weather as the warm muggy stuff makes the hard spring work not as appealing.

I have a new granddaughter, probably the last grand child. Shaan had Alicia Grace just a month before her 40th birthday. It is her second child, the older one is 15, and she had her tubes tied. Alicia is beautiful, healthy, and normal and the first child for her proud papa. It takes brave parents to begin raising a child when they are 40, if I had done that I would have a teenager at home now and I don’t think I could handle it. Except if it was a teen age boy he sure could be a help right now. Whoops that’s sexist. Any teen could be a help right now. Our grandkids are all too far away to help us.

I was worming cocker spaniel puppies today 5 little black girls and one blond girl and one blond boy. The black ones are so much alike it’s hard to tell them apart. One we call Dora the explorer has managed to climb over every barrier we have made between the puppy room and the living room that her mom could still jump over.

I have tried to distinguish her from the rest so when they all become equally active I will be able to identify the smart one. But so far it’s been hard. A ribbon was promptly removed by her sisters. The inside of her ears is too black for a marker to show. Trimming some hair on her foot doesn’t make enough of a marker. I am thinking about trying to find a white marker.

Hay has gone up to $7.00 a bale at the feed store. The grass is growing but the problem is the sheep eat it as soon as it grows. We had to mow the yard yesterday, it is a shame that the sheep can’t eat it. The east pasture still hasn’t had the fence fixed, we are stuck on getting the new dog kennel done. That has proved to be a nightmare. Putting up the kit kennels is bad enough but tearing up the old stuff is worse.

I love spring but it seems to pass in a whirl wind of activity. I am so busy it’s a wonder I have time to blog. I keep saying that once all the projects are done I’ll have a spring where I can just poke around in the flower beds. I don’t know if that will ever happen but its nice to imagine.

new car

So here’s the news. I have a new car, well new to me. It’s only six years old which beats driving cars over 20 years old. It’s a Blazer, sort of a cross between a truck and a car, easy for Steve to crawl up in. It’s only a 2 door and has less cargo space than the van or maybe even the trunk on that old chevy but it runs! Strange how I seem to end up with chevies, even though I am not looking for one, just a good deal.

New cars have all those bells and whistles that I am not used to. The second day I had it I locked myself out by messing up something in the security system- it wouldn’t let me start the engine. Now I am afraid to use the remote unlock button thingy. It has a remote start but I am really afraid to use that. The radio gets louder as you go faster, can you believe that!

We were going to drive down to my moms since we hadn’t been there since Thanksgiving and she was going to bake a cake for Steve’s birthday, but I ended up having to stay home and work on finishing my book. I messed up on the deadline, It was the last Monday in Feb, I thought it was March 15 for some reason. Well it is all turned in now, hopefully nothing to do until writer review.

The lamb is still here but he will be gone soon, someway, somehow. He pulled a frying pan of grease off the stove the other night, luckily it had cooled. The dogs quickly cleaned up the floor but it could have been a disaster. I took him out to the barn with me yesterday but he panicked when I locked him in a stall and kept trying to jump out so I took him back inside.

Gingers puppies have all been sold, even though it took a while because the weather was so bad. Honey the cocker is due any day, probably Sunday when we have said we will be going to my moms.

Michigan weather sucks. Yesterday it was 50 degrees and raining. The snow started to melt and then today it is below freezing again although we did get some sun. So everything is a sheet of ice. I got my car stuck when I moved it to let Steve get his out. And we are supposed to be getting more snow tonight, ugh.

I guess global warming affects the bottoming out temperature, the lowest temperature you get because it sure hasn’t made winter any shorter. And we have had nearly the record for snowfall since records were kept all ready this year. Even if it’s mild enough to be outside you can’t walk because of deep snow or ice. Maybe the glaciers are reforming here instead of at the poles.

The other problem is that a lot of us animal owners were praying for an early spring because hay is hard to find and very expensive. We are down to 2 bales of what we bought in the fall and we bought two bales for 6.25 each today which will feed for another week here. I don’t think anyone will deliver just a small load to us when they can sell all they have in big loads so we are stuck paying high prices at the feed store.

I have cabin fever real bad. I need to get outside, away from computers and people and dogs. Hurry spring!